Accelerator’s investors – Amgen Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, OVP Venture Partners, PPD, Inc., WRF Capital, and Alexandria Real Estate Equities – all have a proven track record of identifying and building best-of-class new technologies & companies. Through these investors, Accelerator provides sufficient funding to assure that Accelerator Companies have the financial resources to establish proof-of-concept of their technology. The rigorous criteria used to select companies for Accelerator’s portfolio, the achievement of independently fundable proof-of-concept milestones, and the continued financial backing by Accelerator’s investors has and will help to raise significant follow-on financings, setting Accelerator’s portfolio companies on a path toward a more stable financial future.