We partner with world-class companies.
Portal has built a community of best-in-class partners across industries, developed over the course of years of shared experiences and successes. We value these relationships and leverage them to support each stage of growth for our portfolio companies.
We’re excited to have Prendio as a Portal sponsor!
We are honored to have Walder Ventures as the founding sponsor of Portal Innovations. Our organizations share a bold vision to accelerate ambitious thinking in biomedical innovation and create a thriving ecosystem to support life science entrepreneurs.
Inspired by Joseph Walder’s lifelong passion for scientific discovery, Walder’s support helps us provide capital, infrastructure, and expertise to high-potential startups developing breakthrough products to help patients.
Equalize Startups
Partner
Equalize Startups is a pitch competition and platform for coaching and promoting women academic inventors as they navigate the startup ecosystem and gain valuable connections.
J.P. Morgan
Partner
J.P. Morgan is a leader in investment banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management. We serve millions of customers, predominantly in the U.S., and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients globally.
J.P. Morgan
Cytiva
Partner
Cytiva is part of Danaher,a global science and technology leader. Along with Danaher’s diagnostic and life sciences businesses, Cytiva brings an innovative mindset to their collaborations with customers to help them improve patient outcomes.
MBHB
Partner
From patents to trademarks, MBHB secures and enforces intellectual property rights for organizations across industries. Clients engage our practitioners to help them build patent portfolios, protect trade secrets, navigate complex infringement litigation, and more.
Beacon Hill Staffing
Partner
Beacon Hill Staffing Group was founded to set a new standard in search, career placement and flexible staffing. Our niche brands provide direct hire, executive search, temporary staffing, contract consulting and temp/contract-to-hire solutions to emerging growth companies and the Fortune 500 across market sectors, career specialties/disciplines and industries. Over time, office locations, specialty practice areas and service offerings will be added to address ever changing constituent needs.
Crowe
Partner
Crowe is the preferred life sciences audit, tax, accounting advisory and consulting firm to life science companies across the country at various stages in their journey. From pre-revenue to commercialization, seed to multiple series rounds, IPO readiness to IPO, or publicly traded, Crowe is deeply experienced in life sciences. Consider partnering with Crowe for your financial statement audit, grant funding federal, state, and local program audits, tax compliance or for assistance with your accounting needs. Contact Ron Melling, ron.melling@crowe.com.
Northern Bank
Partner
At Northern Bank, we believe that helping entrepreneurs build a successful business helps build a stronger, more vital community for us all. That’s a philosophy we’ve put into practice for over 60 years.
Prendio Bio
Partner
We're excited to have Prendio as a dedicated Portal Partner. Prendio has one of the best eProcurement software tools for the life sciences industry.
Sony Biotechnology
Partner
To improve stability, Sony systems allow direct monitoring of particle flow status using technology originally developed for the Blu-ray disk that delivers error free performance while operating at very high speed. In conventional flow cytometers, this accuracy largely depends on skillful operators.
ChemoMetec
Partner
ChemoMetec is a worldwide leading manufacturer of cell counting and analysis equipment. We specialize in developing and producing high-precision instrumentation, delivering consistent data for thousands of customers across biotech, pharma and academic segments.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Partner
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is an American supplier of scientific instrumentation, reagents and consumables, and software services.
Radyus Research
Partner
With over 150 years of combined work experience, the Radyus team has developed therapeutics in the fields of oncology, immunology, neuro/CNS, respiratory, metabolic, and infectious diseases.
AbbVie
Partner
AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.
Zoe Life Sciences
Partner
Zoe Life Sciences is an American biosciences investment firm.
Promega
Partner
Promega develops and evolves technologies and instrumentation in collaboration with scientists and researchers around the globe. From simple cloning vectors used to address fundamental questions in biology to bioluminescent assays that help us monitor food safety and water quality, Promega works side-by-side with partners in academic, industrial and government institutions to bring the best minds to bear on the toughest questions.
CBRE
Partner
CBRE Group, Inc. is an American commercial real estate services and investment firm.
Fulton Labs
Partner
Fulton Labs is the first life and health sciences campus built in Fulton Market, Chicago, one of the most sought-after neighborhoods in the US. With 725,000 sq. ft. of newly constructed, next generation wet/dry lab and office space—and incredible amenities—Fulton Labs is the world-class science campus innovators deserve.
P33
Partner
P33 is committed to reclaiming Chicago's position as the World's Brightest Spot for technological discovery and development. We are a team of thinkers and doers – business and community leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, technology experts and policymakers – who represent today's establishment and tomorrow's vanguard.
World Business Chicago
Partner
Our vision is to make Chicago the most business-friendly city in the world by becoming a role model for truly inclusive economic growth, ensuring that all Chicagoans prosper through equitable economic development.
Neal Gerber Eisenberg
Partner
Neal Gerber Eisenberg is a Chicago-based law firm whose attorneys share a culture of teamwork and devotion to personalized client service to advance our clients’ business interests.
Polsinelli
Partner
Polsinelli is an Am Law 100 firm with more than 1,000 attorneys in 22 offices nationwide. Recognized by legal research firm BTI Consulting as one of the top firms for excellent client service and client relationships, Polsinelli attorneys provide value through practical legal counsel infused with business insight and focus on health care, real estate, finance, technology, private equity, and corporate transactions.
Trammell Crow Company
Partner
Trammell Crow Company (TCC), founded in 1948, is a global commercial real estate developer having developed or acquired nearly 2,900 buildings valued at $75 billion and over 655 million square feet.
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