Burcon NutraScience
TSE:BUBurcon NutraScience Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops plant proteins and ingredients for use in the food and beverage industries in Canada. The company offers Peazazz and Peazac, a pea protein for use in dairy alternatives, ready-to-drink beverages, dry blended beverages, bars, baked goods, and meat substitute products. It provides Puratein, a canola protein isolate for use in meat alternatives, such as burgers, sausages, and nutrition bars; Supertein, a canola protein that is a light-colored powder for use in non-dairy frozen desserts, egg alternative, plant-based marshmallows and ready-to-mix beverages, whipped toppings, and plant-based bars; and Nutratein, a canola protein comprising a mixture of globulin and albumin proteins for use in meat and egg alternatives, and other plant-based functional foods. In addition, the company offers Nutratein-PS, a blend of Peazazz pea protein and Supertein canola protein; Nutratein-TZ, a blend of Peazac pea protein and Puratein canola protein; and CLARISOY, a soy protein for use in sports nutrition beverages, citrus-based drinks, fruit-flavored beverages, lemonades, powdered beverage mixes, and non-beverage plant-based products. The company was formerly known as Burcon Capital Corp. and changed its name to Burcon NutraScience Corporation in October 1999. The company was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Novoheart
CVE:NVHNovoheart Holdings Inc. operates as a stem cell biotechnology company in the United States. The company offers an array of next-generation human heart tissue prototypes. It provides MyHeart platform products, including human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes, human ventricular cardiac anisotropic sheet assays, and human ventricular cardiac tissue strips assays. The company also offers screening and phenotyping services; and consultation services, including mapping and designing preclinical studies that involve human embryonic or induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes, prototyping custom bioreactor designs, and developing custom software for streamlining of screening platforms and analysis of acquired data. Novoheart Holdings Inc. has a collaboration with AstraZeneca to develop human-specific in vitro functional model of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada.
ProShares Short Basic Materials
NYSEARCA:SBMProShares Short Basic Materials (the Fund) seeks daily investment results that correspond to the inverse (opposite) of the daily performance of Dow Jones U.S. Basic Materials Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of the basic materials industry of the United States equity market. The Fund invests in derivatives as a substitute for directly shorting stocks in order to gain inverse exposure to the Index. The Fund invests in financial instruments whose value is derived from the value of an underlying asset, interest rate or index. The Fund also invests in short-term cash instruments that have terms to maturity of less than 397 days and exhibit credit profiles. ProShare Advisors LLC is the investment advisor of the Fund.