Dan Cole

IntraPace, Inc. develops systems for the treatment of obesity. These also track patient activity levels, providing an overview of food consumption and exercise trends. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

PneumRx, Inc. operates as a medical device company which focuses on developing minimally-invasive solutions for unmet medical needs in pulmonary medicine. Its product is a minimally invasive device intended to improve exercise capacity, lung function, and quality of life in patients with both heterogeneous and homogeneous emphysema. The company was founded by by Erin McGurk, Mark L. Mathis, and Ronald Dieck in 2004 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

SuperDimension, Inc. used to develop and market pulmonology devices. It developed and used to market catheter-based devices for use in the invasive diagnosis and treatment of early stage lung cancer and other diseases, using the patient's natural airways to avoid surgery. The company was founded by Pinhas Gilboa in 1995 and was headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Conventus Orthopaedics, Inc. operates as a medical device company for fracture treatment. It focuses on creating less invasive solutions for fractures in and around the joints. The firm offers distal radial and wrist fracture repair products. Its products include distal radius and proximal humerus. The company was founded by Michael P. Brenzel and Paul J. Hindrichs in 2009 and is headquartered in Maple Grove, MN.

Mitralign, Inc. operates as a valve repair company that engages in transcatheter annuloplasty system designed to treat both functional tricuspid regurgitation and mitral regurgitation. The Mitralign Percutaneous Annuloplasty System, MPAS, is intended for the treatment of symptomatic functional mitral regurgitation for annular reduction through tissue plication. The company was founded by Paul A. Spence and Richard P. Geoffrion in 2003 and is headquartered in Tewksbury, MA.

Thoratec Corp. develops, manufactures and markets proprietary medical devices used for circulatory support for the treatment of heart failure patients. The company's products include Ventricular Assist Devices, HeartMate Left Ventricular Assist System, HeartMate II Left Ventricular Assist System, Thoratec Paracorporeal Ventricular Assist Device and Thoratec Implantable Ventricular Assist. It also manufactures and markets the CentriMag Acute Circulatory System, HeartMate II, PVAD, IVAD and for pediatric patients PediMag/PediVAS Acute Circulatory System. Its ventricular assist devices products primarily serve patients suffering from late-stage heart failure. Heart Failure is a chronic disease that occurs when degeneration of the heart muscle reduces the pumping power of the heart, causing the heart to become too weak to pump blood at a level sufficient to meet the body's demands. The company operates its business through the Cardiovascular group segment, which develops, manufactures mechanical circulatory products to support the cardiovascular systems of humans and to provide product-related services. Thoratec was founded in March 1976 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Monteris Medical, Inc. operates as a medical device company that develops laser-based systems to treat brain tumors. It offers the AXiiiS Stereotactic Miniframe, a single use platform for image-guided, stereotactic brain biopsy, and the AtamA Stabilization System for MRI-guided neurosurgical procedures that require rigid head fixation. The company was founded by Mark G. Torchia in 1999 and is headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada.

Facet Solutions, Inc. develops and commercializes surgical devices for treating back pain from hypertrophy. The firm develops the ACADIA facet replacement system, that is designed to provide patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and facet degeneration a motion preservation alternative to fusion. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Hopkinton, MA.

TearScience, Inc. diagnoses and treats meibomian gland dysfunction. It offers Lipiflow, Lipiscan, and Lipiview. The company was founded by Donald R. Korb and Timothy R. Willis in 2005 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

CircuLite, Inc. provided treatment for heart disorders. The company was founded by Paul J. Southworth and Paul Spence in November 2004 and was headquartered in Teaneck, NJ.

Pathway Medical Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices intended for the treatment of arterial disease, specifically the peripheral arterial disease. Pathway Medical Technologies was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA.

Part of Boston Scientific Corp., Meadox Medicals, Inc. makes vascular replacement devices. The company is based in Oakland, NJ. Meadox Medicals was acquired by Boston Scientific Corp. on November 20, 1995 for $425 million.

Coherex Medical, Inc. designs, develops, and markets catheter-based technologies for the treatment of structural heart defects. It offers WaveCrest device that is placed in the opening of the left atrial appendage to reduce complications associated with other device types, as well as simplifies the implant procedures. The company was founded by Brian K. Whisenant and Clark C. Davis in 2003 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

V-Wave Ltd. engages in the development of implantable medical device for treating chronic heart failure. It offers V-Wave Shunt, which is a biocompatible inter-atrial unidirectional implant. The company was founded by Gad Keren and Yaacov Nitzan in 2009 and is headquartered in Caesarea, Israel.

Monteris Medical US, Inc. engages in the provision of medical services for patients with neurological diseases. It develops MRI-guided, laser-based brain lesion therapy. The company was founded by Mark Torchia and Richard Tyc in 1999 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MN.