Mary Byron

Medtronic, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. It offers implantable cardiac pacemakers, eternal defibrillators, inferior turbinate surgery products, and continuous glucose monitoring device. The company was founded by Earl E. Bakken and Palmer J. Hermundslie on April 29, 1949 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, and markets soft tissue equipment. The firm's main focus is assisting physicians in the early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. The company was founded by Ben Heavrin, Bruce Lynskey, Jerome R. Edwards, and Evan Austill, Jr. in 2005 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Cardialen, Inc. develops medical devices. It offers pain-free cardio version therapy for atrial fibrillation (AF) using low-energy implantable atrial cardioverters. The firm develops and commercializes these as an independent specialist, to address major needs in atrial fibrillation management, achieve improved outcomes and reduce the risk of stroke, heart failure and high healthcare costs associated with atrial fibrillation. The company's products comprise implantable low-energy pain-free atrial cardioverters and cardiac leads and defibrillator equipment. Its products are used for the treatment of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. Cardialen was founded in 2008 by D. Graeme Thomas, Randy H. Weiss and Igor R. Efimov and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Smart Wires, Inc. operates as an energy grid solutions company. It specializes in energy integration, transmission, and congestion management. The company was founded by Woddy Joe Gibson in 2010 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Aria CV, Inc. develops medical devices. It designed to improve the lives of patients living with the disease of pulmonary hypertension. The company was founded by John Scandurra and Karl Vollmers in 20101 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

RiverVest Venture Management LLC (RiverVest Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Tom C. Melzer, Jay W. Schmelter, Mark J. Mendel and Andrew B. Craig III. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri with additional offices in San Diego and Cleveland.

BD Ventures LLC (BD Ventures) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Becton, Dickinson and Co. founded in 1999 by William E. Rhodes. The firm is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.

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.

Founded in 1998 by William R. Hambrecht, WR Hambrecht + Co. LLC is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm offers a full array of investment services. They provide research that focuses on the (1) Asia-Pacific, biotechnology, business applications and services sectors (2) the China Internet and technology sector (3) consumer (4) enterprise software and Internet (5) gaming technology (6) Internet (7) medical technology (8) nanotechnology (9) networking and data infrastructure (10) semiconductors and devices and (11) specialty pharmaceuticals.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Adarza BioSystems, Inc. develops and manufacturers a multiplex immunoassay technology that can identify proteins and genetic markers in medical specimens. The firm operates as a medical diagnostics company which also develops a rapid and label-free biological assay platform for measuring clinical and point-of-care samples and also its technology allows hundreds of tests to be run simultaneously on a single chip. The company was founded by Benjamin L. Miller, Randolph R. Henke, Terry Gronwall and Christopher C. Striemer in 2008 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Broadview Ventures, Inc. (Broadview Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Rad Biomed Accelerator Ltd. (Rad Biomed Accelerator) is a venture capital subsidiary of RAD-Bynet Group founded by Yehuda Zisapel and Nava Zisapel in 1992. The firm is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Vascular Graft Solutions Ltd. develops a special device to reduce graft failure rate in order to prevent re-do CABG (Coronaly artery bypass grafting) operation and other secondary interventions in coronary patients. The firm has developed the VEST, a novel Venous External STent for vein grafts. The device is kink-resistant external stent which is deployed over the entire vein graft without interfering with or changing the normal course of the CABG procedure. The company was founded by Eyal Orion in 2009 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Ceterix Orthopaedics, Inc. develops novel surgical tools for arthroscopic procedures. It offers NovoStitch Pro Meniscal Repair System, a device designed to address complex meniscal tear patterns not adequately served by other repair systems. The company was founded by Justin Saliman and John G. McCutcheon in October 2010 and is headquartered in Fremont, 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.

InterVene, Inc. develops non-implantable, catheter-based vein valve creation therapy. Its BlueLeaf endovenous valve formation system allows physicians to create new vein valves for patients who are unable to efficiently pump blood out of their legs and back to their heart. The company was founded by Fletcher Wilson in 2011 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

metavention, Inc. develops novel interventional therapies and sympathetic nervous system. The company was founded by Bobak Azamian in 2011 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN.

FineHeart SA manufactures medical devices for cardiovascular space. It offers wirelessly powered and fully-implantable mechanical circulatory support device. The company was founded by Stéphane Garrigue and Philippe Ritter on January 13, 2010 and is headquartered in Pessac, France.

Adient Medical, Inc. develops and manufactures absorbable medical devices. It offers an absorbable vascular filter for the prevention of pulmonary embolism. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Pearland, TX.

Moxe Health Corp. provides integrated technology and services to serve the health care industry. The company was founded by Daniel Peadar Wilson and Mark Olschesky in 2012 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Versant Venture Capital VI (Canada) LP operates as a pooled investment fund. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Base Pair Biotechnologies, Inc. provides customized aptamer discovery and development services. It offers a full suite of aptamer discovery & development and assay development services designed to generate aptamers that work for specific applications. The company was founded by Bill Jackson and is headquartered in Pearland, TX.

AtaCor Medical, Inc. develops cardiac medical devices. The firm offers AtaCor pacing system. The company was founded by Rick Sanghera, Alan Marcovecchio, and Sean McGeehan in 2014 and is headquartered in San Clemente, CA.

Vensana Capital Management LLC (Vensana Capital) is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm founded in 2019 by Peter Klein Justin & Kirk G. Nielsen. The firm is headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Harmonic Bionics, Inc. develops a robotic platform. It provides clinical solutions in the fields of therapy for stroke and spinal cord injury. The company was founded by Youngmok Yun and Ashish Deshpand in 2016 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Voyager Biomedical, Inc. manufactures novel vascular access devices. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Bayou Surgical, Inc. provides surgery services. The company is based in Houston, TX. The company was founded in 2016 by Bryan Burt, Mahmood Khan. The CEO is Ashok Gowda.

E-SAFE Medical, Inc. provides healthcare services. The company is based in Houston, TX. Ashok Gowda has been the CEO of the company since 2017.

MedTex Ventures LLC (MedTex Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by John Fichthorn and Trevor Uhl. The firm is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut.

RapidPulse, Inc. is a medical device company that specializes in developing minimally invasive vascular products for ischemic stroke. The company is based in Miami, FL. The company is focused on advancing the development of the RapidPulse™ cyclic aspiration system, which includes a novel aspiration pump to allow rapid and consistent removal of blood clots from the brain. RapidPulse is a spinout of Syntheon LLC, a medical device incubator dedicated to developing innovative products in the medical device industry. The CEO of the company is Sean McBrayer.

Spyglass Ophthalmics, Inc. develops products for vision and eye care. The company was founded by Malik Y. Kahook and Glenn Sussman and is headquartered in Mission Viejo, CA.

3x5 Partners LLC (3x5 Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Tony Arnerich and Nicholas Walrod. The firm is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Vectorious Medical Technologies Ltd. develops cardiac monitoring system for patients suffering from congestive heart failure. Its system implements a novel approach to long-term, implant-based hemodynamic monitoring that leverages state-of-the-art technologies in the areas of miniature sensing and wireless communications. The company was founded in November by Oren Goldshtein, Eyal Orion and Ronny Winstein 2011 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.