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TriVascular, Inc. develops and manufactures medical devices. It provides devices and procedures for treating abdominal aortic aneurysms and endovascular grafts. The company was founded by Michael V. Chobotov, Robert G. Whirley, and Joseph W. Humphrey in 1998 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

NeoTract, Inc. develops surgical devices for urological and gynecological disorders. It offers UroLift System, a minimally invasive device to treat lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic hyperplasia. The company was founded by Joshua Makower, Joseph Catanese, Theodore C. Lamson and Earl A. Bright II in 2004 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

The Medical Device Manufacturers Association operates as a trade association. The private company is based in Washington. The American company was founded by Thomas C. Thompson.

Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc. manufactures medical devices. The company was founded by John Donoghue on February 6, 2002 and is headquartered in Foxborough, MA.

Part of University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Technology Commercialization facilitates the transfer of UMN innovation beyond the research lab by helping diverse researchers to license research, patent innovative ideas, establish startups, and facilitate commercialization. The American company covers various technology sectors such as agriculture & horticulture, creative works, engineering & physical sciences, life sciences, software & information technology, and statistics. The company has helped launch more than 200 startup companies based on UMN technology and have raised more than $1.15 billion in investment capital, IPOs, and acquisitions. The company is among the top 15 public universities for technology transfer and ranked 2nd in the Big Ten for "innovation impact."

Medtronic ATS Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets medical devices for the treatment of structural heart disease. The company was founded on November 09, 2000 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

CABG Medical, Inc. develops medical devices focused on the treatment of coronary heart disease. It is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Elucent Medical, Inc. develops solutions for breast cancer treatment. The firm is pioneering and commercializing a wireless marker tag and detection system that helps locate breast abnormalities and predict margins during surgical excision. The company was founded by Dan van der Weide, Laura G. King, Lee Wilke, Fred T. Lee, Christopher Brace and Elizabeth Burnside and is headquartered in Brookfield, WI.

Madison Development Corp. manages housing units in Madison. The non-profit company is based in Madison, WI. Lorrie Keating Heinemann has been the CEO of the company since 2016.

EnsoData, Inc. develops software solutions for medical sector. Its solutions enables user to discover, identify, and report a critical patterns and trends in temporal health data. The company was founded by Christopher Robert Fernandez, Nicholas Glattard and Sam Rusk in 2015 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Silatronix, Inc. develops and manufactures highly stable organosilicon electrolytes for advanced lithium-ion batteries and capacitors. It is commercializing a new class of patented materials based on organosilicon compounds that are environmentally friendly, non-flammable, high temperature materials suited for use as electrolytes, binders, and coatings in energy storage devices. The firm’s organosilicon compounds are used in rechargeable and non-rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and lithium based electrochemical systems. The company founded by Winslow L. Sargeant, Robert C. West and Robert Hamers in 2007 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Soft Switching Technologies Corp. provides power quality and monitoring solutions for the automated industrial markets. The firm offers scalable, battery-free DySC products, voltage sag detectors and I-Sense intelligent sensors to semiconductor, food and beverage, and automotive industries, as well as manufacturing customers and utility industries. The firm's customers include both middle market firms and blue chip companies. The company was founded by Deepak M. Divan in 1995 and is headquartered in Middleton, WI.

Virent, Inc. develops and commercializes biofuel technologies. It converts soluble biomass-derived sugars into products molecularly identical to those made with petroleum, including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and chemicals used for plastics and fibers. The company was founded by Randy D. Cortright and James Dumesic in 2002 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Venture Investors LLC (Venture Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.

Catalys Pacific LLC (Catalys Pacific) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by BT Slingsby. The firm is headquartered in Cayman Islands.

Benvenue Medical, Inc. engages int the provision and development of invasive systems for spine repair. It offers Kiva an implant solution for vertebral augmentation and a departure from balloon kyphoplasty, Blazer-C a vertebral augmentation system that utilizes a unique cannulated curved wire offering mechanical channel creation, and Luna a interbody implant that is delivered through a minimally-invasive cannula to the disc space and expands in-situ. The company was founded by Laurent B. Schaller in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

MedAvail, Inc. operates as a technology-enabled pharmacy organization. The firm offers turnkey in-clinic pharmacy services through its proprietary robotic dispensing platform, the MedAvail MedCenter, and home delivery operations, to Medicare clinics. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

The New School provides education services. It offers art, design, liberal arts, environment, global issues, media and technology, and social science courses. The firm also offers undergraduate, graduate and adult programs. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation provides family centered care to children. It offers treatment to building kids’ confidence through hospital sports program, providing family sleep rooms and integrating arts therapy into the healing process. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Aurora, CO.

Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council, also known as MassMEDIC, is the largest regional medtech association in Massachusetts. With over 300 members, the organization represents manufacturers, product developers, suppliers, research institutions, and academic health centers.

Neuraptive Therapeutics, Inc. engages in developing therapeutic technology for the acute surgical repair of injured peripheral nerves. Its products include AxoFuse, AxoTrim, and AxoBond. The company was founded by David Jackson in 2016 and is headquartered in Lafayette, Co.

Part of Air Transport Services Group, Inc., Airborne Express, Inc. is an air express delivery carrier. The company is based in Longview, WA.

Palette Life Sciences AB operates as a pharmaceutical company. It specializes in developing products for local pain relief in obstetrics and gynecology. The company was founded by Berith Karlsson Tingåker, Gunvor Ekman-Ordeberg, Arne Folke Brodin and Lars Irestedt in 2009 and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.

CR Group LP (CRG) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Charles Tate. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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.