Ifat Lavi

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.

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.

PhysIQ, Inc. provides proprietary predictive analytics for human physiology. It designs, develops and commercializes predictive analytics technologies to monitor the health of complex systems. The company was founded by Matt R. Pipke and Gary W. Conkright in 1999 and is headquartered in Naperville, IL.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Longitude Capital Management Co LLC (Longitude Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Juliet Trammenoms Bakker, Patrick Enright, David Hirsch and Marc-Henri Galletti. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

NeoChord, Inc. develops medical devices. It offers NeoChord, a disposable device that replaces damaged chordae through a small incision while the heart is beating. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in St. Louis Park, MN.

EarlySense Ltd. provides patient monitoring systems. It offers continuous patient monitoring for heart rate, respiratory rate and motion, to potentially allow the clinical team to manage early detection of patient deterioration, fall prevention and pressure ulcers prevention. The firm develops system specifically for medical surgical, general care patients who are usually monitored by nurses once every four to six hours. The company was founded by Avner Halperin, Daniel H. Lange, Guy Shinar and Yossi Gross in 2004 and is headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel.

CollPlant Ltd. specializes in the development and commercialization of medical products. It develops and commercialize tissue repair products for orthobiologics and advanced wound care markets. The company was founded by Tsafrir Feigin Yehuda and Oded Shoseyov in 2004 and is headquartered in Ness Ziona, Israel.

BioProtect Ltd. designs, develops and commercializes balloon systems. Its patented technology allows for the design and manufacture of implantable biodegradable balloon products that support a wide range of clinical applications in oncology and surgery. The company’s balloon implant, indicated for prostate cancer patients. BioProtect was founded by Shaul Shohat, Adrian Paz and Abraham Domb in 2004 and is headquartered in Kfar Saba, Israel.

MST Medical Surgery Technologies Ltd. develops image guided solutions for laparoscopy. Its product AutoLap, an image-based laparoscope positioning system for minimally invasive surgical procedures. The firm offers the surgeon full and natural control of the laparoscope and exceptional intraoperative image capabilities and the freedom to fully focus on the surgical procedure. The company was founded by Ziv Tamir and Moti Sholev in 2005 and is headquartered in Yokneam, Israel.

Nutrinia Ltd. develops bioactive feed supplements for infant formulas and animal feed. The firm is involved in broad intellectual property protection, industrial processes envelopment, conducting additional clinical trials and obtaining regulatory approval for the supplementation of pre-term and infant formulas with Insulin. The company was founded by Naim Shehadeh in 2003 and is headquartered in Ramat-Gan, Israel.

OrthoSpace Ltd. develops and markets biodegradable balloons systems for the orthopaedic market. Its product InSpace helps in alleviating pain and shortening the rehabilitation period. The firm specializes in biodegradable medical balloons used to treat torn ligaments and tears in the muscle and tendon. The company was founded by Assaf Dekel and Shaul Shohat in 2009 and is headquartered in Caesarea, Israel.

Apica Cardiovascular Ltd. designs and develops innovative medical devices for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Its product includes innovative transapical access and closure system that is designed to simplify and standardize the technique used to open and close the apex of a beating hear. The company was founded by Ajit P. Yoganathan, Jorge H. Jimenez, Vinod H. Thourani and James L. Greene in November 2009 and is headquartered in Galway, Ireland.

Triventures Management Ltd. (Triventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Michal Geva, Dr. Peter Fitzgerald and Dr. Martin Leon. The firm is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

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.

GlassesUSA LLC operates an online eyeglasses store. It offers full, rimless, and semi rimless frames. The company also provides sunglasses, multifocals, bifocals and progressive glasses. GlassesUSA was founded by Daniel Rothman, Eldad Rothman and Roy Yamner in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

MediSafe, Inc. develops a cloud-synced mobile medication management system. The firm is a cloud-based application that monitors an individual's medicine intake to prevent potentially fatal incidences of under-dosing or overdosing. It helps address the global issue of medication non-adherence. The company was founded in August 2012 by Rotem Shor and Omri Shor and is headquartered in Nofit, Israel.

Eloxx Pharmaceuticals Ltd. provides biopharmaceutical research and development services. The firm specializes in the discovery, development, and commercialization of drug compounds for the treatment of genetic diseases. It focuses on the treatment of diseases caused by nonsense mutations, including Cystic fibrosis, Duchene Muscular Dystrophy, Usher syndrome, Ataxia-telangiectasia, Beta thalassemia, and Tay-Sachs Hurler syndrome. Its focus areas encompass clinical drug development and target drugs discovery programs. The company was founded by Silvia Noiman and Shmuel Tuvia in 2013 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

EyeYon Medical Ltd. engages in the development of medical devices for the treatment of corneal edema. Its products include hyperosmotic contact lens (Hyper-CL) for non-surgical treatment of corneal edema and DSPEK (descemet''s stripping pseudo endothelial keratoplasty) for replacing an injured endothelial layer, the cause of corneal edema, by an artificial endothelial layer. The company was founded by Daphna Ofer, Arie Marcovich and Nahum Ferera in 2010 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Raziel Therapeutics RT Ltd. develops innovative technology to treat obesity disease. It is developing RZL-12, is a potential first-in-class, injectable drug for the reduction of fat cell mass. the firm developed a novel drug (NCE) that after a single injection into subcutaneous fat, converts white adipose tissue (WAT) into brown adipose tissue-like. The company was founded by Shmuel A. Ben-Sasson in 2012 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Colospan Ltd. operates as a clinical stage and medical device company that develops a technology for colorectal surgery to prevent the profound clinical and economic pains associated with colorectal anastomotic leaks and diverting stomas. The company was founded by Boaz Assaf in December 2010 and is headquartered in Kfar Saba, Israel.

Medisafe Project Ltd. develops a cloud-synced mobile medication management system. Its platform helps the user manage and take medication on time. The company was founded by Omri Shor and Rotem Shor in 2012 and is headquartered in Matam, Israel.

Deerfield Management Co. LP (Private Equity) (Deerfield) is a private equity subsidiary of Deerfield Management Co. LP founded in 1994. The firm is headquartered in the New York.

Lyndra Therapeutics, Inc. develops software technology for oral drug formulations. It offers pharmacology, therapeutic impact, reduced pill burden, and reduced care giver burden. The company was founded by Amy W. Schulman, Carlo Giovanni Traverso, Andrew Bellinger, and Robert S. Langer Jr. in 2015 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

BurnAlong, Inc. operates an online fitness platform. It allows its users to workout online to a range of classes offered by local trainers, gyms, studios, and celebrity instructors. The company was founded Daniel Freedman and Mike Kott and is headquartered in Brooklandville, MD.

Aliment Capital LLC (Aliment Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Pontifax Management Co. Ltd. founded in 2014 by Philip Robert Erlanger and Ben Belldegrun. The firm is headquartered in California, United States.

Fore Biotherapeutics, Inc. develops tumor specific driver mutations. It offers fully automated live-cell screening from NGS data. The company was founded by Haim Gil-Ad and Yoram Altschuler in 2011 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

MTrap, Inc. engages in the development of novel therapeutic devices that interfere with the intense dialogue and crosstalk between the primary tumor and the microenvironment and represent a new disruptive approach to cancer treatment. The company was founded by Maybelle L. Jordan and is headquartered in Huntington, NY.

6 Over 6 Vision Ltd. engages in the development of a suite of optometry tools within a mobile application under GlassesOn platform. Its application enables users to test the optical parameters of eyeglasses. The company was founded by Ofer Limon and Alex Zlotnik in 2013 and is headquartered in Kfar Saba, Israel.

Part of Check-Cap Ltd., Check-Cap Ltd. (Delaware) develops clinical-stage medical diagnostics devices.

Part of Pontifax Management Co. Ltd., Pontifax (Israel) IV LP is an investment services provider. The company is based in Hertsliya, Israel and was founded in 2015.

VI Technologies, Inc. manufactures wearable instruments for measuring human performances. It offers Vi ear buds. The company was founded by Omri Yoffe and is headquartered in New York, NY.

TailorMed Ltd. engages in platform development that provides financial management solution for cancer patient. Its platform features are: patient specific, medical journey projection, and actionable cost reduction. The company was founded by Srulik Dvorsky and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Enclear Therapies, Inc. develops and manufactures novel device-based therapies to treat patients. The firm device is developed to treat and halt the progression of neurodegenerative diseases by removing toxic proteins known to drive pathology. The company was founded by Anthony R. DePasqua, Jonathan J. Fleming, Kasper Roet, William B. Gormley and Kevin Eggan and is headquartered in Newburyport, MA.

Part of 89bio, Inc., 89Bio Ltd. is an Israeli company that develops therapies and drugs for the treatment of patients living with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. The company is based in Herzliya, Israel.