Mark Pacyna

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

VertiFlex, Inc. operates as a medical device company. It offers minimally invasive solutions for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), which is the cause of spinal surgery in the elderly. The firm specializes in minimally invasive, motion preservation, spine and medical device. The company was founded by Moti Altarac in 2005 and is headquartered in San Clemente, CA.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Galil Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets cryotherapy systems and disposable products to treat prostate and renal cancer. Its treatment areas include conditions affecting bone, kidney, liver and lung, as well as targeted pain and nerve applications. The company was founded by Gideon Even Sturlesi in 1996 and is headquartered in Arden Hills, MN.

Visura Technologies LLC operates as a medical device company. The firm provides visualization to improve the safety of transesophageal echocardiography procedures. The company was founded by David Marmor and is headquartered in Evanston, IL.

Fourth Element Capital Management LLC (Fourth Element Capital) is a venture capital firm founded 2017 by John Arthur Deedrick and Kathleen A. The firm is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

DyaMX, Inc. provides health care services. The company is headquartered in Plymouth, MN.

Capita3 Venture Fund I LP invests in companies located in the United States. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of digital health, telehealth, health tech, human health, genomics and bio IT, food-as-medicine, and other health sectors. It provides financing for early stage capital requirements.

Cardiomech AS develops the next generation of interventional devices for structural heart disease. It provides transfemoral transcatheter alternative to cardiac surgery for the placement of artificial chords for the mitral valve. The company was founded by Nikolai Hiorth and Jacob Bergsland and is headquartered in Trondheim, Norway.

Marani Health, Inc. develops wearable and textile-based products to measure key vital statistics of women and the developing fetus for use during pregnancy, labor & delivery. The company is headquartered in Stillwater, MN.

Engage Venture Partners LLC (Engage Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 by Kelly Prchal, Steve H. Sigmond, Ryan Spanheimer and Morgan Evans. The firm is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.