Sean McBrayer

Cempra Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops medicines for treating drug-resistant bacterial infections. The firm's antibacterial products, both in clinical trials, address the urgent and increasing need for new treatments targeting drug-resistant bacterial infections in both the hospital and the community. The company was founded by Prabhavathi B. Fernandes IN 2006 and is headquartered in Chapel Hill, NC.

EndoChoice, Inc. operates as a medtech company which focuses on the manufacturing and commercialization of platform technologies including endoscopic imaging systems, devices, and infection control products and pathology services. Its imaging systems include fuse endoscopy system, fuse accesories, carts, cart options, monitors, monitor cart mounts, monito wall mounts, scope services, and suction pumps and supplies. Its devices include band ligators, biopsy forceps, bipolar probes, bite blocks, cytology brushes, electrosurgical supplies, metal stents, needles, retrieval devices, and snares. The company was founded by Mark G. Gilreath and William Parks in 2007 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

Claret Medical, Inc. develops a cerebral protection technology designed to protect patients from the risk of stroke during left heart procedures and vascular interventions. It focuses on addressing the problem of stroke during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a significant unmet clinical need. The company was founded by Farhad Khosravi and Randy Lashinski in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Rosa, CA.

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.

Iterion Therapeutics, Inc. provides pharmaceuticals services. The firm products are used in the treatment of colorectal, hematopoietic, and other targeted cancers. The company was founded by Jonathan P. Northrup in 2010 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Farapulse, Inc. engages in the development of medical devices. Its products are: Endo Farawave, a percutaneous catheter designed to create transmural and contiguous lesions on the endocardium of the left atrium to isolate the pulmonary veins and EPI Faraone, s designed to create a box lesion around all pulmonary veins from an epicardial placement of the catheter for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. The company was founded by Steven Mickelsen in 2014 and is headquartered in Iowa City, IA.

Impact Vitals. develops machine learning software for data analysis. It focuses on developing its Cipher Sensor technology to address unmet needs in several medical fields where clinical decision making is often compromised due to ineffective processing of large volumes of data during the diagnosis and treatment process. The company was founded by Greg Grudic and Steven Moulton in 2009 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

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.

Toucan Capital Corp (Toucan Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1997 by Linda F. Powers and Robert F. Hemphill. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

SHVMS, LLC (Sante Ventures) is a Venture Capital firm founded in 2006 by Joe Hal Cunningham, Kevin Myles Lalande and Doug Dewitt French. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

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

Azanta A/S develops pharmaceutical drugs for medical treatments in women´s health, oncology and addiction medicine. Its products include Angusta, which helps in cervical ripening and induction of labor. The firm also develops drugs for the treatment of head and neck cancer patients undergoing with radiotherapy. The company was founded by Claus Juan Møller-San Pedro and Jan Andersen in 1994 and is headquartered in Valby, Denmark.

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.

TVA Medical, Inc. engages in the development of invasive therapies for end-stage renal disease and peripheral vascular disease. It provides catheter-based system that allows physicians to create an arterio-venous fistula to deliver hemodialysis to patients suffering from kidney failure. The company was founded by William E. Cohn and Adam L. Berm In 2008 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

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.

Epidarex Capital Partners LLC (Epidarex Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Kyparissia Sirinakisvin. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

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.

Millipede, Inc. engages in development of percutaneous solutions for mitral valve repair. It offers IRIS, a semi-rigid annuloplasty ring designed to replicate the gold standard in valve repair and clinical data. The company was founded by Steven F. Bolling, Todd D. Campbell and Jeremy A. Abbs in August 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Rosa, CA.

Alleviant Medical, Inc. operates as a medical device company, which is developing potential therapies for congestive heart failure. The company was founded by Christopher Alex Arevalos, Albertien Greijdanus, Avni Patel and Jacob Kriegel in February 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Raydiant Oximetry, Inc. engages in the development of biomedical devices to monitor the oxygen levels in fetal blood. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered om Mountain View, CA.

Surgical Safety Technologies, Inc. improves surgical performance and safety while reducing healthcare costs. The company is based in Toronto, Canada. The Canadian company was founded by Teodor Grantcharov.

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.

kelaHealth, Inc. engages in the provision of software platform that combines predictive algorithms to reduce surgical complications. The company is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Glyscend, Inc. engages in the development of therapeutics for treating metabolic diseases. It focuses on providing patients with an effective strategy to keep glucose levels under control and eliminate potential side effects like weight gain and hypoglycemia. The company was founded by Kevin Colbert in September 2014 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Reprieve Cardiovascular, Inc. engages in the manufacturing of medical devices. The firm develops device to treat patients suffering from acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). The company is headquartered in Milford, MA.

Protaryx Medical, Inc. is a medical device company, which develops differentiated transseptal access device that is itended for crossing the atrial septum of the heart to improve, streamline, and facilitate catheter-based. minimally invasive left heart interventional therapies. The company was founded by Terri Burke and James S. Gammie and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Nirogy Therapeutics, Inc. is an American biotechnology company that operates in the healthcare industry. The company is based in N/A. The company was founded in 2014 by Vincent Sandanayaka, Jaime Escobedo. Simon C. Pedder has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

BeeKeeperAI, Inc. is an American company that accelerates healthcare AI through a secure collaboration platform for algorithm owners and data stewards. The company's approach is to remove the barriers to data rather than relying on de-identified or synthetic data solutions. The company was founded by Michael Blum, Rachael Callcut, Mary Elizabeth Chalk, and Bob Rogers, with Michael Blum serving as the CEO since incorporation.

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.