Eric Applegate

St. Francis Medical Technologies, Inc. designs and develops equipment for orthopedic and neurological spine surgery. It also manufactures and markets spinal devices. The company was founded by Henry A. Klyce Jr., Ken Hsu, Charles J. Winslow, and James Zucherman 1997 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Medtronic Ablation Frontiers LLC provides technology solutions for cardiac therapy to cure heart arrhythmias focusing on a trial fibrillation. The firm focuses in the treatment of ablation therapy. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Acclarent, Inc. engages in manufacturing, designing, and commercializing medical devices that address conditions affecting the ear, nose, and throat. Its products include balloon sinuplasty, eustachian tube dilation, airway dilation system, and ethmoid punch. The company was founded by Joshua Makower and John Y. Chang in June 2004 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Relievant Medsystems, Inc. develops treatment and technologies for chronic back pain. Its Intracept System solution is a minimally invasive procedure that uses radiofrequency energy delivered into the vertebral body of the spine to ablate the basivertebral nerve. Relievant Medsystems was founded by James C. Peacock, Jeffrey Charles Lotz, and Rex Peters in 2004 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

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.

AlterG, Inc. develops weight reduction athletic equipment. Its products are used by major medical centers, leading physical therapy clinics and professional, collegiate, and individual sports and fitness programs. The firm?s products include anti gravity treadmill, bionic leg and accessories. AlterG was founded by Michael Brenton Looney, Fritz Moore, Edward Liou and Sean Whalen in 2005 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

VytronUS, Inc. develops imaging and therapeutic capabilities of ultrasound energy to treat cardiac arrhythmias. The firm develops a catheter-based ablation platform based on low-intensity collimated ultrasound (LICU) which allows for precise non-contact energy delivery and producing high-resolution maps of cardiac anatomy. The company was founded by Hira V. Thapliyal in 2006 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Leeo, Inc. provides consumer electronics. The product it offers are Leeo Smart Alert, Leeo Ping, and Leeo Labs. The company was founded by Adam Gettings and Eddy Chan in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Micro Interventional Systems, Inc. designs and manufactures medical devices. It develops catheters for interventional neuroradiology. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Part of Johnson & Johnson, Atrionix, Inc. is a company that develops a proprietary, catheter-based system for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded by James C. Peacock. Atrionix was acquired by Cordis Corp. on December 27, 2000 for $62.80 million.

Part of Cordis Corp., Webster Laboratories, Inc. is a laboratory type distilling apparatus company. The company is based in Baldwin Park, CA. Webster Laboratories was acquired by Cordis Corp. on April 25, 1994 for $78.66 million.

New Enterprise Associates LLC (New Enterprise Associates) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Versant Venture Management LLC (Versant Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Brian Atwood, Samuel Colella, Bill Link and Ross Jaffe. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Basel and Vancouver.

Portaero, Inc. develops and manufactures medical devices. The company was founded on May 11, 2007 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Ebb Therapeutics, Inc. develops medical devices for the treatment of insomnia. It engages in the development of regional cerebral thermal therapy (RCTT) device for use in insomnia and sleep disorders. The company was founded by Eric A. Nofzinger in 2008 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Helpshift, Inc. provides customer relationship management platform for mobile app publishers. It provides a native mobile software development kit that can be integrated into any mobile app to enable two-way communications, helping companies talk to their customers directly inside their apps. The firm operates through its offices located in Pune and San Francisco. The company was founded by by Abinash Tripathy and Baishampayan Ghose in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC) is a collective endeavor focused on realizing the potential of transformative innovation in the medical device industry. The private company is based in St. Louis Park, MN. The company encourages med device companies to adopt advanced technologies such as AI, ML, and IoT to develop supply resiliency, production agility, innovation rigor, and secure medical product supply. MDIC's CFQ program is a dynamic collaborative exchange and engagement of diverse experiences and professional insights in advancing innovation to the forefront of patient safety and accessibility. The company was founded by William A. Hawkins. Andrew Fish has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Visionnaire Ventures LLC (Visionnaire Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Susan Y. Choe. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Japan.

Katalyst.Ventures Management LLC (Katalyst.Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Susan Y Choe. The firm headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Woebot Labs, Inc. develops mental health chatbot. It serves people suffering from anxiety, depression and other serious mental health issues. The company was founded by Alison Darcy on July 7, 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Faro Health, Inc. redefines how clinical protocols are developed by connecting all stakeholders in the clinical trials ecosystem through a single software platform. The company is based in La Jolla, CA. The platform provides a standardized library of clinical study activities and performance-related metadata, offering real-time actionable insights during protocol development. Faro brings transparency, trust, and predictability to protocol development by analyzing the impact of each study activity. This ensures that clinical protocols developed using Faro's platform are operationally efficient, answering crucial questions in the least burdensome way for patients, payors, and regulators. Faro Health was founded by Scott Matthew Chetham and Ross A. Jaffe, with Scott Matthew Chetham serving as the CEO since incorporation.

TeamOhana, Inc. is a company that provides a headcount management platform to help businesses automate the headcount management process. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded by Tushar Makhija, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The platform unifies people, processes, and data into one single source of truth, allowing businesses to control spend, reduce budget variance, and save time.