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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.

Marine Construction Technologies PBC develops technology that reduces noise from impact pile driving to protect marine mammals and other wildlife. The company was founded by Dave Marver and Per Reinhall and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

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.

The Health Industry Distributors Association provides legal information, networking and educational programs. It also hosts conferences for distributors and manufacturers, lobbies government on behalf of the industry, publishes newsletters & special issue reports and conducts research on industry trends. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Alexandria, VA

Cardiac Science Corp. develops, manufactures, and markets Powerheart automated external defibrillators. Its offers power heart AED G5, G5 trainer, G3 plus, G3 Pro, G3 trainer, and rescue ready services. The company was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Waukesha, WI.

Part of Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd., Cardiac Rhythm Management is a private company that manufactures implantable devices to treat arrhythmias. The company is based in Sylmar, CA.

Precision Wire Components LLC manufactures custom medical wire components. They provide services in the areas of assembly, grinding, wire processing and coiling. They also offer metallurgical consulting, process and equipment validation, measurement capabilities, and inventory solutions for the medical devices of original equipment manufacturers. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in, Tualatin, Oregon.

Cirtec Medical Systems LLC provides outsourced design and manufacturing services for neuro-stimulation and cardiovascular devices. Its services include products management, design and development, device assemble and product transfers. The company was founded by Laurence S. Derose, Merwin Jerry Hansen and Michael Forman in 2009 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA.

Lilac Ltd. is a British company that was founded in 2004. The private company is based in Sussex, UK. and has subsidiaries in United Kingdom. Lilac manufactures and sells air compressors and ancillary equipment, as well as provides sub-contract engineering services.

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois is a university hospital located in Lausanne, CH. The SwitzerlandUV is also a renowned center of medical education and research, collaborating with the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). It has 16 clinical and medico-technical departments and is known for its academic achievements in healthcare, research, and teaching. The vast campus in the lake region is home to these institutions. The CEO of the Swiss company is Nicolas Demartines.

W Fund Management LLC (W Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Mr. Hamburg Robert. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Middle Peak Medical, Inc. develops implants for treatment of mitral valve disease. Its technology has application in both percutaneous catheter-based intervention and in minimally invasive or open-heart cardiac surgery. The company was founded by Michael D. Lesh and Alexander Khairkhahan in 2011 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Vicis LLC designs and manufactures football helmets that mitigate linear and rotational impact forces. The company was founded by Samuel R. Browd, David L. Marver, Jonathan Posner and Per Reinhall in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

ONWARD Inc develops medical devices. It also provides stimulation system to rehabilitate individuals with spinal cord injury. The company was founded by Jocelyn Bloch, Sjaak Deckers, Grégoire Courtine, and Vincent Delattre in December 2014 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

K Health, Inc. develops a personal health application. It allows its users to keep their identities anonymous and is required to type in their gender, age, and symptoms which results in suggesting different types of treatment for those ailments. The company was founded by Allon Bloch in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

VarmX BV is a spin-off from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) founded in 2016 by Professor Pieter Reitsma, a world-leading expert in hemostasis and thrombosis. VarmX is based in Leiden, NL. The Dutch company's lead compound, VMX-C001, is a modified recombinant blood factor X developed for the treatment of severe spontaneous bleeding and for the prevention of bleeding during urgent surgery in patients taking oral factor Xa inhibitors (FXa DOACs) as anticoagulation therapy. The company is supported by a strong syndicate of investors. Jan K. Öhrström has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

Waystar Holding Corp.engages in the development of revenue cycle management platform. The firm is a Cloud-based RCM software with predictive analytics for claims management, denial mitigation, and revenue integrity. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Louisville, KY.

LGT Impact Ventures (UK) (LGT Impact Ventures) is a private equity subsidiary of LGT Group Foundation founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Buttonwood Network, Inc. develops a software platform that enables entrepreneurs to raise capital funds. The company was founded by Marcello I. Hallitzer in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Xilis, Inc. engages in the development of droplet-based microfluidics technology devices for precision cancer diagnostics and drug development. It offers Xilis platform. The company was founded by Xiling Shen and David Shu and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Visus Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that focuses on developing multi-targeted ophthalmic therapeutics for the front and back of the eye. The company is based in Seattle, WA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company is developing novel, pupil-modulating therapeutics designed to correct the loss of near vision associated with presbyopia. In parallel, Visus is advancing its pipeline of early-stage ophthalmic drug candidates engineered to preserve and restore visual function associated with the leading causes of vision loss including cataract and presbyopia, ocular surface and corneal disease, glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration. The company was founded by Benjamin Scot Bergo, Rhett M. Schiffman, and Benjamin Scot Bergo has been the CEO since incorporation.

Jointmetrix Medical LLC develops medical devices and technology. The private company is based in Seattle.

NeuroRestore is a platform of symptom-relieving drug candidates for disease states in which cognitive ability is impaired, such as Alzheimer's disease, sleep apnea, traumatic brain injury, and Parkinson's disease. NeuroRestore is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Swiss company stimulates specific signaling pathways in the central nervous system known as neurotrophins, which play a crucial role in the function of nerve cells. The most well-known neurotrophins are NGF (nerve growth factor) and BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor). NeuroRestore's drug candidates enhance communication between nerve cells and improve cognitive ability. The private company's leading drug candidate, ACD856, has recently completed clinical phase I studies and demonstrated positive effects.

EQT Life Sciences Group BV (EQT Life Sciences) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of EQT AB founded in 2022 after the acquisition of LSP by EQT. The firm is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.