David Badawi

The Quaker Oats Co. manufactures beverages and other food products. It also manufactures bottled and canned soft drinks, granola bars and clusters, flour and flour mixes from purchased flour, rice cakes, cereals and uncooked rice products. The company was founded in 1877 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Schering Plough Corp. manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, consumer and animal health care products. The firm discovers, develops, manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies. The company is headquartered in Kenilworth, NJ.

Azevan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops novel therapeutics to treat disorders of stress, mood, and behavior. Its first clinical compounds selectively block the effects of arginine vasopressin, a peptide neurohormone involved in the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative diseases and a broad range of stress-related affective disorders, including Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Intermittent Explosive Disorder, and major depression. The company was founded by Craig F. Ferris and Neal Gordon Simon in 1999 and is headquartered in Bethlehem.

NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring, Inc. provides onsite and web-based monitoring of the neurological systems of patients undergoing spinal and brain-related surgeries. It facilitates the surgical process and reduces surgical risk by providing critical information and alerts to surgeons of potential harm or compromise to the spinal cord or neural structures. The company was founded by Roger Conley in 2000 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Anterios, Inc. develops botulinum-based products for medical dermatology and aesthetic medicine. Its products include ANT-1207 which treats hyperhidrosis, and AI-09 which is a novel injectable formulation for therapeutic indications. The company was founded by John Edelson and is headquartered in Madison, NJ.

Cure DM, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It develops new therapies that may prevent, ameliorate or reverse diabetes and allow for the discontinuation of insulin. The company was founded by Loraine V. Upham, Claresa S. Levetan and Rita El-Hajj in 2004 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

LiveProcess Corp. provides online applications for healthcare emergency management. The firm’s healthcare mobile apps enable personnel to take control of situations and collaborate to resolve operational disruptions, urgent health needs and routine transitions in patient care. Its mobile communication and collaboration solutions allow nurses, physicians and staff to coordinate using their mobile devices to reduce response times, facilitate care transitions including discharge, and improve patient throughput. The company was founded by Nathaniel Weiss in 2004 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA.

Active Life Scientific, Inc. operates as a medical technology company that develops a device for measuring bone strength. Its BioDent is a reference point indenter for use in various applications that include lab and clinical research of bone fracture risk and effects of osteoporosis treatments and diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and disorders. The company was founded by Davis Brimer, Paul Hansma and Alexander Proctor in July 2007 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Podimetrics, Inc. Develops sensor-enabled mats for prediction and prevention of diabetic foot ulcers. The firm offers Remote Temperature Monitoring System which is a wireless in-home monitoring technology that collects foot temperature scans. The company was founded by Jonathon Bloom, David Linders, Brian Petersen, Jeffery Engler, Kale Dave and Marnix Hollander and is headquartered in Somerville, MA.

Blackstone Corporate Private Equity (Blackstone Corporate) is a private equity division of The Blackstone Group Inc founded in 1985 by Stephen Allen Schwarzman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Vinson & Elkins LLP provides legal services. It maintains civil practice, covering areas such as litigation, public policy, transaction, and energy law. The firm serves the clients including companies from the aviation, energy, financial services, health care, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Springbok, Inc. manufactures self-erecting recreational tents. It operates as a biotechnology company. The firm provides muscle information on all dimensions using cutting-edge magnetic resonance. The company was founded by Craig H. Meyer, Silvia S. Blemker and Joseph M. Hart and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

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.

Scientific Health Development (SHD) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Stuart Fitts and Philip Romano. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Empirical Spine, Inc. develops minimally invasive, flexion-restricting stabilization devices for the spine. It offers LimiFlex Spinal Stabilization System which is a novel implant that provides segmental stability to the lumbar spine while still allowing motion and also used in conjunction with a surgical decompression for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis with or without degenerative spondylolisthesis. The company was founded by Louis Fielding, John Colin Cahill, Ian Bennett and Todd F. Alamin in 2006 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Equinox Ophthalmic, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It specializes in cataract, corneal and glaucoma surgery. The company was founded by John Berdahl and is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

Loma Vista Medical, Inc. develops and provides medical balloons for Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. It develops cutting-edge products in medical inflatables. The company was founded in 2007 by Alexander Tilson and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Channel Medsystems, Inc. engages in the development of healthcare technologies. The company was founded by Daniel Rogers Burnett and Brian Michael Neil on March 15, 2013 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Potrero Medical, Inc. operates as a medical device company which develops critical care monitoring systems. It specializes in critical care monitoring, fluid balance, acute kidney injury, sepsis, intra-abdominal pressure, urine output measurement, core body temperature, fluid resuciation, big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company was founded by Daniel Rogers Burnett and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Koya Medical, Inc. is a privately held healthcare company founded in 2018 with the aim of transforming lymphatic and vein care through innovative patient-centric platforms. Koya Medical is based in Oakland, CA. The company is developing breakthrough treatments for venous diseases and lymphedema, and personalized care that is unavailable with traditional treatments. The company's first treatment, Dayspring, is a mobility-enabled active compression system that provides a treatment solution for lymphedema and CVI patients that won't interfere with their daily life. Anand Doraiswamy founded the company in 2018 and has been the CEO since then.

Carevature Medical Ltd. is a privately held Israeli medical device company that develops advanced orthopedic surgery solutions to minimize trauma and improve patient outcomes. The company is based in Israel and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Carevature Medical, Inc., in the United States. Carevature is developing the first and only spinal surgery robot for spinal decompression, utilizing its proprietary Dreal® suite of curved and powered single-use end-effectors, delivering unprecedented safety, stability, and precision with cutting-edge vision-guided control. The company was founded by Ely Ashkenazi and Yosi Weitzman, and the CEO is Dennis Farrell.

Galen Robotics, Inc. is a startup company that is developing the Galen platform to democratize robotic surgery, surgical robots, digital surgery, and minimally invasive surgery. Galen Robotics is based in Baltimore, MD. The company aims to expand the benefits of microsurgery and surgical robotics by enabling precise surgical maneuvers. The company was founded by Dave Saunders and Bruce Lichorowic, with Bruce Lichorowic serving as the CEO since incorporation.