Khaled Bahi

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.

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.

BeneChill, Inc. develops non-invasive cooling technology for cerebral ischemia treatment. The company was founded by Michael L. Berman and Denise Barbut in 2004 is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

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.

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.

Endeavour Vision SA (EV) is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in Geneva. EV traces their origins back to 1989 through the convergence of the Vision Capital European team and the Swiss VC firm, Endeavour. EV was co-founded in 2000 by Sven Lingjaerde and Damien Tappy. The firm specializes in providing funding for entrepreneurs in life sciences, biotech, medtech, cleantech and information technology. EV operates in close cooperation with Genevest, an independent investment vehicle which has reached the divestment stage. Their investors in the funds they advise are industrial corporations, family offices, global institutional investors and business leaders in the technology and investment industry.

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.

Impulse Dynamics NV develops electrical therapies for the treatment of chronic heart failure. Its product Optimizer III is designed for the treatment of patients with moderate and severe heart failure. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles.

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

Impulse Dynamics Ltd. (US) develops implantable device for the treatment of chronic heart failure. The company is headquartered in Mount Laurel, NJ.

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.

M.A. Med Alliance SA is a company based in Nyon, Switzerland that specializes in developing innovative technology and commercializing advanced drug device combination products for the treatment of coronary and peripheral artery disease. The Swiss company's flagship product is the Selution SLR™ DEB, which is a novel sirolimus-eluting balloon platform technology. The CEO of the company is Jeffrey Bryan Jump.

Aleva Neurotherapeutics SA develops next-generation implants for deep brain stimulation therapy. Its micro fabricated devices enable target specific stimulation and optimization of current therapies. The company was founded by Claudio Pollo, Jean-Pierre Rosat, Philipe Renaud, Paul Pyzowski and André Mercanzini and in August 2008 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Haemonetics SA designs, manufactures, markets and services blood processing systems. The company is headquartered in Signy, Switzerland.

Synthes, Inc. engages in the development, production, and marketing of instruments, implants, as well as biomaterials for surgical fixation, correction, and regeneration of the human skeleton and its soft tissues. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Solothurn, Switzerland.

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.

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.

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.

Part of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd., PricewaterhouseCoopers, Inc. is a South African company that provides accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services. The company is based in Sunninghill, South Africa.

Cell Medica Switzerland AG engages in the research, development, production, and distribution of pharmaceutical, biological, medical, and diagnostic products. It provides locally and systemically applied antibody therapeutics under the PENTRA Body platform. The company was founded by Thomas O. Hecht on September 4, 2009 and is headquartered in Schlieren, Switzerland.

ESBATech AG develops antibody fragment therapeutics. The firm's antibody fragment is derived from human antibody fragment scaffolds. It develops Immuna, an antigen-independent platform to screen, select, and optimize highly-stable and soluble, single-chain antibody fragments. The company was founded by Dominik Escher in September 1998 and is headquartered Schlieren, Switzerland.

Acino Pharma AG engages in the development, production, and distribution of chemical and pharmaceutical products. It also acquires, manages, and sells participating interests in firms, real estate, and intellectual property rights. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Liesberg, Switzerland.

Part of Biosensors International Group Ltd., Biosensors Europe SA develops, manufactures and commercializes medical devices. The company is based in Morges, Switzerland.

The DePuy Synthes Inc. provides orthopaedic and neuro products and services in the areas of joint reconstruction, trauma, spine, sports medicine, neuro, cranio-maxillofacial, power tools and biomaterials. The company was founded in 1895 and is headquartered in Warsaw, IN.

Artidis AG develops nano mechanical biomarkers for rapid cancer diagnostics. The private company is based in Basel, Switzerland. The Swiss company was founded by Marija Plodinec, Marko Loparic, Philipp Oertle, Tobias Appenzeller. Marija Plodinec has been the CEO since incorporation.

Biosensors International USA is a minority-owned business that provides medical devices. It develops, manufactures and commercializes innovative medical devices used in interventional cardiology. The company was founded in 1990 and is located in Newport Beach, CA