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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based Founder operating in the Medical Device space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Yi Liu
Founder & CEO of iHealth Labs
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About iHealth Labs: iHealth offers cloud-based, personal healthcare products for individuals of all ages to take a more active role in managing their health.
Andrew Ninh
Co-Founder and CSO of Docbot
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About Docbot: Docbot is an AI technology company that offers AI-assisted image analysis solutions to revolutionize gastrointestinal care.
William Karnes
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Docbot
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About Docbot, UC Irvine Health: Docbot is an AI technology company that offers AI-assisted image analysis solutions to revolutionize gastrointestinal care.
Jennifer Jacobs
Co-Founder COO of PerceptiMed
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About PerceptiMed: PerceptiMed develops an advanced pill identification system designed to eliminate human errors in medication dispensing in pharmacies.
Jennifer Jacob
Co-Founder of PerceptiMed
With a successful background in accounting, human resources and business engagement, Jenn oversees day-to-day operations of PerceptiMed while evangelizing the benefits of its VeriFill products. Prior to co-founding PerceptiMed, Jenn handled sales and marketing for Perseid Professional Services, a private consulting firm. She also provided executive financial services, strategic business management consulting and infrastructure creation for both start-up and established high tech companies. Previously Jenn served as the business development officer at Greater Bay Bank, which was a community bank subsidiary of Greater Bay Bancorp (acquired by Wells Fargo 2008). She is credited with closing more than $20 million in annual sales. Prior to that she was vice president and COO for Ulta.com, an on-line initiative for Ulta, Inc. She has also served in various controller positions at Interwise, Inc.; Metromedia Fiber Networks; and Associated Venture Networks. She has also served as an accountant for Arthur Anderson, LLC, and Price Waterhouse, LLC. Jennifer received a bachelor’s of science degree in accounting, cum laude, from the University of Maryland. She additionally holds a CPA and a certificate in mediation from The University of California at Berkeley.
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About PerceptiMed: PerceptiMed develops an advanced pill identification system designed to eliminate human errors in medication dispensing in pharmacies.
Roy Paxton Yih
Co-Founder and CEO of Biocare Medical
Roy Paxton Yih, BS, MA, co-founded Biocare Medical, LLC in 1997 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Roy Yih served as a Director of Sales & Marketing at Biocare Medical LLC. Roy Yih is primarily involved at sales, marketing and business development activities. He holds a BS Degree in Biochemistry from U.C. Davis and an MBA from the University of Santa Clara.
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About Biocare Medical: Biocare Medical is a provider of immunohistochemistry instrumentation.
Chris Mansi
CEO, Co-Founder of Viz
Dr Mansi is a former Neurosurgeon and the CEO of Viz.ai an Applied AI Healthcare company.They recently received FDA clearance for the first ever AI aided triage and notification platform, opening the door to AI in acute emergency healthcare. Chris is a clinician innovator, entrepreneur and optimist focused on increasing healthcare access, building and supporting great teams and improving provider experience. Viz.ai builds clinician facing products that enable and empower doctors, allowing them to provide the best care to patients, everytime, everywhere.
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About Viz: Viz is a medical imaging company that helps optimize emergency treatment using deep learning technology.
Dwight Crow
Co-Founder and CEO of Whisper
Dwight Crow is a product manager at [Facebook](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook#/entity), an online social networking service. Previously, he served as the founder of Carsabi.com. He is also the Co-Founder and CEO at Whisper.ai. Crow holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical biology and computer science from the [University of California, Berkeley](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-california-berkeley#/entity). He is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Meta, Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Andrew Song
President and Co-Founder of Whisper
Andrew Song is the President and Co-Founder at Whisper.
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About Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Shlomo Zippel
Co-Founder of Whisper
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About Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Mehdi Maghsoodnia
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 1Health
Mr. Maghsoodnia is currently serving as CEO of 1Health.io and Vitagene. He is also on the board of SpineZone and MedCorder. He previously served as CEO of Rafter, BookRenter.com, SVP of products at CafePress, COO at Actiance and SVP at Intellisync. Mr. Maghsoodnia is a industry fellow at UC Berkeley where he teaches innovation and entrepreneurship. He studies EECS in UCB and Stanford with an emphasis in AI and Machine learning.
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About 1Health: 1health’s Testing as a Service (TaaS) Solution empowers precision testing and end-to-end process management in one simple, scalable tool.
Cheng Liu
Founder, CEO of Eureka Therapeutics
Cheng Liu is the founder and CEO of Eureka Therapeutics, a California biotech company dedicated to antibody research and discovery for cancer immunotherapy. Prior to founding Eureka, Dr. Liu was a Principal Scientist in antibody drug discovery at Chiron (now Novartis), where he championed anti-CSF1 antibody program for treatment of bone metastasis to human clinical trials. He is the inventor of multiple issued US patents in drug discovery. In 2007, he was awarded Special US Congressional Recognition for his contributions to improving human health. Dr. Liu received his B.S. in Cell Biology and Genetics from Beijing University and a Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Eureka Therapeutics: Eureka Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focusing on immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer.
Maria Artunduaga
Founder and CEO of Respira Labs
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About Respira Labs: Respira Labs is building an AI-powered sensor platform to track, predict, and prevent chronic lung disease.
Danny JJ Wang
CSO and Co-Founder of Hura Imaging
Danny JJ Wang is the Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Hura Imaging.
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About Hura Imaging: Hura Imaging develops and commercializes novel CT technology that decreases radiation dose significantly in patient management.
Stephen Chen
Founder & CEO of Scanwell Health
Co-Founder and President at Learn To Be Foundation. Founder at Petnostics.
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About Learn To Be Foundation, Petnostics, Scanwell Health: Scanwell Health is an FDA-cleared urine testing application.
Fabien Beckers
Founder & CEO of Arterys
Fabien Beckers is the CEO and co-founder of Arterys, a cloud/deep learning startup that is disrupting the medical imaging space and building image-based precision medicine tools. Fabien has led the growth of the company from four co-founders to a team of 34 today. Under his leadership, the company has become a pioneer in cloud-based medical imaging software, offering the first FDA-cleared end-to-end cloud infrastructure for medical imaging. They key advantages of the platform being automatic aggregation of real-world data and ability to scale and distribute the processing of increasingly large, complex datasets. Fabien’s vision for the company is to accelerate data-driven medicine by building precision medicine tools based on the consistent quantification of medical image features in combination with molecular, genomics and patient history data. Fabien holds a PhD in Quantum Physics from the University of Cambridge and a masters of business from Stanford University.
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About Arterys: Arterys is a medical imaging platform to deliver clinical AI products over the internet.
Amit Vohra
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Promaxo
Promaxo is led by Dr. Amit Vohra who is a serial entrepreneur, business strategist and advisor to several healthcare and technology startups. Amit is a Partner in Advanced Biopharma Consulting, a management consultancy offering strategic business development and commercialization services in the life sciences space. He also serves as an advisor to Cricking, MedDx and HealthyX and a strategy consultant to Precision Biopsy and Weinberg Medical Physics. Prior to Promaxo, Amit was the CEO/President of Convergent Life Sciences wherein he took a MRI-US fusion product, for targeted laser ablation of soft tissue cancer, through FDA clearance within 18 months of Company formation. Previously, as VP of Strategy and Operations at Eigen, he led the development and successful commercialization of two class II medical devices in the prostate biopsy space. In 2009, Amit co-founded Navya Biomedical Technologies, a biotechnology company using proprietary polyhydroxy fullerenes (PHF) for non-invasive imaging and destruction of solid tumors. Amit has a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from University of Florida, and an Executive MBA (Fuqua Scholar) from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
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About 8chili, Neuro42, Promaxo, TriOcula Technologies: Promaxo is commercializing customer-centric MRI systems and robotic guidance tools for live diagnosis and treatment in a physician’s office.
Uday Kumar
Founder, President, CEO, and Board Member of Element Science
Co-Founder & Board Member at Sympara Medical – Dr. Uday N. Kumar, a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist by training.
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About Element Science, Stanford University, Sympara Medical: Element Science is a medical device and digital health start-up that develops lifesaving wearable solutions.
Kristina Cahojova
Founder & CEO of kegg
Kristina Cahojova is the Founder and CEO of Kegg.
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About kegg: Kegg is a two-in-one device that combines fertility tracking with pelvic floor exercising.
Yulun Wang
Founder, Chairman & Chief Innovation Officer of InTouch Health
Yulun Wang, Chairman, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, InTouch Health, Inc. Dr. Wang founded InTouch Health in 2002, and served as Chairman & CEO until 2016, when he assumed the position of Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer. InTouch Health is a pioneering and market leading telehealth company that enables patients to receive clinical care from specialists at a distance. InTouch has received numerous awards including Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 Award and Inc Magazine’s Inc 500 award as one of the fastest growing companies in America. Previous to InTouch, Dr. Wang founded Computer Motion in 1990, the company which pioneered surgical robotics. He was the principal architect and inventor of the voice-controlled robotic arm called AESOP, the first FDA-cleared surgical robot, as well as the ZEUS robotic surgical system, which performed the world’s first transatlantic surgery. Computer Motion IPO’d in 1997 and merged with Intuitive Surgical (NASD: ISRG) in 2003 for one third of the resulting company. Dr. Wang is author to more than 50 technical publications and inventor on over 100 patents.
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About InTouch Health: InTouch Health is the leader in Acute Care Telemedicine solutions.
Rodney Perkins
Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Earlens
Rodney Perkins, the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of EarLens, is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully launched many healthcare technology companies including ReSound Corporation, Laserscope, Collagen Corporation, Sound ID, Novacept, SurgRx, DFine, Pulmonx and Cohesion.As an internationally known otologic surgeon, he has created a number of surgical procedures and techniques that are widely practiced throughout the world. Dr. Perkins founded the California Ear Institute at Stanford and is a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. For his visionary leadership that has lead to innovation in multiple medical specialties, Dr. Perkins has received the Phoenix Hall of Fame Innovators Award, Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Santa Clara County Medical Society and the Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award from Indiana University. Dr. Perkins holds eighteen issued patents with 37 pending, received his medical degree from Indiana University, and completed his surgical residency at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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About DFine, Earlens, Pulmonx: Earlens is a privately held medical technology company transforming the hearing experience with the only direct sound delivery system.
Daniel Burnett
Founder and Chairman of Bone Health Technologies
Dr. Burnett has a long history of biomedical device design and testing. After graduating from University of Pennsylvania’s school of Bioengineering, Dr. Burnett spent a year at the Food and Drug Administration both testing devices and writing congressional reports on the current state-of-the- art devices. Following receipt of his MD and MBA degrees from Duke University, Dr. Burnett completed his one-year internship at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL and is currently a licensed physician in the state of California. After working for two years as a General Partner with MedVenture Associates, a medical device venture capital firm in Emeryville, CA, Dr. Burnett left the firm in 2006 and committed himself to TheraNova and its subsidiaries.
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About Ananya Health, Anathem Ventures, Bone Health Technologies, Channel Medsystems, Consano, Gravitas Medical, Perikinetics, Potrero Medical, Respirix, TheraNova LLC., University of California, San Francisco: Bone Health Technologies is developing a new standard of care for treating both osteoporosis and osteopenia, the precursor to osteoporosis.
Daniel Shen
Founder and Chief Clinical and Science Officer of Eargo
Daniel is a Founder and the Chief Clinical & Science Officer of Eargo. Brilliant, logical, curious, he’s our Mr. Spock, but way more fun at parties. Daniel is a lifelong entrepreneur who’s co-founded three medical device companies and holds numerous patents. Plus, he holds degrees from MIT and studied medicine at Stanford. He’s also an avid scuba diver and kite boarder, so we’re assuming he can swim. Leading our Clinical Research department, he’s ensuring that Eargo boldly goes where no hearing aid has gone before…we’re waiting for him to invent di-lithium crystals.
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About Eargo: Eargo makes direct-to-consumer hearing aids, allowing customers to access help for their hearing loss from their homes.
Konstantinos Alataris
Founder, CEO of Nesos
Konstantinos Alataris is the President and CEO of the Nevro Corp. Prior to founding Nevro, Dr. Alataris was a venture capitalist with Bay City Capital in San Francisco, focusing on investment and strategic advisory services. He was previously a Business Development Manager with Compass, Guidant’s Corporate Venturing Group, where he analyzed and structured medical device/healthcare investments and evaluated acquisition targets. He was also a Research Fellow at the House Ear Institute, a research center and clinic in Los Angeles. Dr. Alataris holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, an MBA, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
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About Nesos: Nesos develops wearable interfaces and software components for the treatment of neurological disorders.
Cameron Teitelman
Founder, Chairman, and head of admissions and oversee investment vehicles of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
Cameron Teitelman is the Founder and Chairman of StartX, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that runs an accelerator for Stanford affiliated entrepreneurs. Under his management, StartX has supported more than 1,100+ founders building 500+ companies. StartX companies have raised over $3.3B to date. In 2013, the Stanford-StartX Fund was launched. To date, SSF has invested in 250 StartX companies across 400+ rounds, investing $130 million in capital.
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Dan Ha
Co-Founder, Sr. Managing Director of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Martyn Gross
Co-Founder & CEO of Zerigo Health
Advisor at Cooler Heads Care & Chief Business Officer at Mindera.
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About Dthera Sciences, MiNDERA Corporation, Zerigo Health: Clarify Medical is a developer of a handheld medical device used to treat psoriasis, eczema, and vitiligo .
Remo Qajar
Co-Founder of Zerigo Health
Remo Qajar is the Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Skylit Medical. Remo’s postgraduate career as an academic researcher and trained Surgeon at the Yale School of Medicine led him to invent a number of medical devices, from implantable respiratory diaphragms to orthopedic and wound care products, some of which have been spun-off into companies. Remo is the founder of InQMEDS LLC. an accelerator of growth for early stage life-science products.
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About Zerigo Health: Clarify Medical is a developer of a handheld medical device used to treat psoriasis, eczema, and vitiligo .
Connor Landgraf
Co-Founder & CEO of Eko Health
Connor Landgraf is the co-founder and CEO of Eko.
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About Eko Health: Eko develops AI-powered digital tools to detect and monitor heart and lung disease
Jason Bellet
Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer, Board Member of Eko Health
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About Eko Health: Eko develops AI-powered digital tools to detect and monitor heart and lung disease
Tyler Crouch
Co-Founder, VP of Mobile Engineering & Product Development of Eko Health
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About Eko Health: Eko develops AI-powered digital tools to detect and monitor heart and lung disease
Wenbin Jiang
Co-Founder and CEO of Cytek Biosciences
Wenbin Jiang is a co-founder of Cytek Biosciences, Inc. and a seasoned entrepreneur and inventor. E2O communications was the first company he cofounded in late 1990s, which was acquired by JDS Uniphase in 2004. He is an inventor of more than 90 US patents and an author of 4 book chapters and more than 50 peer reviewed technical papers.
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About Cytek Biosciences: Cytek Biosciences is a manufacturer and supplier of flow cytometry products and services.
Ming Yan
Co-Founder and CTO of Cytek Biosciences
Ming Yan is a co-founder of Cytek Biosciences, Inc. with over 20 years of R&D experience in leadership and innovation. Prior to Cytek, Ming Yan held research and development positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Labs and BD Biosciences. He is one of the thought-leaders in flow cytometry instrumentation and standardization. Ming Yan has published several research papers relating to laser spectroscopy and cell analysis in top peer-reviewed journals. He has over a dozen patents and patent pending applications for his innovations.
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About Cytek Biosciences: Cytek Biosciences is a manufacturer and supplier of flow cytometry products and services.
Behrooz Abiri
CTO and Co-Founder of GuRu
A hardware hobbyist and International Physics Olympiad gold medalist – Behrooz has always been an avid inventor. He’s spent his life studying, learning, and exploring emerging technologies. His work at GuRu stems from a wish to share miraculous technology with the world at large. At GuRu, Behrooz is responsible for the ongoing development of core technology and system architecture. Under his leadership, GuRu’s millimeter-wave technology has been developed into an accessible consumer product. Before GuRu, Behrooz helped develop system design and architecture in Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Florian Bohn
CEO & Co-Founder of GuRu
Florian has always felt compelled to understand the way the world works. His curiosity moved him to study Electrical Engineering at Caltech (B.S. Cum Laude), to receive an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech. At GuRu, Florian is thrilled to be building technology that will enrich people’s lives on a global scale. He is also proud to be building a community of passionate and like-minded engineers at the organization. As a co-founder and CEO at GuRu, Florian brings years of technology experience. At Axiom Microdevices, he helped define and implement high-frequency RF integrated circuits which have shipped more than 400 million units. At Agilent Laboratories (formerly HP Labs) he worked on clock and data recovery circuits as well as novel test and measurement systems. As a Caltech Lead Scientific Researcher, Florian guided engineering and operational aspects of implementing the microwave system at Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Benjamin Kruger
Co Founder of Sollis Health
Ben Kruger operates out of Vandewater’s Los Angeles office, sourcing and analyzing new business opportunities while managing preexisting investments within the company’s diverse portfolio. Ben contributes a majority of his time to Vandewater Media where he leads its Content and Creative team. Before joining Vandewater, Ben was the Creative Director of Jesta Digital. Ben has also contributed as a writer and producer for ABC Studios and Paramount Pictures. Kruger holds a bachelor’s degree in History from Brown University and is the recipient of a History Research Fellowship from St. Edmund Hall at Oxford University, UK.
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About Sollis Health: Sollis Health offers 24/7 concierge medical centers that handle emergencies, everyday checkups, and everything in between.
Carlito Lebrilla
Co-Founder of Evolve Biosystems
Carlito B. Lebrilla is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine in the School of Medicine. He received his BS degree from the University of California, Irvine and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and a NSF-NATO Fellow at the Technical University in Berlin. He returned to the UC Irvine as a President’s Fellow and has been at UC Davis since 1989. He has served as Chair of the Chemistry Department. His research is in Analytical Chemistry, primarily mass spectrometry with applications to clinical glycomics and biofunctional food. He has over 320 peer-reviewed publications. He is also co-editor of Mass Spectrometry Reviews and has been on the editorial board of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, Mass Spectrometry Reviews, Journal of American Society for Mass Spectrometry, European Mass Spectrometry, and International Journal of Mass Spectrometry.
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About Evolve Biosystems, InterVenn: Evolve Biosystems specializes in providing microbiome-based products designed to develop, restore, and maintain.
Daniela Barile
Co-Founder of Evolve Biosystems
Daniela Barile is Associate Professor at the University of California Davis. She received her degrees in the area of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Food Science from the Piemonte Orientale University (Italy). Her research, focused at the nexus of food, health, and the environment, aims to understand food bioactive compounds formation, their recovery from food production side streams, and their specific interactions within the human body. Her lab utilizes analytical platforms based on mass spectrometry to investigate foods and a range of relatively untapped organic waste streams for valuable, healthful bioactive compounds (such as free oligosaccharides, peptides, glycoproteins and glycolipids). Her approach of sequential molecular deconstruction of food streams is generating valuable bioinformatic libraries of source materials and the underlying biological and processing conditions that give rise to their formation/preservation.
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About Evolve Biosystems, University of California Davis, University of California Davis: Evolve Biosystems specializes in providing microbiome-based products designed to develop, restore, and maintain.
Richard Lin
CEO & Co Founder of Ombre
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About Ombre: Ombre is a provider of a microbiome testing kit designed to incorporate personalized probiotics and microbiome testing.
Jun Kim
CSO & Co Founder of Ombre
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About Ombre: Ombre is a provider of a microbiome testing kit designed to incorporate personalized probiotics and microbiome testing.
Gibb Clarke
CEO and Co-Founder of Blockade Medical
Gibb Clarke is co-founder and CEO of Blockade Medical and has more than 10 years experience as a medical device executive with a specific focus on new technology development for the interventional neurovascular marketplace. Prior to co-founding Blockade, Gibb co-founded Pulsar Vascular, Inc. in 2006. A novel therapeutic approach for challenging and complex cerebral aneurysms. Gibb successfully raised multiple rounds of venture capital as well as helped craft and manage the clinical and regulatory strategy for both CE Mark and US approvals. Prior to Pulsar, Gibb played a critical early role in helping Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, WA, plan for and execute the development of The Seattle Neuroscience Institute, a neuroscience center for excellence. Gibb’s efforts resulted in Swedish Medical investing in excess of $35M into the development of its now flagship neuroscience center located in Seattle, WA. Gibb also spent 8 years in the US Marines Corps serving as a team leader in the elite Marine Recon unit. Military schoolings include Amphibious Recon Course, Army Ranger School, US Navy Dive School, and Army Jump School. Gibb is an avid endurance athlete, having competed in over 200 races.
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About Blockade Medical: Founded in 2011, Blockade Medical is a privately held company dedicated the development of catheter based therapeutic devices for the
Amir Belson
Founder and CTO of Emboline
Amir Belson Prior to conceiving of and starting ZipLine Medical, Amir Belson, M.D., was the founder of Neoguide Systems, a company that developed platform technology for minimally invasive surgical procedures that was later acquired by Intuitive Surgical in 2009. Belson is also the founder of Vascular Pathways, a company that developed an FDA cleared vascular intervention technology that has been chosen as one of the 10 best inventions of 2009 by Popular Science magazine, Thermocure, a minimally invasive therapeutic hypothermia technology company, Radguard Medical, a radiation protection medical device company and VasoStitch, which develops large vessel access and closure technology. Belson graduated cum laude from the school of medicine of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel. He did his pediatric residency at Dana Children’s Hospital in Tel Aviv and his pediatric nephrology fellowship at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. He also served several years as a flight surgeon in Israel’s air force rescue unit before moving to the US for a three year Pediatric Nephrology fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. Belson also spent one year as a research fellow with the Biomedical Technology Innovation Program at Stanford.
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About Emboline, Modular Surgical, Qool Therapeutics, Radiaction, Zipline Medical: Emboline is a medical device company with a game-changing device for total embolic protection during percutaneous heart valve repair.
Kelsey Mellard
CEO & Co-Founder of Sitka
Kelsey Mellard is the CEO and Founder of Sitka, a first-of-its-kind medical vConsults platform and specialty provider network. She launched Sitka in 2018 to help improve access to and delivery of specialty care across the nation. Prior to founding Sitka, Kelsey led Health System Integration at Honor, a comprehensive technology-backed home care company. Before joining the Honor, Kelsey led the development of the Post-Acute Care Center for Research (PACCR), which she served as its Executive Director. Kelsey also served in VP roles at naviHealth, UnitedHealth Group, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), and held positions at Advisory Board Company, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, and Kaiser Family Foundation. Kelsey holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Community Health from Winona State University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Kansas. She also currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at Winona State University in the College of Nursing and Health Services.
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About Sitka, Winona State University: Sitka is a customizable video software platform that connects primary care providers to the virtual specialty provider network.
Shadi Saberi
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of iSono Health
Shadi loves solving challenging problems in healthcare that impact lives of so many, especially women. She believes consumer engagement in their own health through accessible and personalized medical technology is key to prevention and early detection. She has over 10 years of experience designing consumer electronic. Before co-founding iSonoHealth, she worked at broadcom and Intel. She has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.
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About iSono Health: iSono Health develops an AI platform for accessible and personalized breast health monitoring
Maryam Ziaei
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of iSono Health
Maryam Ziaei is the Co-Founder & CEO at iSono Health.
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About iSono Health: iSono Health develops an AI platform for accessible and personalized breast health monitoring
Ren Menon
Co-Founder and CEO of OrthoFX
Ren Menon is currently serving as the managing director of Silicon Valley Capital where he is leading the firm’s diversification into the health and wellness sectors. Prior to Silicon Valley Capital, Mr. Menon held several leadership roles at Invisalign including head of global product development & innovation, head of North America commercial operations, Director – R & D and more. He played a critical role is helping grow Invisalign’s annual revenues to $900MM+ while attaining a market cap of $7B+. Mr. Menon was also the co-founder/CEO of Goldenslate – a big data analytics powered search engine to empower consumers to make informed, trust based choices when selecting critical care service providers. He exited his stake in Goldenslate through a planned sale. Over his 20 year career, he has held leadership roles in general management, product development, sales & marketing. Mr. Menon is currently a strategic advisor to Kairos society. He also sits on the board of SPCA and several privately held healthcare technology companies.
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About OrthoFX: Innovation Leader in Clear Aligner Orthodontics
Nichole Garcia
Co-Founder of OrthoFX
Nichole Garcia is a Co-Founder at OrthoFX.
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About OrthoFX: Innovation Leader in Clear Aligner Orthodontics
Henry Chan
Co-Founder & CTO of OrthoFX
Henry Chan is a Co-Founder and CTO at OrthoFX.
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About OrthoFX: Innovation Leader in Clear Aligner Orthodontics
Ritankar Das
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Dascena
Ritankar Das is the founder and CEO of Dascena
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About Dascena: Dascena develops machine learning algorithms to enable early disease intervention and improve care outcomes for patients.
Guangqiang Jiang
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Axonics Modulation Technologies
Dr. Jiang is a seasoned technical executive with a 15-year track record of developing complex, implantable Class III medical devices. He was previously VP of R&D at the Alfred Mann Foundation. Dr Jiang was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)’s College of Fellows and served as Principal Investigator on several government contracts. Dr Jiang holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
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About Axonics Modulation Technologies: Axonics Modulation Technologies is a pre-revenue company developing novel implantable neuromodulation.
Peter Fitzgerald
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Triventures
Peter Fitzgerald is the Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Technology and Director of the Cardiovascular Core Analysis Laboratory (CCAL) at Stanford University Medical School. He is an Interventional Cardiologist and has a PhD in Engineering. He is Professor in both the Departments of Medicine and Engineering at Stanford. Presently, Peter Fitzgerald’s laboratory includes 17 postdoctoral fellows and graduate engineering students focusing on state-of-the-art technologies in Cardiovascular Medicine. He has led or participated in over 150 clinical trials, published over 450 manuscripts/chapters, and lectures worldwide. He has trained over 150 post-docs in Engineering and Medicine in the past decade. In addition, he heads the Stanford/Asia MedTech innovation program Peter has been principle/founder of eighteen medical device companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has transitioned twelve of these start-ups to large medical device companies.
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About Triventures: Triventures is a venture capital fund focused on investing in data driven healthcare solutions and disruptive medical devices
Sara Naseri
Co-Founder and CEO of Qvin
Sara Naseri is the Co-Founder and CEO at Qvin.
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About Qvin, Stanford University School of Medicine: Qvin is a developer of a smart sanitary pad for women to proactively track their health.
Soren Therkelsen
Co-Founder and COO of Qvin
Soren Therkelsen is the Co-founder and COO at Qvin.
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About Qvin, Sandbox, SCALEit: Qvin is a developer of a smart sanitary pad for women to proactively track their health.
Tyler Hayes
Co-Founder and CEO of Atom Limbs
Tyler Hayes is the Co-Founder and CEO at Atom Limbs.
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About Atom Limbs: Atom builds mind-controlled artificial limbs, to enable a better human body.
Eric Monsef
Co-Founder and CEO of Atom Limbs
Eric Monsef is the Co-founder and CTO at Atom Limbs.
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About Atom Limbs: Atom builds mind-controlled artificial limbs, to enable a better human body.
Carol Sands
Founder and the Managing Member of The Angels’ Forum
Carol Sands is the Founder and the Managing Member of The Angels’ Forum and The Halo Funds. She has 30 years of experience with investing, entrepreneurial, and large corporate institutions. Carol’s career started in the Midwest where she was a bank officer with First Bank Systems and held marketing and sales positions with Motorola and Xerox Computer Services. After moving to San Francisco, she was hired into executive positions at Arthur Young (Ernst & Young) and Coopers & Lybrand (PricewaterhouseCoopers). In 1997, she formed The Angels’ Forum, an innovative angel group. The Angels’ Forum organizes individual investors with previous entrepreneurial experience to invest using a venture capital model for due diligence, mentoring, and board management. In 1997, she formed The Angels’ Forum, an innovative angel group. The Angels’ Forum organizes individual investors with previous entrepreneurial experience to invest using a venture capital model for due diligence, mentoring, and board management. A globally recognized expert, Carol consults with government officials and corporations about early-stage investing and innovation. She teaches “Angel Investing for the Serious Investor†at Stanford University’s Continuing Education Program and has guest lectured at other universities around the world. An active investor, she belongs to or consults with many organizations that support the entrepreneurial spirit including The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) as a Charter Member, SV Forum, M31, CINA, The Band of Angels, Golden Seeds, Berkeley and The Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs. Involved in women’s leadership, she is on the Advisory Board for Global Women’s Leadership Network and is a member of The International Women’s Forum. Passionate about the impact that small amounts of money can make when combined with innovative thinking, she is also a Director of the Sands Family Foundation which funds early stage and pre NIH (National Institute of Health) research relating to prostate and ovarian cancers. Carol received her B.A. in Business Administration from The University of Iowa.
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About The Angels’ Forum, The Halo Fund, TVLP Institute Silicon Valley: The Angels’ Forum is a hybrid venture/angel firm that invests in Software, Technology, and Life Sciences.
Lubna Ahmad
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Invoy
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About Invoy: Invoy provides personalized, predictive nutrition solutions to help individuals meet their health & wellness goals.
Josef Parvizi
Chairman, Founder of Ceribell
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About Ceribell, Stanford University: Ceribell focuses on making electroencephalography (EEG) widely accessible, more efficient, and more cost-effective.
Olivia Karpinski
Co-Founder and Director of Vivera Pharamceuticals
Ms. Karpinski is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Vivera Pharmaceuticals. Passionate about public health, Olivia has been in the healthcare industry for over 10 years. Her multifaceted expertise in product knowledge and business development helps her lead the sales team for Vivera while always seeking new, synergistic opportunities for the Company. Ms. Karpinski was formerly a Senior Business Analyst in the Medical Special Investigations Unit at Fortune 100 Company, Liberty Mutual. She is Lean Six Sigma certified and certified by the National Insurance Crime Bureau in special investigations and major medical fraud.
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About Vivera Pharamceuticals: Vivera Pharmaceuticals is an innovative, science-driven pharmaceutical company located in Southern California.
Rami Rostami
Founder / CEO of SensoScientific
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About SensoScientific, Technocel, TYLT Ventures, ULTRATOOTH by Biodent: SensoScientific provides calibration services in the Temperature/Humidity Monitoring industry as well as design & manufacture transmitters.
Shak Lakhani
CEO & Co-Founder of Avro
Shak Lakhani is the CEO and Co-founder of Avro Life Science, a biotech startup developing skin patches for drug delivery. He developed the first iterations of Avro’s novel drug-delivering polymers and now leads business development and day-to-day operations. He began his research career at the age of 15, spending his summers and after school hours working in the McGuigan Lab for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine at the University of Toronto before founding Avro during his studies in nanotechnology engineering at the University of Waterloo. Shak is an alumni of Y-Combinator, the Creative Destruction Lab and the Bayer Grants4Apps program.
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About Avro: Avro Life Science is developing skin patches for generic drug delivery, focusing on therapeutics for children and the elderly.
Shaun Rahimi
Founder and CEO of ENSO
Shaun Rahimi is CEO and founder of Thimble Bioelectronics. An award-winning innovator that has worked on the design and development of over 40 different medical devices at start ups since he was 15 years old. He has also held R&D roles at Neuropace, Sadra Medical, Modified Polymer Components and Abbott Labs where he participated in the design and development of novel polymer-based products and manufacturing processes.
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About ENSO, Innovation Quest: ENSO is a wearable device shown in clinical trials to solve pain better than Vicodin
Glen McLaughlin
President, Founder,CTO of Zonare Medical Systems
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About Zonare Medical Systems: Zonare Medical Systems develops compact ultrasound systems that are used for diagnostic imaging activities in clinical applications.
ShivaKumar Chandrasekaran
Co-Founder & CTO of Dentulu
Founder and member of the Board of Directors for CA Infotech India Private Limited, has served as President and CEO since the division’s inception in 2005. Shiva is a proven leader whose entrepreneurial spirit has led him to successfully create and sustain high level of competition and market fluctuations. Currently Shiva is running successfully his operations in various IT enabled services around the globe. Dentulu being his new venture.
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About Dentulu: Dentulu is a provider of teledentistry and mobile dentistry technology solutions to existing non-profits around the world.
Arash Hakhamian
Co-Founder & CEO of Dentulu
Dr. Arash Hakhamian, known as “Dr. Arash”, is a widely recognized and respected doctor of dental surgery focusing his time and energy in teaching dentists advanced clinical procedures and providing life-changing dentistry to his patients locally and internationally. Dr. Arash also serves as a consultant and teacher to current dentists on how to improve the efficiency and standards of their practice to better serve their patients.
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About Dentulu: Dentulu is a provider of teledentistry and mobile dentistry technology solutions to existing non-profits around the world.
Kirk Seward
Co-Founder, President, Chief Science and Technology Officer of Mercator MedSystems
Dr. Seward is the inventor of the Mercator Micro-Infusion Catheter and led its development from prototype through FDA 510(k) marketing clearance. Prior to co-founding Mercator MedSystems Dr. Seward was a staff principal investigator at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He completed his doctoral studies in mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, and his masters and bachelors in mechanical engineering at MIT. He has authored more than 50 patent applications.
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About Mercator MedSystems: Mercator MedSystems develops site-specific delivery devices for the treatment of vascular, oncologic, and regenerative diseases.
Paul DiPerna
Founder and President of Modular Medical
Paul DiPerna is the chief executive officer of Fuel Source Partners. Prior to that, he was a board member and business consultant at AtheroNova. DiPerna founded Tandem Diabetes Care in 2003 and served as its chief technology officer for over 8 years. Previously, he worked at Baxter Healthcare for over 14 years, where he held progressive management positions as a technologist for cell separation systems, program manager of the largest and complex system the company had undertaken, director of business development, and general manager of Digital Dental Sciences, a startup within the company. DiPerna holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and master’s degree in engineering management from Northeastern University. DiPerna resides in San Diego, California, United States.
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About Modular Medical: Modular Medical operates as a drug delivery tech developer.
Hartmut Schneider
Founder & Chief Medical Officer of Onera
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About Onera, Onera Health: Onera advances sleep medicine by creating breakthrough diagnostic solutions that help people who struggle with sleep-related ailments.
Jared Seehafer
Co-Founder & CEO of Enzyme
Jared is an 11 year veteran of the medical device and biopharma industries, with a background in product management, medical device software, design assurance and regulatory strategy. His experience ranges from leading spinal cord stimulator programs at St. Jude Neuromodulation (now Abbott), to the UI/UX for the first hybrid closed loop insulin pump at Medtronic Diabetes, to the regulatory strategy for numerous combination drug-device products, including Amgen’s Neulasta Onpro and Repatha Pushtronex. Prior to his experience in the life sciences he trained and worked as a software engineer. He holds a BA from the University of Colorado and an MS in Medical Device Engineering from USC.
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About Enzyme, Village Global: Enzyme is building software to help life sciences companies with FDA approval and regulatory compliance.
Jacob Graham
Co-Founder & VP QA/RA of Enzyme
Jacob is an 11 year veteran of the medical device industry, with a background in quality management, design assurance, and audit planning. He has helped commercially launch several Class II and III devices and has overseen multiple FDA and EU notified body audits. Prior to co-founding Enzyme he held quality management positions at Medtronic and Boston Scientific. Jacob has an MBA from Babson College and a BS in Engineering from Olin College. Additionally he has achieved several professional certifications in the life sciences, and is an ASQ Certified Biomedical Auditor and RAPS Regulatory Affairs Certified (US).
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About Enzyme: Enzyme is building software to help life sciences companies with FDA approval and regulatory compliance.
Demetri Terzopoulos
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of VoxelCloud
Demetri Terzopoulos (PhD ’84 MIT), Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, holds the rank of Distinguished Professor and directs the UCLA Computer Graphics & Vision Laboratory. He is or was a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and the New York Academy of Sciences, and a life member of Sigma Xi. One of the most highly cited authors in engineering and computer science, his many awards include an Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the inaugural Computer Vision Distinguished Researcher Award from the IEEE for his pioneering and sustained research on deformable models and their application to medical image analysis and other domains.
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About VoxelCloud: VoxelCloud provides automated medical image analysis services and diagnosis assistance based on AI and cloud computing technologies.
Sylvia Kang
Co-Founder & CEO of Mira
Sylvia Kang is the founder and CEO of Quanovate, the company behind Mira.
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About Mira, Quanovate: The first FDA and CE registered comprehensive women’s health and chronic disease monitoring platform with 99% of accuracy
Zheng Yang
Co-Founder of Mira
Zheng Yang is a co-founder of Quanovate, the company behind Mira.
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About Mira, Quanovate: The first FDA and CE registered comprehensive women’s health and chronic disease monitoring platform with 99% of accuracy
Rajatesh Gudibande
Co-Founder & President of GraphWear Technologies
Rajatesh Gudibande is the Co-Founder and President at GraphWear Technologies.
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About GraphWear Technologies: The world’s first needle free continuous health monitoring platform
Steve Budill
Co-Founder of BH2 Innovations
Steve Budill currently works as the Co-founder for BH2 Innovations. He previously worked at SteriView, Inc. as the Vice President.
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About BH2 Innovations: BH2 Innovations is a product development firm that specializes in technologies that address unmet needs in the healthcare industry.
Mike Humason
Co-Founder of BH2 Innovations
Mike Humason currently works as the Co-Founder for BH2 Innovations, Inc. . He previously worked at Sanovas Inc. as the VP, Clinical Affairs and Education.
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About BH2 Innovations: BH2 Innovations is a product development firm that specializes in technologies that address unmet needs in the healthcare industry.
Paul Lubock
Co-Founder & Principal of Inceptus Medical
Paul is a Principal and one of the co-founders of Inceptus Medical, a medical device incubator founded in June 2011.
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About Inceptus Medical: Inceptus Medical offers the healthcare industry with an incubator service that provides capital, research expertise, consulting, and more.
Robert Rosenbluth
Co-Founder & President of Inceptus Medical
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About Inceptus Medical, Okami Medical: Inceptus Medical offers the healthcare industry with an incubator service that provides capital, research expertise, consulting, and more.
Dore Mark
Co-Founder, Technology of Microtech Medical
Dore Mark is the Co-Founder, Technology at MicroTech Medical.
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About Microtech Medical: Microtech Medical is a Chinese medical equipment start-up developing and manufacturing medical devices.
Victor McCray
Founder & CEO of Tangible Science
Vic McCray, MD is a Co-Founder of Tangible Science and serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer, where he leads commercialization of technology to improve contact lens comfort for patients suffering from dry eye disease. Involved at the inception, Vic has seen the company through several important milestones including initial proof of concept, venture funding, and the ongoing business development and licensing negotiations.
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About Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Tangible Science: Tangible Science is a developer of contact lenses designed to reduce lens discomfort in dry eye diseases.
Karen Havenstrite
Co-Founder & CTO of Tangible Science
Karen Havenstrite, Ph.D., MBA is a Co-Founder of Tangible Science and serves as Chief Technical Officer. Karen has been with Tangible Science since inception and has led development of the HydraPEG technology from concept to commercialization. Karen received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, where her thesis work focused on designing hydrogel materials to improve the regenerative properties of muscle stem cells; she also received her MBA from Stanford University. Karen has authorized multiple research publications, been awarded SBIR grants from the National Science Foundation, and has been recognized by the American Chemical Society as a “Talented 12” young scientist for her novel work on contact lens materials.
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About Life Science Angels, Stanford School of Medicine, Tangible Science: Tangible Science is a developer of contact lenses designed to reduce lens discomfort in dry eye diseases.
Kathleen Sereda Glaub
Co-Founder of CuraSen Therapeutics
Kathleen Sereda Glaub, MBA, has been Chief Executive Officer of Afferent Pharmaceuticals, Inc since September 2014. Kathleen Sereda Glaub served as President of Plexxikon, Inc. until May 2013. She served as Chief Financial Officer of Plexxikon, Inc. She co-led Plexxikon for twelve years from 2001 to 2013. Completing her experiences across the drug commercialization cycle, she negotiated co-promotion rights and established a specialty sales force for the marketing of Zelboraf (R), Plexxikon’s first FDA-approved drug which is marketed with a companion diagnostic. She has over 30 years of management and company-building experience for biopharma and innovation-based companies. Her experience includes over $4 billion in financing, M & A and restructuring transactions. Most recently, she has served as an independent advisor to private companies for Corporate Strategy, Business Development and Financing. From 1993 to 1998, Kathleen Sereda Glaub served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Cell Genesys, Inc., where, among other transactions, she was instrumental in the spinout of Abgenix and the acquisition of Somatix Therapy Corporation. Prior to Cell Genesys, she served as Treasurer of Genentech, where she worked for five years. Previously, she worked for Intel Corporation for over five years where she held various Treasury and Finance Positions. She has been a Director of Codexis, Inc. since September 22, 2014 and Afferent Pharmaceuticals, Inc since November 2013. Kathleen Sereda Glaub received a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA in finance from Northwestern University
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About CuraSen Therapeutics: CuraSen Therapeutics is a biotechnology company.
Orestis Vardoulis
Co-Founder & CEO of Zeit Medical
Orestis Vardoulis currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for ZeitMedical.
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About Zeit Medical: Zeit Medical provides peace of mind to neurology injury patients through powered AI and cutting edge Bioelectronics.
Urs Naber
Co-Founder of Zeit Medical
Urs Naber currently works as the Co-Founder for ZeitMedical.
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About Zeit Medical: Zeit Medical provides peace of mind to neurology injury patients through powered AI and cutting edge Bioelectronics.
H. Lee Mosbacker
Founder & CTO of Traycer Diagnostic Systems
H. Lee Mosbacker joined CAPRICA AI as CEO in 2018. Dr. Mosbacker received his B.S. in physics from Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College in 1999. From 2000 – 2002 he worked as a programmer analyst at Nationwide Financial developing market timing applications for mutual fund managers. In 2008, Lee received his PhD in Physics from The Ohio State University. Since 2007, Lee has been the Chief Technology Officer of Traycer Diagnostic Systems, where he has been involved in the scientific and technical aspects of growing an early-stage technology company, including grant and fund raising and the conceptualization and development of microwave and terahertz frequency detection arrays. In 2005, Lee co-founded Techriculture, a non-profit that helps inventors and scientists in early stage product ideation and prototype development through educational, networking, technical, and financial consulting.
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About CAPRICA AI, HackCancerSF, OcuDoc, Syndicate app, Traycer Diagnostic Systems: Traycer Diagnostic Systems develops terahertz radiation cameras that are integrated into imaging systems.
David Guaraglia
Co-Founder of Virgo Surgical Video Solutions
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About Virgo Surgical Video Solutions: Virgo accelerates clinical trials with AI for endoscopy
Duke Rohlen
Founder, CEO & Chairman of Ajax Health
Douglas S. Rohlen, also known as Duke, serves as Chief Executive Officer of Ajax Health LLC. Duke Rohlen serves as an Executive Chairman of EPIX Therapeutics, Inc., and has been its Chief Executive Officer. He is a Co-Founder of Ajax Vascular and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. He is a General Partner of D3DC, LLC. He has over two decades of experience in cardiovascular medical devices. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and President at Spirox, Inc. He was a Co-Founder of CV Ingenuity Corp., and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer. He was a Managing Partner of TauTona Group. He served as President of Fox Technologies. He served as Head of Investor Relations at Foxhollow Technologies Inc. He served as President of Strategic Operations at Foxhollow Technologies Inc. Duke Rohlen served as Vice President of Corporate Development and Investor Relations and as Director of Business Development since joining Foxhollow Technologies Inc., he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Olive Hill Development, a land development company. He served as a Project Consultant at Massachusetts General Hospital. He served as Director of Business Development at LuMend Corporation, a privately-held company that develops chronic total occlusion products in the treatment of peripheral vascular disease which was acquired by Cordis Corporation. In 1999, he served as Entrepreneur in Residence at Alta Partners, a venture capital firm. He served as a Director of Entellus Medical, Inc., Duke Rohlen holds a B.A. in History from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Ablacon, Ajax Health, Atriomx, Cortica, Verix Health: Ajax Health accelerates medical innovation through capital and capabilities.
Mark Nordquist
Founder of DJO Global
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About DJO Global: DJO Global is a manufacturer and distributor of medical devices for musculoskeletal health, vascular health, and pain management.
Scott J. Wolf
Founder & CMO of Aerin Medical
Dr. Scott Wolf is a prolific medical device entrepreneur. Over the past 20 years,Scott founded numerous successful medical device companies across a broad range of therapeutic areas. Scott founded Aerin Medical to create a non-surgical therapy to meet the enormous need of patients with nasal obstruction. Prior to founding Aerin Medical, Scott founded Zeltiq Aesthetics, the maker of CoolSculpting, the leading non-invasive method of fat reduction for bodyshaping. Zeltiq (NASDAQ: ZLTQ) acquired by Allergan for $2.5B. Scott’s other startups include Endogastric Solutions and Cardiac Dimensions. Scott was previously a partner at Prospect Venture Partners and a vice-president at Frazier Healthcare Ventures, both leading life science venture capital firms. Scott received his M.D. from George Washington University and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Aerin Medical, Volt Health: Aerin Medical is a health technology company that develops therapeutic devices to improve nasal breathing.
Robert Fenton
Founder & CEO of Qualio
Robert Fenton is the Founder and CEO at Qualio.
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About Qualio: Qualio is a quality management system helping life sciences companies bring quality products to the market.
Siva Samy
Founder, CEO, President & Chief Product Strategist of ValGenesis
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About ValGenesis: Validation Life-cycle Management system
Jonathan Charlesworth
Co-Founder and Head of Clinical Sciences of Noctrix Health
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About Noctrix Health: Noctrix Health is an early-stage medical device company that focuses on developing a revolutionary therapy for a chronic illness.
Jack Auld
Co Founder & CEO of Altaviz
Jack is a Co-Founder of Altaviz and well known in the ophthalmic surgical device and instrument market. Jack’s passion is leading high performance teams to solve surgical problems with creative and innovative solutions that yield effective, high-demand products. Prior to founding Altaviz, Jack worked extensively with retina surgeons to deeply understand their objectives, identify their needs and translate those needs into current market-leading, state-of-the art handheld surgical instruments by motivating and guiding teams of talented engineers. 15 successful years in motorsports and specialty vehicle design and development with the Toyota off road racing team and MillenWorks taught Jack to flourish in fast-paced environments and to solve challenging problems. He currently holds 14 US and 7 European patents. Jack graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He is married with two children, active in the outdoors and has a passion for ultra light backpacking.
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About Altaviz, Picocyl: Altaviz develops patent-protected technologies for single-use, custom injection system medical devices.
John Huculak
Co-Founder of Altaviz
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About Altaviz: Altaviz develops patent-protected technologies for single-use, custom injection system medical devices.
Nersi Nazari
Executive Chairman & Founder of VitalConnect
Nersi Nazari is the founder of Pacific General Ventures, an early stage fund, which invests in semiconductor and software companies. Before Pacific General, Nazari was vice president of Signal Processing Technology at Marvell Semiconductor Inc., where his responsibilities included the development of storage and communications products. At Marvell he was directly responsible for the architecture of advanced read channels, Giga bit Ethernet physical layer devices, as well as WLAN products. Additionally, he established the system-on-chip (SOC) family of products for the storage market, the highest revenue family of products at Marvell. From 1994 to 1997, Nazari was chief technologist at GEC Plessey Semiconductor. Before that, he was an engineer at Seagate Technology and Digital Equipment Corp. He holds eight patents. He has a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado.
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About Pacific General Ventures, VitalConnect: VitalConnect is a wearable biosensor technology for wireless hospital and remote patient monitoring.
Satoshi Sugie
Representative Director, CEO, and Founder of WHILL
After working at the NISSAN Technical Center, He co-founded the WHILL Project in 2011.World Economic Forum Davas Meeting and a GSC Japan member.
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About WHILL: WHILL designs and creates personal mobility products for indoor and outdoor applications.
Dr. Auron Priestley
CEO and Founder of Kolkin
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About Kolkin: Kolkin is a cloud-based care coordination solution that offers a clinical workflow software.
Sam Mazin
Founder & CTO of RefleXion Medical
Sam Mazin is the President of RefleXion Medical and inventor of the company’s core technology. While a Postdoc in Radiology at Stanford University, Sam was selected by the Kauffman Foundation as one of thirteen postdocs in the nation to commercialize promising innovations. His prior research at Stanford was focused on the design of a novel X-ray computed tomography (CT) system, resulting in several journal papers and a patent, as well as the Joel Drillings Award from the American Heart Association. His work on a PET-based algorithm received the prestigious Cum Laude award from the SPIE international medical imaging society. He has been invited to speak about his research by the American Heart Association, GE’s Global Research Center, US Oncology, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2008 Sam participated in the Stanford Graduate School of Business Ignite program for entrepreneurship, where he was one of five participants named a GlaxoSmithKline Garnier Fellow. Sam holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and a BASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
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About RefleXion Medical: RefleXion Medical is a developer of biologically-guided radiotherapy systems for patients with cancer.
Jonathan Tu
CFO & Co-Founder of Fluxergy
Jonathan Tu is the Chief Financial Officer and Co-Founder at Fluxergy.
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About Fluxergy: Fluxergy is a biotechnology company that offers point-of-care testing, PCR, and medical diagnostics.
Tej Patel
President and Co-Founder of Fluxergy
Tej Patel is the President and Co-Founder of Fluxergy.
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About Fluxergy: Fluxergy is a biotechnology company that offers point-of-care testing, PCR, and medical diagnostics.
Ryan Revilla
Vice President and Co-Founder of Fluxergy
Ryan Revilla is the Vice President and Co-Founder at Fluxergy.
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About Fluxergy: Fluxergy is a biotechnology company that offers point-of-care testing, PCR, and medical diagnostics.
