Scott I. Verner

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.

Bayer Corp. manufactures and markets pharmaceutical, healthcare, nutrition and materials products. The firm offers consumer care, diagnostics, diabetes and animal health products. It also provides material science products, which include coating, adhesive and sealant raw materials polycarbonates polyurethanes and thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers. The company was founded in 1973 and is based in Whippany, NJ.

Polymer Technology Systems, Inc. develops, manufactures and sells hand-held diagnostic devices. It is an point-of-care diagnostics solutions provider that partners with patients and healthcare professionals to provide the right information at the right time to make the right decisions. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Bayer Healthcare LLC provides healthcare and pharmaceutical medicines. It also provides researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing services for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The company is headquartered in Whippany, NJ.

CardioNet LLC provides cardiac monitoring services. It operates its business through two segments: Patient Service and Product Business. The Patient Service segment focuses on the diagnosis and monitoring of cardiac arrhythmias, or heart rhythm disorders, through its core mobile cardiac outpatient telemetry, event and Holter services. The Product Business segment focuses on the development, manufacturing, testing and marketing of medical devices and related software to medical companies, clinics and hospitals. The company was founded by James M. Sweeney in 1999 and is headquartered in Conshohocken, PA.

Naviscan, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets organ molecular imaging scanners. The company was founded by Irving Weinberg on January 31, 2006 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Cardiocore Lab LLC provides cardiac testing services The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, and markets soft tissue equipment. The firm's main focus is assisting physicians in the early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. The company was founded by Ben Heavrin, Bruce Lynskey, Jerome R. Edwards, and Evan Austill, Jr. in 2005 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

MiMedx Processing Services LLC provides products that improve the lives of patients suffering from back pain. The company was founded on June 27, 2007 and is headquartered in Marietta, GA.

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

Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc. provides proteomic and genomic products and services to the life sciences industry. It offers clinical genetic tests for developmental delay, intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorders, epilepsy and seizure disorders and mitochondrial disorders. The company was founded by Jocelyn W. Burke, Elizabeth Holland, Brendan L. McKernan, Kevin J. McKernan, Brian R. McKernan and Timothy Olcott in 1999 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

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.

Satterlee Stephens LLP engages in the provision of legal services. It offers insolvency services, corporate and transactional law, emerging companies, immigration and nationality, insurance and professional liability, intellectual property and media law, labor and employment law, litigation and dispute resolution, and trusts and estates, taxation and private client group. The company was founded by Herbert L. Satterlee in n1894 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Roche Holding AG, Roche Diagnostics GmbH is a German company that develops innovative medicines, treatments, and diagnostics. The company is based in Mannheim, Germany. The CEOs of the company are Claudia Fleischer, Claus Haberda, Clemens Schmid. Roche Diagnostics was acquired by Roche Holding AG on January 01, 1999.

Cameron Health, Inc. develops medical devices for patients and medical professionals. It has developed a totally subcutaneous implantable defibrillator (S-ICD) system that remedies many of the issues associated with traditional implantable cardioverter defibrillators. The company was founded on August 21, 2000 and is headquartered in San Clemente, CA.

Waste Services, Inc. operates as a integrated solid waste services company. It provides collection, transfer, landfill disposal and recycling services for the commercial, industrial and residential industries. It was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Burlington, CA.

University of Miami (Florida) is a private research university with students from around the world that is focused on teaching and learning, the discovery of new knowledge, and service to the South Florida region and beyond. The university was founded in 1925 and it is headquartered in Coral Gables, FL.

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

Visiogen, Inc. develops products for cataract and refractive patients. It offers synchrony dual-optic accommodating intraocular lens and pre-loaded injector, which provide distance, intermediate, and near vision to presbyopic cataract patients. The company was founded on March 19, 2001 and is headquartered in Abbott Park, IL.

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.

CooperVision Cilco develops medical devices.

metavention, Inc. develops novel interventional therapies and sympathetic nervous system. The company was founded by Bobak Azamian in 2011 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN.

Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. manufactures medical devices. It offers medical device technology, cardiology, and electrophysiology. The company was founded by Gust H. Bardy in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Augmedics, Inc. provides surgery services. The company was founded in 2014 by Nissan Elimelech and Raphael Lotan and is headquartered in Yokneam, Israel.