Jose Calle Gordo

VNUS Medical Technologies, Inc. provides medical devices and procedures for the minimally invasive treatment of venous reflux disease, an underlying cause of varicose veins. Venous reflux disease results in symptoms such as leg pain, swelling, fatigue, skin ulcers, and painful varicose veins. The company was founded on January 31, 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Biomet Biologics LLC engages in the design of biotechnology products. The company was founded on August 2, 2002 and is headquartered in Warsaw, IN.

Elute, Inc. develops polymer controlled drug delivery devices designed to prevent and treat orthopedic and other surgical bone infections. The company was founded by David W. Grainger and Dennis B. Farrar in 2010 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Vesselon, Inc. develops a portable ultrasound medical device for treating neurodegenerative diseases and brain & ischemic strokes. It commercializes a drug delivery platform that combines ultrasound and microbubbles to deliver the drugs across tissue barriers directly into a target without the need to modify the drug through a process, microbubble assisted sono-therapy. The company was founded by Clayton T. Larsen and Rhodemann Li in 2012 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Lazurite Holdings LLC is a biomedical company. The firm develops and commercializes medical device for the operating room through smart surgical tools. The company was founded by Eugene Malinskiy, Daniel Dudley, and Ilya Malinskiy and is headquartered in Warrensville Heights, OH.

Blackstone Medical, Inc. develops cervical, thoracolumbar and biologic products. The company was founded by William G. Lyons III in 1996 and is headquartered in Lewisville, TX.

Permira I.P. Ltd. is an investment firm founded in 2003 that partners with management teams to accelerate growth and transform businesses into digitally-enabled market leaders. The private company is based in Saint Peter Port, UK, and has a global presence of subsidiaries in several regions. The British company offers private equity and credit services with a thematic approach in four key sectors: technology, consumer, healthcare, and services.

Valiance Advisors LLP is the alternative asset management subsidiary of Valiance Asset Management Ltd. in Great Britain. The firm was founded by Jan Pensaert in 2008. Headquartered in London, Valiance Advisors manages Life Sciences portfolio for individual and institutional investors.

Biomet, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and market of musculoskeletal therapy products. The company was founded by Dane A. Miller, Niles L. Noblitt, Jerry L. Ferguson and M. Ray Harroff on November 30, 1977 and is headquartered in Warsaw, IN.

Valiance Asset Management Ltd. provides investment services. It offers sovereign funds, pension funds, leading families and individuals investment services. The company was founded by Jan Pensaert in 2008 and is headquartered in St. Peter Port, Guernsey.

4Tech Cardio Ireland Ltd. develops and manufactures surgical devices. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Valiance Life Science Investments (Valiance Life Science Investments) is a private equity subsidiary of Valiance Asset Management Ltd. founded in 2017. The firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

MyCartis NV develops technologies for healthcare personalization needs. It offers Evalution, a multiplex analysis platform to develop protein and nucleic-acid based clinical biomarkers. The company provides disruptive solutions in the fields of clinical and translational research for various applications in the detection of proteins and nucleic acids, such as sandwich immunoassays, antibody assays, genotyping assays, and mutation analysis assays to customers and partners. It offers products for various disease areas, including cell signalling, cardiovascular, oncology, and preeclampsia. The company was founded by Koen Kas in August 2004 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

JenaValve Technology, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets transcatheter aortic valve replacement systems. The company was founded on March 27, 2006 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

NeoSync, Inc. is a clinical-stage firm. It develops non-invasive neuromodulation products to treat major depressive disorder and other diseases of the central nervous system. The firm's technology, NeoSync-EEG Synchronized TMS, is personalized to a patient’s individual alpha frequency. The company was founded by Bill Phillips and is headquartered in South Boston, MA.

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.

Biomet Orthopedics LLC designs and manufactures total joint replacement products. The company offers hip, knee and surgical products, limb salvage, bone cement and accessories, patient-matched implants and allograft tissues. Its products 3i dental, biologics & biomaterials, bone healing, microfixation, orthopedics, spine and sports medicine. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Warsaw, IN.

DFINE, Inc.engages in the development and commercialization of medical device system for treating vertebral compression fractures. The company was founded by John H. Shadduck and Csaba Truckai in 2004 and is headquartered in South Jordan, UT.

Axon Therapies, Inc. develops treatment for heart failure. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Innovation Factory LLC (The Innovation Factory) is an incubator firm headquartered in Duluth, Georgia. The firm is founded by Thomas D. Weldon and Charles E. Larsen in 1999.

Accuitive Medical Ventures LLC (Accuitive Medical Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Thomas Weldon, Gerard van Hamel Platerink, John Arthur Deedrick, Steven Waite and Charles Larsen. The firm is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia.

AqueSys, Inc. is a clinical-stage medical device company that develops ocular implants that reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) associated with glaucoma. It focuses on commercializing implantable devices that will significantly improve the treatment of glaucoma. The company was founded by Charles E. Larsen in 2006 and is headquartered in Parsippany, NJ

WaveTec Vision Systems, Inc. develops and provides wavefront measurement technologies. It focuses on research, development, manufacturing, and distribution of the Optiwave Refractive Analysis (ORA) system with VerifEye used during cataract surgery. The firm offers ophthalmic medical devices. The company was founded by Kenneth C. Aldrich, William B. Adams, Thomas J. Berryman, and Tony Van Heugten in 1997 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

Magenta Medical Ltd. develops medical devices for the treatment of acute and congestive heart failure. It offers a temporary venous catheter-based therapy for hospital-admitted patients. The firm?s novel therapeutic principle is aimed at addressing renal venous congestion and its deleterious effects on renal and cardiac function that is a pathophysiological core element of acute heart failure. The company was founded by Ehud Schwammenthal and Yosi Tuval in October 2012 and is headquartered in Kadima, Israel.