William Rutstein

Lifecore Biomedical LLC develops, manufactures and markets medical and surgical devices. It serves ophthalmic, orthopaedic and veterinary markets. The firm offers pharmaceutical grade sodium hyaluronate and hydrogels. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Chaska, MN.

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.

Medtronic ATS Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets medical devices for the treatment of structural heart disease. The company was founded on November 09, 2000 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

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.

AGA Medical Holdings, Inc. operates as a holding company for manufacturers of medical devices for the treatment of heart defects and vascular diseases. The companies AGA Medical Holdings operates sell devices, which are used by pediatric cardiologists, radiologists, and vascular surgeons. The company was founded in July 2005 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MN.

Invenshure LLC (Invenshure) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Troy D Kopischke and Danny J Cunagin. The firm is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Fairview Health Services provides health care services. It offers acupuncture, allergies, asthma, immunology, artery and vein care, athletic training, audiology and hearing aid services, behavioral health, the birthplace, bleeding and clotting disorders, blood and marrow transplant, breast care, cancer care, certified nurse midwives, chiropractic services, cosmetic services, critical care, dermatology, and diabetes care services. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Grant Thornton LLP provides accounting, tax and business consulting services. It offers advisory, business consulting, business risk, enterprise technology and innovation, transaction services, data analytics, cyber risk, and data integrity services. The firm serves the construction, real estate and hospitality, consumer and industrial products, energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, not for profit organizations, private equity, public sector, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Abbott Medical Japan Co., Ltd. develops markets and distributes medical devices. The company was founded on June 26, 1987 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Medtronic 3F Therapeutics, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets cardiovascular devices. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Part of Anumana, Inc., NeuTrace, Inc. is a medical technology company that develops AI applications for electrophysiology. The company is based in Longwood, FL. The company was founded by Kalyanam Shivkumar. NeuTrace was acquired by Anumana, Inc. on November 07, 2022.

Baropace, Inc. is a privately held medical device company located in Ashland, OR. Baropace is focused on the development of pressurepace™, a real-time physiologic control software and hardware to regulate cardiac pacemakers to treat resistant hypertension and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (hfpef). The company has proprietary biotechnologies including a pacemaker control algorithm (pressurepace™) and new sensor technologies working through patient mobile and wearable platforms. Baropace expects to launch a first-in-human clinical trial (relievehtn-i) in the fourth quarter of 2022. Pressurepace™ is limited by federal law to investigational use only and is not approved for sale in any geography. The company was founded in 2019 by Eli Gang and Michael Burnam, who has been the CEO since 2018.