Alberto Rodriguez-Navarro

Neomend, Inc. develops surgical wound healing products. It offers adhesion prevention products for hospitals and medical facilities. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. manufactures surgical devices and equipments. Its products include the ENDOPATH XCEL access system, CONTOUR curved cutter stapler, HARMONIC ultrasonic cutting and coagulation surgical devices and the MAMMOTOME breast biopsy system. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

Cianna Medical, Inc. manufactures and marketing equipment for the treatment of early-stage breast cancer in women. The firm’s products include SAVI, a breast brachytherapy applicator used for the delivery of radiation after lumpectomy surgery; and SAVI SCOUT, a surgical guidance system that uses real-time audible and visual indicators to give surgeons a precise way to target tissue during lumpectomy and excisional biopsy procedures. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

Embolx, Inc. develops and commercializes unique catheter-based systems that enable a breakthrough in minimally invasive localized cancer therapy. Its devices use pressure regulation to eliminate non-target delivery and increase drug distribution in the tumor using an advanced method known as Low Pressure Embolization. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Andes Biotechnologies SA researches and develops effective treatments against cancer. It has developed a new proprietary technology based on the discovery of a novel family of RNA targets of mitochondrial origin that when disrupted by anti-sense technology they selectively destroy cancer cells. The company was founded by Luis O. Burzio, Arturo Yudelevich and Pablo D.T. Valenzuela in 2008 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile.

Athelera LLC provides financial advisory services. The private company is based in New York, NY. The CEO of the company is Rodrigo Bitar.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

EchoPixel, Inc. develops medical imaging devices. It offers True 3D viewer 1.0 and True 3D medical education viewer. The firm’s products allows medical professionals to interact with patient-specific organs and tissue in an open 3D space emanating from a display, enabling doctors to immediately identify, evaluate, and dissect clinically significant structures in diagnostic, surgical planning and image guided treatment applications. The company was founded by Sergio Aguirre Valencia in 2005 and is headquartered Mountain View, CA.

Aurus Capital SA Administradora General de Fondos (Aurus Capital) is an asset management firm headquartered in Vitacura, Chile. The firm was founded by Juan Carlos Délano Valenzuela and is a subsidiary of Aurus Gestión de Inversiones SpA. Aurus Capital provides investment advice to individual and institutional clients.

Algenis SpA conducts research on small molecules derived from microalgae. It produces, formulation and clinical developments bioactive molecules produced by marine microalgae with medical application as muscle relaxant and analgesic, as well as for the treatment of neurological diseases. The company also conducted academic clinical research and published their work in several peer-reviewed journals. Algenis was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile.

Trigemina, Inc. develops drugs to control pain and migraine headache. Its platform is based on proprietary formulations of oxytocin, a naturally-occurring hormone, delivered through nasal-cerebral pathways for the treatment of a large spectrum of chronic and acute neurological disorders. The company was founded by David C. Yeomans in 2006 and is headquartered in Moraga, CA.

Aurus Capital SA Administradora General de Fondos (Aurus Capital) is a venture capital firm located in Chile. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile.

Broadvox LLC provides wholesale VoIP service to telecommunications carriers. It provides origination, termination, SMS, call peering, virtual tandem and value added services. The company offers carrier services that accommodate all types of VoIP and UC service providers, voice and SMS ISVs with any type of endpoint methods and interconnection from to sophisticated Ethernet connectivity and VPN tunnels. Broadvox was founded by Andre Temnorod and Eugene Blumin in 2001 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

NeoTract, Inc. develops surgical devices for urological and gynecological disorders. It offers UroLift System, a minimally invasive device to treat lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic hyperplasia. The company was founded by Joshua Makower, Joseph Catanese, Theodore C. Lamson and Earl A. Bright II in 2004 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

AEGEA Medical, Inc. develops technology that utilizes convective water vapor to treat menorrhagia. The firm focuses on the development of its proprietary and innovative water vapor treatment for abnormal uterine bleeding. It has vapor system delivers controlled, low-pressure natural water vapor to the uterine cavity to efficiently ablate the inner lining of the uterus. The company was founded by Paul M. Goeld in 2008 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Artio Medical, Inc. develops novel, endovascular medical devices for the treatment of peripheral and neurovascular diseases. Its products include Solus Gold, Solus Flex, Anuera, and Endura. The company was founded by William P. Whitaker and F. Nicholas Franano in 2013 and is headquartered in Fairway, KS.

Part of Orthofix Medical, Inc., Orthofix International NV is a company based in Lewisville, TX. The company develops and markets surgical products to the spine and orthopedic markets.

Tissium SA engages in the development and commercialization of biodegradable sealants and adhesives for invasive surgery. It offers biomimetic wound closure solutions. The company was founded by Bernard J. Gilly, Robert S. Langer, Christophe Bancel, Jeff Karp, Jacques Marescaux, Maria Pereira, and Patrick Houvet in 2013 and is headquartered in Paris, France.