Blake Richards

EndoChoice, Inc. operates as a medtech company which focuses on the manufacturing and commercialization of platform technologies including endoscopic imaging systems, devices, and infection control products and pathology services. Its imaging systems include fuse endoscopy system, fuse accesories, carts, cart options, monitors, monitor cart mounts, monito wall mounts, scope services, and suction pumps and supplies. Its devices include band ligators, biopsy forceps, bipolar probes, bite blocks, cytology brushes, electrosurgical supplies, metal stents, needles, retrieval devices, and snares. The company was founded by Mark G. Gilreath and William Parks in 2007 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

Foldax, Inc. develops synthetic heart valves for delivering non-thrombogenic aortic and mitral valves. The company is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

UCSF Medical Center owns and operates hospitals. It operates hospitals in San Francisco as well as satellite facilities. It provides health care facilities to children, organ transplants, cardiac care, fertility treatments, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, and orthopedics. It also provides outpatient care and some programs in areas as women's health, aging, cancer, and pain management. UCSF Medical Center is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Still River Management Co Inc (Still River Funds) is a venture capital firm founded in 1994 by James A. Saalfield. The firm is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Appriva Medical, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures medical devices. The firm's products include manufacturing of closed-chest, catheter-based device for occluding the left atrial appendage and PLAATO. The company was founded by Dr. Lesh and Erik van der Burg in 1998 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA

BIOCOM provides scientific and technological services. The firm focuses that positively influence the growth of the life science industry, including capital formation, public policy, workforce development and scientific discovery and development. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

The Medical Device Manufacturers Association operates as a trade association. The private company is based in Washington. The American company was founded by Thomas C. Thompson.

Middle Peak Medical, Inc. develops implants for treatment of mitral valve disease. Its technology has application in both percutaneous catheter-based intervention and in minimally invasive or open-heart cardiac surgery. The company was founded by Michael D. Lesh and Alexander Khairkhahan in 2011 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Digma Medical Ltd. develops a device-based, one-time, non-invasive procedure, that restores the body’s natural ability to control glucose, which may provide long term remission from Type-2 Diabetes. The company was founded by Tamir Wolf and Irit Yaniv in 2013 and is headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel.

Peloton Equity LLC (Peloton Equity) is a private equity firm founded in 2014 by Carlos Ferrer and Ted Lundberg. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Verb Surgical, Inc. designs and manufactures surgical equipment. The company was founded in August 2015 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

VS, Inc. engages in the development of human-like surgical robotics. It creates virtual reality software for minimally invasive surgery procedures. The company was founded by Adam Sachs, Barry E. Greene and Sammy Khalifa in 2014 and is headquartered in Charlestown, MA.

Hyperfine Research, Inc. provides technology solutions. It designs and develops devices and software to improve healthcare. The company was founded by Jonathan Rothberg and Gregory Charvat in 2014 and is headquartered in Guilford, CT.

VIDA FLaSH Acquisitions operates as a development stage company. It is formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded by Frank Litvack and Scott R. Huennekens on January 29, 2021 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Q'Apel Medical, Inc. designs novel access device technology for vascular interventions and unmet clinical needs. The company is based in Fremont, CA. The CEO of the company is R. King Nelson.

Syntegra, Inc. applies machine learning to create validated replicas of medical data. The company was founded by Michael Lesh and Ofer Mendelevitch and is headquartered in Mill Valley, CA.

Cordance Medical, Inc. is a company that is developing the NeuroAccess™ focused ultrasound system to treat Alzheimer's disease. The company is based in Mountain View, CA. Alzheimer's disease is a progressive disease that affects memory and makes up an estimated 60-80% of dementia cases. Cordance's solution is a non-invasive 30-minute outpatient clinic procedure that opens the blood-brain barrier precisely to physician-directed regions of the brain. The company's cornerstone patent has been granted claims in the US, AU, and ten other countries. The company was founded by Bhaskar Ramamurthy. The CEO is Ryan Dittamore.