Lori McDougal

Baxter Healthcare Corp. develops, manufactures, and distributes hospital supplies and medical technologies. It distributes medical treatment options for conditions such as hemophilia, immune disorders, kidney disease, cancer, and trauma. The company was founded on June 21, 1967 and is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

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.

Cobalis Corp. is a pharmaceutical and nutraceutical company. Its flagship product, PreHistin designs to prevent the primary causes of airborne allergies. Cobalis specializes in the development of anti allergy medications. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

MiCardia Corp. designs, develops, and commercializes implantable medical devices. The firm offers implantable devices for the treatment of heart diseases, such as mitral valve regurgitation and congestive heart failure. It also provides enCor, an annuloplasty device that corrects residual mitral regurgitation on a beating heart. The company was founded in November 2004 by Michael R. Henson, Shawn Moaddeb and Samuel M. Shaolian and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Flowonix Medical, Inc. designs and develops proprietary implantable pumps. It provides implantable intrathecal pumps to help manage chronic pain for cancer patients and patients with back pain. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Mt. Olive, NJ.

VasoNova, Inc. manufactures and markets medical devices. The company was founded by Sorin Grunwald and Bradley B. Hill in 2005 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

HealthCor Partners Fund LP invests in companies located in the US. The fund targets the companies operating in the fields of healthcare and life sciences. The fund provides financing in the form of equity and debt for restructurings, recapitalizations, later stage requirements, buyouts , acquisitions and other special situations with an investment size ranges between $5 million to $25 million in each portfolio company . The fund makes minority and/or control investments. The fund also invests in public companies.

ClearFlow, Inc. develops surgical and medical devices. Its products are based on proprietary tube clearance technologies to resolve catheter clogging in other medical market segments, including urinary catheters, gastrointestinal catheters, and wound drainage. The company was founded by Andrew D. Firlik, Marc A. Gillinov and Edward M. Boyle Jr. in 2006 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

ReShape Medical, Inc. develops non-surgical medical devices for the treatment of obesity. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Lanx, Inc. develops medical devices for spinal surgery. The company was founded by Michael C. Fulton and Jeffrey J. Thramann on December 28, 2007 and is headquartered in Broomfield, CO.

DGIMED Ortho, Inc. manufactures medical devices. The private company is based in Minnetonka, MN. The company was founded by Dan W. Gladney.

HealthCor Partners Fund II LP invests primarily in later-stage developmental and growing (private or publicly traded) mid-sized companies across all sectors of the healthcare and life sciences industry. The fund makes minority and controlling investments. It backs experienced management teams in leveraged buyouts and in creating growing companies through a series of acquisitions. It also selectively invests in restructurings, recapitalizations and other special situations involving more established healthcare companies. It makes equity and equity related investments between USD 5 - 25 million in each portfolio company.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Laerdal Medical Corp. designs, develops, and manufactures basic and advanced life support training products. Its products include Tuff Kelly, Extri Kelly, Crash Kelly, and Choking Charlie. The company was founded in 1940 and is headquartered in Wappingers Falls, NY.

Leerink Partners LLC is a full-service brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Leerink in 1995 and formerly known as SVB Securities LLC. They rebranded as Leerink Partners in 2023. The firm is a subsidiary of SVB Securities LLC. Leerink Partners provides institutional sales, equity research, institutional trading, and corporate finance and asset management services to the healthcare and technology industries. They offer superior execution capabilities in common stock, convertibles and derivatives with a singular focus on healthcare and a knowledge-led approach.

ACIST Medical Systems, Inc. provides technology for contrast imaging system in the fields of cardiology and radiology. The company was founded by Robert F. Wilson in 1991 and is located in Eden Prairie, MN.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Velcera LLC operates as a pharmaceutical company. It focuses on innovation in the expanding pet health market and its product development targets pet medicines in pain management, anti-allergy and parasiticides that can provide superior convenience and greater compliance than traditional products. The firm is developing Promist, a transmucosal oral mist drug delivery technology for use in companion animals. It is also developing Promist products, including VEL504 for pain management and VEL502 for treating allergic atopic dermatitis in canines. The company was founded ion February 18, 2010 and is headquartered in Yardley, PA.

Humedica, Inc. offers software-as-a-services business solutions to the health care industry. The firm aims to address the specific needs of inpatient and outpatient health care providers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, medical device manufacturers, government agencies, and financial services firms. The company was founded by Michael Weintraub, Allen Kamer, A. G. Breitenstein and Paul A. Bleicher in May 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

GRAIL, Inc. is a healthcare company. It engages in the development of a technology for early detection of cancer. The company was founded by Jeffrey T. Huber, William H. Rastetter, and Mostafa Ronaghi on September 11, 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Vividion Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company focuses on developing innovative therapeutics that treat major unmet clinical needs using the first platform for proteome wide drug and target discovery. It's proprietary chemoproteomic platform technology addresses the key limitations of conventional screening techniques and allows the discovery of previously unknown, or cryptic, functional pockets on the surface of proteins and identification of small molecules that selectively bind to those targets. The company was founded by Benjamin F. Cravatt, Phil S. Baran, Jin-Quan Yu and John K. Clarke on December 24, 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Orphion Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel gene therapies for the treatment of genetic disorders. The private company is based in Great Neck, NY. The company was founded by Samuel I. Backenroth. The CEO is Jason Scott Slakter.