Rafid Fadul

Early Stage Partners (Early Stage Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Jonathan Murray. The firm is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

CardioX, Inc. develops technology to detect heart defects. It commercializes a non-invasive method for detecting the presence of a right-to-left cardiac shunt to enable closure before the occurrence of a debilitating or life threatening stroke. The company was founded by Philip E. Eggers in June 1996 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Ischemia Care LLC engages in the provision of diagnostic development, laboratory testing, precision medicine, and bioinformatics. The company was founded by Jeffrey June in 2009 and is headquartered in Middletown, OH.

Juventas Therapeutics, Inc. provides regenerative therapies for cardiovascular disease. It is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a pipeline of factor-based regenerative therapies to treat life-threatening diseases. The company's product has been shown to protect and repair tissue following ischemic injury by recruiting the body's own stem cells to the damaged tissue. The company was founded by Rahul A. Aras and Marc S. Penn in 2007 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

HistoSonics, Inc. develops medical devices. The company was founded by Christine Gibbons, Jim Bertolina, Zhen Xu, William Robert, Hall Timothy, J. Brian Fowlkes, Thomas W. Davison, and Charles Cain in November 2009 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Intellirod Spine, Inc. develops a wireless implantable microelectronic lumbar spine fusion sensor. Its strain monitoring system allows spine surgeons to assess the strain on implanted spinal fusion rods and provide evidence of rod loads indicative of loosening or increased load sharing as fusion progresses. The firm’s intellirod system provides postoperative data complementing surgeon data currently collected from flexion extension x-rays and costly high radiation CT scans. The company was founded by William P. Hnat, John F. Naber, Rolando M. Puno, Michael Voor and Kevin M. Walsh in 2003 and is headquartered in Akron, OH.

Cryothermic Systems, Inc. manufactures medical devices. Its products include cryo cooling system, clinical evidence, cryothermic wrap and temptraq. The company was founded by Aqeel Sandhu, Scott Raybuck and Brian J. Seitz in 2008 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.