Ross Jaffe

Acclarent, Inc. engages in manufacturing, designing, and commercializing medical devices that address conditions affecting the ear, nose, and throat. Its products include balloon sinuplasty, eustachian tube dilation, airway dilation system, and ethmoid punch. The company was founded by Joshua Makower and John Y. Chang in June 2004 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Relievant Medsystems, Inc. develops treatment and technologies for chronic back pain. Its Intracept System solution is a minimally invasive procedure that uses radiofrequency energy delivered into the vertebral body of the spine to ablate the basivertebral nerve. Relievant Medsystems was founded by James C. Peacock, Jeffrey Charles Lotz, and Rex Peters in 2004 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Intersection Medical, Inc. developed cardiovascular monitoring system for patients with congestive heart failure. The company was founded in July 2006 by Scott M. Chetham and was headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

VertiFlex, Inc. operates as a medical device company. It offers minimally invasive solutions for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), which is the cause of spinal surgery in the elderly. The firm specializes in minimally invasive, motion preservation, spine and medical device. The company was founded by Moti Altarac in 2005 and is headquartered in San Clemente, CA.

AlterG, Inc. develops weight reduction athletic equipment. Its products are used by major medical centers, leading physical therapy clinics and professional, collegiate, and individual sports and fitness programs. The firm?s products include anti gravity treadmill, bionic leg and accessories. AlterG was founded by Michael Brenton Looney, Fritz Moore, Edward Liou and Sean Whalen in 2005 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

VytronUS, Inc. develops imaging and therapeutic capabilities of ultrasound energy to treat cardiac arrhythmias. The firm develops a catheter-based ablation platform based on low-intensity collimated ultrasound (LICU) which allows for precise non-contact energy delivery and producing high-resolution maps of cardiac anatomy. The company was founded by Hira V. Thapliyal in 2006 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Cerephex Corp. develops and provides therapies and diagnostic technologies for chronic centralized pain. It offers NeuroPoint, a point-of-care medical device that is built upon patented reduced impedance noninvasive cortical electrostimulation signal technology platform developed to unable use by physician-supervised staff in existing clinical outpatient offices. The company was founded by Jeffrey Hargrove and Robert M. Ford on September 26, 2012 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

Sympara Medical, Inc. develops novel therapy for hypertension. It offers devices to treat hypertension. The company was founded by Uday N. Kumar in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Brentwood Venture Capital (brentwood) is a venture capital firm located in the US. The firm is the venture capital investment arm of Brentwood Associates, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm. it was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Los Angeles,California.

Micro Interventional Systems, Inc. designs and manufactures medical devices. It develops catheters for interventional neuroradiology. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Part of Johnson & Johnson, Atrionix, Inc. is a private company that develops a proprietary, catheter-based system for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded by James C. Peacock. Atrionix was acquired by Cordis Corp. on December 27, 2000 for $62.80 million.

Part of Cordis Corp., Webster Laboratories, Inc. is a laboratory type distilling apparatus company. The private company is based in Baldwin Park, CA. Webster Laboratories was acquired by Cordis Corp. on April 25, 1994 for $78.66 million.

Pro·Duct Health manufactures the devices used in ductal lavage. The company is dedicated to eradicating breast cancer by enabling the earliest possible detection of breast pre-cancer and cancer

New Enterprise Associates LLC (New Enterprise Associates) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Vital Therapies, Inc. operates as a biotherapeutic company, which develops a cell-based therapy targeting the treatment of acute forms of liver failure. Its product candidate, ELAD System, is a human cell-based bio-artificial liver support system that operates outside the body or extracorporeal. The company was founded in May 2003 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Versant Venture Management LLC (Versant Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Brian Atwood, Samuel Colella, Bill Link and Ross Jaffe. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Basel and Vancouver.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Portaero, Inc. develops and manufactures medical devices. The company was founded on May 11, 2007 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Ebb Therapeutics, Inc. develops medical devices for the treatment of insomnia. It engages in the development of regional cerebral thermal therapy (RCTT) device for use in insomnia and sleep disorders. The company was founded by Eric A. Nofzinger in 2008 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC) is a collective endeavor focused on realizing the potential of transformative innovation in the medical device industry. The private company is based in St. Louis Park, MN. The company encourages med device companies to adopt advanced technologies such as AI, ML, and IoT to develop supply resiliency, production agility, innovation rigor, and secure medical product supply. MDIC's CFQ program is a dynamic collaborative exchange and engagement of diverse experiences and professional insights in advancing innovation to the forefront of patient safety and accessibility. The company was founded by William A. Hawkins. Andrew Fish has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Woebot Labs, Inc. develops mental health chatbot. It serves people suffering from anxiety, depression and other serious mental health issues. The company was founded by Alison Darcy on July 7, 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

DocMatter, Inc. is a digital health company, which engages in the development of an online, peer-to-peer collaboration platform that streamlines knowledge access across a global network of healthcare professionals. The company was founded by Eric Applegate and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Faro Health, Inc. is a clinical trial software platform that connects all stakeholders in the clinical trials ecosystem, including sponsor and CRO clinops teams, research sites, vendors, patients, and laboratories. The company is based in La Jolla, CA and was founded by Scott Matthew Chetham and Ross A. Jaffe. The platform provides a standardized library of clinical study activities augmented with performance-related metadata to provide real-time actionable insights during protocol development. Faro brings transparency, trust, and predictability to protocol development through detailed analysis of the impact of each study activity, ensuring teams have the optimum protocol design for operationally complex trials. Scott Matthew Chetham has been the CEO since incorporation.