William M. Cotter

Part of Groupe Limagrain Holding SA, Biotechnica International, Inc. is a company that specializes in agricultural research. The company is based in Shawnee Mission, KS.

Colorado MEDtech, Inc. provided design, development and manufacturing services for the production of medical electronic devices, instruments and disposables. It provided integrated engineering for hardware, software and disposables ranging from concept through volume manufacturing, including proof of principle, subsystem/component development, verification and validation and regulatory agency evaluation. The company was founded by Dean A. Leffingwell in 1977 and it was headquartered in Boulder, CO.

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.

Conceptus, Inc. develops and markets minimally invasive devices for reproductive medical applications. It sells its products through direct sales force and distribution networks to physicians and hospitals. The company was founded by Kathryn A. Tunstall in 1992 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

GenTek, Inc. manufactures industrial components and performance chemicals. It offers ground and flight instrumentation, complete environmental testing, industrial and process control, satellite tracking and control, and aircraft structural testing. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Color Kinetics, Inc. designs and markets solid-state lighting systems. The company services include specifying, designing, installing, and operating of lighting systems. Its lighting systems include IntelliWhite, EssentialWhite Lighting Systems & Controllers, and accessories. The firm was co-founded by Ihor A. Lys and George G. Mueller in 1997 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Affinergy LLC develops site-specific biological systems using biofriendly linkers that selectively adhere to proteins, drugs, cells, and biomaterial surfaces. The firm focuses on developing coatings and medical devices for the orthopedic and cardiovascular markets. It constructs bifunctional peptide linkers that selectively immobilize proteins, cells, and therapeutics onto biomaterial surfaces. The firm offers its products for orthopedics, cardiovascular, and tissue engineering; and drug delivery and stem cells markets. The company was founded by Daniel J. Kenan, Jonathan Gindes, and Mark W. Grinstaff in 2002 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Vertos Medical, Inc. develops and markets minimally invasive devices for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis. Its product is called mild devices, which conists of mild Tissue Sculpter, mild Portal, mild Trocar and Handle, mild Bone Sculpter Rongeur, mild Portal Stabilizer, mild Depth Guide, and mild Surgical Clamp. The company was founded by David Solsberg and Donald F. Schomer in 2005 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

AGA Medical Holdings, Inc. operates as a holding company for manufacturers of medical devices for the treatment of heart defects and vascular diseases. The companies AGA Medical Holdings operates sell devices, which are used by pediatric cardiologists, radiologists, and vascular surgeons. The company was founded in July 2005 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MN.

BiOptix Diagnostics, Inc. develops biosensor for detection of bacteria and viruses. Its product 404pi offers scientists that require label-free, real-time detection of bio-molecular interactions an extremely high sensitivity, low noise instrument. The company was founded by Misha Plam, Slava Petropavlovskikh and Oyvind Nilsen in 2003 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

RainDance Technologies, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of professional laboratory system. It develops and manufactures genomic tools for non-invasive liquid biopsy applications for the research, early detection, treatment of cancer, and inherited and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Andrew Griffiths, Darren R. Link, and Jerome Bibette in 2004 and is headquartered in Billerica, MA.

Micro-Imaging Solutions LLC manufactures micro digital cameras. It provides engineering development support that significantly de-risks the development of new, image-guided medical instrumentation. The company was founded by Jeffrey Adair, John G. Adair, David W. Brenman and Eric F. Dahlinger in 1994 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

PharmaJet, Inc. operates as a medical device company which develops needle-free injection technology. Its products include Tropis needle-free injector device, and flu and polio application. The company was founded by Heather Callender-Potters and Kathleen Callender in 2005 and is headquartered in Golden, CO.

Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc. develops medical devices that focus on improving the accuracy of diagnostic blood culture tests. The company was founded by Gregory J. Bullington and Richard G. Patton and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

FluoroFinder LLC designs and develops flow cytometry products for research facilities. It offers flow cytometry, microscopy, and concierge services. The company was founded by Roland Marcus in 2014 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

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.

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) is a private equity firm founded in 1979 by Patrick Welsh, Russ Carson and Bruce Anderson. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Clear Path Partners LLC provides business development and marketing consulting services. The company provides services to the advertising, marketing, and corporate communications sectors. It provides business program development, contact database creation and maintenance, lead generation, development of marketing materials, and training and sales support services. Clear Path Partners was founded by Andrew Pauls and is headquartered in Milwaukee, WI.

Alucent Biomedical Inc. operates as a biomedical company. It focuses on transforming the way vascular disease is treated by which natural vascular scaffolding (NVS) is a breakthrough technology developed to address the unmet need of patients with difficult-to-treat peripheral artery disease (PAD). The company is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Cetya Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the commercialization of histone deacetylase inhibitors based on largazole. Its histone deacetylase inhibitors analog has bifunctional modifications and the potential to target specific cell types or tumors. The company was founded by John Pilon in 2012 and is headquartered in Fort Collins, Co.

AGA Medical Corp. manufactures medical devices used to treat structural heart defects and abnormal blood vessels. Its AMPLATZER products help improve patient outcomes, reduce length of hospital stay, and accelerate patient recovery times. The company was founded by Kurt Amplatz and Franck L. Gougeon on July 12, 1995 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MN.

Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks PC provides legal services. Its services include patent, litigation, post-grant proceedings and transaction. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

febit holding GmbH engages in the design and development of technologies used for DNA analysis. It specializes in technologies with applications in genomic research, RNA expression profiling, and other diagnostic and molecular biology fields. The company was founded by Markus Beier, Ramon Gueimil, Peer F. Staehler, Matthias Scheffler, and Cord F. Stähler in 2005 and is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany.

Desalitech, Inc. manufactures and distributes water purification. It offers ReFlex, traditional water purification methods. The firm also offers ReFlex Smart, an online monitoring and control software system for ReFlex systems. The company was founded by Nadav Efraty and Avi Efraty in 2008 and is headquartered in Newton, MA.