Philippe H. Marco

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.

Access Closure, Inc. manufactures and distributes medical devices for cardiovascular and peripheral vascular markets. Its products include Mynx ace, Mynx grip, Mynx sealant technology and flash ostial system. The company was in founded in 2002 by Farhad Khosravi and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Emphasys Medical, Inc., a medical technology company, focuses on developing and commercializing minimally invasive therapeutic devices for the treatment of patients with emphysema and other breathing disorders. It offers Zephyr Endobronchial Valve system, which is designed to block air from passing through the opening in the lung and into the chest cavity, resulting in the reduction or elimination of airflow through the leak to allow the tissue to heal. The company offers its products through distributors and dealers in Europe, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Emphasys Medical was founded in 2000 and is based in Redwood City, CA. Emphasys Medical, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Pulmonx Corp.

The Foundry LLC provides investment services to medical device companies. It includes the inventor partners of business development, product development and prototyping, market analysis and development, human resources and recruitment and intellectual property enterprise. The company was founded by Allan R Will and Henry A. Plain, Jr. in 1998 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

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.

Earlens Corp. develops medical devices. It offers EarLens Contact Hearing Device that uses light to transmit sound. Its earlens contact hearing device two components: a tympanic membrane transducer, which is nonsurgically placed deep in the ear canal on the eardrum, and a light-based behind-the-ear sound processor placed at the base of the ear canal. The company was founded in 1999 by Rodney C. Perkins and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

LSV Capital Management LLC (Lightstone Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Nuvaira, Inc. develops medical devices for treating lung diseases. It works on a novel catheter-based system that has the potential to improve lung function, exercise capacity and quality of life for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The company was founded by Steven Dimmer and Martin L. Mayse in 2008 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MN.

EndoGastric Solutions, Inc. develops natural orifice surgical products and procedures to advance the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases. The firm offers EsophyX device and StomaphyX device. The company was founded by Stefan J. M. Kraemer, Clifton A. Alferness, Scott Jordan Wolf, James W. Fitzsimmons and John M. Adams in 2003 and is headquartered in Redmond City, WA.

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.

Heartport, Inc. develops systems and procedures for heart surgery. The company's technologies allow surgeons to perform a wide range of less invasive open-chest and minimally invasive heart operations, including stopped heart and beating heart procedures. Heartport was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Redwood City, 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.

TRIA Beauty, Inc. provides light based therapeutic beauty devices. It offers TRIA Laser Hair Removal System for laser removal of hair and TRIA Skin Perfecting Blue Light for mild to moderate inflammatory acne with a proprietary cleanser and serum for overall complexion improvement. The company was founded in 2003 by Tobin C. Island, Robert E. Grove, Jonathon T. Pearson and Mark V. Weckwerth and is headquartered in Dublin, CA.

KalVista Pharmaceuticals Ltd. develops novel plasma kallikrein inhibitors. It also engages in the development of serine protease inhibitors and novel plasma kallikrein inhibitors represent a, approach to the treatment of DME, a leading cause of adult visual loss, plasma kallikrein inhibitors target a distinct molecular pathway and as such have the potential to offer those patients an effective treatment option. The firm has a clinical and advanced pre-clinical product pipeline targeting both intravitreal injection and oral administration, and its plasma kallikrein inhibitors can be applied to additional indications in ophthalmology. The company was founded by Lloyd Paul Aiello, Andrew Crockett, Robert Haigh and Edward P. Feener in 2011 and is headquartered in Porton Down, the United Kingdom.

Transcend Medical, Inc. operates as a medical device company. It develops medical devices for the treatment of glaucoma, the cause of adult irreversible blindness. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, CA.

Artemis Medical, Inc. engages in the marketing and sale of biopsy markers. The company was founded by Richard Fulton and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

Ethicon, Inc. develops and markets medical products and devices for surgery. It offers different types of services such as wound management, women's health, and cardiovascular surgery. The company was founded by George F. Merson in 1915 and is headquartered in Somerville, NJ.

IanTech, Inc. develops ophthalmic devices for cataract surgery. Its products include miLoop, miPhaco, miMissions, and miResources. The company was founded by Luke Clauson and Sean Ianchulev and is headquartered in Reno, NV.

Cagent Vascular LLC engages in manufacturing medical instruments. The company was founded by Carol Burns, Robert Giasolli and Peter Schneider and is headquartered in Wayne, PA.

Medisix Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel cellular therapies to address T cell malignancies. The company is headquartered in Singapore.

Gynesonics, Inc. provides medical devices for women's health. It offers VizAblate System for the transcervical treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids under intrauterine ultrasound guidance. The company was founded by Jessica grossman in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Part of International Business Machines Corp., Wilkerson Group is a consulting company that provides services to the pharmaceutical and medical products industry. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded by Kenneth D. Noonan. The CEO is Neil MacAllister. Wilkerson Group was acquired by International Business Machines Corp. on April 01, 1996.

Altura Medical, Inc. manufactures medical devices. It offers Agili-D AAA System, an endovascular aneurysm repair technology. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

PowerVision, Inc. develops fluid-controlled intraocular lens. The firm provides FluidVision accommodating intraocular lens technology, which restores the vision of youth to middle aged or elderly individuals affected by presbyopia and cataracts regain to adjust focus for clear vision at all distances. The company was founded by Matthew A. Frinzi, Randy McDonald, and Barry Cheskin in 2002 and is headquartered in Belmont, CA.

Second Genome, Inc. develops microbiome-based therapeutic products. It offers phyclochip community, 16S sequencing community analysis, whole metagenomic profiling, nucleic acid isolation, inferred function and custom informatics services. The company was founded in 2009 by Corey S. Goodman, Janet A. Warrington, Todd Z. DeSantis, John Hulls and Gary Andersen and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Part of Johnson & Johnson, FemRx, Inc. is a company that produces medical products for gynecological disorders. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. FemRx was acquired by Johnson & Johnson on November 06, 1998 for $20.99 million.

Cala Health, Inc. operates as a bioelectronic medicine company. It develops wearable neuromodulation therapies. The company was founded by Kathryn Rosenbluth, Scott Delp and Serena Wong in 2014 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Exploramed NC7, Inc. manufactures wearable breast pumps. It also offers milk bags and accessories, such as flange, flextube, and charger. The company was founded by Josh Makower in 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

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.