Aki Pellervo Prihti

Inveni Capital Oy is a venture capital investment firm with offices in Helsinki and Munich. The Finnish-German firm was founded in 2007. Their investors include the Finnish Industry Investment Ltd. as largest single investor, along with other private investors and funds as well as the University of Helsinki.

Novel medical devices for minimal invasive cardiac valve surgery. Medtentia has completed preclinical validation for its first product. Investors Inveni Capital and Industrifonden will take the company through its clinical development phase. Early human trials have been completed successfully Q1 in 2009. Medtentia's technology is patented in USA and patent pending in Europe. Medtentia is a venture-backed medical device company focused on the development of minimally invasive and percutaneous heart valve repair and replacement devices on currently proven therapy. Medtentia will act on a global basis with its core activities and team located to Europe with main office in Helsinki Finland and in the Medicon Valley region of southern Sweden in Lund. Medtentia is currently developing a technology platform of products to enable rapid surgical mitral valve annulus repair and replacement, perform percutaneous mitral repair and replacement, leverage currently accepted therapeutic practice and reduce invasiveness, procedural time and morbidity.

Medeia Therapeutics Oy operates a biotechnology company which discovers and develops new therapeutic approaches for diseases with unmet medical needs. It focuses areas which include the discovery, preclinical research and early development of novel therapeutics. The company’s research and development programs develops small molecules for life-threatening conditions of the elderly, focusing especially on serious neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other degenerative diseases. Medeia Therapeutics was founded by Jari Eerik Koistinaho in 2006 and is headquartered in Kuopio, Finland.^ ^

Onbone Oy develops medical casting and splinting materials for use in the fields of orthopaedics, traumatology and occupational therapy. The company was founded by Petro Antero Kirmo Lahtinen, Antti Pärssinen, Jari Juhani Salo, Matti Eino Olavi Vaheri, and Karri Airola on November 18, 2008 and is headquartered in Oulu, Finland.

Medtentia International Ltd. Oy is a holding company that develops solutions for mitral valve repair based on its proprietary helix ring concept. It is a medical technology company that creates solutions for cardiac interventions. It provides proprietary, helix-shaped products to address the unmet need in cardiac surgery. The company was founded by Dan Mogren and Olli U. Keränen in 2002 by Olli Keränen and is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.

Aplagon Oy provides pharmaceutical discovery and development services. It develops locally acting antithrombotic products (APACs). The company was founded by Riitta Lassila and Yrjo Sakari Lassila in 2009 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

Priaxon AG operates as a drug discovery company for small molecule therapeutics. The firm develops a platform PriaXplore that consists of several chemo informatics methods and concepts especially designed for the application in the field of identifying new potential inhibitors of protein protein interactions (PPI). The company was founded by Christoph Burdack in 2008 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Laurantis Pharma Oy engages in the development of pharmaceutical products. The company was founded in July 2008 and is headquartered in Turku, Finland.