Alejandro J. Sanchez

Cordis Corp. develops and manufactures devices for interventional vascular medicine and electrophysiology. The firm's products include guidewires, balloons, forceps, catheters, and stents to treat a variety of circulatory system problems including coronary artery disease and cerebral aneurysms. The company was founded by William P. Murphy Jr. in 1959 and is headquartered in Milpitas, 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.

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

Salient Surgical Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, and markets disposable surgical devices. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Velocimed LLC develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices. The firm's products are used in cardiology and neurology applications. The company was founded in 2001 by Jay Schmelter, Michael Berman, and Dennis W. Wahr and is headquartered in Maple Grove, MN.

IDEV Technologies, Inc. develops medical devices for endovascular uses. Its products include interventional cardiology, interventional radiology and vascular surgery. The company was founded by Sheldon J. Jeffery in 1999 and is headquartered in Webster, TX.

Tafkak, Inc. provides genome sequencing and analysis solutions. It offers tools and solutions to researchers, drug developers and clinicians determine the genetic basis of human disease and drug response. The firm provides knomeCLINIC a software suite that helps medical researchers and clinicians interpret human genomes for biological relevance; kGAP a cloud-enabled genome informatics engine that automates the process of standardizing, distilling, annotating and comparing sequence data. It also offers knomeVARIANTS, a discovery-supportive interpretation tool, which helps researchers to find causal variants and genes. The company was founded by Jorge Conde and George M. Church in 2007 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Cardialen, Inc. develops medical devices. It offers pain-free cardio version therapy for atrial fibrillation (AF) using low-energy implantable atrial cardioverters. The firm develops and commercializes these as an independent specialist, to address major needs in atrial fibrillation management, achieve improved outcomes and reduce the risk of stroke, heart failure and high healthcare costs associated with atrial fibrillation. The company's products comprise implantable low-energy pain-free atrial cardioverters and cardiac leads and defibrillator equipment. Its products are used for the treatment of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. Cardialen was founded in 2008 by D. Graeme Thomas, Randy H. Weiss and Igor R. Efimov and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Smart Wires, Inc. operates as an energy grid solutions company. It specializes in energy integration, transmission, and congestion management. The company was founded by Woddy Joe Gibson in 2010 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

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.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Crescendo Management LLC (Crescendo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1993 by David Spreng, Mitchell Dann and Jeff Tollefson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Hill-Rom, Inc. provides medical equipment and services. The company was founded on October 23, 1929 and is headquartered in Batesville, IN.

Part of ON Semiconductor Corp., American Microsystems, Inc. provides a secure digital asset custodial wallet service. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The company's advanced encryption technology and hierarchical threshold signature ensure that your assets are under your own control and safely secured.

RiverVest Venture Management LLC (RiverVest Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Thomas Melzer, Craig Andrew and Jay Schmelter. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dune Medical Devices Ltd. engages in the development of real-time cancer detection tools. Its products are MarginProbe and Smart Biopsy System. The company was founded by Dan Hashimshony in 2002 and is headquartered in Caesarea, Israel.

Part of Cook Group, Inc., Cook Endoscopy, Inc. is a company based in Winston-Salem, NC.

Cardiva Medical, Inc. designs and develops vascular access management products. It offers VASCADE, an extravascular closure device designed to increase the comfort and safety of vascular closure for patients; and Catalyst, a device that supports the body's natural healing process by enhancing the vessel's inherent natural elastic recoil, tissue apposition and coagulation. The company was founded by Zia Yassinzadeh and Augustine Y. Lien in July 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center operates a general medical hospital. It is a nonprofit academic health system. The firm health care professionals offer clinical, education, research, nursing, specialty referrals and resource services. The company was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Lebanon, NH.

Arnerich Massena, Inc. is an employee-owned registered investment advisory firm headquartered in Portland, Oregon. The firm was founded by Tony Arnerich in 1991. They provide discretionary management and non-discretionary advisory services to high net-worth individuals and families, endowments and foundations, and corporations. Arnerich Massena is a signatory of the internationally recognized United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI).

Lutonix, Inc. develops and commercializes drug coated balloon catheters. Its catheters help to deliver therapeutic dose of paclitaxel. The firm’s catheters are used to treat peripheral and coronary lesions. The company was founded in July 2007 by Dennis Wahr and Lixiao Wang and is headquartered in New Hope, MN.

Adarza BioSystems, Inc. develops and manufacturers a multiplex immunoassay technology that can identify proteins and genetic markers in medical specimens. The firm operates as a medical diagnostics company which also develops a rapid and label-free biological assay platform for measuring clinical and point-of-care samples and also its technology allows hundreds of tests to be run simultaneously on a single chip. The company was founded by Benjamin L. Miller, Randolph R. Henke, Terry Gronwall and Christopher C. Striemer in 2008 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

InterVene, Inc. develops non-implantable, catheter-based vein valve creation therapy. Its BlueLeaf endovenous valve formation system allows physicians to create new vein valves for patients who are unable to efficiently pump blood out of their legs and back to their heart. The company was founded by Fletcher Wilson in 2011 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

CairnSurgical, Inc. engages in provision of patient-specific tools to guide surgical interventions for patients with cancer. It offers personalized solution, improve care services, and MRI derived localization and guidance. The company was founded by Richard Barth Jr., Keith Paulsen, and Venkat Krishnaswamy and is headquartered in Lebanon, NH.

Evidity Capital LLC (Evidity Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Paul Enever and Alejandro Sanchez. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Augmedics, Inc. provides surgery services. The company was founded in 2014 by Nissan Elimelech and Raphael Lotan and is headquartered in Yokneam, Israel.

3x5 Partners LLC (3x5 Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Tony Arnerich and Nicholas Walrod. The firm is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Alleviant Medical, Inc. operates as a medical device company, which is developing potential therapies for congestive heart failure. The company was founded by Christopher Alex Arevalos, Albertien Greijdanus, Avni Patel and Jacob Kriegel in February 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.