David Badawi

Schering Plough Corp. manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, consumer and animal health care products. The firm discovers, develops, manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies. The company is headquartered in Kenilworth, NJ.

NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring, Inc. provides onsite and web-based monitoring of the neurological systems of patients undergoing spinal and brain-related surgeries. It facilitates the surgical process and reduces surgical risk by providing critical information and alerts to surgeons of potential harm or compromise to the spinal cord or neural structures. The company was founded by Roger Conley in 2000 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Anterios, Inc. develops botulinum-based products for medical dermatology and aesthetic medicine. Its products include ANT-1207 which treats hyperhidrosis, and AI-09 which is a novel injectable formulation for therapeutic indications. The company was founded by John Edelson and is headquartered in Madison, NJ.

Cure DM, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It develops new therapies that may prevent, ameliorate or reverse diabetes and allow for the discontinuation of insulin. The company was founded by Loraine V. Upham, Claresa S. Levetan and Rita El-Hajj in 2004 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

LiveProcess Corp. provides online applications for healthcare emergency management. The firm’s healthcare mobile apps enable personnel to take control of situations and collaborate to resolve operational disruptions, urgent health needs and routine transitions in patient care. Its mobile communication and collaboration solutions allow nurses, physicians and staff to coordinate using their mobile devices to reduce response times, facilitate care transitions including discharge, and improve patient throughput. The company was founded by Nathaniel Weiss in 2004 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA.

Active Life Scientific, Inc. operates as a medical technology company that develops a device for measuring bone strength. Its BioDent is a reference point indenter for use in various applications that include lab and clinical research of bone fracture risk and effects of osteoporosis treatments and diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and disorders. The company was founded by Davis Brimer, Paul Hansma and Alexander Proctor in July 2007 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Procyrion, Inc. manufactures medical devices. The firm develops percutaneous circulatory assist device intended to treat chronic heart failure. Its product Aortix is a catheter deployed circulatory assist device for the millions of heart failure patients who are too sick for medication alone. The company was founded by Reynolds M. Delgado III in 2005 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Blackstone Corporate Private Equity (Blackstone Corporate) is a private equity division of The Blackstone Group Inc founded in 1985 by Stephen Allen Schwarzman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Vinson & Elkins LLP provides legal services. It maintains civil practice, covering areas such as litigation, public policy, transaction, and energy law. The firm serves the clients including companies from the aviation, energy, financial services, health care, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Springbok, Inc. manufactures self-erecting recreational tents. It operates as a biotechnology company. The firm provides muscle information on all dimensions using cutting-edge magnetic resonance. The company was founded by Craig H. Meyer, Silvia S. Blemker and Joseph M. Hart and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Scientific Health Development (SHD) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Stuart Fitts and Philip Romano. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Equinox Ophthalmic, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It specializes in cataract, corneal and glaucoma surgery. The company was founded by John Berdahl and is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

Channel Medsystems, Inc. engages in the development of healthcare technologies. The company was founded by Daniel Rogers Burnett and Brian Michael Neil on March 15, 2013 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

SHD Management LLC is a venture capital firm that was formed in 2006. The private company is based in Dallas, TX. The company invests in early-stage medtech companies. J. Carter Meyer has been the CEO of the company since 2010.

Flex Operating Room LLC provides medical equipment. Its product include DinamicOR, an Integrated Workflow Management System that organizes OR equipment and surgical information. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Pittsford, NY.

Koya Medical, Inc. is a privately held healthcare company founded in 2018 with the aim of transforming lymphatic and vein care through innovative patient-centric platforms. Koya Medical is based in Oakland, CA. The company is developing breakthrough treatments for venous diseases and lymphedema, and personalized care that is unavailable with traditional treatments. The company's first treatment, Dayspring, is a mobility-enabled active compression system that provides a treatment solution for lymphedema and CVI patients that won't interfere with their daily life. Anand Doraiswamy founded the company in 2018 and has been the CEO since then.

Potrero Medical, Inc. operates as a medical device company which develops critical care monitoring systems. It specializes in critical care monitoring, fluid balance, acute kidney injury, sepsis, intra-abdominal pressure, urine output measurement, core body temperature, fluid resuciation, big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company was founded by Daniel Rogers Burnett and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Carevature Medical Ltd. is a privately held Israeli medical device company that develops advanced orthopedic surgery solutions to minimize trauma and improve patient outcomes. The company is based in Israel and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Carevature Medical, Inc., in the United States. Carevature is developing the first and only spinal surgery robot for spinal decompression, utilizing its proprietary Dreal® suite of curved and powered single-use end-effectors, delivering unprecedented safety, stability, and precision with cutting-edge vision-guided control. The company was founded by Ely Ashkenazi and Yosi Weitzman, and the CEO is Dennis Farrell.

Galen Robotics, Inc. is a startup company that is developing the Galen platform to democratize robotic surgery, surgical robots, digital surgery, and minimally invasive surgery. Galen Robotics is based in Baltimore, MD. The company aims to expand the benefits of microsurgery and surgical robotics by enabling precise surgical maneuvers. The company was founded by Dave Saunders and Bruce Lichorowic, with Bruce Lichorowic serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Eirion Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that is developing prescription products for aesthetic dermatology. The company is based in Woburn, MA. The company has a pipeline of products that focus on treatments for wrinkles, primary axillary hyperhidrosis, androgenic alopecia, and hair greying. Eirion plans to pursue additional indications that address other major unmet clinical needs for physicians and their patients. The company was founded in 2016. Jonathan T. Edelson has been the CEO of the company since 2016.