Dirk Johnson

TriVascular, Inc. develops and manufactures medical devices. It provides devices and procedures for treating abdominal aortic aneurysms and endovascular grafts. The company was founded by Michael V. Chobotov, Robert G. Whirley, and Joseph W. Humphrey in 1998 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

NeoTract, Inc. develops surgical devices for urological and gynecological disorders. It offers UroLift System, a minimally invasive device to treat lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic hyperplasia. The company was founded by Joshua Makower, Joseph Catanese, Theodore C. Lamson and Earl A. Bright II in 2004 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Elucent Medical, Inc. develops solutions for breast cancer treatment. The firm is pioneering and commercializing a wireless marker tag and detection system that helps locate breast abnormalities and predict margins during surgical excision. The company was founded by Dan van der Weide, Laura G. King, Lee Wilke, Fred T. Lee, Christopher Brace and Elizabeth Burnside and is headquartered in Brookfield, WI.

EnsoData, Inc. develops software solutions for medical sector. Its solutions enables user to discover, identify, and report a critical patterns and trends in temporal health data. The company was founded by Christopher Robert Fernandez, Nicholas Glattard and Sam Rusk in 2015 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Silatronix, Inc. develops and manufactures highly stable organosilicon electrolytes for advanced lithium-ion batteries and capacitors. It is commercializing a new class of patented materials based on organosilicon compounds that are environmentally friendly, non-flammable, high temperature materials suited for use as electrolytes, binders, and coatings in energy storage devices. The firm’s organosilicon compounds are used in rechargeable and non-rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and lithium based electrochemical systems. The company founded by Winslow L. Sargeant, Robert C. West and Robert Hamers in 2007 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Soft Switching Technologies Corp. provides power quality and monitoring solutions for the automated industrial markets. The firm offers scalable, battery-free DySC products, voltage sag detectors and I-Sense intelligent sensors to semiconductor, food and beverage, and automotive industries, as well as manufacturing customers and utility industries. The firm's customers include both middle market firms and blue chip companies. The company was founded by Deepak M. Divan in 1995 and is headquartered in Middleton, WI.

Part of University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Technology Commercialization facilitates the transfer of UMN innovation beyond the research lab by helping diverse researchers to license research, patent innovative ideas, establish startups, and facilitate commercialization. The American company covers various technology sectors such as agriculture & horticulture, creative works, engineering & physical sciences, life sciences, software & information technology, and statistics. The company has helped launch more than 200 startup companies based on UMN technology and have raised more than $1.15 billion in investment capital, IPOs, and acquisitions. The company is among the top 15 public universities for technology transfer and ranked 2nd in the Big Ten for "innovation impact."

Virent, Inc. develops and commercializes biofuel technologies. It converts soluble biomass-derived sugars into products molecularly identical to those made with petroleum, including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and chemicals used for plastics and fibers. The company was founded by Randy D. Cortright and James Dumesic in 2002 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Venture Investors LLC (Venture Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.

Catalys Pacific LLC (Catalys Pacific) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by BT Slingsby. The firm is headquartered in Cayman Islands.

Eko Devices, Inc. manufactures digital medical devices and smartphone-enabled medical technologies. It offers Eko Core, which is a digital stethoscope attachment that allows clinicians to visualize, record, playback, share, and analyze heart sounds; and Core Bluetooth-enabled stethoscope accessories. The company was founded by Connor Landgraf, Tyler Crouch and Jason Bellet in 2013 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Calyxo, Inc. engages in the manufacture of medical device for kidney stone disease treatment. It also offers research and development. The company was founded in February 2016 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Bicycle Health, Inc. offers medication assisted treatment to help people cut down on or stop using opioids. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Aerin Medical, Inc. develops non-invasive medical devices. It offers improvement in snoring and nasal airflow during surgery. The company was founded by Scott Jordan Wolf and Andrew G. C. Frazier in 2011 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Madison Development Corp. manages housing units in Madison. The non-profit company is based in Madison, WI. Lorrie Keating Heinemann has been the CEO of the company since 2016.

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.

Sigma Chi Corp. operates as a collegiate leadership development organization that promotes the cultivation, maintenance and promotion of the core values of friendship, justice and learning. The company was founded on June 28, 1855 and is headquartered in Evanston, IL.

Colorado BioScience Association operates as an association for life sciences. The non-profit company is based in Denver, CO. The company was founded by Steve A. Orndorff. Jennifer Jones Paton has been the CEO of the company since 2016.

CABG Medical, Inc. develops medical devices focused on the treatment of coronary heart disease. It is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

CR Group LP (CRG) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Charles Tate. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

MedAvail, Inc. operates as a technology-enabled pharmacy organization. The firm offers turnkey in-clinic pharmacy services through its proprietary robotic dispensing platform, the MedAvail MedCenter, and home delivery operations, to Medicare clinics. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Benvenue Medical, Inc. engages int the provision and development of invasive systems for spine repair. It offers Kiva an implant solution for vertebral augmentation and a departure from balloon kyphoplasty, Blazer-C a vertebral augmentation system that utilizes a unique cannulated curved wire offering mechanical channel creation, and Luna a interbody implant that is delivered through a minimally-invasive cannula to the disc space and expands in-situ. The company was founded by Laurent B. Schaller in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Medtronic ATS Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets medical devices for the treatment of structural heart disease. The company was founded on November 09, 2000 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Medrio, Inc. provides advanced electronic data capture and eClinical tools. It offers an integrated eClinical software platform with a fully hosted EDC system. Its new mobile suite, mSource, supports both event-based and subject-based workflows, offline data entry, and Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO). The company was founded by Michael Richard Novotny in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Questa Capital Management LLC (Questa Capital) is venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Ryan Drant . The firm headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc. develops device-based therapies for soft-tissue injuries of the spine. It offers surgeons and patients better options for treating painful disc herniations that cause sciatica and low back pain. The company was founded by Gregory H. Lambrecht in 1999 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Foundry Innovation & Research 1 Ltd. develops novel therapeutic devices. It has evolved into one of the leading clusters for medical devices globally. The company was headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.