Tara Butler

Honeywell, Inc. manufactured integrated and provided civil and military avionics and other aerospace products and service for homes, commercial and aviation industries. The company was headquartered in Minneapolis, MN

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.

CSA Medical, Inc. develops endoscopic cryoablation systems. It provides spray cryotherapy medical device solutions that improve patient outcomes, simplify procedures, and reduce the cost of healthcare. The company was founded by Lloyd Shue, Timothy E. Askew and Frank Majerowicz in 1985 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Augmenix, Inc. develops hydrogel technology to improve outcomes in radiation oncology and surgery. Its products include TraceIT Tissue Marker and SpaceOAR System, which is an absorbable hydrogel spacer that reduces radiation injury to the rectal wall in men undergoing prostate radiotherapy. The company was founded by Amarpreet S. Sawhney in 2008 and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.

Ivantis, Inc. develops technology to treat ophthalmic diseases. The firm develops solutions for glaucoma and offers an intracanalicular scaffold or implantable device that relieves high intraocular pressures in patients. It provides its solutions for use in clinical trials to ophthalmology specialists. Ivantis was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Neurolutions, Inc. develops revolutionary platform of devices, based on Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology, which promise to restore function to patients who are disabled as a result of neurological injury. The company was founded by Eric Leuthhardt, Daniel J. Moran, and Gerwin Schalk on October 1, 2008 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Apama Medical, Inc. operates as a medical device company which focuses on the treatment of atrial fibrillation. The firm focuses on the electrophysiology market and offers a vastly superior catheter-based solution for the fastest growing market segment, atrial fibrillation ablation. The company was founded by Amr Salahieh in 2009 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Ascension Ventures LLC (Ascension Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Ascension Health founded in 2001. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

PathoGenetix, Inc. operates as a commercial-stage developer of an automated system for rapid bacterial identification from complex samples. Its Genome Sequence Scanning technology isolates and analyzes DNA from an enriched biological sample, without the need for a cultured isolate. The firm specializes in food safety, industrial microbiology, and clinical diagnostics and research. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.