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NeoChord is a medical technology company engaged in the advancement of beating heart mitral valve repair in patients suffering from mitral valve regurgitation. The company's flagship product, the NeoChord Artificial Chordae Delivery System, is a beating heart procedure, echo-guided treatment for patients with mitral valve regurgitation and is proven to resolve and restore normal mitral valve function. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Satiety, Inc. is a medical device company focused on the development of less invasive devices for the treatment of obesity. Obesity is a global health problem, affecting 70 million people in the U.S. and 300 million worldwide, and growth of which is causing increases in obesity-related diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. Obesity surgery has been shown to be the only long-term effective means of weight loss for morbidly obese patients. Satiety's first product, the TOGA System, enables physicians to perform a procedure similar to traditional restrictive obesity surgeries, but without surgical incisions. In this procedure, the TOGA System devices are inserted transorally (through the mouth) and are used to reduce the capacity of the stomach to give patients a feeling of fullness after a small meal. The procedure is intended to be safer and easier for patients to tolerate than conventional obesity surgery. Safety and effectiveness of the TOGA System are currently being evaluated in a multi-center U.S. Study and the system is not available for sale in the United States.

Axis Surgical Technologies, Inc. aims to develop, manufacture, and market devices that improve quality and efficiency in spinal surgery, especially for minimally invasive surgical techniques. Based in Mountain View, California, Axis offers an integration of visualization and articulation capabilities and provides spinal surgery equipment. Axis' FDA Grant In March 2010, Axis announced that it received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to market its C-MOR„ Visualization Device to use in diagnostic and operative arthroscopic and endoscopic procedures. This portable tool provides visualization and illumination of an interior cavity through either a natural or surgical opening. The ergonomic lightweight device also offers practitioners the convenience of endoscopic visualization and efficient one-handed operating ability; this device can be employed in hospital outpatient departments, ambulatory surgery centers, and office surgery suites.

NeuroSonix is an Israeli medical device company targeting the market of cerebral embolic protection during cardiac surgical and other minimally invasive procedures. NeuroSonix has conceived, developed and patented a technology and medical devices for the prevention of acute cerebral embolism during open-heart cardiac surgery as well as other invasive and minimally-invasive procedures. The company's technology, which is based on ultrasound, aims to enable a non-invasive deflection of embolic material flowing inside the body, away from the cerebral arteries. This new ultrasonic modality aims to reduce the embolic load on the patient's brain. The first product developed by the company is the EmBlocker"ž, intended to provide protection from acute cerebral embolism during cardiac surgical procedures. The Protection Collar, the company's second product, is intended for embolic protection during minimally-invasive procedures and Cath-lab practice.

Axial Biotech, founded in 2002 by a group of spine surgeons and geneticists, is focused on the use of genetics and the development of minimally invasive fusionless devices to advance the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and deformities of the human spine. Axial is a company to pursue DNA-based pre-symptomatic and prognostic tests for common spinal conditions which will augment current clinical and surgical practices. In its initial genetic product development initiative, Axial has made progress towards the discovery of a location in the human genome that is associated with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. In addition, Axial's founders have developed five motion preserving, fusionless surgical devices (including such device currently being implanted in humans) that have the promise of expanding the current treatable scoliosis patient population by a factor of ten. Axial intends to use its genetic intellectual property in the development of bio-mechanical devices, and to apply its gene discovery/product development methodology to other spinal diseases. Axial (www.axialbiotech.com) is located in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Surgi-Vision, Inc. is engaged in the development of sighting and visualization systems that allow a magnified stereoscopic vision of the surgical field and visualization of other intra-operative digital data during minimally invasive procedures. Surgi-Vision manufacturers specialized MRI coils that are used to take images from inside the body. Surgi-Vision received 510K clearance from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for clinical use of a new coil to image the esophagus and aorta.