MedTech Investing: Home

Companies attending to date include:

3M
7 Health Ventures
Aberdare Ventures
Abingworth
Accuitive Medical Ventures, LLC
AdvaMed
Advanced Technology Ventures
Affinity Capital Management
Alexandria Real Estate Equities
AllOut Marketing, Inc.
Alquest, Inc.
Asthmatx, Inc.
Atritech, Inc.
Baird Venture Partners
BD Medical Surgical Systems
Berman Medical
BioQuest
BMO Capital Markets
Boston Scientific
Capital Growth Partners
CEA Global
Celleration, Inc.
CHF Solutions, Inc.
Citizens descent
CSI360
CTI Life Sciences Fund
De Novo Ventures
Disc Dynamics, Inc.
DuVal & Associates, PA
DW Healthcare Partners
EKOS Corporation
Emerson Consultants, Inc
Entellus Medical, Inc.
Evergreen Medical Technologies, LLC
Faegre & Benson LLP
Foundation Medical Partners
Frazier Partners
FTQ Solidarity Fund
Galen Partners
GE HFS Life Science Finance
Genii Inc.
Great Point Partners
Hansen Medical, Inc.
HealthCor Partners
Hopewell Ventures
Imricor Medical Systems
iNovia Capital
Inspired Surgical Technologies
Interrad Medical

Investor Growth Capital, Inc.
KPMG LLP
LabCyte Inc.
Libra Medical
LifeScience Alley
Lommen Abdo Cole King & Stageberg, P.A.
Medical Device Daily
Medtronic, Inc.
Minnetronix, Inc.
MVC Capital, Inc.
NeoChord
O2 MedTech
Office of Device Evaluation Center for Devices & Radiological Health
OmniSonics Medical Technologies, Inc.
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP
Pixel Velocity Inc.
Pocket Hercules
PrairieGold Venture Partners
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Prism Ventureworks
Provation Medical
RBC Capital Markets
RCRI, Inc.
Russell Reynolds Associates
Scale Venture Partners
SEED Capital Denmark
Silicon Valley Bank
Spineology, Inc.
Split Rock Partners
St. Elizabeth Medical Center
St. Francis Medical Technologies
superDimension
Synapse Biomedical
Tactile Technologies
The BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota
The Integra Group
Three Arch Partners
Toronto Stock Exchange
TPG Growth LLC
TranS1
Ukrainian Medical Assembly
University of Minnesota Venture Center
Vaekstfonden
Vallon LifeScience
Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.
Versant Ventures
Water Street Capital
Wright Medical Technology, Inc.

WHY THIS CONFERENCE:

Over the past few years, market forces have redefined the medical device industry. IBF and Lifescience Alley™ present this conference as an annual gathering to unite the most active investors with entrepreneurs, managers, and strategic players from the medical device industry to network and exchange information on current/future trends, challenges, and areas of opportunity. The timely agenda sheds light on navigating the current medical device landscape.

Listen to an introduction by our Conference Chairman
Don Gerhardt

2008 NATIONAL INDUSTRY HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

State of the Public & Private Medical Device Markets
The Lightning Round—Good Bad or Otherwise
Challenges in Funding Innovation
Growth Equity: What does it take to get across the finish line?
Dancing with the Devil
Corporate Buyers: What’s on their shopping lists?
Winners Circle
Doing Well by Doing Good
Persevering Through Adversity
FDA Fireside Chat
A Look at the Future: Life as a Medical Device Company in 2020

Plus: Reimbursement 2.0 Masterclass: Pricing Your Product

Conference Objective:

IBF and LifeScience Alley™ present this national conference to bring together the most active investors to discuss their investing strategies, the niches they are targeting, and share their views of present and emerging areas of opportunities. Each year this conference unites national VCs, corporate investors and other private equity investors to provide deal flow, co-investing, syndication opportunities and to provide emerging growth companies with access to this investor base.

Audience Profile:

This conference will unite venture capitalists, private equity investors, emerging growth medical device, corporate investors, financing sources and institutional investors.