Johnson & Johnson

Having made significant contributions to surgery for more than a century, the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies are in the business of reaching more patients and restoring more lives. The group represents the most comprehensive surgical technology and specialty solutions business in the world, offering an unparalleled breadth of products, services, programs and research and development capabilities directed at advancing patient care while delivering clinical and economic value to health care systems worldwide.

Medtronic PLC

Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Medtronic is among the world’s largest medical technology, services and solutions companies – alleviating pain, restoring health and extending life for millions of people around the world. Medtronic employs more than 88,000 people worldwide, serving physicians, hospitals and patients in approximately 160 countries. The company is focused on collaborating with stakeholders around the world to take healthcare Further, Together.

Medmarc

Created in 1979 by the healthcare technology industry, Medmarc’s purpose is to be the superior provider of liability insurance and related risk management solutions and to support the development, testing and delivery of medical products that save lives and improve the quality of life. Through collaboration with our parent company, ProAssurance, and our clinical trial industry experts, we provide a single source of innovative healthcare liability insurance solutions to the life sciences companies we serve. 

EIT Health

EIT Health is a network of best-in-class health innovators backed by the European Union. We collaborate across borders to deliver new solutions that enable European citizens to live longer, healthier lives. We connect all relevant healthcare players across European borders – making sure to include all sides of the “knowledge triangle”, so that innovation can happen at the intersection of research, education and business for the benefit of citizens. We give health innovators access to the market, funding and the expertise of our network. We facilitate innovation through programmes, workshops and initiatives. We collaborate on international projects and disseminate our findings to the public. We create new products and services for healthy lives in Europe. And we educate, through citizen engagement activities, innovation programmes and skills training.

Enterprise Ireland

Enterprise Ireland is the government organisation responsible for the development and growth of Irish enterprises in world markets. We work in partnership with Irish enterprises to help them start, grow, innovate and win export sales in global markets. In this way, we support sustainable economic growth, regional development and secure employment.

EY

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

Eugene F. Collins

Eugene F. Collins, based in Dublin, Ireland, provides a comprehensive legal service which is focused on delivering to clients commercial and pragmatic solutions to enable them to run their business more effectively and successfully. We have an expert team of people who have gained wide experience in diverse areas of law. This allows us to offer clients a specifically tailored service to deliver the commercially-focused solutions they require from a legal partner.

Lightstone Ventures

Lightstone Ventures was founded in 2012 by the General Partners and other key members of the life science teams of Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) and Morgenthaler. The firm was formed to capture the upside of investing in breakthrough life science companies during a time of unique opportunity in the space. Members of the Lightstone team manage a portfolio of 50+ medical device and biotechnology companies across the ATV and Morgenthaler legacy funds (Legacy Funds).

Minnetronix Medical

From complex engineering to finished devices, Minnetronix Medical applies expansive industry insight and intentional technical acumen to deliver better medical devices, faster. Its comprehensive and synergistic approach creates a seamless experience from project kickoff through product delivery, addressing supply chain, supporting and clearing the path to regulatory approval, and applying quality management disciplines. Minnetronix also provides whole product solutions, currently focused on neurocritical care, for partners to leverage to advance their own technologies or expand their bag of market-ready solutions.

Seroba Life Sciences

Seroba Life Sciences is a European VC firm working with leading entrepreneurs developing innovative medical devices, diagnostics and therapeutic drugs. We fund opportunities through key value-adding stages, from inception through to partnering with leading pharmaceutical or medtech companies. Our team combines in-depth scientific and medical knowledge with broad regulatory and commercial expertise. We are known for patience, understanding, commitment, passion and an over-riding focus on delivering improvements to patient care and value to our stakeholders.

AdvaMed

The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), is a trade association that leads the effort to advance medical technology in order to achieve healthier lives and healthier economies around the world. AdvaMed’s membership has reached nearly 300 members and more than 80 employees with a global presence in countries including Europe, India, China, Brazil, and Japan. AdvaMed’s member companies range from the largest to the smallest medical technology innovators and companies.The Association acts as the common voice for companies producing medical devices, diagnostic products and health information systems.

CBSET Inc.

CBSET is a nonprofit biomedical research institute with a mission is to advance therapeutics development through high-quality services. We collaborate with med tech and pharmaceutical sponsors with a GLP-compliant, AAALAC-accredited facility including vivaria, catheterization/imaging labs, surgical and necropsy suites, histopathology, SEM, and a range of other technologies.

Earlybird Venture Capital

Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources, but also strategic and operational support, as well as access to an international network and capital markets. With over EUR 1 billion under management, seven IPOs and 24 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most successful venture capital firms in Europe.

Enzyme

A single system to make it to market.

Tired of the tedium and redundancy of QMS compliance, we created Enzyme to empower people like us with the tools and technology to make their quality management and regulatory compliance systems smarter, faster, and more accurate. We spent years in the medical device industry using several disparate and disappointing software tools to manage day-to-day tasks and grew fatigued of the inevitable inefficiencies and delays. We founded Enzyme with a vision of reducing friction in getting transformative medical products to market. Enzyme is a unifying QMS tool that simplifies and streamlines numerous workflows and actively assists in the creation of submission documents. Let’s bridge the gap between piles of paperwork and timely innovation. Jared Seehafer, RAC & Jacob Graham, CBA, RAC Co-Founders

Gilde Healthcare

Gilde Healthcare is a specialized European healthcare investor managing two business lines: a venture & growth capital fund and a lower mid-market buy-out fund. It has over €800 million ($1 billion) under management and is actively looking to lead new investments in digital health, diagnostics, medical devices, therapeutics and healthcare services across Europe and the US.

Greenlight Guru

Greenlight Guru is the only quality management software platform designed specifically for medical devices companies. The industry-leading platform helps companies get safer products to market faster, simplifies FDA and ISO regulatory compliance and provides a single source of truth by connecting the management of your design controls and risk with all your quality processes. Greenlight Guru’s software solution is used by thousands of users across the globe, allowing teams to push beyond baseline compliance and achieve True Quality.

IMMR

IMMR (IMM Recherche) advances innovation in health care through its commitment to excellence in preclinical science. With over 20 years of experience, IMMR sets an internationally recognized standard for the design and conduct of preclinical studies in large models, and with the highest ethical standards. Located in Paris, IMMR provides unparalleled state-of-the-art, FDA-inspected facilities for completing sophisticated studies successfully and cost-effectively, with novel technologies including surgical implants, transcatheter therapies, surgical robotics, drug delivery and others. IMMR’s services include early feasibility through to GLP studies, pathology evaluation and investigator training for advancing technologies into human clinical trials. With world-leading expertise from first prototype to final regulatory studies, IMMR guides innovators through the entire preclinical process.

InterSystems

Innovation in connected medical devices is being driven by advances in computing power, wireless technology, miniaturisation and AI. A big challenge is that data is often stored in multiple places and in a variety of formats and standards. InterSystems solves this data management problem. By releasing data from stubborn silos InterSystems technology provides clean, compliant, and complete data for medtech innovation. Discrete and unstructured data from electronic medical records can be added to data from Internet-connected medical devices and other sources. No one knows more about interoperability than we do. More than one billion health records across the globe are managed by solutions built on InterSystems technology.

IQVIA Medtech

IQVIA MedTech is dedicated to supporting the orchestration of the “concept-to-patient” business needs of the Medical Device and In Vitro Diagnostics industries. Our solutions, services and domain expertise offer unprecedented differentiated value, from research and development through commercial operations, to MedTech companies of all sizes, globally.

MCRA

MCRA is the leading industry-specialized CRO and integrated advisory firm that assists clients through the entire technology life cycle, from strategic planning through commercialization. MCRA's regulatory team, which includes many former FDA Branch Chiefs and reviewers with combined agency and industry experience in the areas of cardiovascular, orthopedics, neurology and digital health, provides best in class regulatory strategy support. MCRA's reimbursement team works with many early stage companies to define and execute successful US reimbursement and market access strategies across all medical devices. MCRA's full service CRO can fully manage clinical studies, beginning with study design and protocol development, or provide support to companies as they take lead in study execution. The MCRA team provides services to a wide range of organizations in the healthcare industry, including start-ups to the world's leading healthcare organizations. The full suite of integrated advisory services helps augment internal capabilities and processes, as well as ensure the ability to overcome regulatory and reimbursement hurdles while collecting the necessary clinical evidence.

Olympus Corporation

Olympus is a global medical device corporation specializing in endoscopy. The group forms partnerships and licensing relationships with early stage medical device startups. Olympus is interested in endoscopes, laparoscopic devices, devices for minimally invasive surgery, and AI technologies across a wide range of indications including ENT, gastrointestinal, respiratory, gynecology, and urology. Olympus works with startups worldwide. The firm prefers to collaborate with startups with human clinical data for their devices. Currently Olympus is seeking new solutions that deliver minimally invasive treatments. To discover more about Olympus' technology needs, click here.

Orchestra BioMed

Orchestra BioMed™ is a biomedical innovation company providing high-impact solutions for important unmet needs in procedure-based medicine. We partner with global market leaders to drive commercialization and secure significant revenue sharing participation. Our lead products include Virtue® Sirolimus-Eluting Balloon (SEB), partnered with Terumo Corporation, and BackBeat Cardiac Neuromodulation Therapy (CNT).

RBC Medical Innovations

Over the last 25 years, RBC Medical has partnered with the world’s most innovative startups and largest medical device companies to take over 250 technologies from concept through to commercialization.  Our significant expertise in rapidly developing complex medical devices is further accelerated through our robust offering of Advantage Platforms to accelerate timelines and reduce costs.  Our flexibility, speed of innovation and dependability has resulted in long term partnerships, with over 93% of our customers returning for future development projects.

Sagentia

Sagentia is an R&D Consultancy that provides independent market insight and product development services. With a focus on science and technology, Sagentia have a large team of medical sector experts who are guided by first principles and form the basis of our multidisciplinary, cross-sector team approach. Sagentia’s staff are tenacious, creative and collaborative in solving their clients most intractable problems, and driven to improve the patient care continuum. Working from offices in the UK and US, we thrive under aggressive deadlines and have a strong commitment to best practice and quality standards.

Treo Ventures

We focus on medical technology investments in companies targeting large unmet clinical needs. We will invest in high growth areas and in companies solving major clinical problems while balancing that with focused capital efficient development plans. We take a balanced approach in building our portfolio with some early stage investments, where the prior seed stage investment has proved the feasibility of a concept, and some later stage investments, where clinical data has shown efficacy and the company is in a “scale-up for commercialization” mode.

Medical Device Innovation Consortium

The Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC) is the first public-private partnership created with the sole objective of advancing medical device regulatory science for patient benefit.  Formed in late 2012, MDIC brings together representatives of the FDA, NIH, CMS, industry, non-profits, and patient organizations to improve the processes for development, assessment, and review of new medical technologies. Our work is unique and complementary to trade associations such as AdvaMed and MDMA.

MedTech Europe

MedTech Europe is the European trade association for the medical technology industry including diagnostics, medical devices and digital health.

The Irish Medtech Association 

The Irish Medtech Association is the business association within Ibec representing the medical devices and diagnostics sector. The Irish Medtech Association has almost 200 members, located throughout the island of Ireland. Irish Medtech Association’s broad focus is to promote and support an environment that encourages the sustainable development and profitable growth of our multinational and small to medium size medical device and diagnostic companies.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier provider of legal services to life sciences, technology, and growth enterprises worldwide. The firm is nationally recognized as a leader in corporate governance, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and technology licensing and other intellectual property transactions