Daily Archives Friday, April 2006

Startup Medtech Companies

These are recent startups I am reporting on in the April issue of my newsletter. As always, there’s no guarantee (or endorsement on my part) that any of these will succeed:

Company

Principals or Investors

Location

Technology

Founded

Bioasssessments, LLC
Peter Hyde, Christopher Hyde
Elkton, MD
Real-time angiotensin monitor for salt sensitivity
2006

Neotract, Inc.
New Enterprise Associates
Palo Alto, CA
Surgical urological devices
2005

NeuroLife Noninvasive Solutions
Daniel McChesney, MD
Pittsburgh, PA

Noninvasive [...]

advanced MEDICAL technologies

Am I the only one who gets frustrated when finding that most references to “technology” are limited only to discussions of computers? I know it’s a combination of the investment industry (which in this respect seems remarkably lazy) seeking to simplify the world so that it can post prognostications without using many words . . [...]

Micro and nanotech medicine

We’re working on finalizing this report. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who has looked at the nanotech “industry” over the past couple years (we did a report three years ago) that it is the most hyped, promise-filled industry that has kept forestalling investors and any other interested parties from seeing concrete successes. Producing [...]