Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used principally to treat cardiovascular disease.

Cook Endoscopy, Inc., part of Cook Group, Inc., is a company headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC, specializing in hospital and medical service plans.

Rex Medical specializes in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of innovative, minimally invasive medical devices targeted toward the cardiovascular, venous access, endosurgery, and oncology markets to address unmet clinical needs. Medical device companies play a vital role in the life science industry by developing new technologies to match unmet medical needs across both established and emerging healthcare markets.

EndoStim is a medical device company developing therapeutics for gastrointestinal and urological neuro-muscular disorders. It is performing clinical trials to pursue FDA approval for a new treatment for sphincter-related disorders such as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and urinary urge incontinence. Its microstimulator technology provides long-term reflux control by restoring normal esophageal function that directly targets the patient's weak or dysfunctional lower esophageal sphincter (LES) muscle between the stomach and the esophagus and enable patients to reduce or avoid typical gastrointestinal side effects of traditional anti-reflux surgery.

Boston Scientific Ltd., part of Boston Scientific Corp., is a British company located in Hemel Hempstead. The firm distributes medical products. It was founded in 1992.\nThe company says this about itself: Boston Scientific Ltd designed, manufactured and sold transvaginal mesh (“TVM”) medical devices that were implanted into thousands of Canadian women for the treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence (“SUI”) and Pelvic Organ Prolapse (“POP”).

Hourglass Technologies, Inc. provides research and development services. It provides its services to the physical, engineering and life sciences sectors. The company was founded by Darin Howard Buxbaum, Charles Hsu, Fan Zhang and Ivanand Tzvetanov in 2007 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

BFKW has developed the Full Sense™ Device – a temporary device that is implanted and extracted via endoscopy and induces long lasting satiety with implanted leading to significant weight loss. This device, once introduced may radically change the current treatment for obesity by eliminating the need for gastric banding, gastric bypass and intragastric balloon surgeries. The Company has strong patent protection with patents issued or in final review (pending) in all of our target markets of the United States (US), European Union (EU), Australia, China and Russia and numerous other jurisdictions.

Pneumoflex Systems LLC provides non-commercial research services. The company was established in 2001 and is headquartered in Melbourne Beach, FL.

EndoGastric Solutions, Inc. (www.endogastricsolutions.com), is a medical device company developing and commercializing innovative, evidence-based, incisionless surgical technology for the treatment of GERD. EGS has combined the most advanced concepts in gastroenterology and surgery to develop the Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication (TIF®) 2.0 procedure—a minimally invasive solution that addresses a significant unmet clinical need. EndoGastric Solutions, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

ImaCor, Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes advanced solutions for hemodynamic assessment. It offers advanced solutions for hemodynamic assessment in the critical care environment for the purpose of improving patient outcomes and optimizing utilization of healthcare resources. The firm manufactures the ClariTEE probe, the only miniaturized, indwelling TEE probe suitable for long-term clinical settings. The company was founded by Harold Hastings and Scott L. Roth in 2000 and is headquartered in Jericho, NY.

EndoVx, Inc. is a privately held medical device developing company. It offers medical devices and systems used in the treatment of obesity and making outpatient vagotomy easier on patients. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Napa, CA.

Synecor evolved from the confluence of several synergistic strategic relationships, initially in the field of interventional cardiology, but has expanded its field to include all medical specialties such as obesity, spine therapeutics, and more. Synecor was founded by Dr. Richard Stack after two decades of collaboration with leading cardiologists, clinician-inventors, and scientists from across the nation and as an outgrowth of close working relationships among corporate leaders in the medical device industry, and experts at Duke University. Mr. William Starling, a well-known Silicon Valley medical device entrepreneur/executive with a successful 27-year career in the high technology cardiovascular device industry, partnered with Dr. Stack to co-manage Synecor and form strategic relationships with leading venture capital partnerships (Delphi Ventures and Frazier & Company) and a leading investment bank (Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown). To complete the partner team, Dr. Stack and Mr. Starling also partnered with major life sciences corporations with vast resources and knowledge (Guidant and GE Medical Systems).

Avent, Inc., a subsidiary of Avanos Medical, Inc., is an American company that develops and manufactures pharmaceuticals.

Novartis Nutrition, part of CIR SpA - Cie Industriali Riunite, is an Italian company that manufactures sugar-free foods. It was acquired by CIR SpA, now a subsidiary of CIR SpA - Cie Industriali Riunite from Novartis AG on January 01, 1999 for $106.42 million.

ValenTx, Inc. develops therapy solutions. It operates as a medical device company. The firm's therapy solutions focus on treating type-2 diabetes and hypertension. The company was founded by Mitchell Dann in June 2002 and is headquartered in Maple Grove, MN.

BaroSense is committed to develop and commercialize novel anti-obesity products that provide a meaningful contribution to this leading healthcare problem facing the United States today. BaroSense was conceived in order to create a safe, simple, effective, and minimally invasive alternative to the surgical treatment of obesity - an innovative approach to assist those people who need help beyond traditional diets, and who wish to avoid extensive, irreversible surgery.

VBM Medizintechnik GmbH is a German private company located in Sulz am Neckar that manufactures and distributes airway management, accessories for anaesthesia and intensive care medicine as well as tourniquets for surgical procedures in the bloodless field. It was founded in 1981 by Volker Bertram. Frank H��gele, J��rn-Uwe Kelch and Volker Bertram are the current co-CEOs of the company.

Shandong Liuhe Group Co., Ltd. engages in the industries of animal feed manufacturing, meat processing and cooking, livestock and poultry breeding, importing and exporting trade, animal production and financial guarantee. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Qingdao, China.