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.

Knobbe Martens

Knobbe Martens is a highly respected intellectual property law firm, offering legal services in all aspects of intellectual property and technology law. The firm’s litigation group handles cases throughout the U.S. and coordinates strategy for disputes worldwide. Founded in California in 1962, the firm has close to 300 lawyers and scientists based in offices in Orange County, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C. Recognized as a top-ranked firm by numerous IP and legal outlets, Knobbe Martens serves a diverse international client base, from multinational corporations to emerging businesses of all stages.

Medmarc

Medmarc was 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. 

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.

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.

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.

Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins is a global law firm with more than 3,000 lawyers worldwide. For more than 30 years, Latham’s cross-disciplinary healthcare and life sciences team has represented medical device and life sciences companies at all stages of development, from startup and emerging growth to mature public companies. Our lawyers advise clients on market-shaping transactions, high-stakes litigation and trials, and sophisticated regulatory matters across all relevant sub-sectors within the industry, including medical device and technology, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and hospitals and other healthcare services providers. Many of our lawyers hold advanced scientific degrees and have served in senior positions as government regulators, C-Suite executives in leading healthcare and life sciences companies, as well as serving as primary outside counsel for key industry associations.

Lifeblood Capital + Talent

Lifeblood, Inc. is a talent acquisition firm exclusively for MedTech startups. Our team of medical device executives and physicians design, recruit, and build end-to-end teams for regulated medical hardware and software companies. From independent board members and C-level to entry-level positions and from R&D through commercialization stages, our global talent acquisition practice serves the MedTech venture and entrepreneurial community with 20+ years of recruitment experience and 2,000+ successful hires for 500+ MedTech startups.

Olympus Corporation

Olympus is a global medical device company specializing in endoscopy with a passion for transforming the future of healthcare. Given its commitment to making lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling, as well as its major presence in hospitals around the world, Olympus has a good reason to be invested in future developments that will better the experiences of providers and patients. The company is seeking partnerships and licensing relationships with early stage medical device startups worldwide, and is interested in endoscopes, laparoscopic devices, devices for minimally invasive surgery, and AI technologies across a wide range of specialties including ENT, gastrointestinal, respiratory, gynecology, and urology. To discover more about Olympus' technology needs, click here.

The Foundry

Since our inception in 1998, The Foundry has applied our holistic process to identify big, unmet clinical needs and build companies around innovative technologies that address them.

We have been inspired by physician collaborators. Combining their clinical insights with our resources, experience, and talent, we work together to take novel technologies from bench to bedside, from concept to market.