MD Start, a Lausanne, Switzerland-based venture capital- and industry-backed medical device technology incubator, has added medical device company Sorin Group and healthcare venture capital firm Versant Ventures as shareholders.
Founded by European medical device entrepreneurs Tim Lenihan and Gérard Hascoët along with Sofinnova Partners, and led by CEO Tim Lenihan, MD Start has the mission to accelerate development of revolutionary medical devices in Europe by providing inventors a way to develop their ideas without having to abandon their careers.
In order to identify and develop ” revolutionary” early-stage medical device technologies, the incubator already partnered with global medical device leader Medtronic.
FinSMEs
24/02/2011