GI & Urology

Makes a stimulation device surgeons use to make the ureter and other smooth muscle structures move so they can be identified during surgery. Acquired by Northgate Technologies in April 2023.

Allurion makes a swallowable gastric balloon that needs no endoscopy or anesthesia and passes on its own after about four months. It pairs the balloon with a remote care app and scale.

Developing surgical robots that add AI guidance during procedures, starting with prostate surgery.

Develops ReCET, an endoscopic catheter that applies non-thermal pulsed electric fields to the duodenum to treat type 2 diabetes. Breakthrough-designated and in a randomized, sham-controlled IDE study.

Develops blood tests that quantify liver function from cholate clearance to stage liver disease and guide varices screening. Runs its own CLIA laboratory in Colorado.

Builds software based therapeutics delivered through healthcare providers for gastrointestinal conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome.

ProVerum makes the ProVee System, a removable nitinol expander for the prostatic urethra that relieves BPH symptoms without cutting or heating tissue. It spun out of Trinity College Dublin.

Developed the Connected Catheter, an indwelling catheter for men managing neurogenic bladder after spinal cord injury.

Ventaris Surgical is developing a ureteroscopic system for kidney stone removal designed to achieve complete stone clearance in one procedure.

Developing the Zenflow Spring, an implant placed during an office based urology procedure to relieve urinary obstruction from benign prostatic hyperplasia.