Platinum Sponsors

Addleshaw Goddard

Addleshaw Goddard (formerly Eugene F Collins) in Ireland, provides a comprehensive legal service which is focused on delivering to clients commercial and pragmatic solutions to enable them to run their business more effectively and successfully. We have an expert team of people who have gained wide experience in diverse areas of law. This allows us to offer clients a specifically tailored service to deliver the commercially-focused solutions they require from a legal partner.

Enterprise Ireland

Enterprise Ireland (EI) is the state agency responsible for the development of Irish enterprises.   EI supports business at all stages of a growth to create solutions for global challenges, delivering sustainable prosperity throughout Ireland. 

EY

EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, strategy and transactions and consulting services. The insights and quality services we deliver help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

Greenlight Guru

Greenlight Guru is the only quality management software platform designed specifically for medical devices companies. The industry-leading platform helps companies get safer products to market faster, simplifies FDA and ISO regulatory compliance and provides a single source of truth by connecting the management of your design controls and risk with all your quality processes. Greenlight Guru’s software solution is used by thousands of users across the globe, allowing teams to push beyond baseline compliance and achieve True Quality.

Healthcare & Technology International - (HTI)

HTI is an Executive Search firms dedicated to Life Sciences in Europe, with strong focus on Medtech and innovative technologies. We have a particular affinity supporting start-up firms in building their operations, from early R&D, to market launch. We can also help optimize team dynamics and performance with HR services such as coaching and assessment of Management teams of VC-backed companies. 25 years experience and deep understanding of the healthcare industry sectors have enabled us to recruit C-suite and senior management as well as technical and scientific expert positions across all specialties.

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.

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.

NAMSA

Helping medical device Sponsors improve healthcare since 1967, NAMSA is the world’s leading MedTech Contract Research Organization (CRO) offering global end-to-end development services. Driven by its global regulatory expertise and in-depth therapeutic knowledge, NAMSA is dedicated to accelerating medical device product development, offering only the most proven solutions to move clients’ products through the development life cycle efficiently and cost-effectively. From medical device testing; regulatory, reimbursement and quality consulting; and clinical research services; NAMSA is the industry’s premier, trusted partner for successful development and commercialization outcomes.

Proxima Clinical Research

Proxima Clinical Research works with emerging medical device companies across all phases of development. As a contract research organization, we organize our team in these distinct areas: regulatory and quality consulting and all-inclusive clinical trial services. Additionally, we provide capital and function as an accelerator for early stage MedTech companies via our sister company M1 MedTech.

Seroba Life Sciences

Seroba is a European life sciences venture capital firm focused on investing in winning innovations in biotech and medtech.  The team has deep investment and industry experience enabling Seroba to help entrepreneurs realise their ambitions whilst creating value for investors.  The firm has built a strong portfolio of investee companies across multiple indications. Seroba partners with entrepreneurs to create and build businesses around extraordinary science.

Team Consulting

Making lives better – Team Consulting has been developing simple, elegant solutions to complex healthcare challenges for over 37 years. We only work in the medical industry, whether that’s for the world’s largest pharmacos or new medical start-ups. Our 140+ staff work in Cambridge, UK where we combine industrial design, human factors, engineering and regulatory compliance to create award-winning MedTech devices for our clients.

Velentium

Velentium is a professional engineering firm specializing in end-to-end support for the design and production of therapeutic and diagnostic active medical devices, intelligent products, and automated test systems for the medical, energy, and manufacturing industries. With customers all over the world, we have experience working with clients of every size and stage, ranging from startups seeking seed funding to established Fortune 100 companies. Let’s partner for a better world.

Veranex

Veranex is a global medical device solution provider that brings expertise in design and engineering, human factors, regulatory affairs, quality systems, preclinical studies, clinical trial strategy/execution, data management, reimbursement, and market access together with integrated support across your entire product life cycle.  By uniting these industry-leading service organizations - IMMR, Experien Group, Ximedica, Worrell, Boston Healthcare Associates, Quartesian, Fusion Biotec, Devicia, and Medidee - Veranex delivers expert guidance that accelerates your speed to market, controls development costs, mitigates development risk, and accelerates market viability assessment. From concept-to-commercialization, Veranex customers realize efficiencies in cost and time through integrated and comprehensive solutions that unify your entire development process. 


Gold Sponsors

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.

CBSET Inc.

CBSET is a nonprofit biomedical research institution with a mission to advance the development of novel therapeutics and medical devices.  CBSET’s GLP-compliant facility offers AAALAC-accredited vivaria, well-equipped surgical and necropsy suites, dedicated space for interventional and cardiac procedures, full histopathology services, and advanced imaging modalities both in vivo and in vitro, all under robust regulatory oversight. 

Earlybird Venture Capital

Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources, but also strategic and operational support, as well as access to an international network and capital markets. With over EUR 1 billion under management, seven IPOs and 24 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most successful venture capital firms in Europe.

Evnia

Evnia is a regulatory & clinical expert organisation for Medical devices. Evnia provides to Medical Device manufacturers support in the following areas:

  • Regulatory & Clinical affairs

  • Technical Documentation

  • Clinical Evaluation

  • Post Market Clinical Follow up activities (PMCFs) including surveys and registries.

  • European Union & UK – Authorised Representative

  • Real World Evidence.

Evnia is a trusted partner for organisations in Europe, USA, Japan, Canada, Australia and China.

Gilde Healthcare

Gilde Healthcare is a specialized healthcare investor managing €2 billion across two fund strategies: Venture & Growth and Private Equity. The firm operates out of offices in Utrecht (The Netherlands), Frankfurt (Germany) and Cambridge (United States). Gilde Healthcare Venture & Growth invests in fast growing, innovative companies active in (bio)pharmaceuticals, healthtech and medtech that are based in Europe and North America. For more information, please visit www.gildehealthcare.com.

Goodbody

Goodbody is a full service investment bank with a sector-led approach including a market leading equity capital markets (ECM) platform and research-led brand with a complementary ECM advisory business in UK and Ireland. We have a strong track record in capital raising, combining origination strength, structuring expertise and significant distribution capability globally. Goodbody is owned by AIB Group plc.

IQVIA MedTech

IQVIA MedTech, part of IQVIA, is a global strategic partner for accelerating MedTech innovation. By intelligently connecting the right insights, technology and MedTech expertise, we help enhance healthcare outcomes of the medical device and in vitro diagnostics industry. Our market leading and specialized solutions and services help boost product strategy with advanced data driven insights, optimize clinical success with accelerated trials and real‐world evidence, streamline efficient pathways for regulatory approvals, ensure compliance with comprehensive cloud‐based solutions and field recall, and maximize business performance with augmented team solutions along the complete product lifecycle.

Lightstone Ventures

Lightstone Ventures is a global venture capital firm investing in Biotech and MedTech companies pioneering big ideas poised to transform patient outcomes. Lightstone Ventures was founded in 2012 to empower visionary entrepreneurs with the resources and operational guidance necessary to bring their innovative therapeutics and technologies to the patients who need them most. Lightstone Ventures' investment team has led deals resulting in 19 acquisitions and 20 initial public offerings over the last two decades. The firm has offices in Boston, Mass., Menlo Park, Calif., Dublin, Ireland and Singapore. For more information, visit www.lightstonevc.com.

MAVIE Technologies

MAVIE Technologies is a Chinese boutique investment bank fully dedicated to Medical Devices. We are leaders in cross-border Medical Device transactions including M&A, licensing, joint-venture, and equity placements.  

We have a vision of the future of Medical Device innovation combined with deep Chinese healthcare insights and industry experience, and have developed a proprietary trust network over many years in order to provide end-to-end advice to visualize the transaction, increase the value for our clients, and maximize its certainty.  

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.

Supporting Sponsors

Meddux

Meddux provides medical device design services and contract manufacturing for interventional, minimally-invasive surgical, drug delivery and complex sterile products. Meddux offers a full spectrum of services beginning with user-centered design, concept generation, stage-gate product development, design for manufacturability (DFM), clinical/pilot manufacturing and commercial manufacturing.  At any step of the product lifecycle, we leverage our diverse teams’ experience to solve your hardest design, development, and manufacturing challenges.

MedtechWOMEN

MedtechWOMEN is a 501c3 organization founded in 2010 by women medtech executives to highlight, connect, educate and inspire women in the medtech sector with a content-driven and solutions-oriented dialogue on the future of our industry. MedtechWOMEN highlights and promotes underrepresented medtech leaders inclusive of all races, ethnicities and gender identities by connecting, educating and inspiring leaders who will develop solutions for the future of medtech. We envision a time when medtech leaders represent the diversity of our served populations, leading to improvements in diagnosis, treatment and outcomes.


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