Investments
Life Sciences
BioStable Science & Engineering
Austin, TX
BioStable Science & Engineering, located in Austin, TX, specializes in innovative
technologies to treat heart valve disease.www.biostable-s-e.com
EndoStim
St. Louis, MO
Developing novel programmable implanted electro-medical devices to treat various gastrointestinal neuromuscular disorders
www.endostim.com
Molecular Templates, Inc.
Austin, TX
Molecular Templates Inc. (MTI) is a biopharmaceutical company with a novel protein platform for the development of new therapeutics against cancer. Thecompany has a lead compound for melanoma that is expected to enter into clinical trials in the next two years and is developing additional compounds against a variety of other cancers.
www.moleculartemplates.com
Protein Discovery
Knoxville, TN
Protein Discovery is a privately held life science company that provides products that simplify and accelerate the preparation of complex biological samples for analysis by mass spectrometry. For additional information, please visit www.proteindiscovery.com.
www.proteindiscovery.com
Spinal Restoration
Austin, TX
Spinal Restoration is focused on a new, early intervention, minimally invasive treatment with clinically proven results that addresses unmet needs in spine health management. The company is developing ground breaking technologies that will revolutionize the way back pain is treated during the early stages of disc degeneration. www.spinalrestoration.com
www.spinalrestoration.com
Terapio
Austin, TX
Terapio is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of a pipeline of therapies based on the transport protein, RLIP76.
www.terapio.com
TVA Medical
Austin, TX
TVA Medical, Inc. is a medical device company developing innovative, minimally invasive therapies for treatment of End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).
www.tvamedical.com
Healthcare Services and IT
Explorys Medical
Cleveland, OH
Explorys addresses the national strategic imperative to leverage electronic medical records (EHR) for the improvement of medicine. We accelerate discovery and enable collaboration between stakeholders in healthcare by providing a platform that serves providers and life sciences – all within a HIPAA compliant, privacy protected environment.
www.explorys.net
Hospitalists Now
Austin, TX
Hospitalists Now, Inc. (HNI) is a full service physician group practice, management and consulting company, providing hospitalist services. The Austin-based company supplies and coordinates inpatient care for its contracted client hospitals in partnership with local primary care physicians and specialists.
www.hospitalistsnow.com
Rise Health
Austin, TX
Rise Health is a healthcare services company dedicated to transforming primary care. Rise Health helps primary care physicians provide better access and outcomes for their patients, while improving the practice environment and financial viability for primary care practices. Rise partners with delivery organizations to expand practice capacity and capabilities, improve care delivery and manage medical costs.
www.risehealth.com
Prior Investments
In their prior roles with Austin Ventures, Ascension Health Ventures and with their own capital, the Santé team made the following selected healthcare venture investments.
Accuro
Dallas, TX
Helping healthcare providers improve their financial position with technology-based revenue enhancement solutions that address the unique reimbursement challenges of today’s marketplace. That’s the big idea behind Accuro Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
www.accurohealth.com
Emageon
Birmingham, AL
Emageon (NASDAQ: EMAG) privdes helathcare IT solutions for the clinical analysis and management of digital medical images. The company’s software enables physicians to better understand internal anatomic structure and pathology, which improves clinical diagnoses, disease screening and therapy planning.
www.emageon.com
Healthspring
Nashville, TN
HealthSpring (NYSE: HS) is a Medicare managed care organization. The company server 100,000+ Medicare members in Tennessee, Texas, Alabama, Illinois and Mississippi. It offers Medicare Advantage health plans, including Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit plans and stand-alone prescription drug plans, in each of its markets.
www.myhealthspring.com
LDR Spine
Austin, TX
LDR Spine supplies innovative spinal solutions by working closely with surgeons to develop implantable systems and instrumentation that make spine surgery reproducible, easier to perform, and restores optimum stability and mobility to patients.
www.ldrspine.com
Stereotaxis
St. Louis, MO
Stereotaxis (NASDAQ: STXS) designs, manufactures, and markets an advanced cardiology instrument control system for the interventional treatment of coronary artery disease and arrhythmias. The system allows physicians to more effectively navigate catheters and stent delivery devices using computer-controlled, externally applied magnetic fields that precisely govern the motion of the working tip of the device.
www.stereotaxis.com
TomoTherapy
Madison, WI
TomoTherapy (NASDAQ: TTPY) has developed a revolutionary medical system that combines on-board CT imaging with conformal radiation therapy to provide sub-millimeter precision in the treatment of cancer patients. TomoTherapy Clinical Centers around the world have performed an unprecedented 225,000 CT image-guided radiation treatments for cancer patients.
www.tomotherapy.com
