ViVita Technologies Inc
Description
Enabling regenerative medicine with off-the-shelf tissue scaffolds.
Long Description

ViVita’s patent-pending platform technology—the ViVita Process—removes the immunological barriers in animal-derived tissues, rendering them immune-compatible with human patients. Leveraging this technology, ViVita aims to generate off-the-shelf tissue and organ replacements that avoid long-term medication, repeat transplants, and associated patient deaths.

Founder(s)
Maelene L. Wong, PhD, Leigh G. Griffiths, VetMB
Contact Person
Maelene Wong
Programs
UC Davis Big Bang!, Capitalize 2016
Founded
2012
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Davis, CA
StemExpress
Description
Assisting the research community with the procurement of human primary stem cells, blood and tissue needed to further their stem cell research.
Long Description

StemExpress fuels regenerative medicine and translational research by supplying human specimens to biomedical researchers around the world. Founded in 2010, StemExpress is the only company of its kind to procure tissues and isolate cells for researchers’ individual needs in its own labs.

Founder(s)
Cate Dyer
Founded
2010
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Placerville, CA
Kura MD
Name
Description
Kura MD is a health and wellness solutions company dedicated to improving the quality of life for people by leveraging technology to provide access to healthcare 24/7 virtually anywhere.
Long Description

The Kura MD telemedicine platform enables convenient, secure, HIPAA compliant telehealth appointments between physicians and patients through a computer, smart phone or tablet 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Kura MD represents a new standard in telehealth services incorporating electronic medical records (EMR), an interface hub, registration system, verification, billing, claims, video conferencing, and integration of peripheral equipment, practice management and an optional best-in-class health station.

Founder(s)
Kevin Hamm
Stage
Series A
Founded
2013
City
Roseville, CA
Allstar Networks Inc.
Long Description

Small (EDWOSB, SB#2001039) Technology Distribution company specializing in innovative products that enable healthcare workforce mobility and healthcare delivery efficiency.

Founder(s)
Tony Clayton
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
TacSense, Inc.
Long Description

TacSense develops flexible force and pressure sensing solutions targeted for medical devices, advanced robotics, and more recently, wearable electronics. As an industrial pioneer in ultrasensitive and flexible sensors, TacSense's proprietary technologies, based on microfluidic interfacial capactive sensing (MICS), will enable an array of pressure and force sensing applications with ultrahigh resolution and ultrafast response.

Founder(s)
Dr. Tingrui Pan
Contact Person
Bill Aldrich
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Woodland, CA
Whitekoat
Description
Whitekoat is a collaborative medical education platform powered by machine learning to help students learn and understand medical concepts faster and easier.
Long Description

Medical students often describe their medical school experience as "drinking from a firehose." Traditional textbooks and lectures offer a one-size-fits-all approach to learning medicine. Applying state-of-the-art machine learning to the medical school classroom can help every student learn more material faster and easier when combined with traditional learning methods.

Founder(s)
Keisuke Nakagawa
Stage
MVP/Launched
Contact Person
Keisuke Nakagawa
Founded
2014
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Sacramento, CA
ResQ Medical Inc.
Description
Automated resident work hour logs. Sync directly to MedHub.Secure messaging for resident team rounding.
Long Description

ResQ Medical is Mobile-Based Healthcare Solutions company that develops tools to empower healthcare providers and simplify physician workflow and documentation.

The company was formed after one of the co-founders, himself a resident physician, experienced first-hand the frustrations of balancing patient care with the ever- increasing administrative requirements of the modern day medical education.

Founder(s)
Quinn Baker
Founded
2013
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Sacramento, CA
Monumedical LLC
Long Description

MonuMedical LLC is a Northern California startup dedicated to developing safe and simple next-generation disposable medical devices. The company’s patented Flowarray™ stopcocks have 1 patent issued and 2 patents pending. They are straightforward injection-molded devices with limited assembly, well-defined markets and will be 510K class 2 devices. Flowarray™ brand stopcocks are the first products in a series of devices planned for development over the next 2 years which include: disposable infusers, 2 stage syringes, and a cricothyrotomy device.

Founded
2011
City
Roseville, CA
Long Description

Adrastia Biotechnology was founded in 2013 to provide a highly accurate Breast Cancer diagnostic protocol that is easy to administer, non-invasive, will deliver rapid results, and provide women with a personal health history.

Adrastia Biotechnology obtains the urine sample and runs high throughput protein quantification and targeted mRNA/microRNA sequencing to identify a pattern of breast cancer positive or negative as compared to a standard or the woman's own previous pattern. Unlike 100% genomic data, Adrastia's test results are designed to be actionable by the woman's physician and her pattern will be stored in her health record for future reference.

Founder(s)
Dr. Angela Courtney, Michael Gilson
Founded
2013
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
SynGen
Name
Description
At SynGen Inc. we develop advanced cell separation tools and accessories, applying innovative design to aid regenerative medicine workflows.
Long Description

SynGen Inc. enables regenerative cures through innovative engineering. The company invents and commercializes products that utilize single-use sterile plastic cartridge disposables mated to dedicated, highly automated electromechanical medical devices to isolate and capture stem and progenitor cells from peripheral and umbilical cord blood, bone marrow, and adipose tissue.

Founder(s)
Philip Coelho, Bud Barry
Stage
Series A
Founded
2009
City
Sacramento, CA