Biosense Webster, Inc. is the global leader in the science of diagnosing and treating heart rhythm disorders. The company partners with clinicians to develop innovative technologies that improve the quality of care for arrhythmia patients worldwide. Biosense Webster is part of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies. More information can be found at www.biosensewebster.com.

Medtronic, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. It offers implantable cardiac pacemakers, eternal defibrillators, inferior turbinate surgery products, and continuous glucose monitoring device. The company was founded by Earl E. Bakken and Palmer J. Hermundslie on April 29, 1949 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Atrionix, Inc., part of Johnson & Johnson, is a company headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, that develops proprietary, catheter-based system for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. It was founded by James C. Peacock. Atrionix, Inc. was acquired by Cordis Corp. on December 27, 2000 for $62.80 million.

The University of California is the nation's best public university system, delivering top-notch research and innovation to California (and the world).

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used principally to treat cardiovascular disease.

Ablative Solutions is a medical device firm that offers an alternative to surgical renal denervation for treating hypertension. Its technology involves endovascular catheters to provide an efficacious, durable, cost-effective, and safe alternative to surgical renal denervation for the treatment of hypertension and other diseases caused by an overactive sympathetic nervous system.

Part of Abbott Laboratories, St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. is a company headquartered in St. Paul, MN. The firm develops and commercializes minimally invasive cardiovascular and neurovascular medical devices. It was founded by Paul R. Buckman. Lisa D. Earnhardt is currently the CEO of the company.

Part of Abbott Laboratories, St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc. is an American company that manufactures and markets medical devices.

Boston Scientific Ltd., part of Boston Scientific Corp., is a British company located in Hemel Hempstead. The firm distributes medical products. It was founded in 1992.\nThe company says this about itself: Boston Scientific Ltd designed, manufactured and sold transvaginal mesh (“TVM”) medical devices that were implanted into thousands of Canadian women for the treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence (“SUI”) and Pelvic Organ Prolapse (“POP”).

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. engages in patient-focused medical innovations for heart disease and critical care monitoring. Its products are categorized into four main areas: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies, Surgical Structural Heart, and Critical Care. It operates through the following geographical segments: United States, Europe, Japan, and Rest of World. The company was founded by Miles Lowell Edwards in 1958 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

InCarda Therapeutics is a clinical-stage drug delivery company pioneering a novel approach of treating acute cardiovascular diseases/conditions by the inhalation route. Lead product is InRhythm, an inhaled formulation of an antiarrhythmic drug to treat acute paroxysmal atrial fibrillation events within minutes at home, at work, or anywhere. Completed Phase 1 and currently advancing lead product through Phase 2. InCarda Therapeutics was founded in Newark, California.

AtriCure, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of surgical ablation of cardiac tissue, and systems for the exclusion of the left atrial appendage. Its products include radio frequency (RF) ablation pacing and sensing, cryo, left atrial appendage management, soft tissue dissection, estech surgical instrumentation, and cart configuration. It operates through the following geographical segments: United States, Europe, Asia, and Other International. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Mason, OH.

Kardium is a technology pioneer working to advance medical device technology in the diagnosis and treatment of atrial fibrillation. Kardium was founded in 2007 and has built an outstanding team with a track record of excellence in medicine, business, and engineering. We have hired the best engineers, medical researchers and production staff and have been working with a team of top medical advisors to develop the Globe mapping and ablation system. The Globe system has been entirely developed by the team at Kardium and provides a complete system to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of atrial fibrillation. Kardium is based in Vancouver, Canada, and has consistently ranked as one of the top companies to work for in British Columbia.

CardioFocus is a biotechnology company that focuses on the advancement of ablation treatments for cardiac disorders. The company specializes in providing electrophysiologists with innovative and effective tools that bring new levels of precision and control to the treatment of atrial fibrillation that focuses on developing, manufacturing, and investigating disposable fiber optic catheters for the visualization of cardiac anatomy and the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. CardioFocus was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts.

Medtronic Ablation Frontiers LLC provides technology solutions for cardiac therapy to cure heart arrhythmias focusing on a trial fibrillation. The firm focuses in the treatment of ablation therapy. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

BioCardia is a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company. We are a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company developing novel therapeutics for cardiovascular diseases with large unmet medical needs. BioCardia is developing proprietary comprehensive biotherapeutic solutions for cardiovascular disease in its CardiAMP™ and CardiALLO™ therapies. Clinical results supporting both therapeutic programs are compelling and build upon the most rigorous data in the field to date with intramyocardial delivery of marrow-derived cells.

InnerCool Therapies is a medical technology company that develops and manufactures disposable catheter systems based on its endovascular hypothermia technology, which is centered around InnerCool's Celsius Control System(TM). The Celsius Control System provides physicians with an endovascular technology that can rapidly and controllably lower patient body temperature, and precisely maintain a chosen target temperature for a desired period of time before allowing the patient to return to normothermic levels. The Celsius Control System consists of a specialized endovascular cooling catheter, fluid circuit disposables and an operational console. The distal portion of the catheter incorporates a flexible metallic heat-exchange region (called the Temperature Control Element(TM) or TCE(TM)), which can be cooled or warmed with saline solution circulated in a closed-loop manner from the console. When placed in the inferior vena cava, the TCE exchanges thermal energy with the blood, resulting in cooling or warming of the downstream organs and body. The Celsius Control System is particularly advantageous in that it can cool the body rapidly and controllably, yet does not infuse fluid into the patient, nor is blood circulated outside of the body. InnerCool recently launched its new Accutrol Catheter(TM), which integrates a temperature sensing probe directly into the catheter, avoiding the need for placing separate temperature probes which can be slow to respond and cumbersome to use, and may not reflect true core body temperature. Potential future applications of the technology include endovascular cooling for cardiac arrest, acute ischemic stroke and myocardial infarction (heart attack). InnerCool operates an approximately 17,000 square foot, FDA-registered and ISO-certified manufacturing facility located in San Diego, California.