Mountain Pacific Venture
Mountain Pacific Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2018, specializing in early-stage investments primarily in the life sciences and biotech sectors. Based in the United States, the firm focuses its investments in the Mountain and Southwest regions, particularly Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico, as well as in South Korea. Mountain Pacific Venture Partners aims to partner with innovative thinkers in the medical field to drive advancements that improve patient outcomes, reduce healthcare costs, and enhance overall quality of life.
Alterra Medical is a world-class medical device company with deep experience and proven success in catalyzing, capitalizing and commercializing medical devices. We partner with innovators throughout the entire product lifecycle – from ideation and concept feasibility to case validation and national distribution by our clinically-trained sales team.
Xenocor Inc is a medical device company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, specializing in the design and development of innovative laparoscopic surgical instruments. The company's flagship product, the xenoscope, is a single-use device that provides high-definition imaging for laparoscopic procedures. By offering superior imaging quality at a lower cost compared to traditional laparoscopic techniques, Xenocor aims to enhance surgical outcomes while minimizing expenses for hospitals and medical facilities. Additionally, the xenoscope's capability to operate independently of a power grid allows for greater flexibility in various surgical settings, including medical outreach organizations. Through these advancements, Xenocor seeks to improve the accessibility and efficiency of minimally invasive surgeries.
Cross Vascular
Seed Round in 2020
Cross Vascular is developing a novel transseptal access system.
1st Source Consulting LLC provides business consulting services. The company offers accounting, funding, management, marketing, manufacturing, human resource and benefits, website support, and legal support services. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Turner Imaging Systems is a developer of the Smart-C battery-powered mini C-arm. The company develops and markets X-ray imaging systems that give the user the ability to acquire X-ray images wherever and whenever they are needed. The latest product, the SMART-C arm, is a fully-functional mini-C-arm system that is battery operated and hand-transportable, improving the way fluoroscopy is performed. Turner Imaging Systems products expand the reach of X-ray imaging to the under-served and humanitarian efforts around the world.
Layla Wellness is a Canadian company that specializes in the development of an intravaginal fertility monitor ring designed to identify the most fertile days for women. This innovative product tracks cervical fluid, which is crucial for conception, and provides users with advanced notice of their fertile window. By integrating this monitoring ring with a mobile application, Layla Wellness offers a user-friendly solution for women seeking to understand their fertility patterns more effectively.
Healyx Labs, Inc. develops and manufactures a medical device for the implementation of affordable wound healing. It offers Kyron negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) system, a portable and reusable medical device that is used in healing acute, chronic, and postoperative wounds. Its device is used to treat patients with traumatic, sub acute and dehisced wounds, partial-thickness burns, ulcers, skin flaps, and grafts. Healyx Labs, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Operator of a pharmaceutical company intended to develop new drugs through repositioning. The company focuses on repositioning an already approved and widely used anti-diabetes drug as a medication that slows or stops the progression of calcific aortic valve disease, thus providing the healthcare sector with new technology and medication for a problem that currently has no other remedy.
Alterra Medical is a world-class medical device company with deep experience and proven success in catalyzing, capitalizing and commercializing medical devices. We partner with innovators throughout the entire product lifecycle – from ideation and concept feasibility to case validation and national distribution by our clinically-trained sales team.
iVeena Delivery Systems, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, designs and develops ophthalmology products. The company offers IVMED-10, IVMED-20, IVMED-80, and IVMED-85 for treating post cataract inflammation and pediatric myopia. It also provides drug delivery platform that enhances medication’s ocular bioavailability to anterior and posterior eye segments. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Decoy Biosystems
Seed Round in 2018
Decoy Biosystems is a biotechnology company developing a novel and potentially best in class, multiple Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonist-based cancer immunotherapy. Decoy is dedicated to enhancing the expanding curative cancer immunology for patients with unresectable or metastatic solid tumors and lymphomas, which are responsible for approximately 90 percent of all cancer deaths.
Navigen Inc. is a pharmaceutical discovery and development company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, founded in 2014. The company specializes in drug development using D-peptides, with a focus on various therapeutic areas, including HIV prevention and treatment, cancer immunotherapy, and autoimmune diseases. Notable products include CPT31 for HIV, a D-peptide targeting SIRPα for cancer treatment, and an anti-TNF D-peptide that offers advantages over existing biologics. Navigen has effectively implemented a strategy of sourcing early-stage technologies from academic institutions, advancing these innovations through pre-Investigational New Drug studies with the support of approximately $40 million in non-dilutive funding from grants and collaborations. The company aims to file IND applications for its key programs within the next year.