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VerAvanti Mobilizes Notable Industry Advisors and Expands Go-to-Market Leadership Team

VerAvanti Mobilizes Notable Industry Advisors and Expands Go-to-Market Leadership Team

REDMOND, WA (August 8, 2017) –  VerAvanti, a developer of a new class of scientifically-advanced solutions to help physicians find answers to treat strokes and heart attacks that often strike without warning, is leveraging deep industry ties from its founding team, to build a highly experienced and industry-recognizable board, clinical advisors, and leadership team to strategically guide the company as it readies for a planned 2018 market launch, pending FDA 510(k) premarket clearance.

VerAvanti Positions for Market Launch with Reg D Filing Raise and Two NIH Grants 

VerAvanti Positions for Market Launch with Reg D Filing Raise and Two NIH Grants 

Quietly in late May, VerAvanti, a developer of a new class of scientifically-advanced solutions to help physicians find answers to treat strokes and heart attacks that often strike without warning, emerged from stealth mode when it announced a Reg D Filing to raise $5 million. This raise will complement the millions already invested by serial entrepreneur Gerald McMorrow, who founded VerAvanti in 2013 after growing his former startup, Verathon Inc., a maker of diagnostic ultrasound tools, into a multi-national powerhouse and successful acquisition by Roper Industries in 2009. In addition to finalizing its funding efforts, VerAvanti was awarded two back-to-back NIH Research Grants in May and June. All funds will further the company’s continued research, product development, and strategic hiring as it readies for a 2018 market launch, pending FDA 510(k) premarket clearance.

VerAvanti Makes Move to Ensure SFE Production Quality by Establishing an In-house MEMS Production Facility

VerAvanti Makes Move to Ensure SFE Production Quality by Establishing an In-house MEMS Production Facility

Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) is the Nano-scale level technology required to build microscopic devices with components between 0.001 to 0.1 mm in size, which is required to build the company’s sub-millimeter Scanning Fiber Endoscope (SFE), which provides an inside view into hidden artery surfaces. Because these manufacturing facilities are so rare, VerAvanti built and designed its own MEMS manufacturing facility to ensure high volume, precision quality production of its SFE devices.

VerAvanti Completes Industry-First SFE Console Design

VerAvanti Completes Industry-First SFE Console Design

The slim, low-profile, user-friendly console is designed to provide physicians with fast, intuitive and complete access to the tools and patient data needed during procedures. The all-in-one and intuitive-to-use mobile cart includes touch screen monitor access to data, a sterile and integrated console with POD used to connect the angioscope catheter, and an easy-access disposal basket.

VerAvanti Takes Steps to Ensure Quality Through ISO 13485 Certification

VerAvanti Takes Steps to Ensure Quality Through ISO 13485 Certification

ISO 13485 is the internationally recognized standard for quality management in the medical device industry. VerAvanti undertook certification to ensure that its quality systems complied with regulatory requirements and provided the efficiency to scale. DEKRA, a leading audit and certification organization, certified VerAvanti for ISO 13485 quality compliance in January 2015 and completed a stage 1 audit in November 2015 and a stage 2 audit in January 2016.

Gerald McMorrow, VerAvanti Founder, Secures Patent for Closed Loop Optical Feedback Synchronization in Imaging

Gerald McMorrow, VerAvanti Founder, Secures Patent for Closed Loop Optical Feedback Synchronization in Imaging

(February 9, 2016) – Used in the company’s Scanning Fiber Endoscope (SFE), McMorrow’s patent (US 9258108) for a closed loop optical feedback synchronization system, provides real time feedback and control of a light emitting fiber when scanning or displaying an image. Unique in the market, the light emitting fiber is driven by an actuator in an angular pattern to scan the image. Light reflected from a lens assembly is received by an optical synchronizer integrated circuit that includes a slot located between walls of the circuit. The reflected light is directed toward a multi-mode fiber in optical communication with the circuit. A radial position of the reflected light as it passes the slot may be used to compensate for a drift in angular velocity of the light emitting fiber.