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Ann Fyfe Built the Room Where Medtech Ideas Met Reality
Before accelerators became a Silicon Valley reflex, Ann Fyfe helped put one inside a community hospital - then built the partnerships that let fragile medical-device ideas meet clinicians, regulators and reality.
Andrew Cleeland Is Building a Place Where Experience Compounds
After two major startup exits, Andrew Cleeland chose a different kind of scale: helping generations of medtech builders turn hard-won experience into a shared advantage.
Novocuff, Inc.
Novocuff, Inc. is a clinical-stage maternal health medical device company based in Mountain View, California, building the Novocuff Cervical Control System (CCS) - a device designed to stabilize and close the cervix, retain amniotic fluid, and extend pregnancy in cases of preterm prelabor rupture of membranes (PPROM) and cervical shortening. Founded in 2021 by Amelia Degenkolb and Donald Lee, the company raised an oversubscribed $26M Series A in 2024 (about $28M total) to fund its U.S. multicenter pivotal RETAIN trial, for which it secured FDA IDE approval in September 2025.
Brian Fahey
Brian Fahey is a serial medtech entrepreneur who co-founded Adona Medical, a clinical-stage company developing an adjustable interatrial shunt with integrated bi-atrial pressure sensors for heart failure management. A Duke-trained biomedical engineer and Stanford Biodesign alumnus, Fahey previously co-founded Niveus Medical, which delivered over 10,000 ICU rehabilitation treatments before being acquired by Stryker in 2017. At Adona, he guided the company through $95.5M in total funding including a $33.5M Series C in 2024, and oversaw the initiation of first-in-human clinical trials before stepping down as CEO in December 2025.