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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.
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.