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Augie Lien’s Long Game: From Silicon Valley Exits to a Two-Country Medical-Device Build
Six ventures, decades of regulated hardware, and one recurring playbook: pair patient-monitoring engineering with the patience to build across borders.
Gerald Denny Still Sees Patients Between Board Meetings
A practicing nephrologist who runs the medical side of a $1.9 billion device business, and still keeps a standing clinic day.
Anuj Khandelwal
Anuj Khandelwal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Empo Health, a San Bruno, CA-based medical device company developing in-home monitoring systems to prevent diabetic foot amputations. With a BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and MS in Mechanical Engineering (Medical Devices) from Stanford, Khandelwal founded Empo Health in 2020 alongside co-founder Eric Dahlseng. The company's flagship product — Empo Footprint, an FDA-listed in-home imaging scale — lets diabetic patients monitor foot health from home, transmitting images to care teams for early intervention. In June 2025, Empo Health raised a $7 million round led by Story Ventures to commercialize its remote diabetic foot ulcer management system.