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COR Medical Ventures
COR Medical Ventures is a San Diego-area medical device development company that acts as the center of rotation for medtech innovation. Through three branches - consulting services, a venture studio, and distribution services - it partners with surgeon-inventors and corporations to take orthopedic, spine, and other devices from clinical idea to FDA clearance and market launch. Founded by engineer Ben Arnold, the firm has stood up a portfolio of more than a dozen independent companies spanning robotics, wearables, spinal fusion, and soft-tissue fixation.
Tenon Medical, Inc.
Tenon Medical is a Los Gatos, California medical device company that built the Catamaran SI Joint Fusion System, a patented, less-invasive way to fuse the sacroiliac joint with a single titanium implant placed along an inferior-posterior trajectory. Founded in 2012 and public on the Nasdaq since 2022 (TNON), Tenon targets the often-overlooked SI joint, a frequent and hard-to-diagnose source of chronic lower-back pain. In 2025 it expanded into a multi-product sacro-pelvic platform by acquiring the SiVantage SImmetry technology portfolio.
Cerapedics Inc.
Cerapedics is a commercial-stage ortho-biologics company that engineered a synthetic 15-amino-acid peptide, P-15, to coax the body into building bone faster. Its FDA-approved i-FACTOR is used in cervical spine fusions, and its 2025 PearlMatrix approval made it the first and only proven bone growth accelerator cleared for lumbar fusion.