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Open in TheBrain
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Architects: Small & Medium Size Business (SMBs), Product Development, De-Risking, Validation, Building Niche & Emerging Markets
*Architects: Neurology, Psychology, Mental Health, CNS, Pain & TBI Companies _ Stroke
Openwater
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www.openwater
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*Architects: Catheters
*Architects: Medical Imaging _ Lasers, LEDs, PhotoBioModulation, Broadband Light Companies
*Architects: Medical Imaging - Ultrasound Companies
*Architects: Neurology, Psychology, Mental Health, CNS, Pain & TBI Companies _ Stroke
*Architects: Trauma, Blood, Wound Healing, Military Medicine, Combat Casualty Care & Emergency Medicine
*Industry: San Francisco, California
2022: Fierce Medtech's 2021 Fierce 15
Children
2022: Investors have included Bold Capital Partners, Khosla Ventures, Formic Ventures, Starlight Ventures, Kittyhawk Ventures, Plum Alley Fund, Gunderson Dettmer, Tectonic Capital and singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel.
CEO: Mary Lou Jepsen, Openwater (2022)
Founded 2016
Openwater aims to intervene within the ambulance, using a sensor-equipped headband that can quickly tell emergency staff if the patient has a large vessel occlusion—blockages serious enough to divert blood flow away from an entire hemisphere of the brain.
San Francisco, California
Using a combination of ultrasound waves and near-infrared lasers that can penetrate skin and bone, the device is designed to guide clinicians through the maze of blood vessels to perform a manual thrombectomy, where a catheter and stentlike device are used to unplug the clot and clear out the plumbing