CoraVie Medical

CoraVie is the "CGM" of blood pressure, improving hypertension management for the most difficult-to-manage patients.

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Medical Devices and Equipment
  • Location Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded April 2020
  • Employees 8
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website coraviemedical.com

Company Summary

CoraVie Medical is transforming hypertension management with an implantable, ultrasound-based blood pressure and cardiovascular monitoring platform - providing earlier access to actionable blood pressure and cardiovascular insights, enabling faster clinical decisions, improved therapy optimization, and reduced risk of devastating events such as stroke.
We are following the same successful playbook of known precedents in implantable monitoring.

Team

  • Founder & CEO

    30 yrs in Medtech across multiple leadership and functional roles. Significant experience that position her well to lead CoraVie, including 8 yrs in technical sales collaborating directly with cardiologists, and 8+ yrs connecting unmet needs to new innovations to create significant growth opportunities. She has experience in hypertension, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias, and acute myocardial infarction. BSEE from UW-Madison, MBA from UMN.

  • Erik Scott, PhD
    Chief Architect

    Dr. Scott has over 30 years in the Medical Device Industry, including 25 years at Medtronic where he had responsibility for new product platforms for Neuromodulation. He is a prolific inventor in both medical devices and batteries, and he has over 75 patents to his name. Erik was inducted as a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers.

  • Chief Medical Officer

    Dr. Paul Sobotka is a professor and cardiologist with nearly 200 peer reviewed publications and multiple patents. He is also a serial entrepreneur with several successful exits. Of note, he was the CMO for Ardian, a novel hypertension therapy company, that was sold to Medtronic for $800 million.

  • Finance

    Eric is a senior finance executive with 30+ years of experience in finance leadership positions spanning early-stage companies to large, complex global businesses. Eric has been CFO for several successful startups, including Histosonics, ABOUT Healthcare (formerly Central Logic), and Zipnosis. He also spent 9 years in senior finance leadership roles at Medtronic.

  • Steve Schwister
    VP, Program Management

    Steve is an experienced program leader with more than 30 years of success leading complex implantable medical devices, information systems and aviation products from concept through commercialization. Steve’s medical device experience includes managing the Chronicle Implantable Pulmonary Artery Pressure Sensor from Medtronic, leading program management in the patient monitoring business, and several other leadership roles.

Advisors

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