KindHeart, Inc.

Cost-effective, hyper-realistic surgical simulators to ease medical-device sales and enhance training of doctors and medical students.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Medical Devices and Equipment
  • Location Chapel Hill, NC, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded December 2011
  • Employees 4

Company Summary

KindHeart is a medical-simulation company specializing in surgery simulation systems using proprietary, animated-animal organ systems. By addressing several pain points simultaneously – chief among them are realism, portability, and cost – KindHeart systems can lower the cost of sales for medical device companies, and enable cutting-edge training curricula for medical students and hospitals. (keywords kind heart)

Team

  • Richard H. Feins
    Chief Medical Officer

    •Professor of Surgery, UNC •Director, UNC Cardiothoracic Simulation Center •Former Chairman, American Board of Thoracic Surgery

  • Andy Grubbs
    Chairman

    •Senior executive and venture capitalist with broad experience creating market leading enterprises •Lecturer at UNC-KFBS for Entrepreneurship program

  • Alston Ramsay
    Marketing

    •McKinsey & Co.
    •Speechwriter for Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Gen. David Petraeus
    •MBA, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Advisors

  • Merrill Mason
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Blackman & Sloop
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute - $50k
    Unconfirmed
    North Carolina Biotechnology Center - $250k (business development loan)
    Unconfirmed
    Founders - $70k
    Unconfirmed

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