Team

Dave Siet

principal

Dave joined Amzak Health in 2020 as a Senior Associate. Dave brings over a decade of healthcare experience to the team. Prior to joining Amzak Health, he was the VP of business development at Portal Instruments, a venture-backed medical device startup spun out of MIT. Before Portal, Dave was an Engagement Manager at Health Advances where he worked with clients across the life sciences sector on commercial and growth strategy projects. Prior to that, he was part of the marketing team at SynapDx, a venture-backed autism diagnostic startup. He began his career in the sales organization of Medtronic in the cardiac rhythm disease business unit.

 

Dave received an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Masters of Engineering Management from Duke University, and a Bachelors of Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University.

category

Medtech

Status

Current

headquarters

Halifax, Nova Scotia

website

Sound Blade Medical

Sound Blade Medical is a medical device company that is developing handheld ultrasound-guided histotripsy technology to treat a wide range of conditions. Histotripsy is a non-invasive, non-thermal ablation technology to selectively destroy tissue with unparalleled precision.

category

medtech

status

Current

headquarters

Plymouth, Minnesota

website

HistoSonics

HistoSonics has developed a system to destroy tumors completely non-invasively. Treatment is achieved using histotripsy, a novel form of energy that is safe, extremely precise, and able to be personalized for each patient. The initial indication is for treatment of liver tumors and the system is being studied in several other types of tumors.

category

MEDTECH

status

Exited/Public

headquarters

Redwood City, California

website

Gynesonics

Gynesonics is a medical device company committed to advancing women’s health by developing transcervical, uterus-preserving, incisionless technologies for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The company’s Sonata system is the world’s first and only intrauterine fibroid ablation system clinically proven to reduce fibroid symptoms across a wide range of fibroid types, sizes, and uterine locations.