Team

Joyce Erony

Managing Partner

Joyce has more than 30 years experience as a principal in investing activities, corporate business development and investment banking.  Prior to founding Amzak Health in 2015, she was a Managing Director at Signet Healthcare Partners, a growth capital healthcare fund in New York.  Joyce has led or co-led investments in 25 venture backed companies resulting in more than 12 exits to strategic investors and three IPOs.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Miach Orthopaedics, Contego Medical, Gynesonics, Neuros Medical and Shiratronics. Based in New York City, Joyce leads the Firm’s activities in medical device investing.  

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.