Team

Tony Natale

Partner

Tony has over 20 years of experience in healthcare venture capital as an investor, founder, and operator. He has held pivotal roles at venture-backed healthcare companies throughout his career, including currently serving as Executive Chairman at XII Medical and Executive Chairman at ENT Specialty Partners. His portfolio companies have generated more than $20 billion in exit value through IPOs and strategic acquisitions. Tony was a co-founder and/or founding investor at MAKO Surgical, Avedro, ENTrigue Surgical, Xlumena, and Spirox; and an investor in many additional companies that have had successful exits, including Inspire Medical, Axonics, BioHaven, Devoro Medical, BardyDx and Entellus Medical.

                               

Prior to joining Amzak in 2023, Tony was a Managing Partner at Aperture Venture Partners and, previously, a Partner at Prism Venture Partners and MDS Capital. He trained in General Surgery and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Connecticut/Hartford Hospital and received a BA from the University of Virginia, an MD from the University of Florida, and an MBA from Yale.

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.