Fountainhead Investment Partners is a venture capital firm with a vision for advancing technologies from all industries and applying them to the science of medicine. The firm identifies innovative, early-stage companies that are looking to challenge the medical industry stagnation while advancing patient care.
Fountainhead will showcase two of its companies that are collaborating to provide innovative products for spine surgeons – Watershed Idea Foundry and Nvision Biomedical Technologies.
- Watershed works with entrepreneurs to advance promising ideas into viable intellectual property and products ready for the marketplace. Watershed offers additive manufacturing and R&D services to companies in its incubator and accelerator as well as other manufacturers. Watershed launched its first innovation in 2018 with Structural Encoding, the most advanced solution for UDI Compliance and revision surgery.
- Nvision is a medical device and biologics manufacturer that provides surgeons with implants paired with instrumentation and biologics that simplify and improve spine surgery procedures to help patients get back to their quality of life.
Product Categories
Association/Nonprofit
- Education—Patient and Physician
Biomaterials
- Bone Graft Harvesting
- Bone Graft Matrix
Business to Business
- Business to Business
Fusion
- Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF)
- Fixation
- Lumbar
- Spine Fusion
Implants
- Allografts
- Biomaterials
- Bone Screws
- Cervical Plates
- Interbody Cages
- Interbody Spacers
- Lumbar Plate System
- Pedicle Screws
- Rods
Manufacturing
- Additive Manufacturing Services
- Contract Manufacturers
- Implant Manufacturing
- Instrument Manufacturing
- Rapid Prototyping
Operating Room
- Hand Instruments
Spinal Decompression
- Cervical
- Corpectomy
- Discectomy
- Lumbar
Spine Biologics
- Allografts
- Demineralized Bone Matrix
Stabilizers / Stabilization Equipment
- Anterior Cervical Plating System
- Cervical Fusion Devices
- Lumbar Fusion Devices
Wound Management
- Wound Closure