A health-technology company that grew out a fourth-year design project at Waterloo Engineering continues to gain traction after earning a key approval from Health Canda this fall.
Vena Medical was launched at Velocity, the flagship startup incubator at the University of Waterloo, after classmates Michael Phillips and Phillip Cooper (both BASc ’18, mechanical engineering) won early commercialization funding through entrepreneurship programs.
In the wake of their latest milestone – licensing for the first device in the world to provide surgeons with full-colour, real-time imaging inside neurovascular, coronary and peripheral vessels – Phillips spoke to Velocity about the company’s progress and plans for the future.
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