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Rebuilding

how care is delivered

Some of the most important moments in healthcare depend on procedures that are still difficult, inconsistent, and unevenly distributed.

Procedural care isn’t rare. It’s everywhere.

Millions of procedures each year depend on skills that take years to learn and vary widely across providers. This dependence can often delay or limit care.

Fixing this single layer of healthcare unlocks the entire system.
Mission

Mendaera builds systems that are designed to scale procedural care for everyone, everywhere.

We combine robotics, real-time imaging, and intelligence to transform how procedures are performed, pushing the frontier of possibility from individual skill to scalable, system-guided execution.
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Our Story

We started with a simple belief:

Care can work better.

What appears simple is often anything but. When a seemingly simple step in a patient’s journey is the gateway to care, reliability isn’t optional; it’s essential.


We saw an opportunity to reimagine these critical moments. By simplifying a single step, we could create a system-wide impact, empowering more clinicians to deliver care with confidence, precision, and consistency.


That belief is what Mendaera is built on.

This isn’t just innovation.

It’s a mission to build a healthcare system that works better—for everyone.

Needle-Based Procedures Annually in the U.S.¹

200

Healthcare Providers²

547

Providers Responsible for ~80% of Procedures ³

10

¹ ² ³ Definitive Healthcare
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Leadership

A team built to build what doesn’t exist

Mendaera brings together a passionate team of leaders with a proven track record in building and successfully launching category-defining technologies for start-ups and established companies.
Together, we’re bringing robotics throughout healthcare—making precision accessible, scalable, and human.
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Josh DeFonzo
Co-founder and CEO
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Jason Wilson
Co-Founder and CTO
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Eric Davidson
Chief Commercial Officer
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Jeffie Kopczynski
General Counsel
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Alexander Hassan
VP, Product
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Ben Greer
VP, Software Engineering
Danielle McDonnell
VP Regulatory, Clinical and Quality Assurance
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Joseph Authement
VP, Sales
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Sabine Stafford
Head of Business Operations

Reimagining
procedural medicine

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What Guides Us

The Mendaera team

Join us in building a future where better care is within reach for everyone.
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investors

Investors that power progress

We’re proudly backed by industry-leading investment firms.
Over $130M raised to date.
Lux capital
Threshold
Threshold Ventures
PFM Health Sciences
PFM Health Sciences
Founders Fund
FOUNDERS FUND
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Averin Capital
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HighlandX
Puma Venture Capital
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