Humanizing
innovation

Pushing the boundaries of innovation while keeping humanity at the core. By combining cutting-edge technology with intuitive design, we create solutions that empower healthcare providers and enhance patient experiences—making innovation feel natural, seamless, and truly impactful.

Founded by Josh DeFonzo and Jason Wilson, our team of engineers, clinicians, and operators is united by a single mission:

To elevate percutaneous procedures—and empower thosewho perform them.

This is more than innovation. It’s our commitment to buildinga healthcare system that works better for everyone.

OUR STORY

We started with a simple belief: Care can work better.

Mendaera was founded to change how care is delivered—starting with one of the most common, yet overlooked procedures in medicine.

Just because a step is simple, doesn’t mean it’s easy. And when that step is the gateway to care, making it more reliable matters.‍

If we could simplifying this one step, we knew we could unlock impact system-wide: helping more clinicians perform with confidence, precision, and consistency.

That belief brought us together—a team of engineers, clinicians, and designers driven by a shared purpose.

This isn’t just innovation. It’s a mission to build a healthcare system that works better—for everyone.

Needle-based procedures
performed annually in the U.S.

20M+

Percent of providers
handling most

TOTAL FUNDING

$100M

leadership

A team built to build what doesn’t exist

Founded by Josh DeFonzo and Jason Wilson, Mendaera brings together a passionate team of engineers, clinicians, and operators with a proven track record in building category-defining technologies—who power the mission every day.

Together, we’re working to bring robotics to the frontlines of care—and make precision more accessible, scalable, and human.

Join Our Team

Josh DeFonzo

Co-founder and CEO

Jason Wilson

Co-Founder and CTO

JT Martinez

VP, Operations and Customer Success

Eric Davidson

Chief Commercial Officer

Joseph Authement

Vice President Sales, Robotics Platform

Alexander Hassan

Head of Product

Danielle McDonnell

Head of Regulatory

Ben Greer

Head of Software

Reimagining the most common procedure in medicine

Needle-based procedures are everywhere. Our platform is built to make them more consistent, accessible, and human.

what guides us

Built for how care really happens

We build robotics for the pace and pressure of real clinical life—where care is fast, human, and unpredictable.

Our mission is to simplify procedural access and expand who can deliver it, with technology that supports, not replaces, expertise.

At our core is a culture of empathy, rigor and purpose – rooted in people, not sure platforms.

investors

Investors that power progress

We’re proudly backed by industry-leading investment firms.

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Lux capital

Threshold Ventures

PFM Health Sciences

Founder Fund

Operator partners

Puma Venture Capital

Precision that feels like magic

Be among the first to experience a breakthrough that’s redefining procedural access.

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Indications for Use: The system provides guidance for precise instrument placement of common interventional devices by positioning the device relative to the ultrasound transducer and the resulting image during a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure. This guidance system is intended for use with pediatric and adult patients.

Caution: Federal law restricts this device to sale by or on the order of a physician