Our criteria include:

1.            Medical or healthcare technologies (excluding pharmaceuticals) thatimprove patient safety, outcomes and satisfaction, while reducing costs, inlarge markets.

2.           Strong management or founders who recognize the key role that veteranmanagement talent will deliver.

3.           A straightforward regulatory approval path that appears likely to beachieved in a reasonable timeframe, without major reimbursement obstacles.

4.           Entrepreneurs who build their business plans, including funding plansthat make sense, based on model companies that succeeded in selling comparableproducts to the same purchasers, particularly where model-company managementtransfer is possible or already underway.

5.            Technologies andsolutions that are relentlessly refined to suit clinician and provider need,based on extensive and ongoing independent input.