Mark Deem

Mark has been an operating partner of Lightstone Ventures since 2013, where he advises the medical device team with deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio company management. Mark is also a co-founder of The Foundry, LLC, the premier medical device company incubator that has founded and financed over twenty new medical device companies. Prior to that role, Mark served as a co-founder and consulting director of research and development for Ventrica, Inc. Previously, Mark was a senior member of the research and development team at Medtronic Micro Interventional Systems. He has spent over thirty years in the design, testing, and manufacture of medical devices. Mark also serves in governance or advisory roles for several other medical device innovators, including as chairman for FIRE1, as a director for Half Moon Medical, and as a board observer for Nuvaira and Shoulder Innovations. Mark holds a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Boston University.