Bill Niland

Bill Niland is a serial healthcare entrepreneur who has founded and successfully exited four different companies in the healthcare space. Most recently, Mr. Niland co-founded Harpoon Medical, Inc. Harpoon was sold to Edwards Lifesciences for $250M ($100M upfront with $150M in potential milestones) in less than 5 years with only $6.5M of dilutive funding, generating an IRR >100% for investors. Prior to Harpoon, Mr. Niland founded Vapotherm to commercialize respiratory therapy technology he invented. Vapotherm has treated over 1.5M patients, went public in 2018 (NYSE:VAPO) and was recently trading with a market cap >$1B due to the technology’s important role in keeping COVID-19 patients off a ventilator. Mr. Niland also started a sleep diagnostic company in the early 90’s and grew the largest sleep testing company in the U.S. before selling it to Vital Signs. He holds 22 patents, is an angel investor and sits on multiple medical device company boards.