Danny Sachs, MD

Danny is a physician entrepreneur. He co-founded or founded several device companies that have attracted venture capital funding, including Respicardia, Amphora, Mainstay Medical, and Kspine. Mainstay completed its IPO on the NYSE Euronext Exchange in 2014. He serves as Associate Director of Entrepreneurship in Medicine for the Innovation Fellows Program at The University of Minnesota Medical Devices Center. Danny was previously a venture capital investor with Investor Growth Capital and Spray Venture Partners, and served as a director on the boards of ten health care companies. He was an Instructor in Medicine in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He earned BA and MD degrees from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.