Pioneering medical device firm heads for clinical trials

Olive O’Driscoll, chief executive, with the company's chief technology officer, John Vaughan. Picture: Conor McCabe

AventaMed

What it does: Start-up medical device company focused on simplifying surgical procedures to reduce healthcare costs and improve patient safety

Why it works:“We see AventaMed as a global opportunity and the V-tube is the first of many products. Once it goes into clinical trial, we’ll have more time to go back and to develop the other pipeline ideas that we have plenty of.”- Olive O’Driscoll, chief executive