Karen Spilizewski

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About Investor

Karen Spilizewski is a Managing Director at RiverVest Venture Partners, a life sciences venture capital firm based in Cleveland, Ohio, promoted from Vice President in 2023. She focuses on identifying early-stage medical device technologies, conducting due diligence, and supporting portfolio company CEOs to accelerate their products through development and into the marketplace. She invests primarily in medical device and biotech companies at the seed and Series A stages, with investment amounts typically between $100K and $5.0M. She serves on the board of VentureMed Group and is a former director of Securus Medical Group (acquired by Boston Scientific) and Standard Bariatrics (acquired by Teleflex), as well as a former board observer at Neuros Medical. She previously spent time as a Vice President of BioEnterprise Corporation in Cleveland, directing business development for medical device and equipment companies, and earlier gained 19 years of medical device industry experience at Avery Dennison Corporation.