Innovation America Innovation America Accelerating the growth of the GLOBAL entrepreneurial innovation economy
Founded by Rich Bendis

Kevin Mendelsohn

Kevin Mendelsohn has the entrepreneurial bug. He was one of the early employees at Athersys, a Cleveland-based biopharmaceutical company that grew from about 15 to more than 100 employees while he was there. Kevin helped the team raise venture capital, develop strategic partnerships with other biotech and pharmaceutical companies, and manage the company’s product portfolio.

Kevin MendelsohnAfter Athersys, Kevin used his experience and knowledge to help promising entrepreneurs accelerate the growth of their companies, serving as a JumpStart Venture Partner. Then Kevin transitioned from a nonprofit advisor to a full-fledged member of a startup team, joining the team at CardioInsight, a young company in which JumpStart has invested. Here’s what he had to say about his time at JumpStart and how CardioInsight, developer of a technology that non-invasively generates real time, 3-D images of the electrical activity of the heart, provided the right opportunity to succumb to the bug once again.

 

To read the full, original article click on this link: JumpStart Connect