Startup Village Yokneam is not limited to startups and privately owned companies. Many publicly traded companies are headquartered in or have R&D facilities in Yokneam.
Biosense Webster, a Johnson & Johnson company, specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias (abnormal electrical activity in the heart). Biosense Webster (Israel), Ltd. Is the Technology Center for R&D and Manufacturing for systems worldwide.
A global leader in its field, Biosense, Inc. began as a start-up in Haifa, Israel, with Dr. Shlomo Ben-Haim’s development of a 3-D cardiac mapping and navigation technology that provided new levels of insight, precision, and safety in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. At the same time, Webster Laboratories was founded by pioneer inventor Will Webster, whose advanced catheter designs were based on the practical needs and demands of physicians. In 1998, Biosense joined Webster Laboratories to form Biosense Webster.
2012 marked the fifteenth anniversary of the acquisition of Biosense Webster by Johnson & Johnson. Biosense Webster continues to be one of the fastest growing businesses in Johnson & Johnson and, in fact, has grown more than 20-fold since the acquisition. As the world’s leading cardiac electrophysiology company, Biosense Webster currently has more than 2000 employees worldwide, with above $1 billion in annual sales.
The CARTO® 3 System has given electrophysiologists access to 3-D, real-time, color-coded views into the heart’s electrical activity, allowing diagnosis and treat-ment with increasing precision. The ThermoCool® SmartTouch™ Contact Force Sensing Catheter provides electrophysiologists with the ability to sense the amount and force of contact. ThermoCool® SF Catheter with Surround Flow Technology provides uniform cooling during ablation procedures. Biosense Webster has also developed an image integration solution for electrophysiology labs around the world. This solution integrates real-time x-ray images, from Siemens Healthcare, GE Healthcare and Philips Healthcare X-Ray systems, into the CARTO® 3 System.
CMT Medical Technologies was acquired by ThalesGroup and provides advanced digital X-ray imaging systems for medical diagnosis. CMT provides high resolution digital imaging solutions for General Radiography, R&F rooms and Angiography special procedures suites. CMT products available in multiple configurations and as a subsystems for OEMs to incorporate into their own newly manufactured X-ray rooms.
Innovation in Motion
A portfolio of life-changing solutions
Lifeward is the leading source of innovations that support healthcare professionals in delivering life-changing results for people with physical limitation or disability and helping individuals to achieve results they never thought possible.
Our portfolio of proven solutions spans the continuum of care, delivering functional and health benefits in clinical settings as well as in the home and community. Lifeward supports clinicians and patients every step of the way to revolutionize what is possible in rehabilitation, recovery, and the pursuit of life’s passions in the face of physical limitation or disability.
The ReWalk Personal Exoskeleton developed in Yokneam offers patients with spinal cord injuries (SCI) a new level of independence with life-changing robotics. The most widely used personal exoskeleton is now even better—with breakthrough technology for greater control, engagement, , and real-world mobility. Use the ReWalk Personal Exoskeleton as part of a home-based functional ambulation program to elevate the health and quality of life for individuals with spinal cord injury.
Available now and covered by Medicare.
The only personal exoskeleton that enables access to environments with stairs and curbs, increasing opportunities to experience the benefits of walking.
New crutch control for even greater ease of use and faster, easier training.
Proven health benefits, including improved spasticity, trunk control, bowel/bladder function, mental health, and more.
Lumenis is a global leader in the field of minimally-invasive clinical solutions for the Surgical, Ophthalmology and Aesthetic markets. Lumenis is known for its innovative energy-based technologies, including Laser, Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) and Radio-Frequency (RF).
Our products are the building blocks for tomorrow’s networks, enabling the transport of increasing amounts of data across the globe. From the access to the metro core to the long haul, we create intelligent, software-automated solutions that will provide future generations with networks that can scale to meet increasing bandwidth demands.
Arad Metering Technologies develops, manufactures and markets wireless automatic meter reading systems worldwide. It offers fully implemented, comprehensive remote meter reading solutions for walk-by, drive-by, and fix base systems, that require no physical access or visual inspection of meters. The system is so responsive, that utility clients can be alerted to problems such as water loss or pipe breakage, the moment they occur.
Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability.
Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services.
MIND is a leading provider of convergent real-time end-to-end billing and customer care product based solutions as well as call accounting solutions for organizations and large multinational corporates. MIND delivers its applications in any business model (license, managed service or complete outsourced billing service) for Mobile, Wireline, VoIP and Quad-play carriers worldwide.
