Hank Plain is a founding partner at Lightstone Ventures who spent 12 years at Eli Lilly before becoming CEO of Perclose and leading it through both IPO and sale to Abbott, then co-founded eight medical device companies with The Foundry incubator before moving into venture investing. He focuses specifically on medical devices and drug-like device opportunities while serving on boards ranging from medtech companies to ZeaKal (an agricultural technology company) and chairing the Board of Trustees of the Naval Postgraduate School Foundation.
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Lightstone Ventures is a life-science specialist fund that operates as an offshoot of three established US venture firms and medtech incubators, with partners who are former CEOs and founders of biotech and medtech companies rather than traditional financiers. The firm runs integrated company formation infrastructure through partnerships with multiple incubators and accelerators, achieving materially higher exit rates than comparable funds while building platform companies that spin out assets to major pharma buyers.
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