CardioMind: Big Solutions to Small Problems
Executive Summary
CardioMind is one of a small group of cardiovascular device start-ups who are finding surprising success in drug-eluting stents, a category dominated by big companies, by finding clinical niches that the big companies haven't been able to tap into.
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