San Francisco -- Burrill & Co.,a life sciences merchant bank based in San Francisco, has invested $1 million in Proventys, a North Carolina-based start-up medical technology company, Private Equity Week reported. The company was founded in 2004 by Ralph Snyderman, who previously served as head of the Duke University Health System. Proventys is focused on the field of "prospective health care," which seeks to determine the risk for individuals to develop specific diseases, detect the disease's earliest onset and intervene early enough to provide maximum benefit.
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