Velentium – Design and Manufacturing State-of-the-Art Therapeutic and Diagnostic Active Medical Devices

Continual development and innovation in medical devices is crucial to ensuring quality of life in the UK and across the world. The term 'medical devices' is naturally an extremely broad one, encompassing such items as syringes, wheelchairs, pacemakers, X-ray machines, orthopaedic devices, coronary artery stents and many more. Regardless, there can be little doubt about the medical device industry's great importance in safeguarding the wellbeing of our increasingly health-aware population. It is thanks to medical devices that diseases can be detected earlier and diagnoses, treatment and patient monitoring relentlessly improved. Breakthroughs and refinements in medical device technology have also been crucial for reducing the costs of healthcare at a time when health services around the world - not least the NHS - seem to be under greater financial pressure than ever.

Velentium is a professional engineering firm specializing in end-to-end support for the design and production of therapeutic and diagnostic active medical devices, intelligent products, and automated test systems for the medical, energy, and manufacturing industries. With customers all over the world, the company has experience working with clients of every size and stage, ranging from startups seeking seed funding to established Fortune 100 companies. Velentium transforms IP into safe and secure products that will support healthcare professionals, patients, and communities, and ultimately, change lives for a better world. It is ISO-13485 certified and an FDA-registered Manufacturer of Record.

Why Velentium

Do Right for Right's sake: The company makes decisions based on what’s right and wrong, not based on profit. That means clients are told when something is out of scope before they make any changes. They do everything in their power to treat customers, partners, and suppliers like they would like to be treated.

Efficiency: The Company's staff prides themselves in delighting clients with their work. They always strive to be that service experience where you walk away saying "WOW!" The company isn't interested in doing just one project with a client. They are interested in decades of relationship fueled by Results.

Humble Charisma: There are charismatic people that never stop talking about themselves. There are humble people that never get noticed. Velentium strive for a perfect balance. At the end of an engagement, they hope that clients like their staff for who they are and not just what they have accomplished. They want to get to know them and hope they enjoy getting to know us. After all, businesses are made up of people, and working with others is what they like best!

Protecting Medical Devices with Embedded Security

Recent FDA guidance has magnified the importance of HFE. With HFE, designers can remove ambiguity from the product (formative studies) and developers can ensure the system can be used as intended (summative studies). Velentium utilizes a Secure Development Lifecycle. The company believes the best way to ensure a secure system is to weave security throughout the entire development process (similar to risk management per ISO 14971 and harmonized with IEC 62304). Its team members have been developing test systems for medical devices for over 25 years. The test systems are used in system characterization, design verification, manufacturing test, and returned product analysis. Often, the same equipment and software can be used throughout the testing lifecycle - allowing savings and certainty of the test method.

It is the intersection of technologies that often causes projects to fall behind or never work. With Velentium, you can be assured that the electronics, firmware, application software, and cloud components work seamlessly together.

Dan Purvis | CEO

A serial entrepreneur and the founder of six companies, Dan Purvis has deep experience with small business. The theme throughout his professional and nonprofit endeavors has been an intense love for people, which led Dan to become a student of culture. He has 25 years of practical know-how in creating corporate environments that people want to work in and clients want to engage. Dan and his wife Julie have three sons and one daughter. In his spare time, he enjoys skiing, soccer, reading, and any contest where there is a winner and a loser. He graduated with University Honors in Electrical Engineering and an Undergraduate Fellowship from Texas A&M, which he followed up by becoming a Jones Scholar at Rice University’s Jones School of Business. His career began at National Instruments in the upper Midwest, but after returning to his hometown of Houston, he began building a division for his new employer. As that became successful over the next 15 years, Dan realized a knack for starting up new companies, which he would run in his spare time. After his 3rd successful sale, he promised himself that the next one would take over his career, full-time. That fourth company was Velentium. He has always been passionate about people, realizing over the years that if you seek profit first, hard-code company culture into bloodless HR policies and poster-style slogans, and then try to shoehorn in customer care, you’ll reap dysfunction.  

"We build longstanding relationships that meld the professional with the personal. It allows all of us – staff, partners, clients, and executives – to be fully human in our work, to let loose and productively channel our whole passion to change lives for a better world!”