Velentium – One-stop shop for end-to-end medical device design and development

The Silicon Review

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, orthopedic 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 one such professional engineering firm specializing in the design and manufacturing of therapeutic and diagnostic active medical devices. They exist to transform your IP into a safe and secure product that will change lives for a better world. CGMP production with design and development SMEs in arms' reach at all times. They are ISO 13485 certified and FDA-registered, able to work as a contract manufacturer or as the manufacturer of record, depending on your needs. From prototypes and pilot builds to main production, Velentium is ready to build for you.

Why Velentium

Honorable: They make 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.

Results: It isn't enough to be average. It isn't enough to only "do the job". Their staff prides themselves in delighting clients with their work. They always strive to be that service experience where you walk away saying "WOW!" They aren'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. They 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!

28 Days to save the World

In 2020, engineering firm Velentium faced an unprecedented ask: partner with a small medical device company and a very large vehicle manufacturer to increase emergency ventilator production from hundreds per month to thousands per week—in just 28 days. Serving on the frontlines of pandemic response is enough pressure to cause any size business to buckle, but the small firm thrived and even doubled in size to complete their manufacturing scale-up known as Project V: seven months of work in six weeks.

Velentium’s cofounder Dan Purvis attributes their extraordinary success to their decade-in-the-making company culture, which buoyed them in the face of an unforeseeable crisis. In 28 Days to Save the World, he lays out how to harness the power of organizational culture to prepare your small business to weather any challenges ahead. Every quarter, more than 30 million small-business entrepreneurs face innumerable familiar crises—of management, strategic direction, cashflow and credit, staff, and customers—that can spell their doom. Drawing from his twenty-five years of experience as a small-business leader, and with gripping stories from Project V, Purvis reveals crisis-tested methods for turning challenges into opportunities.

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.