A longtime established firm (1998), The Foundry has established a facility and an environment where provocative and innovative ideas can thrive. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, the firm's turnkey facility is optimally equipped for successful development: office space, R&D lab, wet lab, chemistry development facility, machine shop and clean room. Since starting operations, the approach has been has to apply an holistic process to identify big, unmet clinical needs and to build companies around innovative technologies that address them. Through the years, invoving many physician collaborators, combining their clinical insights with the firm's resources, experience, and talent, the effort is to work together to take novel technologies from bench to bedside, from concept to market.