# Varian

> Varian is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Health Care and Medical. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Apr 2021
- Lead investor: 53%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/varian-medical-systems
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/VarianMedSys
- Website: http://www.varian.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VarianMedicalSystems

Varian is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Health Care and Medical. Varian Medical Systems, headquartered globally in Palo Alto, California, is the world's leading manufacturer of medical devices and software for treating cancer and other medical conditions with radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy, and brachytherapy. The company supplies informatics software for managing comprehensive cancer clinics,radiotherapy centers and medical oncology practices. Varian is a premier supplier of tubes and digital detectors for X-ray imaging in medical, scientific, and industrial applications and also supplies X-ray imaging products for cargo screening and industrial inspection.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 7 | 47% |
| Medical | 6 | 40% |
| Medical Device | 6 | 40% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 20% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 13% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 33% |
| Series C | 3 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 47% |
| Canada | 2 | 13% |
| Israel | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Moga | Director, Strategic Alliances | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-moga |
| Darin Bartik | Director, Marketing & Strategy, Medical Oncology Software | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darin-bartik |
| Dow Wilson | President and Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dow-wilson |
| Kolleen Kennedy | President, Proton Solutions and Chief Growth Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kolleen-kennedy |
| Rafael Torres | Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategy | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rafael-torres |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lucata Corporation | Lucata leverages patented migrating thread technology to massively scale unified memory and conduct high performance, multi-hop analytics, including exhaustive breadth-first search (BFS), on unpruned and unsharded databases with 1 trillion vertices and beyond. Organizations can now use their existing graph database software or custom graphsolutions to analyze deeper connections on much larger graphs than ever before possible. Lucata solutions support groundbreaking graph analytics and improved machine learning and AI for organizations in financial services, cybersecurity, blockchain, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, ecommerce, government and more. The company has offices in Palo Alto, New York City, and South Bend, Ind. For more information, visit www.Lucata.com. Key technical claims: 1. Data doesn’t move, processing context moves to the data in a global unified address space. 2. Latency of both network and memory access are hidden due to the migrating threads and multithreaded Lucata cores. 3. Energy efficient high density memory architecture. 4. Drastic reduction in OS intervention. 5. Architecture doesn't rely on data locality for optimal performance. 6. Linear performance growth with hardware scale up to 64,000 nodes. 7. Single shared address space up to 18 Exabytes. | $11.9M | Series B | Apr 22, 2021 |  |
| Bendit | Bendit is a medical company that develops and manufactures innovative catheters based on a unique bending technology, enabling extensive steering abilities in micro diameter and conventional catheter wires and tubes. The company is a joint venture between three experienced groups from production, quality & regulation, and development in themedical field. |  | Series B | Mar 25, 2021 |  |
| Bendit | Bendit is a medical company that develops and manufactures innovative catheters based on a unique bending technology, enabling extensive steering abilities in micro diameter and conventional catheter wires and tubes. The company is a joint venture between three experienced groups from production, quality & regulation, and development in themedical field. |  | Series B | Mar 25, 2021 |  |
| COTA Healthcare | COTA was founded in 2011 by doctors, engineers, and data scientists to create clarity from fragmented and often-inaccessible real world data. By using proprietary technology, advanced analytics and deep expertise to organize complex data, COTA provides a comprehensive picture of cancer that can be used to advance care and research. | $10M | Debt Financing | Nov 10, 2020 |  |
| HistoSonics | HistoSonics provides the Edison Platform, which uses advanced imaging and proprietary sensing technology to deliver non-invasive, personalized treatments with precision and control, and uses the science of histotripsy and focused sound energy to generate pressures to liquify and completely destroy targeted tissues at sub-cellular levels. | $40M | Series C | Jun 08, 2020 |  |
| Arterys | Arterys is the market leader and the world's first internet platform for medical imaging. Its objective is to transform healthcare by transforming radiology. The Arterys platform is 100% web-based, AI-powered, and FDA-cleared, unlocking simple clinical solutions. | $28M | Series C | May 29, 2020 |  |
| Zap Surgical Systems | ZAP Surgical Systems, Inc. designs and manufactures the ZAP-X® radiosurgery platform. ZAP-X incorporates a unique self-shielded design that typically eliminates the need for traditional radiation vaults, and thus enables simple point-of-care delivery in locations previously unfeasible or cost-prohibitive, including physician offices, ambulatorysurgery centers, and satellite facilities. | $81M | Private Equity | Jan 08, 2020 |  |
| Zap Surgical Systems | ZAP Surgical Systems, Inc. designs and manufactures the ZAP-X® radiosurgery platform. ZAP-X incorporates a unique self-shielded design that typically eliminates the need for traditional radiation vaults, and thus enables simple point-of-care delivery in locations previously unfeasible or cost-prohibitive, including physician offices, ambulatorysurgery centers, and satellite facilities. | $81M |  | Jan 08, 2020 |  |
| Oncora Medical | Oncora Medical is a digital health company integrating big data and machine learning into radiation oncology. Founded in 2014, Oncora's intuitive software platform allows for better collection and application of real world data for all healthcare related decisions, for the benefit of the patient. | $3M | Corporate Round | Sep 15, 2019 |  |
| HistoSonics | HistoSonics provides the Edison Platform, which uses advanced imaging and proprietary sensing technology to deliver non-invasive, personalized treatments with precision and control, and uses the science of histotripsy and focused sound energy to generate pressures to liquify and completely destroy targeted tissues at sub-cellular levels. | $54.7M | Series C | Apr 08, 2019 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Adams Street Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adams-street-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chow Tai Fook](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chow-tai-fook) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Emergent Medical Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emergent-medical-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Foxconn Technology Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foxconn-technology-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Genesys Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesys-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GT Healthcare Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gt-healthcare-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Varian invest in?

Varian invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Medical Device startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Varian?

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### Who are the partners at Varian?

The team at Varian includes Ben Moga (Director, Strategic Alliances), Darin Bartik (Director, Marketing & Strategy, Medical Oncology Software) and Dow Wilson (President and Chief Executive Officer), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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