KIC Ventures is a physician-founded private equity healthtech firm building one of the world’s most differentiated portfolios of majority-owned spine technology companies. Since 2000, we have pioneered Less Exposure Spine Surgery (LESS™) and the REP™ philosophy (Restore Function • Early Treatment • Preserve Anatomy) to help shift spine care from rigid fusion toward motion-preserving outpatient procedures.

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Building on this legacy, we are advancing a new specialty: Interventional Spine Surgery. By combining the precision of minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) with the percutaneous approach of interventional pain management, we are helping establish a new standard of care—designed to reduce surgical exposure, shorten recovery, and improve the outpatient patient experience worldwide.

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Our Value Creation Strategy

KIC Ventures builds value through a long-term, hands-on approach over a 5–10 year horizon. We acquire, incubate, and scale physician-led technology companies—engineering durable businesses designed for real clinical impact, repeatable adoption, and long-term investor growth.

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Our Story: From Harvard to Global Spine Innovation

In 2000, orthopedic spine surgeon Dr. Kingsley R. Chin filed his first spine patent while training at Harvard Medical School. In 2005, he sold the MANTIS™  percutaneous screw system to Stryker—validating a vision to build a physician-led private equity platform capable of identifying trends early and driving the next era of spine innovation.

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Since then, millions of dollars have been invested by physicians alongside KIC Ventures, and many of our solutions have been developed in direct collaboration with surgeons—ensuring practical adoption, repeatable execution, and real-world clinical value.

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Today, KIC Ventures operates a growing portfolio of revenue-generating spine technology companies, including:

• AxioMed — viscoelastic disc replacement technologies

• NanoFuse Biologics — FDA-cleared synthetic bone graft solutions

• NANISX — the broadest portfolio of best-in-class technology solutions for outpatient interventional spine surgery

Through NANISX, we are building a bridge across the spine care continuum—connecting interventional pain management physicians and spine surgeons through standardized training, real-world execution in the ASC setting, and outcomes supported by peer-reviewed publications and leading spine societies.

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Our Vision: Vertical Integration to Empower Physicians

We believe the future of spine care will be built through vertical integration—similar to how Kaiser Permanente was founded by a surgeon with a vision to redesign care delivery.

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KIC Ventures is building a vertically integrated platform designed to empower physicians through:

• MedTech: LESS™ surgical technologies built for outpatient scalability

• TechMed: software and connected solutions, including MediConnects and the AxioMedX Smart Disc

• Services: the LESS Institute and LESS clinics focused on standardized training and execution

• Community: the LESS Society as a foundation for education, adoption, and physician leadership

 

This integrated model strengthens outcomes, accelerates innovation, and expands access—while keeping physicians at the center of the future of spine care.

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Leadership & Physician Partnerships

KIC Ventures is built on surgeon-led innovation and physician-driven adoption. We partner with physicians not only as users of technology, but as leaders in clinical strategy, education, research, and market development—helping scale LESS™ solutions responsibly while improving patient outcomes worldwide.

The mission is clear. The work is hard. And we are building the future of outpatient spine care.