aid: atheromed
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/atheromed.png
name: AtheroMed
description: >-
  AtheroMed, Inc. was a privately-held medical device company based in Menlo Park, California,
  founded to treat peripheral artery disease (PAD). Its sole product was the Phoenix Atherectomy
  System, an over-the-wire, low-profile atherectomy catheter that uses a rotating front-cutting
  element at the distal tip to shave diseased material directly into the catheter, where an
  internal Archimedes screw continuously captures and removes the debulked material without
  requiring specialized capital equipment. The Phoenix system received FDA 510(k) clearance in
  January 2014 and CE Mark approval in Europe. AtheroMed was venture-backed by Canaan Partners
  and U.S. Venture Partners, and was acquired by Volcano Corporation in June 2014 for $115
  million upfront plus milestone payments; Volcano was in turn acquired by Royal Philips in
  February 2015. AtheroMed no longer operates as an independent company, its atheromed.com
  domain is parked and listed for sale, and it has no developer program, public API, or
  machine-readable API artifacts of any kind. The Phoenix catheter is now sold as a Philips
  Volcano product.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/atheromed/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- canaan-partners
- us-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: Volcano Corporation
x-acquired-date: '2014-06-17'
x-acquired-amount: USD 115000000
x-successor-parent: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
x-headquarters: Menlo Park, California, United States
x-industry: Medical Devices
x-api-surface: none
x-api-surface-note: >-
  Verified 2026-07-19. atheromed.com resolves to NameBright parking nameservers and redirects
  (HTTP 200) to hugedomains.com — the domain is for sale. No developer portal, documentation,
  API reference, OpenAPI/AsyncAPI spec, SDK, package, CLI, MCP server, webhook surface,
  security.txt, or trust center exists for this company. No artifacts were fabricated.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Medical Devices
- Health Care
- Cardiovascular
- Peripheral Artery Disease
- Atherectomy
- Medical Technology
- Acquired
- Defunct
apis: []
common: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1