Phoenix DeVentures

About Us

Phoenix DeVentures is an ISO 13485 Medical Device Development and Manufacturing firm located in the southern Silicon Valley.

We provide contract manufacturing, engineering design and development, injection molded components, custom tooling, and machining services for finished medical devices.

Our talented team has developed medical products ranging from surgical instruments to heart implants, as well as many other life saving and life improving technologies.

How We Got Started

Our founder and CEO, Jeff Christian, has been in the medical products field since 1981. As an engineer and engineering manager, Jeff helped several medical start up companies in the Bay Area succeed. In 2000 Jeff decided to make a life style career change, founding Phoenix DeVentures with the intent of working independently to help start up companies develop new medical technologies. After 5+ years working out of a home office and shop, Jeff left the comfort of the work/lifestyle to allow for the inevitable growth he had avoided. Today, Phoenix DeVentures has 60+ employees in 40,000 square feet of development and manufacturing space. With over 78 patents to their credit, the engineering team has proven resourceful at solving problems, resulting in many new medical products that improve or save lives of patients.

The products and services we offer

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"Phoenix DeVentures is quitre skilled with medical device design, development, and molding. The..." Read more "Phoenix DeVentures is quitre skilled with medical device design, development, and molding. The turn around time is excellent for rapid prototyping components and making molds which suits them well for development stage companies."

"Though we have not worked directly with Phoenix DeVentures, we have heard really good things..." Read more "Though we have not worked directly with Phoenix DeVentures, we have heard really good things about them and we share a lot of common values."

"Excellent work and quick turnarounds! "

Highly Recommended

"Knowledgeable and experienced resource for Quality and Regulatory consulting needs."

Recent Activity

Ryan from Phoenix DeVentures Answered this on December 04, 2018

We send so much offshores, really for one reason. Cost. This cost reduction is in many cases an illusion, and for a few different reasons. One reason is quality. If you have to throw 50 percent of your product away when it comes through the door for quality reasons, and spent enormous cost... (more) We send so much offshores, really for one reason. Cost. This cost reduction is in many cases an illusion, and for a few different reasons. One reason is quality. If you have to throw 50 percent of your product away when it comes through the door for quality reasons, and spent enormous cost for QA technicians and engineers to sort out the bad ones, then you really haven't saved anything. Other factors are the cost of sending a QA team to an overseas vendor in order to audit their systems and facility. I have yet to see a company factor in the cost of sending an expensive team of people for a week to a factory in China. Another factor is protection of intellectual property. Some of our customers have reported seeing their designs being sold before their first tools are even built and finished. Their oversees vendor had built two sets of tools with their designs, and was molding and selling parts before they had finished the tool for them. In the end, it comes down to educating the customer as to some of the things they may see using an overseas vendor. Helping them understand these things can help them to make more wise decisions to start, saving time and money in the long run.

Ryan from Phoenix DeVentures Answered this on October 05, 2018

You work morning, noon, nights, sometimes all-nighters. You take jobs you are not really sure you can handle. You are janitor, account manager, machinist, customer service rep,engineer, and many more all at the same time. You will sometimes go without a paycheck to ensure that your staff get... (more) You work morning, noon, nights, sometimes all-nighters. You take jobs you are not really sure you can handle. You are janitor, account manager, machinist, customer service rep,engineer, and many more all at the same time. You will sometimes go without a paycheck to ensure that your staff get their paychecks. And after all this, the market will tell you if you there is a place for you and your service or product. You may end up being a totally different company from what you originally started as, because people may not want what you have to sell, but along the way you may discover or develop something they do want. I recommend reading from "Good to Great", that book can help to transform from the startup phase to a more established company.

Ryan from Phoenix DeVentures Answered this on October 27, 2017

Many Customers don't compare apples to apples In my line of work (injection molding and medical devices) there are many who offer cheaper prices, and or faster turn around times. But the customer often doesn't take into account the fact that they may not offer certs and tracibility for the... (more) Many Customers don't compare apples to apples In my line of work (injection molding and medical devices) there are many who offer cheaper prices, and or faster turn around times. But the customer often doesn't take into account the fact that they may not offer certs and tracibility for the parts, or some of the cheaper vendors may produce an inferior product. We have had many customers return to us when cheaper vendors made bad product for them. In the end, when a customer is perpetually pushing for lower cost than what we can achieve, they are customers that want large profit margins for themselves, but not for others who help them to get there. These customers I have learned to give a no-quote to.