Amir Belson, MD, is a serial entrepreneur who has thus far founded nine companies, including NeoGuide Systems (Los Gatos, California), a company that developed platform technology for minimally invasive surgical procedures and was acquired by Intuitive Surgical (Sunnyvale, California) in 2009. His latest start-up firm is Zipline Medical (also Los Gatos), which is developing a technology platform designed to facilitate noninvasive surgical skin closure with suture-like outcomes at the speed of staples.