# Venostent

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/venostent/  
**Website:** https://venostent.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

VenoStent is a clinical-stage medical device company based in Houston, Texas, developing SelfWrap, a bioabsorbable perivascular wrap designed to reduce arteriovenous (AV) access-site failures in chronic kidney disease patients requiring hemodialysis. The company combines biomedical engineering, materials science, and medical 3D printing to improve the maturation and durability of dialysis access, where an estimated 50-60% of access sites fail within the first year. SelfWrap holds FDA Breakthrough Device Designation (2022) and is being evaluated in a 200-subject US clinical trial. VenoStent is backed by Norwest Venture Partners, IAG Capital, and Y Combinator, with additional support from the NSF and NIH. This is a medical device / healthcare company with no public API or developer surface; profiled in the API Evangelist network for portfolio and market context.

## Kin Score — 4.7 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 4.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 7.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Venostent Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Tags

Company, Medical Devices, MedTech, Healthcare, Dialysis, Vascular Access, Nephrology, Bioabsorbable Implants

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/venostent/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.