Sonendo® chosen as finalist for Red Herring North America Top 100 Award

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., June 12, 2017 -- Sonendo^®, Inc., has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 North America award, one of the technology industry's most prestigious lists honoring the year’s most promising top private cutting-edge companies and technologies across North America.

Top 100

Since 1996, technology industry executives, investors, and strategists have valued the Red Herring 100 as an instrument for discovering and advocating the most promising private ventures.

Finalists are evaluated individually from a large pool of hundreds of candidates from across North America and are ultimately chosen based on twenty major criteria, including the company’s technological advantage, branding, investor record, customer acquisition, CEO, and team track record.

This year’s list of finalists includes some of the best-performing and most prominent companies of 2017. President and CEO of Sonendo, Bjarne Bergheim, stated, “Being named as a finalist, among so many innovative and disruptive companies for the prestigious Red Herring Award is an honor. Sonendo remains committed to our mission of Saving Teeth Through Sound Science^® and transforming care for dentists and patients alike.”

Finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring Top 100 North America conference in Los Angeles, June 12-14, 2017. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony on the evening of June 14 at the event.

About Sonendo
Sonendo, Inc. is a privately-held, venture-backed company developing innovative and disruptive technologies to transform dentistry by Saving Teeth Through Sound Science^®.  The first commercially available product from Sonendo, the GentleWave^® System, available in the US, shows significant improvements in clinical efficacy, and treatment efficiency when compared to standard root canal techniques^1-2.  For more information, please visit www.sonendo.com.

¹Sigurdsson A et al. (2016) J Endod. 42:1040-48. ²Molina B et al. (2015) J Endod. 41:1701-05.

Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements based on management's beliefs, assumptions, and expectations and information currently available to management.  All statements that address events or developments that we expect or anticipate will occur in the future are forward-looking statements, including without limitation our expectations on the timing and progress of research and development activities.  Management believes that these forward-looking statements are reasonable as and when made.  However, you should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements because they speak only as of the date when made.  Sonendo does not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements publicly, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.  Actual results, developments or events could differ materially from those disclosed in the forward-looking statements.

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