The longtime vice president of venture capital at Medtronic (NYSE: MDT), David Neustaedter, has left his role to go to a private investment firm.
Neustaedter spent seven years at Medtronic and another seven as director of venture capital at Covidien, the Irish med-tech company that Medtronic bought in 2015. That was the deal that shifted Medtronic's headquarters to Dublin, though its executive offices remained in Fridley, Minn. (Neustaedter himself was based in Boston, according to his LinkedIn…