Monteris is a private equity backed neurosurgical company focused solely on diseases of the brain. The company was founded in Winnipeg, Canada in 1999 to create neurosurgical technology that, when used by neurosurgeons, would allow them to ablate brain tumors and lesions that may be difficult to approach via traditional methods. The NeuroBlate System is a minimally invasive robotically controlled laser thermal therapy that uses MRI-guided laser light to ablate (destroy) unwanted tissue in the brain where a lesion, or abnormal tissue, originates. Monteris has offices in Minnetonka, Minnesota, USA and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.