MedTech Startup Roundup – Vol.1 No.16

The news you need on MedTech startups

Dan’s Picks

Proscia: AI, Diagnostic, Precision Medicine, Pathology – Philadelphia, PA

Proscia Unveils Aperture, Making the Moment of Diagnosis the Gateway to Life-Saving Treatments for More Patients

SS Innovations: Robotics, Telesurgery, Cardiac Surgery, Bariatric Surgery – Gurugram, India

SS Innovations Announces Successful Completion of First Robotic Telesurgery Performed from the Company’s MantraM Mobile Robotic Telesurgery Unit

Product Launches

Medit: Orthodontic, Digital, Intraoral Scanners, Aligners – Newport Beach, CA

Medit Expands Orthodontic Suite with Launch of Medit Aligners: Premium Comfort, Precision, and Speed for Modern Orthodontics

Proscia: AI, Diagnostic, Precision Medicine, Pathology – Philadelphia, PA

Proscia Unveils Aperture, Making the Moment of Diagnosis the Gateway to Life-Saving Treatments for More Patients

Calyxo Health: Procedural Device, Endourology, Stone Removal – Pleasanton, CA

Calyxo Debuts Reverse Deflection CVAC System and Reveals Groundbreaking Two-Year ASPIRE Data at WCET 2025, Underscoring the Technology’s Role in Advancing Endourology

Pearl: AI, Imaging, Dental – West Hollywood, CA

Pearl Launches Imagecheck Real-Time Dental X-ray Quality Assurance AI Platform

Olleyes: VR, Eye Exam, Hearing Exam, Ophthalmology, Optometry – Summit, NJ

Olleyes Launches HearALL™: VR Hearing-Care for Eye-Care Practices

M&A

Acquisition
icometrix: AI, Imaging, Brain, Neurology – Leuven, Belgium
GE Healthcare: Capital Equipment – Chicago, IL

GE HealthCare announces intent to acquire icometrix to strengthen neurology portfolio with brain MRI assessment solutions

The Cs

Adagio Medical: Ablation, Ultra Low Temperature Cryoablation, Cardiology – Laguna Hills, CA

Deborah Kaster – CFO (Promotion)

Adagio Medical Expands Chief Business Officer Deborah Kaster’s Role to Include Chief Financial Officer Responsibilities

MY01: Diagnostic, POC, Limb Perfusion Post-Trauma – Montreal, QC

Joe Kiani – Board Member (Joining)

MY01 Welcomes Joe Kiani as Investor and Board Member to Accelerate Innovation in Connected Patient Monitoring

Kipu Health: Soft/SaaS, Mental Health, CRM, RCM, EMR – Coral Gables, FL

Josh Boyer – CFO (Joining)

Kipu Health Announces Appointment of Josh Boyer as Chief Financial Officer

Butterfly Network: Imaging, Ultrasound, POC – Burlington, MA

Victor Ku – CTO (Joining)

Butterfly Network Appoints Victor Ku as Chief Technology Officer

Cosán Group: AI, Virtual Medicine – Cleveland, OH

Susan Gilmartin – President and COO (Joining)

Cosán Group Appoints Susan Gilmartin as President and Chief Operating Officer and Paul Bockmore as Executive Vice President of Sales

Arthrolense : ML, Surgical Visualization, Orthopedic Surgery – Toronto, ON

Oren Gelman – President and CEO (Joining)

Arthrolense Appoints Veteran MedTech Leader Oren Gelman as CEO to Advance the Next Era in Machine Vision Surgical Guidance

Board Members

Newronika: Neuromodulation, DBS, Parkinson’s – Milan, Italy

Keith Carlton – Executive Chairman (Joining)

Newronika Appoints Keith Carlton as Executive Chairman to Reinforce Strategic Leadership

Funding

Madison Scientific : Implant, Shunt, Hydrocephalus, Neurology, Neurosurgery – Chicago, IL

MadSci Announces $10 Million Oversubscribed Seed Financing to Advance Smart Technology for Neurologic Conditions

Lucid Diagnostics: Diagnostic Test, DNA, Oncology, Esophageal – New York, NY

Lucid Diagnostics Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock

Optain Health: AI, Diagnostic, Telemedicine, Ophthalmology – New York, NY

Optain Health Closes $26 Million Series A to Bring Oculomics to Primary Care and Beyond

Lōvu Health: AI, Digital Medicine, Maternal & Infant Care – Cupertino, CA

Lōvu Health Secures $8 Million Series A Funding to Expand AI-Powered Maternal Healthcare Platform

Waystar: AI, Soft/SaaS, RCM – Louisville, KY

Waystar Announces Pricing of Secondary Offering of Common Stock

Lucid Diagnostics: Diagnostic Test, DNA, Esophageal Cancer – New York, NY

Lucid Diagnostics Announces Closing of Public Offering of Common Stock

Regulatory

Approval
Microbot Medical: Robotics, Endovascular – Caesarea, Israel

Microbot Medical® Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Its LIBERTY® Endovascular Robotic System

IND
eGenesis: Implant, Xenotransplant, Renal – Cambridge, MA

eGenesis Announces IND Clearance for EGEN-2784 in Kidney Transplant and Landmark Patient Updates in Ongoing Expanded Access Study

Approval
Neurescue: Cardiac Resuscitation, Non-Shockable – Copenhagen, Denmark

NEURESCUE Device Secures Historic CE Mark Approval for Non‑Shockable Cardiac Arrest Treatment

Approval
inTRAvent: Capital Equip, Brain Navigation, Bedside, POC – Hershey, PA

inTRAvent Medical Secures FDA Clearance for Next-Gen SOLOPASS® 2.0 Navigation System

Approval
Tempus AI: AI, Soft/Saas, Diagnostic, Cardiology, Clinical Assistant – Chicago, IL

Tempus Receives U.S. FDA Special 510(k) Clearance for Updated Tempus Pixel Device

Approval
Centinel Spine: Implant, Spine, Spine Surgery – West Chester, PA

Centinel Spine® Receives MDR Certification for prodisc® C Vivo and prodisc® C Nova Cervical Total Disc Replacement Systems

Approval
Naitive Technologies: AI, Soft/SaaS, Image Analysis, Orthopedic – London, UK

Naitive® Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for OsteoSight™, AI-Enabled Opportunistic Bone Health Assessment

Approval
Mevion Medical Systems: Capital Equip, Radiation Therapt, Proton – Littleton, MA

Mevion Medical Systems Announces FDA Clearance for MEVION S250-FIT™ Proton Therapy System

Product News

Sutra Medical: Implant, Heart Valve, Cardiovascular Surgery – Lake Forest, CA

Sutra Medical Achieves World’s First Successful First-in-Human Implantation of Sutra Hemi-valve in New Zealand

Vivalink: Wearable, Remote Pt. Monitoring, Cardiology – Campbell, CA

Vivalink Introduces New Adhesive for Wearable ECG to Enhance Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring and Clinical Research

SS Innovations: Robotics, Telesurgery, Cardiac Surgery, Bariatric Surgery – Gurugram, India

SS Innovations Announces Successful Completion of First Robotic Telesurgery Performed from the Company’s MantraM Mobile Robotic Telesurgery Unit

Mendaera: Capital Equip, Robotics, Needle Placement – San Mateo, CA

Mendaera Announces World’s First Procedures with Focalist™ Handheld Robotic System

Clinical Trials/Studies

Vektor Medical: AI, Soft/SaaS, Arrhythmia Analysis – San Diego, CA

Vektor Medical Announces Patient Enrollment in VITAL-EP Study Evaluating vMap-Guided Ablations

Shape Memory: Procedural Device, Embolization, Peripheral Vascular – Santa Clara, CA

Shape Memory Medical Completes Enrollment in the EMBO-Post Market Surveillance Registry

Visura Technologies: Transesophageal Intubation Placement Visualization – Bloomington, MN

Visura Technologies Announces Positive Data from TEECAD Product Registry Presented at the American Society of Echocardiography 2025 Conference

LinusBio: Diagnostic, Precision Medicine, Neurology, ALS – North Brunswick, NJ

Breakthrough Study by LinusBio Suggests Path to First Biochemical Biomarker for ALS, Detected in a Single Hair Strand

Neurolief : Digital Medicine, Psychiatry, Depression – Netanya, Israel

Neurolief Announces Publication of Groundbreaking MOOD Study Demonstrating Efficacy of Home or Clinic-Based Neuromodulation Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder

Personalis: Diagnostic, Liquid Biopsy, Genomics, Oncology – Fremont, CA

CATE Clinical Trial Launched to Demonstrate the Clinical Utility of ctDNA-Guided Treatment in Breast Cancer Using the Ultrasensitive NeXT Personal Test

Calyxo Health: Procedural Device, Endourology, Stone Removal – Pleasanton, CA

Calyxo Debuts Reverse Deflection CVAC System and Reveals Groundbreaking Two-Year ASPIRE Data at WCET 2025, Underscoring the Technology’s Role in Advancing Endourology

Diality: Capital Equipment, Hemodialysis, Nephrology – Irvine, CA

Diality Announces First Patient Treated in Moda-flx Home IDE PRESCRIBE Diality Clinical Trial

GT Medical Technologies: Procedural Device, Radiation Therapy, Brain, Neurosurgery – Tempe, AZ

Journal of Neuro-Oncology Publishes New Data Reinforcing GammaTile® Efficacy in Treating Recurrent Brain Metastases

Caristo Diagnostics: AI, Diagnostic, Image Analysis, Coronary Artery Disease – Oxford, UK

European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2025 Late Breaking Results Confirm Caristo FAI-Score™ Technology’s Superior and Complementary Predictive Value for Cardiac Death Beyond hsCRP

Inspira Technologies: Capital Equipment, Pulmonology, Acute Respiratory Support – Ra’anana, Israel

Inspira Announces 97.3% Accuracy Results for HYLA™ Blood Sensor, Advancing Toward FDA Submission for Clearance

Pulnovo Medical: Procedural Device, Pulmonary Artery Denervation – Wuxi, China

Pulnovo Medical Receives two IDE approvals for PADN system’s clinical trials with CMS coverage

Partnerships

iScribeHealth: AI, Ambient, Soft/SaaS, EMR – Nashville, TN
athenahealth: AI, Soft/SaaS, EMR, Pt. Engagement, Practice Mgt. – Boston, MA

iScribeHealth and athenahealth Expand Partnership to Bring Ambient Notes to More Clinicians Nationwide

Scipher Medicine: AI, Precision Medicine, Immunology – Waltham, MA
Maxymune Therapeutics: Therapeutics, Immunological – Los Altos, CA

Scipher Medicine and Maxymune Therapeutics Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate Target Discovery in Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases

Patents

Levee Medical: Scaffold, Urology Surgery, Post-Prostatectomy – Durham, NC

Levee Medical® Announces Issuance of Foundational U.S. Patent Covering the Voro® Urologic Scaffold

XRHealth: VR, XR, AR, Digital Medicine, Neurology – Needham Heights, MA

XRHealth Secures Patent for Groundbreaking XR-Based Impulsivity Measurement System

This & That

Eyexora: Ophthalmology Accelerator – New York, NY

Eyexora Launches the First Hub-and-Spoke Model for Accelerating Ophthalmology Innovation

Levita Magnetics: AI, Capital Equipment, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Abdominal – Mountain View, CA

Levita Magnetics Powers World’s First AI-Guided Autonomous Surgery with MARS Platform

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