MedTech Startup Roundup – Vol.2 No.4

The news you need on MedTech startups

Dan’s Picks

QV Bioelectronics: Implant, Glioblastoma Therapy, Neuro-Oncology – Alderley Park, UK

QV Bioelectronics secures £4.5m to advance implantable brain cancer therapy into first-in-human studies

OpenEvidence: AI, Soft/SaaS, Clinical Information – Cambridge, MA

OpenEvidence hits $12B valuation as AI step-ups pull ahead

State of Digital Health 2025 Report

Product Launches

NeuroQure: Diagnostic Test, Autism, Neurology – Irvine, CA

NeuroQure Launches First-Ever Functional Biophysical Marker Test for Autism, Transforming Early Autism Risk Diagnosis

Smart Meter: Remote Pt. Monitoring, Cardiology, Afib, Diabetes, Glucose – Tampa, FL

Smart Meter Launches iGlucose® Touch, a Touchscreen, Cellular-Connected Blood Glucose Meter Built for Modern RPM

Omnia Medical: Implant, Spine Surgery – Morgantown, WV

Omnia Medical Announces Commercial Launch of FDA-Cleared PsiF DNA™ System

VectorCare: Soft/SaaS. Pt. Logistics, Care Coordination – Sausalito, CA

VectorCare Launches SoFaaS™ (SMART on FHIR as a Service)

Kontakt.io : AI, Soft/SaaS, Pt. Care Operations – New York, NY

Kontakt.io Launches Patient Flow AI to Set a New Standard in Hospital Length-of-Stay Reduction

ProVerum Medical: Procedural Device, BPH, Interventional Urology – Dublin, Ireland

ProVerum Announces First Commercial Cases Completed with the ProVee® System for BPH

PracticeQ: Soft/SaaS, Practice Mgt, Primary Care, Mental Health – San Diego, CA

PracticeQ Launches Engage to Eliminate No-Shows with Automated Reminders and Patient Messaging

The Cs

Major Medical Devices: Implant, AAA, Endovascular – New York, NY

Eric Curtis – CEO (Joining)

Major Medical Devices Appoints Healthcare Industry Veteran Eric Curtis as Its Chief Executive Officer

Light AI : AI, Diagnostic, Infectious Disease – Vancouver, BC

John R. Luna – CEO (Joining)

Light AI Appoints John R. Luna as Chief Executive Officer

Clairity: AI, Predictive Medicine, Oncology, Urology, Prostate – Boston, MA

Connie Lehman, MD – CEO (Additional Responsibility)

Clairity Appoints Founder Dr. Connie Lehman as Chief Executive Officer; Joe Kiani Named Chairman of the Board

HeartBeam: DME, 3D ECG – Santa Clara, CA

Bryan Humbarger – CCO (Joining)

ONWARD Medical: Neuromodulation and BCI – Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Ali Kiboro – CFO (Joining)

ONWARD Medical Appoints Ali Kiboro as Chief Financial Officer

Board Members

Juniper Biomedical: Micro Implant, Neuromodulation, Urology, Gastroenterology – Worcester MA

Frank Fischer – Board Member (Joining)

CORRECTING and REPLACING Juniper Biomedical Wins Neuromod Prize and Welcomes Frank Fischer to Board of Directors

Clairity: AI, Predictive Medicine, Oncology, Urology, Prostate – Boston, MA

Joe Kiani – Chairman of the Board (Joining)

Clairity Appoints Founder Dr. Connie Lehman as Chief Executive Officer; Joe Kiani Named Chairman of the Board

Funding

Neuropacs: AI, Diagnostic, Neurology – Gainesville, FL

Neuropacs Closes Seed Round of Financing

4DMedical : Imaging, Soft/Saas, Cardiothoracic, Pulmonology – Melbourne, Australia

4DMedical Secures US$100+ Million Funding to Accelerate U.S. Expansion and increase Technology Dominance in Software-Based Lung Imaging

TRiCares: Procedural Device, Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Valve, Transcatheter – Paris, France

TRiCares Enters into €20 million Loan Agreement with the European Investment Bank

OpenEvidence: AI, Soft/SaaS, Clinical Information – Cambridge, MA

OpenEvidence Raises $250 Million to Build Medical Superintelligence for Doctors

Claim Health: AI, Soft/SaaS, RCM, Post-Acute Care – New York, NY

Claim Health Launches AI-Powered Revenue Infrastructure for Post-Acute Care with $4.4M Seed Funding

QV Bioelectronics: Implant, Glioblastoma Therapy, Neuro-Oncology – Alderley Park, UK

QV Bioelectronics secures £4.5m to advance implantable brain cancer therapy into first-in-human studies

Qure.ai: AI, Diagnostic, Oncology, Stroke Care, Infectious Disease – Mumbai, India

Qure.ai Secures Major Global Health Grant to Build AI-Powered Point-of-Care Ultrasound

AppliedAI: AI, Soft/SaaS, Workflow Automation – Abu Dhabi, UAE

AppliedAI secures investment from Mubadala and Arbor Ventures for global scale across key industries

Anteris Technologies: Implant, TAVR, Interventional Cardiology – Brisbane, Australia

Anteris Technologies Global Corp. Announces Closing of $230 Million Public Offering of Common Stock

Anteris Technologies: Implant, TAVR, Interventional Cardiology – Brisbane, Australia

Anteris Announces Strategic Investment from Medtronic to Continue Advancing TAVR in $320 Million Aggregate Capital Raises

Regulatory

Approved
Bridge to Life: Organ Transplantation and Preservation – Northbrook, IL

Bridge to Life™ Secures FDA De Novo Clearance for VitaSmart™ Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion (HOPE) System, the First Ever U.S. Approval for Cold Machine Perfusion in Liver Transplant Preservation

Approval
SurGenTec: Implant, Spine Surgery – Boca Raton, FL

SurGenTec® Secures FDA Clearance for ION-C™ Facet Fixation System — Designed to Support Fusion While Preserving Alignment

Approval
Truvian Health: Diagnostic, Blood Tests, CLIA-waived – San Diego, CA

Truvian Health Receives another FDA Clearance – for Complete Blood Count (CBC) on TruVerus™

Approval
mOm Incubators: DME, Incubator, Portable, Neonatology – Nottingham, UK

mOm Incubators Receives FDA Clearance for First-of-Its-Kind Portable Incubator for Premature Babies

Approval
SONOMOTION : Capital Equip, Lithotripsy, Kidney Stones, Urology – San Mateo, CA

SONOMOTION ANNOUNCES FDA CLEARANCE FOR ITS BREAK WAVE™ LITHOTRIPSY DEVICE FOR TREATMENT OF KIDNEY STONES

Approval
Aidoc: AI, Imaging, Radiology – Tel Aviv, Israel

Aidoc Secures FDA Clearance for Healthcare’s First Comprehensive Foundation Model AI

Approval
Guardant Health: Diagnostic Test, Liquid Biopsy, Oncology – Palo Alto, CA

Guardant Health Receives FDA Approval for Guardant360® CDx as Companion Diagnostic for BRAFTOVI® (encorafenib) Combination in Patients with BRAF V600E-Mutant Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

Breakthrough Devices

Compremium: Diagnostic, Non-Invasive, Wound Care, Central Venous Pressure – Bern, Switzerland

Compremium Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for Non-Invasive Central Venous Pressure Measurement System and has also joined FDA’s TAP Program

Clinical Trials/Studies

Orlucent: Diagnostic, Dermatology, Cancer – Los Gatos, CA

Clinical Trial Demonstrates Accurate Non-Invasive Detection of In Vivo Biologic Activity in Melanomas by the Orlucent® Skin Fluorescent Imaging System

Hyperfine: AI, Imaging, MRI, Portable – Guilford, CT

Hyperfine Announces NEURO PMR Study Results Showing High Diagnostic Value and Superior Patient Experience in Neurology Clinics

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

Levee Medical® Announces Landmark ARID II Trial Nears Halfway Enrollment Milestone and Publication of ARID Clinical Results in World Journal of Urology

PhotoPharmics: Phototherapy, Parkinson’s, Neurology – Lehi, UT

PhotoPharmics Announces Publication of Phase 2 Clinical Trial Results in Neurotherapeutics

Kardium: Device, Cardiology, Pulsed Field Ablation – Burnaby, BC

Kardium Announces Publication of PULSAR Pivotal Trial Results in JACC

Trisol Medical : Implant, Heart Valve, Transcatheter – Yokneam, Israel

Trisol Medical Announces Positive Results from U.S. Early Feasibility Study of Its Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement System

CereVasc: Implant, Shunt, Neurosurgery, Hydrocephalus – Charlestown, MA

CereVasc Completes Enrollment of ETCHES Study of the eShunt® System for the Treatment of Communicating Hydrocephalus

Rapid Nexus: Procedural Device, Chronic Wounds, Wound Care – Brea, CA

First Peer-Reviewed Study Shows Tissue Once Deemed Non-Salvageable Can Be Healed in Patients Facing Amputation

Sonex Health: Procedural Device, Minimally Invasive, Ultrasound-Guided, Orthopedic Surgery – Eagan, MN

SONEX HEALTH ANNOUNCES PUBLICATION OF LARGEST MULTI-CENTER STUDY COMPARING ULTRASOUND-GUIDED CARPAL TUNNEL RELEASE TO OPEN CARPAL TUNNEL RELEASE

Delve Bio: Diagnostic, Infectious Disease – San Francisco, CA

Earlier Use of Metagenomic (mNGS) Testing Can Reduce Number of Tests Performed and Days to Diagnosis of Meningitis/Encephalitis

ReGelTec: Implant, Percutaneous Hydrogel, Spine Surgery – Baltimore, MD

Pain Physician Study Shows Percutaneous Hydrogel Implant for Chronic Low Back Pain Improves Patients’ Pain and Function

Concept Medical: Procedural Device, Angioplasty Catheter, Interventional Cardiology – Tampa, FL

Concept Medical Announces First Patient Enrollment in STARS DAPT Randomized Clinical Trial Evaluating Abluminus NP Polymer-Free DES

4D Path: Predictive Medicine, Diagnostic, Oncology – Newton, MA

4D Path Joins Phase II Clinical Trial to Advance Predictive Biomarkers in Bladder Cancer

Mentavi Health: Diagnostic, Mental Health – Grand Rapids, MI

Mentavi Health Presented Validation Data for Its Online Adult ADHD Diagnostic Evaluation at APSARD 2026

Nalu Medical: Neurostimulation, Pain – Carlsbad, CA

Nalu Announces Publication of Results from COMFORT Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) Demonstrating Sustained Pain Relief and Functional Improvements Over 24 Months

Legal Battles

AorticLab: Procedural Device, Interventional Cardiology, Embolic Protection – Turin, Italy
Emboline: Procedural Device, Embolic Protection, Interventional Cardiology – Santa Cruz, CA

AorticLab S.r.l. Announces Clear Victory Before the European Unified Patent Court in Litigation Brought by Emboline, Inc.

This & That

Pulsenmore : Ultrasound, Remote Medicine, Obstetrics – Omer, Israel

Pulsenmore To Commence Trading on Nasdaq as It Expands FDA-authorized Home Prenatal Ultrasound Devices in the U.S.

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