MedTech Startup Roundup – Vol.2 No.9

Acquisition
NeuWave Medical: Procedural Device, Ablative, Minimally Invasive – Madison, WI
Quantum Surgical: AI, Robotics, Interventional Oncology – Montpellier, France

Quantum Surgical Announces Acquisition of NeuWave Medical, Inc.

Acquisition
ChoiceSpine: Implant, Spine Surgery – Knoxville, TN
Zavation: Implant, Spine Surgery – Flowood, MS

Zavation Acquires ChoiceSpine, Names Derek Kuyper CEO of Combined Company

The Cs

ThoroughCare: Soft/SaaS, Pt. Care Coordination, Pt. Engagement – Pittsburgh PA

Sean O’Donnell – CGO – Growth (Joining)
Bradley Hill – CEO (Joining)

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

Peter Donato – CFO (Joining)

Diality Appoints Peter Donato as Chief Financial Officer

Quantum Surgical: AI, Robotics, Interventional Oncology – Montpellier, France

Kurt Azarbarzin – CEO (Joining)

Quantum Surgical Announces Acquisition of NeuWave Medical, Inc.

Medaxion: Soft/SaaS, Anesthesia, Pharmacy – Nashville, TN

Mike Wirth – CGO – Growth (Joining)

Medaxion Appoints Mike Wirth as Chief Growth Officer

Karoo Health: AI, Soft/SaaS, Remote Medicine, Cardiology – Albuquerque, NM

Daniel Litvak – CTO (Joining)

Karoo Health Further Strengthens Prominent Leadership Across Technology Innovation and Growth with Strategic Executive Hires

Medasense: AI, Diagnostic, Pain Mgt – Ramat Gan, Israel

Peter Wehrly – Executive Chairman of the Board (Joining)

Medasense Appoints MedTech Leader Peter Wehrly as Executive Chairman of the Board

Autonomize AI: AI, Soft/SaaS, Agentic AI – Austin, TX

Gina Collins – CRO – Regulatory (Joining)

Autonomize AI Strengthens Leadership with Senior Healthcare Marketing and Regulatory Hires

Zavation Medical: Implant, Spine Surgery – Flowood, MS

Derek Kuyper – CEO (Joining)

Zavation Acquires ChoiceSpine, Names Derek Kuyper CEO of Combined Company

Board Members

PorTal Access: Procedural Device, Vascular Access – Miami, FL

David Snow – Board Member (Joining)

PorTal Access, Inc. Appoints Industry Veteran David Snow to Board of Directors to Advance Next-Generation Oncology Vascular Access Solutions

Cohere Health: AI, Soft/SaaS, Prior Authorization – Boston, MA

Mark Leenay, MD – Board Member (Joining)

Cohere Health Adds Dr. Mark Leenay to Board of Directors to Advance Clinical AI Leadership and Health Plan Collaborations

OSSTEC: Implant, Cementless Knee Replacement, Orthopedic Surgery – London, UK

Nick Pachuda, MD – Board Member (Joining)

OSSTEC Appoints Dr. Nick Pachuda to Board and Establishes US Operations Ahead of US Market Entry

Funding

Pairidex: Diagnostic Test, PCR, Oncology – St. Louis, MO

Pairidex Secures Lead Investment from BioGenerator Ventures for the Launch of New Highly Sensitive MRD Test for Leukemia

Brainomix: AI, Imaging, Neurovascular, Stroke, Pulmonary – Oxford, UK

Brainomix Extends Series C Financing to $25.4M (£18.8M) to Support U.S. Expansion

Abram Scientific: Diagnostic, Predictive Medicine, Hemostasis – Menlo Park, CA

Abram Scientific Secures $11.75M Series A Funding Led by Octapharma AG

Avisi Technologies: Procedural Device, Ophthalmic Surgery, Glaucoma – Redwood City, CA

Avisi Technologies Announces $10.7M Capital Raise to Advance Novel Glaucoma Device Development

Clee Medical: Imaging, Neurosurgery – Geneva, Switzerland

Wyss Geneva Spin-Off Clee Medical Secures Seed Financing to Bring Real-Time Vision to Brain Surgery

Blue Arbor Technologies: Implant, Neuromuscular Interface for Robotic Prosthetics – Ann Arbor, MI

Blue Arbor Technologies Announces Strategic Partnership with Ottobock and $5 Million Investment to Advance RESTORE™ Neuromuscular Interface System

BrainCheck: AI, Soft/SaaS, Diagnostic, Cognitive Function – Austin, TX

BrainCheck Raises $13 Million to Expand AI-Enabled Cognitive Care Platform

Third Way Health: AI, Soft/SaaS, Office Front Office – Los Angeles, CA

Third Way Health Raises $15M to Expand AI-Powered Healthcare Front-Office Operations

Cliexa: AI, Soft/SaaS, Clinical Intelligence – Denver, CO

Cliexa Secures $3M to Accelerate AI-Powered Digital Health Transformation

CrannMed: Procedural Device, Interventional, Resorbable Microspheres, Blood Flow Restoration, Orthopedic – Galway, Ireland

CrannMed Ltd awarded €12.5m under EU flagship innovation fund

OSSTEC: Implant, Cementless Knee Replacement, Orthopedic Surgery – London, UK

OSSTEC Appoints Dr. Nick Pachuda to Board and Establishes US Operations Ahead of US Market Entry

Regulatory

Approval
Allurion Technologies: Procedural Device, Bariatrics – Natick, MA

Allurion Receives U.S. FDA Approval

Approval
MiRus: Implant, Spine Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Interventional Cardiology – Marietta, GA

MiRus® Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for IO™ Expandable Wedge Osteotomy System

Approval
Xenocor: Procedural Device, Single-Use Scope, Visualization – Salt Lake City, UT

Xenocor Announces FDA Clearance of Saberscope®, the First Single-Use 5mm Articulating Laparoscope for Enhanced Surgical Visualization

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

Mevion Medical Systems Announces CE Marking of the MEVION S250-FIT™ Proton Therapy System, Expanding Global Access to Compact Proton Therapy

Approval
Catalyst OrthoScience: Implant, Orthopedic, Shoulder – Naples, FL

Catalyst OrthoScience Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance of Archer® Patient-Specific Instrumentation for Shoulder Arthroplasty

Approval
Polaroid Therapeutics: APT, Wound Care – Schlieren, Switzerland

Polaroid Therapeutics (PTx) Receives CE Mark for POLTX_Fiber™: the first application of APT™ to launch a new standard in wound care

Approval
4WEB Medical: Implant, Orthopedic – Frisco, TX

4WEB Medical Receives 510(k) Clearance to Market its New SI Joint Truss System™

Approval
Qure.ai: AI, Soft/SaaS, Clinical Diagnosis, Pt. Care Coordination – Mumbai, India

Qure.ai Nets Six New Indications Cleared by the FDA, Taking the Chest X-ray Crown in the Radiology AI Race

Approval
Synergy Spine Solutions: Implant, Spine, Spine Surgery – Louisville, CO

Synergy Spine Solutions® Receives FDA Approval for its Synergy Disc®, Expanding Cervical Disc Replacement Options for U.S. Patients

Product News

Clairity: AI, Diagnostic, Predictive Medicine, Breast Cancer – Boston, MA

First Patient Receives FDA-Authorized Clairity Breast Score, Marking a New Era in AI Empowered Breast Cancer Risk Assessment

THINK Surgical: Robotics, Orthopedic Surgery – Fremont, CA

THINK Surgical Announces First Clinical Cases with the TMINI® Miniature Robotic System and the Stryker® Triathlon® Knee System

Reimbursement

QT Imaging : Imaging, Breast, Radiology – Novato, CA

QT Imaging Achieves Major Reimbursement Milestone with AMA Category III CPT Code for 3D Breast Ultrasound Tomography

Clinical Trials/Studies

ClearNote Health: Diagnostic, Liquid Biopsy, Oncology – San Mateo, CA

ClearNote Health’s Enhanced Avantect® Pancreatic Cancer Test Delivers Industry-Leading Early Detection Performance

IceCure Medical: Procedural Device, Minimally Invasive, Cryoablation, Breast Cancer – Caesarea, Israel

IceCure Medical Successfully Completes 5-Year Patient Follow Up in ICESECRET Kidney Cancer Cryoablation Study: Final Analysis Expected in Second Quarter of 2026

TECLens: Procedural, Non-Invasive Vision Correction, Ophthalmology – Stamford, CT

First Patient Treated in TECLens First-in-Human Clinical Study of Revolutionary Non-Invasive Vision Correction Technology

Cairn Surgical: Imaging, Guided Surgery, Localization, Surgical Oncology – Lebanon, NH

New Study Shows Combining Prone and Supine MRI in Single Session Before Breast Conserving Surgery Provides Highly Accurate Tumor Imagery, Efficiently and Conveniently

CereVasc: Shunt, Neurology, Pediatric Hydrocephalus – Charlestown, MA

CereVasc, Inc. Announces Publication of a Multi-Center Study Evaluating the eShunt® System in the Treatment of Patients with NPH

Neurent Medical : Procedural Device, ENT – Galway, Ireland

Neurent Medical Announces Publication of Positive Randomized Controlled Trial Results for the NEUROMARK® System

ABK Biomedical: Procedural Device, Neurosurgery, Brain Cancer – Halifax, NS

ABK Biomedical Completes Enrollment in ROUTE90 Pivotal Study for Primary Liver Cancer

AEYE Health: AI, Imaging, Diagnostic, Retinal, Ophthalmology, Blood Pressure – Tel Aviv, Israel

AEYE Health’s AI Retinal Imaging Redefines Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring

Autonomize AI: AI, Soft/SaaS, Agentic AI, Prior Authorization – Austin, TX

Altais Cuts Prior Authorization Review Time by 45% and Reduces Manual Errors by 54% with Autonomize AI

SolasCure: Dressing, Wound Care – Cambridge, UK

SolasCure Completes Phase II Clinical Trial, Demonstrating Accelerated Healing With Aurase Wound Gel

Theranica: Digital Therapeutic, Neuromodulation, Migraine, Neurology – Netanya, Israel

Study Confirms Safety of Using Theranica’s Nerivio® REN Wearable for Treatment of Migraine Simultaneously with Contemporary Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Devices

bioAffinity Technologies: Diagnostic Test, Liquid Biopsy, Oncology, Lung Cancer – San Antonio, TX

bioAffinity Technologies Announces Validation Study with Brooke Army Medical Center to Expand Sample Collection Options for the CyPath® Lung Noninvasive Early Detection Lung Cancer Test

ENDRA Life Science: Diagnostic, Imaging, Hepatology, NASH, – Ann Arbor, MI

ENDRA’s TAEUS® Liver Device Demonstrates High-Level Consistency in Clinical Study, Delivering MRI-Level Results at the Point of Patient Care

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

Newly Published Evidence Show Calyxo’s CVAC System Significantly Reduces Residual Stone Volume and Unplanned Health Events

Arima Genomics: Diagnostics, Precision Med, Genomics, Oncology – Carlsbad, CA

Arima Genomics Announces Publication of New Study Supporting the Whole-Genome Rearrangement Detection Approach Behind Aventa Lymphoma

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

Prospective Multicenter Registry Study Reports High Local Tumor Control Following Resection with GammaTile® in Newly Diagnosed Brain Metastases

BioVigil: Wearable, Hand Hygiene Monitoring, Infection Control – Ann Arbor, MI

BioVigil’s Automated Hand Hygiene Monitoring Drives Meaningful and Sustained HAI Reduction

BlueWind Medical: Neuromodulation, Tibial, Urology, Urgency Urinary Incontinence – Tel Aviv, Israel

Three-Year Data Reinforce Revi® System as the Most Clinically Validated Implantable Tibial Neuromodulation Therapy for Urgency Urinary Incontinence

Partnerships

PulseDataAI: AI, Soft/SaaS, Predictive Medicine, Chronic Disease – New York, NY
Calcium Health: Soft/Saas, Data Sharing, Pt. Records – Chicago, IL

PULSEDATA AI ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH CALCIUM HEALTH TO STRENGTHEN CHRONIC CONDITION MANAGEMENT IN VALUE-BASED CARE

Sibel Health: Wearables – Chicago, IL
LookDeep Health: AI, Ambient, Soft/SaaS, Staff and Patient Assistant – Oakland, CA

Sibel Health and LookDeep Health Announce Strategic Partnership to Combine Continuous Vitals with Real-Time Bedside AI – Without Lock-In

Blue Arbor Technologies: Implant, Neuromuscular Interface for Robotic Prosthetics – Ann Arbor, MI
Ottobock: DME, Prosthetics – Duderstadt, German

Blue Arbor Technologies Announces Strategic Partnership with Ottobock and $5 Million Investment to Advance RESTORE™ Neuromuscular Interface System

Patents

Episurf Medical: Implant, Orthopedic Surgery – Stockholm, Sweden

New US patent approval for Episurf Medical

This & That

LambdaVision: Implant, Ophthalmic Surgery, Retina Replacement – Farmington, CT

LambdaVision Books Commercial Space in Low-Earth Orbit with Starlab Space and Voyager Technologies

Alluvium Healthcare: AI, Soft/SaaS, Hospital Operations – McKinney, TX

Healthcare Access Performance Leader BlockIt Rebrands as Alluvium Healthcare

Expanding Innovations: Implant, Spine Surgery – Mountain View, CA

Expanding Innovations Launches Enabling Technologies Division in North Carolina’s Research Triangle

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