MedTech Startup Roundup – Vol.2 No.17

Product Launches

Myomo: Robotics, Wearable, Orthotic, Arm – Burlington, MA

Myomo Introduces Myomo Mobile App to Enhance Clinical Workflow and Patient Engagement

Medavida: Soft/SaaS, Payment Orchestration – Atlanta, GA

Medavida Launches Vida Verified, Challenging Legacy Credentialing with a Faster Underwriting Approach

Cavo Health: AI, Sost/SaaS, Coding, Chart Retrieval Service – Indianapolis, IN

Cavo Health Offers End-to-End Chart Retrieval Services to Complement its Full Suite of Coding Solutions

RhythMedix: Remote Cardiac Monitoring – Mt. Laurel, NJ

RhythMedix Launches Next-Generation RhythmStar® SL Cardiac Monitor

Utepreva: Biopsy Device, Endometrial Cancer – Jericho, NY

Utepreva Introduces FDA 510(k)-Cleared Endometrial Sampler Designed to Support Early Detection of Endometrial Cancer

Weave: AI, Soft/SaaS, Pt. Engagement – Lehi, UT

Weave Call Intelligence Helps Address Rising Care Deferral as Patients Delay Procedures Over Concerns About Affordability

Amperos Health: AI, Soft/SaaS, RCM – New York, NY

Amperos Health Secures $16M Investment as it Launches Industry’s First AI-Native Denial Management and Revenue Recovery Platform

Imricor Medical Systems: Imaging, Guidance, VT Ablation, Electro-Physiology – Minneapolis, MN

NorthStar Mapping System Now Commercially Available in the United States

Neuvotion: Neurostimulation, Movement and Sensation Restoration, Physical Rehab – Stamford, CT

Neuvotion Announces the Launch of NeuStim™ as Part of its AI-Guided Brain-Body Interface Platform for Recovery After Stroke or Injury

InsightRX: Soft/SaaS. Clinical Decision Support – San Francisco, CA

INSIGHTRX INTRODUCES APOLLO STUDIO: A CLINICAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM FOR PHARMACY ANALYTICS

M&A

Acquisition
LEX Diagnostics: Diagnostic, Molecular – Melbourn, UK
QuidelOrtho: Diagnostic, Multiple Product Lines – San Diego, CA

QuidelOrtho Corporation Completes Acquisition of LEX Diagnostics

Acquisition
CathWorks: AI, Diagnostic, Soft/SaaS, Cardiology – Kfar-saba, Israel
Medtronic: Procedural Device, Capital Equip, Implantable – Dublin, Ireland

Medtronic completes acquisition of CathWorks, expanding its leadership in transforming care for patients with cardiovascular disease

Acquisition
LeoMed Technologies: Remote Pt. Monitoring – Thetford Mines, QC
Purkinje: Soft/SaaS, EMR, RPM – Montreal, QC

Purkinje Acquires LeoMed Technologies – Healthcare Transformation Accelerated by a Quebec Leader: Bringing Care Beyond Hospital Walls to Meet Patient Expectations

Acquisition
Bonsai Health: AI, Soft/Saas, Staff Workflow – Santa Monica, CA
ModMed: AI, Soft/SaaS, EHR – Boca Raton, FL

ModMed Acquires Bonsai Health to Accelerate AI-Powered Patient Engagement

Acquisition
TruBridge: Soft/SaaS, RCM, EPR, Population Mgt. – Mobile, AL
IKS Health: AI, Soft/SaaS, Workflow, Prior Auth, Claims – Mumbai, India & Dallas, TX

IKS Health Announces Agreement to Acquire TruBridge to Strengthen Access to Rural and Community-Based Healthcare

Acquisition
Atraverse Medical: Procedural Device, Cardiac Surgery – Cardiff by the Sea, CA
Johnson & Johnson: Multi-Focused – New Brunswick, NJ

Johnson & Johnson Enters Agreement to Acquire Atraverse Medical

The Cs

Zelis: Soft/SaaS, Reimbursement – Boston, MA

Peter Durlach – CSO – Strategy (Joining)
Matthew Krawse – CRO – Revenue (Promotion)

Zelis Introduces New Executive Leadership

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

Arun Nagdev, MD – CMO – Medical (Joining)

Butterfly Network Appoints Arun Nagdev, MD as Chief Medical Officer – POCUS

Nym: AI, Medical Coding – New York, NY

Lori Jones – CEO (Joining)

Nym Welcomes Lori Jones as Chief Executive Officer

Humacyte: Implant, Regenerative Human Tissues – Durham, NC

Jim Mercadante – CCO (Joining)

Humacyte Appoints Jim Mercadante as Chief Commercial Officer

LiquidCell Dx: Diagnostic, Precision, Liquid Biopsy – San Carlos, CA

Mirna Jarosz – CEO (Joining)

LiquidCell Dx Appoints Former Foundation Medicine, 10x Genomics and IDT Leader Mirna Jarosz as Chief Executive Officer; Names Former Foundation Medicine Chief Medical Officer Vincent A. Miller, MD, Senior Strategic Advisor

Ambience Healthcare: AI, Ambient, Soft/SaaS, Clinical Documentation – San Francisco, CA

Michael Han, MD – CMO – Medical (Joining)

Ambience Healthcare Appoints Michael Han, MD, MBA as Chief Medical Officer

Board Members

CryoFuture: Service, Cryopreservation, Cryogenic Transportation – San Mateo, CA

Michael Fiore – Board Member (Joining)

CryoFuture Appoints Michael Fiore to Board to Support Cryostorage and Transport Expansion

Signum Surgical: Surgical, Colorectal – Galway, Ireland

Mark J. Foley – Chairman of the Board (Joining)

Signum Surgical Appoints Medical Device Veteran Mark J. Foley as Chairman

Funding

Cala Health: Wearable, Neuromodulation, Essential Tremor, Parkinson’s Disease, Neurology, – San Mateo, CA

Trinity Capital Inc. Provides $50 Million in Growth Capital to Cala Health to Support Commercial Expansion of Wearable Tremor Therapy

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

Pulnovo Medical Announces Strategic Investment from Medtronic in oversubscribed $100 Million Financing Round

ViewsML: Biomarkers, Virtual – Vancouver, BC

ViewsML Secures Funding to Accelerate Commercialization of AI-Driven Virtual Biomarker Staining Platform

Alesi Surgical: Capital Equip., Smoke Mgt. – Cardiff, UK

Alesi Surgical raises £7M to clear the air in operating theatres with next-gen smoke management tech

Deep Blue Medical: Procedural Devices, Mesh, General Surgery – Durham, NC

Deep Blue Medical Closes Oversubscribed $5.6M Series A and Elevates Veteran Leader to COO

Omeza: Wound Care – Sarasota, FL

Omeza announces closing of $8.5 Million Series A financing co-led by Astanor and BluKap Ventures, with participation from Catalyst Investments

Amperos Health: AI, Soft/SaaS, RCM – New York, NY

Amperos Health Secures $16M Investment as it Launches Industry’s First AI-Native Denial Management and Revenue Recovery Platform

Almanac Health: AI, Soft/SaaS, Clinical Information – Dover, DE

Almanac Health Raises $10 Million to Empower Clinicians Across Specialties with Safe, Research-Validated Clinical AI

ConsensioHealth: Soft/SaaS, RCM, Emergency Medicine – Milwaukee, WI

Independent Emergency Physicians (IEP) Announces Strategic Investment in ConsensioHealth

MINISH Technology: Tooth Restoration, Dental – Seoul, South Korea

MINISH Technology Accelerates Global Expansion with Next-Generation Biomimetic Solutions; Secures $110M Valuation

Neurava: Wearable, Diagnostic, Epilepsy – Baltimore, MD

Neurava Awarded $4 Million NIH Blueprint Optimizer Award to Develop SUDEP Risk Stratification Algorithm

Regulatory

Approval
OrthAlign: Navigation, Hand-Held, Orthopedic Surgery – Irvine, CA

OrthAlign Accelerates Global Growth Strategy with Announcement of CE Mark in Europe

Approval
SOLVD Health: Diagnostic, Predictive, Opioid Risk – Carlsbad, CA

SOLVD Health Announces FDA Approval to Expand AvertD® Sample Collection to Include Blood, Enabling Broad Availability of the First and Only FDA‑Approved Genetic Test Indicated to Assess Genetic Risk of OUD Prior to First Oral Opioid Prescription

Approval
Artera: AI, Diagnostic, Prostate Cancer Treatment – Los Altos, CA

Artera Secures CE Marking for Its AI Prostate and Breast Cancer Assays, Unlocking Global Expansion Secures CE Marking for Its AI Prostate and Breast Cancer Assays, Unlocking Global Expansion

Approval
Inovedis: Procedural Devices, Sports Medicine – Albstadt, Germany

FDA Approves Expanded Clinical Applications for SINEFIX™ in Soft Tissue Repair

Approval
Sonorous Neurovascular: Implant, Stent, Cerebral Venous – Lake Forest, CA

Sonorous Neurovascular Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for BosCATH™ Neurovascular Catheter

Approval
Spinal Simplicity: Implant, Interventional, Spine – Overland Park, KS

Spinal Simplicity Announces FDA Clearance of Freedom Decompression System™

IDE
BrioHealth Solutions: Implant, LVAD – Burlington, MA

BrioHealth Solutions Announces FDA Conditional Approval of Pediatric BrioVAD System Study-The Brio4Kids Trial

Approval
CGBIO: Implant, Spine, Disposable, Wound – Seoul, South Korea

CGBIO Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Patient-Specific Titanium Implant ‘EASYMADE TI’

Product News

Atropos Health: AI, Clinical Decision Support – New York, NY

Atropos Health Creates World’s Largest Body of Medical Evidence, Alexandria, for Clinical Decision Support and LLM Training to Improve Patient, Life Science, and Medical Outcomes

Luma Health: AI, Soft/SaaS, Operations – San Francisco, CA

Luma Health’s New Operational AI Features Close Gaps That Prevent Care

SideKick Health: Digital Medicine, Obesity – Reykjavik, Iceland

Sidekick Health Expands Its Intelligent Care Platform with MSK, Advancing Its Solutions for Rising Risk and Multi-Condition Care Complexity

Yapi-DoctorLogic: Soft/SaaS, Practive Mgt., Dental – Burbank, CA

Yapi-DoctorLogic Expands Practice Management Integrations to Help Practices Accelerate Growth

Curve Biosciences: Precision Medicine, Diagnostic, Chronic Disease – San Mateo, CA

Curve Biosciences Announces Key AI and Clinical Advancements of Whole-Body Intelligence for Chronic Diseases

CorTec: Implant, BCI, Stroke Recovery – Freiburg, Germany

CorTec’s Brain Interchange™ Accepted into FDA Total Product Life Cycle Advisory Program (TAP)

HOPPR: AI, Soft/SaaS, Imaging – Chicago, IL

HOPPR Expands Medical Imaging AI Portfolio with Chest Radiography Narrative Model

Clinical Trials/Studies

Flatiron Health: Soft/SaaS, Decision Support, Oncology – New York, NY

Flatiron Health Publishes First Peer-Reviewed Validation Framework for AI-Extracted Real-World Oncology Data in Journal of Clinical Oncology

Ignite Proteomics: Diagnostic, Biomarker, Predictive, Breast Cancer, Oncology – Golden, CO

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Study Demonstrates Predictive Value of Ignite Proteomics’ RPPA Platform for T-DXd (Enhertu®) Therapy in Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients

INBRAIN Neuroelectronics: Implant, BCI, Neurosurgery, Neurology – Barcelona, Spain

INBRAIN Neuroelectronics Completes Enrolment of World’s First-in-Human Study of Graphene Neural Interfaces for Brain Decoding & Mapping

Nanostics: ML, Diagnostic, Prostate Cancer – Edmonton, AB

Nanostics Announces Publication of a ClarityDX Prostate Study Validating New Algorithms with Improved Cancer Prediction that make MRI or DRE Optional

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

New Peer-Reviewed Study Using BrainCheck Identifies Four Distinct Cognitive Trajectories in Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19

Efemoral Medical: Scaffold, PAD, Vascular, Interventional Radiology – Los Altos, CA

Efemoral Medical Reports Exceptional Long-Term EFEMORAL I Results Highlighting Durability and Differentiated Performance in Femoropopliteal Disease

Implantica: Procedural Device, GI, GERD – Zug, Switzerland

Implantica announces landmark RefluxStop® study of 602 patients across 22 European centers, with up to 6.75-year follow-up, published in Nature’s Scientific Reports

InVera Medical: Device, Infusion Catheter, Minimally Invasive – Galway, Ireland

INVERA MEDICAL REPORTS 12-MONTH RESULTS FROM PILOT TRIAL OF INVERA INFUSION DEVICE SHOWING VEIN CLOSURE IN 90% OF PATIENTS, STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS, AND EXCELLENT SAFETY

Rad AI: AI, Soft/SaaS, Radiology Workflows – San Francisco, CA

First Peer-Reviewed Study to Evaluate AI-Generated Impressions Demonstrates Radiologist Preference for Domain-Specific Versus General Models

Cellworks: Diagnostic, Decision Support, Oncology, Cancer – South San Francisco, CA

Cellworks Study Supports Liquid Biopsy for Predicting Chemo-Immunotherapy Benefit in Advanced NSCLC

RIVANNA: AI, Imaging, Ultrasound, Soft/SaaS, Anesthesia – Charlottesville, VA

RIVANNA expands multi-site clinical study for Accuro XV musculoskeletal imaging system

TimeDoc Health: Soft/SaaS, Pt. Engagement – Chicago, IL

TimeDoc Health Boosts Patient Engagement by 76% and Drives $33k in Combined Monthly Revenue Growth for Partner Practices via SmartTouch® Engage

Anaxiom: Procedural Device, Minimally Invasive, Bariatrics – Laguna Hills, CA

Anaxiom Announces Early Clinical Results from First-in-Human Experience of Novel Minimally Invasive Obesity Device; Advances Toward U.S. Early Feasibility Study

Biotia: Diagnostic, Test, Infectious Disease – Long Island City, NY

Biotia Publishes Clinical Validation of Advanced UTI Test in Leading Microbiology Journal

Bright Uro: Monitoring, Urodynamics, Wireless, Catheter-Free – Irvine, CA

Bright Uro Launches Glean® Patient Registry to Create Urodynamic Intelligence™

Bright Uro: Monitoring, Urodynamics, Wireless, Catheter-Free – Irvine, CA

Bright Uro Launches Glean® Patient Registry to Create Urodynamic Intelligence™

FLEX Vascular: Procedural Device, Vascular Surgery – Plymouth, MN

FLEX Vascular Announces 12-Month Real-World Outcomes Demonstrating Strong Safety, Durability, and Reduced Reinterventions with FLEX™ Vessel Prep System

Pulse Biosciences: Procedural Device, Bioelectric Medicine, PFA, Oncology, Cardiology – Hayward, CA

Pulse Biosciences Presents Positive Outcomes in Late-Breaking Updated Data from nPulse™ Cardiac Catheter System at Heart Rhythm 2026

Adagio Medical: Cryoablation, Cardiology, Ventricular Tachycardia – Laguna Hills, CA

Adagio Medical Announces Positive Pivotal Results for vCLAS® Ventricular Ablation System

Partnerships

Canary Medical: Implant, Active, Orthopedic, Knee – Vancouver, BC
NanoHive Medical: 3D-Printed, Implant, Spine – Woburn, MA

NanoHive Medical and Canary Medical Announce Strategic Partnership to Develop and Commercialize Smart Spinal Cages

AION Biosystems: AI, Remote Pt. Monitoring, Oncology, Temperature – Lowell, MA
Olio: Soft/SaaS, Pt. Care Coordination – Indianapolis, IN

Olio and AION Biosystems Partner to Close the Post-Discharge Blind Spot

Rovex: Robotic, Patient Transport – Gainesville, FL
BayCare: Healthcare System – Tampa, FL

BayCare and Robotics Startup Rovex Announce Strategic Partnership to Innovate In-Hospital Patient Transport

UltraGreen Cardiac Technologies: Diagnostic, Holter Monitor, Cardiology – Singapore
LifeSignals: AI, Wearable, Pt. Monitoring – Milpitas, CA

UltraGreen Cardiac Technologies launches Partnership with LifeSignals to Expand Access to Advanced Wearable Cardiac Monitoring Biosensors Globally

IntraNerve Neuroscience: RPM, EEG – Colorado Springs, CO
Piramidal: AI, Diagnostic EEG – San Francisco, CA

IntraNerve Neuroscience and Piramidal Partner to Develop Scalable EEG Monitoring Through AI

Viz.ai: AI, Soft/SaaS, Diagnostic, Multi-Specialty – San Francisco, CA
Johnson & Johnson: Multi-Focused – New Brunswick, NJ

Viz.ai Announces Strategic Collaboration to Expand Access to AI-Powered Subdural Hemorrhage Care

This & That

Accuity : AI, Soft/SaaS, RCM – Mount Laurel, NJ

Accuity Named Winner in 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards for Advancing Responsible AI in Healthcare

LeanTaaS: AI, Soft/SaaS, Predictive Analytics – Santa Clara, CA

New Survey Finds 72% of Hospital CFOs Report Margins of 2% or Less as Leaders Prioritize Workforce and Technology Investments

Distribution Agreements

Welldoc: AI, Diagnostic, Digital Medicine, CCM – Columbia, MD

Welldoc Brings AI-Powered Cardiometabolic Care to 68 Million Medicare Beneficiaries Through the ACCESS Model and Medicare App Library