Top Medical Devices Startups in 2024

THE PROMISE With ultrasound a doctor can see into the heart of someone in cardiac arrest or into the abdomen of a woman with an ectopic pregnancy, and save their lives. 75 years after its invention, ultrasound remains an indispensable tool for diagnosis and monitoring. THE PROBLEM 60% of the world lacks access to medical imaging because current technologies are unwieldy, expensive, and require extensive training. While doctors carry supercomputers in their pockets, they still rely on the 200-year old stethoscope​ as their primary diagnostic tool. THE SOLUTION Our mission is to democratize healthcare by making medical imaging accessible to everyone around the world. Butterfly Network has raised >$350M to develop and commercialize a handheld, smartphone-connected ultrasound probe powered by AI. We operate at the intersection of medicine, engineering, and machine learning to create breakthrough technology that becomes smarter with each new patient.

As population continues to age, there is a growing demand for motor rehabilitation services. The problem is that the way we address this growth or rehabilitation services (physical therapy) has not changed in thirty years because we are still heavily reliant on a one-to-one patient therapist interaction which is costly, non scalable, and difficult to ensure consistent quality. At SWORD Health, we saw the opportunity to take a truly disruptive and transformative approach to this problem by creating the first digital therapy solution that addresses the growing demand for therapy while reducing costs, empowering patients with their recovery to ultimately recover faster, and providing a rich source of data for clinical teams and decision makers. Video: vimeo.com/118489111

At Willow Innovations, Inc., our vision is to create a better world for moms. We are focused on identifying where moms need support in the motherhood journey, and building hardware- and software-based solutions around their needs. In 2014, we created the first-ever cord-free Willow™ Wearable Breast Pump, revolutionizing the industry. Fast forward to today, we are building a portfolio of physical and digital products to solve mom's most meaningful problems and improve their lives. Willow Innovations, Inc. sits at the unique and exciting intersection of HealthTech, FemTech, Consumer Goods, and Med device. Our potential for scale and impact is extraordinary—we’re just getting started. We’re looking for talented, passionate team players to help us deliver our mission and vision. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you! Recent awards we’ve won include: - Great Place to Work Certified 2021–2022 - Omnis Awards, Outstanding Culture and Communication

Kalogon is the trailblazer in smart seating, offering patent-pending solutions for medical, aviation, and automotive customers. Kalogon’s core technology integrates custom molding, dynamic motion, and ambient sensing to provide personalized, healthy seating. Our products are medically validated to improve blood flow, improving comfort and lessening fatigue. Kalogon is an early stage startup based in Melbourne, FL that has raised $2.5M in seed capital and won awards in 2023 at CES and SXSW for its smart seating solution for wheelchair users.

More than a new kind of dialysis machine, Tablo is a new way of thinking about dialysis and the patients who depend on it. Tablo makes it possible to reconsider where dialysis is performed, when dialysis is performed and who can perform it. Tablo opens up opportunities for new in-center patient-powered care models designed to improve the experience while lowering costs for providers.

Rune Labs is a brain data company empowering the development and delivery of precision neuroscience therapeutics. Our company aims to fill the gap in software and data support for next-generation neuroscience therapeutics, and expand the benefits of precision medicine to the millions of patients with neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases. Rune’s first-in-class precision brain data software *Platform* (runelabs.io/platform) integrates electrophysiology, brain imaging, and device data together with wearable data and clinical labels. The combination provides researchers, drug developers, and clinicians with the tools to guide treatment, uncover hidden disease phenotypes, and design better-targeted therapies.

We’re Doccla, the virtual ward company. We provide patients and clinicians with the transformative power of remote patient monitoring. Our customers are Hospital Trusts, Community Services and NHS Commissioners that we partner with to deliver virtual wards. With our support, patients can have their care stepped up from community services or be discharged from a hospital ward to a virtual one. Patients receive treatment in the comfort of their homes whilst health services become more efficient. Unsurprisingly, both the number of Trusts we work with and the number of patients we support are constantly growing. Doccla is a young company with big aims and a lot of momentum. We raised a $3.3m seed round in Q3 2021 and are continuing to grow. We're solving real problems for patients and health systems. And we’re looking for dedicated people with a passion for healthcare to join us.

At 4Catalyzer we strive to transform 21st century medicine by solving today’s most challenging problems – across life science research tools, medical devices and therapeutics. We aspire to create significant societal impact and are motivated by the idea that our products will change the lives of people we love. Fundamentally, we are focused on developing new types of sensors and pairing them with deep learning to get a window into biology and medicine that nobody has ever had before. We have audacious plans – but we have an unbeatable team and a founder that has disrupted biomedical science successfully more than once. If you have experience in image reconstruction, mixed-signal IC design, high-speed electronics, nanophotonics, microfabrication, MEMs, biophysics, biochemistry, molecular biology, deep learning, cloud computing, embedded systems, or hold any dual degree with distinction along with computer science please contact us and “put a dent in the universe”.

Ultralight’s mission is to unlock the potential for medtech innovation. The $500B+ medical device industry is dramatically evolving, from AI-augmented diagnostics to advanced robotic surgery systems to brain-computer interfaces. The increasing complexity of products and regulation demands better tooling. That’s where Ultralight comes in. We build software to simplify and automate product development and compliance. Our best-in-class tools for medical device teams help them build products with safety and risk to patients in mind, and we also help compliance teams speed up their manual, burdensome processes. We also leverage AI throughout the platform to provide actionable feedback and help teams be more efficient. Our founders have deep experience operating at some of the fastest-growing healthcare technology startups like Garner Health and Maven Clinic, as well exceptional technical cultures like Meta and Two Sigma.

Able Innovations is on a mission to advance quality of care, efficiency and safety in healthcare through user-centric, robotic innovation. Today, transfers require 2+ staff to exert back-breaking effort resulting in injuries, burnout, and added burden. Able Innovations' ALTA Platform(TM) enables a single caregiver to conduct safe and automated transfers - transforming how healthcare is delivered.