Cohort Company News

At the 2017 meeting of AdvaMed, the medical device industry’s advocacy organization, young start-up Day Zero Diagnostics was chosen as this year’s MedTech Innovator Global Competition winner.

Nexeon MedSystems Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a medical device company developing a neurostimulator technology platform for the treatment of disorders through the electrical stimulation of neural tissues. The company’s first application of its Nexeon Neurostimulation System will be for the treatment of chronic medical conditions such as Parkinson’s and associated diseases in Europe.

More than 700 startups from around the world participated in the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge that culminated on January 8th at the Startup Health Festival in San Francisco—part of the 36th annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Startups participating in the Challenge presented innovative technology and business models to help improve the way people access and manage healthcare.

So excited to announce the close of our $1.6M round including investments from @thepinkceiling & @ionispharma! 2018 is off to a great start! 

2017 was a banner year for crowdfunding campaigns. Here are five of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns last year that you need to know about.

Nanowear, the leader in cloth-based diagnostic monitoring nanosensor technology, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive, worldwide supply-chain partnership agreement with The Secant Group for scaled manufacturing and production of its medical-grade cloth-based nanosensor technology.

The OneRNA4Bladder project aims to save lives and halve the cost of care for bladder-cancer treatment. Bladder cancer is the most expensive cancer to treat due to expensive diagnostic procedures and ineffective drugs resulting in a recurrence rate of 70%.

Medical care is no longer confined to the doctor’s office. Or even, sometimes, to an actual doctor. That iPhone in your pocket now has the capability to diagnose your cough, answer insurance questions, and get you pregnant…or at least help the process along.

Some medical technologies can require hundreds of uses before a surgeon becomes proficient with them. Typical surgeon training involves working with cadavers, but doing this only allows trainees one, maybe two, sessions' worth of experience.

For an octogenarian with arthritic knees, a voice-controlled light switch could ease the pain of having to stand and walk just to illuminate a room. For a nonagenarian, a robot that offers brain-teasing games to help keep her mind sharp could become an ideal companion.

We haven’t even come close to solving the problem of an aging population, so the tech sector is stepping in. Just this week, in Boston, six nursing homes announced plans to close without explanation.

AUM Cardiovascular has been named a gold winner in Best New Product of the Year – Healthcare in Best in Biz Awards, the only independent business awards program judged each year by prominent editors and reporters from top-tier publications in North America.

San Francisco-based patient engagement startup Catalia Health has announced an additional $4 million in pre-Series A funding from Ion Pacific and other investors.

Vyaire Medical, Inc., the healthcare industry’s dedicated “breathing company,” today announced it has acquired Revolutionary Medical Devices, Inc. (RMD), of Tucson, Ariz., a maker of innovative products for airway management, focused on significantly improving patient outcomes.