Company Announcements

2019 Showcase to Feature Industry’s 50 Best-in-Class Medical Technology Startups. MedTech Innovator today announced a call for startups and emerging growth companies to apply to its 2019 program, which will award up to $500,000 in cash and in-kind prizes during its competition. The deadline to apply is Jan. 25, 2019. There is no application fee, and no equity is required from participating companies.

2019 Showcase to Feature Industry’s 50 Best-in-Class Medical Technology Startups. MedTech Innovator today announced a call for startups and emerging growth companies to apply to its 2019 program, which will award up to $500,000 in cash and in-kind prizes during its competition. The deadline to apply is Jan. 25, 2019. There is no application fee, and no equity is required from participating companies.

Forest Devices Wins $350,000 MedTech Innovator 2019 Grand Prize In the exciting conclusion to the MedTech Innovator 2019 Global Competition, Forest Devices was voted the grand prize winner by a live audience. Forest Devices, a medical technology startup based in... Read More →

Startup Receives $350K Grand Prize for Portable Device to Triage Patients to Proper Stroke Centers LOS ANGELES & BOSTON—MedTech Innovator, the premier nonprofit startup accelerator in the medical technology industry, today announced Forest Devices as the winner of its 2019... Read More →

Starling Surgical, based in Dublin, is developing a wound closure device designed to meticulously perform surgical sutures with the speed and convenience of a skin stapler. The company’s product is designed to change the way surgical wounds are closed. “We are pleased to recognize Starling Surgical with the 2019 Execution Award,” said Paul Grand, CEO of MedTech Innovator. “The Starling Surgical team and all six MedTech Innovator Accelerator companies that competed for this award demonstrated incredible leadership and strategy over the course of the program.

Children's National Hospital and the National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation (NCC-PDI) announce the six winners of the $150,000 "Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!" competition, each receiving a $25,000 award and the opportunity to participate in NCC-PDI's recently launched "Pediatric Device Innovator Accelerator Program" led by MedTech Innovator. Read More →

Additional six companies selected to compete for 2019 Execution Award LOS ANGELES, September 18, 2019 – MedTech Innovator, the premier nonprofit startup accelerator in the medical technology industry, today announced that Flosonics Medical, Forest Devices, Koya, OncoRes Medical, and Venari... Read More →

WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 17, 2019 –  The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) today announced that President and CEO Scott Whitaker has been named to the Board of Directors of MedTech Innovator (MTI), the industry’s preeminent nonprofit global competition and accelerator organization for medical... Read More →