Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Top 50 Medtech Startups of 2018

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Elysium Health

New York, New York, United States

Elysium Health manufactures a clinically-validated formulation designed to support well-being at the cellular level.

Bigfoot Biomedical

Milpitas, California, United States

An end-to-end Type 1 Diabetes Management System using simple design, cloud connectivity and human centered automation.

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Ginkgo Bioworks

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ginkgo Bioworks designs custom microbes for customers across multiple markets.

Health IQ

Mountain View, California, United States

Health IQ is applying data science to craft life insurance plans that reward fitness freaks and diet do-gooders.

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Orchard Therapeutics

London, England, United Kingdom

Orchard Therapeutics is bringing transformative gene therapies to patients with serious and life-threatening orphan diseases.

VitalConnect

San Jose, California, United States

VitalConnect is developing wearable biosensor technologiesfor wireless hospital and remote patient monitoring.

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Ping An Good Doctor

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Ping An Good Doctor is an Online-to-offline (O2O) healthcare servicing platform.

AliveCor

Mountain View, California, United States

AliveCor has a device and application that will turn any smartphone into a clinical-quality electrocardiogram(ECG) recorder.

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Nuritas

Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Nuritas combines artificial intelligence and genomics to discover and unlock natural bioactive peptides with extraordinary health benefits.

Aptinyx

Evanston, Illinois, United States

Aptinyx discovers and develops innovative therapies for challenging disorders of the brain and nervous system.

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Fractyl Laboratories

Lexington, Massachusetts, United States

Fractyl is a clinical-stage medical technology company developing innovative procedures and devices to address insulin resistance and restore metabolic health.

Celmatix

New York, New York, United States

Cellmatix has developed the world?s first multi-gene genetic test for reproductive health.

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Hookipa Biotech

Vienna, Wien, Austria

Hookipa Biotech develops prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines for the prevention and treatment of multiple infectious diseases and cancer.

Metacrine

San Diego, California, United States

Metacrine is efficiently developing innovative drugs that
materially benefit patients with liver, GI, and
metabolic diseases.

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Arterys

San Francisco, California, United States

Arterys’is radically transforming the world of medical imaging via high performance cloud computation.

Livongo

Mountain View, California, United States

Livongo personalized insights and support to make diabetes management easier.

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Health2Sync

Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan

Health2Sync develops systems that transform smartphones into legacy medical devices and smart health monitoring machines for diabetes.

Codiak Biosciences

San Francisco, California, United States

Codiak is building a unique platform to employ exosomes as therapeutics..

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FLX Bio

South San Francisco, California, United States

FLX Bio, Inc. is an immuno-oncology developing orally-available, small molecule drugs to activate the immune system and eradicate cancer.

Counsyl

South San Francisco, California, United States

Counsyl is a health technology company that offers DNA screening for men, women, and their children

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GRAIL

Menlo Park, California, United States

Grail develops blood tests and blood screen for early-stage cancer detection.

Natural Cycles

Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden

Natural Cycles is the worlds first and only certified contraceptive app, spearheading digital contraception, a new category in female reproductive health

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InSilico Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

InSilico Medicine is dedicated to finding novel solutions for cancer, aging and age-related diseases using advances in genomics and big data analysis.

Medlinker

Beijing, Beijing, China

Medlinker is a social networking app for doctors that allows them to connect with peers, facilitate referrals, and share medical records.

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iCarbonX

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

iCarbonX makes highly individualized care made possible through massive data sets, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence.

Moderna Therapeutics

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Moderna is pioneering messenger RNA therapeutics?, an entirely new in vivo drug modality that produces human proteins or antibodies inside patient cells, which are in turn active intracellularly or secreted.

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Precision Medicine Group

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Precision Medicine Group brings highly specialized biomarker, laboratory, and clinical trial services as well as the regulatory expertise to manage the precision development pathway

Guardant Health

Redwood City, California, United States

Guardant Health provides non invasive next-generation sequencing and rare-cell diagnostics- 73 genes in one blood draw.

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Rani Therapeutics

San Jose, California, United States

Rani Therapeutics, LLC is developing a oral biotherapeutics technology for the oral delivery of large drug molecules, including peptides, proteins, and antibodies.

OrCam Technologies

Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel

The OrCam device is a smart camera mounted on the frames of your eyeglasses, which ?sees? text, recognizes objects and ?whispers? in your ear.

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Allakos

San Carlos, California, United States


Biolinq

San Diego, California, United States

Biolinq?s provides minimally-invasive electrochemical biosensor platform for blood glucose monitoring.

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Iora Health

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Iora Health provides infrastructure to small medical practices to allow them to lower health care costs and improve quality and experience by better managing their patients with complex chronic disease.

Twist Bioscience

San Francisco, California, United States

Twist bioscience produces synthetic DNA for specialty chemical compounds and drug development.

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Human Longevity

San Diego, California, United States

HLI combines the largest database of genomic and phenotypic data with machine learning to drive discoveries and revolutionize the practice of medicine.

TigerText

Santa Monica, California, United States

TigerText helps physicians, nurses, and other staff communicate and collaborate more effectively, accelerating productivity, reducing costs, and improving patient outcomes.

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Relay Therapeutics

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Relay Therapeutics is putting protein motion at the heart of drug discovery to dramatically expand therapeutic possibilities

Magenta Therapeutics

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Magenta Therapeutics is a new biotechnology company developing therapeutics that unlock the power of stem cell biology

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Ginger.io

San Francisco, California, United States

Ginger.io combines smartphone data and human connection to offer personalized, comprehensive mental healthcare .

Helix

San Carlos, California, United States

Helix is a rapidly growing startup focused on personal genomics

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Freenome

South San Francisco, California, United States

Freenome is developing accurate, accessible and non-invasive disease screening products for proactively treating cancer and other diseases at their most manageable stages.

Recursion Pharmaceuticals

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Recursion pharma is combining experimental biology and bioinformatics to identify 100 new treatments in 10 years.

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Butterfly Network

Guilford, Connecticut, United States

Butterfly Network produces iQ-Whole body ultrasound imaging device Under $2k

TARIS Biomedical

Lexington, Massachusetts, United States

TARIS Biomedical is a pharmaceutical company developing therapies for genitourinary system issues.

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Cirtec Medical

Enfield, Connecticut, United States

Cirtec manufactures active implantable devices in the areas of neuromodulation, drug delivery, cardiac rhythm management, ventricular assist, and minimally invasive devices.

Deep Genomics

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Deep Genomics is building a biologically accurate data- and AI-driven platform that supports geneticists, molecular biologists and chemists in the development of therapies.

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Babylon Health

London, England, United Kingdom

Babylon delivers high quality on- demand healthcare via your mobile phone .

Arcus Biosciences

Hayward, California, United States

Arcus Biosciences is a biotech company that visions to create new cancer therapeutics through the use of emerging insights in immunology

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Avizia

Reston, Virginia, United States

Avizia provides collaborative care for patients by connecting medical experts across distance through innovative, leading-edge telemedicine solutions

Xenex

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Xenex?s Pulsed Xenon Full Spectrum? UV Disinfection Solution reduces the bacterial load often associated with an increased risk for Hospital Acquired Infections.

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