# Anuj Bhardwaj

> Anuj Bhardwaj is the co-founder and CEO of SecondWave Systems, a Minneapolis-St. Paul medical device company building the SecondWave MINI, a wearable, noninvasive ultrasound device that aims to calm chronic inflammation by aiming focused sound at the spleen. He took a family-owned industrial ultrasound business founded by his parents in 1977 and redirected its core technology toward medicine, raising a $7M Series A in 2025 on top of more than $15M in government research funding from DARPA, NIH, and ARPA-H. Trained as a mechanical engineer at Penn State with an MS and MBA from MIT, he sits at the crossroads of hardware, bioelectronic medicine, and the emerging field of bio-ultrasonic therapy.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at SecondWave Systems, Inc.
- **Organizations:** SecondWave Systems, Inc., The Ultran Group
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** MS, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MBA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), BS, Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads SecondWave Systems, a pioneer in bio-ultrasonic medicine., Redirected a decades-old family industrial-ultrasound company toward medical applications., Raised over $15M in non-dilutive government funding from DARPA, NIH, ARPA-H, and JPEO-CBRND.

## Career timeline

- **1977** — His parents found The Ultran Group, an industrial ultrasound company for non-destructive testing in aerospace and, later, lithium-ion batteries.
- **pre-2018** — Serves in leadership at The Ultran Group, including Director of Strategy and Business Development.
- **2018** — Bhardwaj and his Ultran team begin investigating therapeutic uses of low-intensity focused ultrasound, targeting the spleen to reduce inflammation.
- **2019** — Co-founds SecondWave Systems with Jeff Heyman and Dr. Hubert Lim; becomes CEO in July 2019.
- **2021** — SecondWave secures over $7M from the US Department of Defense to accelerate its anti-inflammatory ultrasound therapy.
- **2025** — Raises a $7M Series A led by Treo Ventures to advance clinical development of the SecondWave MINI.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads SecondWave Systems, a pioneer in bio-ultrasonic medicine.
- Redirected a decades-old family industrial-ultrasound company toward medical applications.
- Raised over $15M in non-dilutive government funding from DARPA, NIH, ARPA-H, and JPEO-CBRND.
- Closed a $7M Series A in April 2025 led by Treo Ventures.
- Developed the SecondWave MINI, a first-of-its-kind wearable, noninvasive therapeutic ultrasound device.
- Oversaw a first-in-human study showing significant reduction in rheumatoid arthritis disease activity, with over 100 patients treated across studies.
- Selected for the NIH Blueprint MedTech program, J&J's JLABS, and Fogarty Innovation's accelerator.

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — SecondWave raised a $7M Series A led by Treo Ventures to fund its next clinical study of the SecondWave MINI.

## Links

- Website: https://secondwaveus.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/anuj-bhardwaj-b130182
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/secondwavesysus
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl8frPuccJE

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Last updated: 2026-07-01