Person / Founder / Executive
Mina Fahim
He put a hologram between the surgeon and the patient - and the FDA said yes.
Mina Fahim. The engineer who decided a flat screen was no place to steer a needle.
He put a hologram between the surgeon and the patient - and the FDA said yes.
A needle is about to go into a tumor. The surgeon can't see it. Not really - not the way you'd want. For a century the deal has been this: study the CT scan on a wall monitor, hold the picture in your head, then reach into a body you can only imagine. Mina Fahim looked at that arrangement and found it absurd.
Fahim is the CEO and President of MediView XR, a Cleveland company that does something that still sounds like science fiction on the fifth read: it takes a patient's CT and MRI scans, fuses them with live ultrasound, and projects the whole thing as a 3D hologram the clinician sees floating over - and inside - the patient through a headset. Colleagues call it X-ray vision. The FDA calls it cleared.
That single sentence is the whole company. It's the mismatch Fahim built MediView to close. He isn't a showman selling the future of goggles; he's a biomedical engineer who spent years inside the guts of medical devices and concluded the visualization layer was the weak link. Anatomy is three-dimensional. The tools were not.
In July 2023, MediView earned what no one had before: the first FDA 510(k) clearance for an augmented reality device that combines live imaging with 3D XR visualization. The product is called the XR90. It runs on Microsoft's HoloLens 2, and it is meant for the quiet, high-stakes work of minimally invasive, needle-based procedures - biopsies, ablations, the moments where being a few millimeters off is the entire ballgame.
Two years later, in October 2025, MediView closed a $24 million Series A led by GE HealthCare, with the Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Edge Ventures and JobsOhio Growth Capital Fund all writing checks. When your customers, your imaging partner and two of the most respected clinics in the country all become your investors, that isn't hype. That's a verdict.
The clever part isn't the headset. It's the fusion - stitching a scan taken yesterday to an ultrasound taken this second, and pinning both to the exact patient on the exact table.
Pre-operative CT and MRI scans build a full 3D model of the patient's anatomy - the terrain before the trip.
Real-time ultrasound streams what's happening right now, so the map moves as the body does.
The HoloLens 2 fuses both and drops the hologram over the patient. The clinician looks at the body and sees inside it.
Our mission is to simplify, democratize, and inform medical procedures by giving clinicians intuitive, real-time 3D visualization and guidance tools.
XR90 expands the solutions available to practitioners as they look to simplify, democratize, and inform care delivery - with the ultimate goal of improving and expanding access to the best care.
Surgeons understand and act on human anatomy in 3D, but use 2D visualization and plan procedures.
Trust, team, transparency and track record encourage collaboration and innovation.
The names on the cap table read like a who's-who of the exact people who'd have to use, buy, or scan alongside this thing. That's the tell.
Led MediView to the first FDA 510(k) clearance for an AR device combining live imaging with 3D XR visualization.
The platform guided the world's first-in-human augmented reality tumor ablation, performed at the Cleveland Clinic.
Closed a $24M Series A with GE HealthCare, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Edge Ventures and JobsOhio.
Built partnerships with Microsoft for HoloLens 2 and GE HealthCare for medical imaging in the interventional space.
Launched a multicenter study validating XR90 surgical navigation for soft-tissue biopsy across leading US hospitals.
Rose from Chief Technology Officer to CEO & President, keeping an engineer's grip on the product the whole way.
Anatomy was always 3D. Fahim just refused to keep flattening it.
He's a serial entrepreneur across both medtech and fintech - the OR isn't his only frontier.
MediView turned a consumer headset - Microsoft's HoloLens 2 - into a cleared medical instrument.
Home base is Minnesota, with wife Monika, sons Theo and Noah, and a dog named Teddy.
Biking, basketball and travel fill the margins; nonprofit and church service anchor the rest.
The company sits at 10000 Cedar Ave - right on the Cleveland Clinic's doorstep.
He distills leadership into four T's: trust, team, transparency, track record.