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Sandeep Akkaraju Put Ultrasound on Silicon. The Bigger Idea Is Where It Can Go.
A backpacking year in West Africa gave a semiconductor entrepreneur a more demanding brief: build technology that travels. At Exo, Sandeep Akkaraju has spent a decade turning that conviction into a pocket-sized imaging system.
Amin Nikoozadeh
Amin Nikoozadeh is the founder and CEO of Vave Health, a San Jose company building affordable, wireless handheld ultrasound. A Stanford-trained electrical engineer who spent years shrinking an entire imaging system onto the tip of a 3mm catheter, he started Vave in 2015 after confronting a stark fact: roughly two-thirds of the world's population has no access to medical imaging. The company's pocket-sized probe earned FDA 510(k) clearance in 2019 and now powers millions of scans across hospitals, medical schools, and underserved clinics.