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The Realtime Group makes the awkward parts work
A medical device can work perfectly on a bench and still bewilder its user. This Plano engineering firm builds for the messier test: people, production, and proof.
Emergo by UL and the last mile of medical invention
A medical device can work perfectly and still be difficult to use, register or sell. Emergo by UL has built a business around those awkward final steps - and the years of compliance that follow.
Cambridge Design Partnership gets past “almost works”
A prototype can impress a room and still be impossible to manufacture. Cambridge Design Partnership has built a business in that awkward gap, fixing everything from diagnostic instruments to the feel of a kitchen knife.
Five Engineers, Twenty-Five Pounds and a Workshop for Medicine
Team Consulting nearly disappeared before it found its lane. Four decades later, its employee-owners build the unglamorous machinery behind better injections, longer-lived transplant organs and an ear clinic that fits in a hand.
Luna Diabetes
Luna Diabetes (Luna Health Inc.) is a San Diego medical device company building the first automated insulin delivery system designed for the more than 90% of insulin-requiring people who dose with an insulin pen rather than a full-time pump. Its flagship product, Luna, pairs what the company calls the world's smallest insulin patch pump with a fully closed-loop algorithm to automate micro-doses of rapid-acting insulin overnight, when most of the glucose benefit from pump therapy occurs. Founded in 2020 by diabetes-industry veterans John Sjolund, Jon Brilliant and Sean Saint, the company raised a $23.6M Series A in August 2025 and is running a pivotal clinical trial using Time in Range as its primary endpoint.