A clever medical device still needs a route into the hospital. Ajax Health pairs small invention teams with big commercial engines - and makes the machinery of innovation its business.
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.
COR Medical Ventures is a San Diego-area medical device development company that acts as the center of rotation for medtech innovation. Through three branches - consulting services, a venture studio, and distribution services - it partners with surgeon-inventors and corporations to take orthopedic, spine, and other devices from clinical idea to FDA clearance and market launch. Founded by engineer Ben Arnold, the firm has stood up a portfolio of more than a dozen independent companies spanning robotics, wearables, spinal fusion, and soft-tissue fixation.