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Merryman Communications and the art of the next click
A patient story is only the beginning. The healthcare agency now called M+ builds the route from attention to action - and changes the route when the numbers tell it to.
M+ built an agency around the people big agencies wear out
A network of senior healthcare specialists turns complex medical stories into practical next steps. Behind M+ is a quieter experiment: giving experienced people a reason to stay.
Design Catapult takes the sketch all the way to the shipping box
A hospital cart, a contamination scanner and a cold-brew machine have something in common: Design Catapult. The California firm makes a business of the difficult distance between a clever idea and a product someone can actually use.
Epicenter Memphis Has a Better Opening Pitch: Meet Your Next Customer
The Memphis nonprofit connects founders to buyers, investors and industry expertise. Its bet is that the next promising startup may begin with a problem a local company already needs solved.
Ignite opened doors for women in health tech. Then came its own funding test.
The Houston nonprofit paired female founders with healthcare buyers and investors. Its announced 2026 wind-down reveals the cost of keeping those introductions useful.
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.
Spectrum Medical wants to connect every beat of heart surgery
Pumps, disposable circuits and patient records all meet in Spectrum Medical’s Quantum range. Its expansion shows the appeal of joining them together - and the scrutiny that comes with supplying life-support technology.
Skin Analytics wants to shorten the skin cancer queue
Its AI can release selected patients from an urgent cancer pathway without a dermatologist reviewing their images. The harder achievement is making that decision work inside a real health service.
Corin wants your new knee to be forgettable
The British implant maker is building a business around what an X-ray cannot tell you: how a replacement joint behaves in motion. Its wager joins metal, robotics and surgical data.
Rick Green Makes Complicated Technology Make Sense
Across medical robotics, life science, pharmacy automation and patient-engagement software, Rick Green has kept returning to the same deceptively hard assignment: turn an intricate system into a story people can use.
Qualio Turned the FDA’s Paperwork Problem Into a $64 Million Software Bet
A pharmacist saw life-science teams trying to prove product quality with paper, spreadsheets and disconnected software. Fourteen years and roughly $64 million in funding later, Qualio is betting that audit readiness can become a continuous operating system - with humans still holding the pen.
Garrett Schwab Is Building for the Long Wait Between Idea and Impact
The XII Medical CEO has spent a career in the unglamorous middle of medical invention - where patents, payment, teams and patient access must eventually agree.
Michael Favet Keeps Choosing the Hard Part of Medtech
After helping take NeuroPace public, the engineer-turned-operator returned to a small clinical-stage company. His career makes a case for learning every room before taking the corner office.
Justin Chickles Is Building a Biotech on the Art of Removing Friction
After more than 25 years moving between large healthcare companies and lean startups, the Glycyx CEO has learned that biotech progress often depends on a less glamorous skill: turning a complicated premise into the next clear, fundable step.
Kabir Gulati Is Betting Hospital Readiness Can Come in a Box
After 16 years turning clinical problems into products, Kabir Gulati has taken the CEO seat at Carecubes. His new assignment is unusually tangible: help hospitals add isolation capacity without waiting for a building project.
Liu Jianqiang Built a Company Around the Part Nobody Sees
Before an X-ray becomes an image, a detector has to catch what passes through. Liu Jianqiang made that overlooked layer the center of a 19-year engineering company.
Priya Abani Learned BASIC at 12. She Has Been Scaling Complex Systems Ever Since.
Before she ran AliveCor, Priya Abani wrote validation tools for microprocessors and helped Alexa escape the Echo. Her career is a study in one portable skill: making complicated technology useful to ordinary people.
James Blaha Turned a VR Prototype Into a Decade-Long Company
A programmer entered eye care with a prototype, listened when clinicians dismantled his assumptions, and stayed long enough to turn an unusual VR experiment into research infrastructure.
Karun Naga Left Patent Law to Build What the Patents Promised
His route from Michigan engineering classrooms to a $130 million clinical-stage company is a study in useful detours, patient capital and the discipline to stop doing everything at once.
Nitin Salunke’s One-Risk-at-a-Time Playbook
The Supira Medical CEO built his career by translating biomechanics into products, then learned to run a startup by staging risk, keeping options open and making clinical data do the talking.
Ray Rahman Built a New Kind of Bond. Now He’s Teaching AI to See.
Before Kaliber Labs put computer vision inside the operating room, its founder helped turn millions of tiny loans into a AAA-rated security. Ray Rahman’s career is a study in making scattered signals legible - then useful.
Matthew Graybill Is Marketing the Space Between the Machines
After a dozen years moving from product marketing to corporate strategy, Matthew Graybill arrived at GE HealthCare with a deceptively difficult brief: make a vast cardiovascular portfolio feel like one connected idea.
Mary Beth Moynihan Built a Career by Working Backward
For nearly three decades at Boston Scientific, Mary Beth Moynihan has treated a career less like a ladder than a design problem: name the destination, map the missing experiences and make the next move count.
Hannah McKenney-Klepcha Is Building a Company Around the Data We Flush Away
The Starling CEO has spent her career turning overlooked routines into design briefs. Her wager is simple: the most useful health technology may be the one people barely notice using.
Anne Jensen Has Spent a Decade Turning Cell Motion Into Executive Momentum
She began by engineering ways to read rare cells in blood. At Cytovale, Anne Jensen has carried that same eye for signals from the research bench into the decisions that shape a growing diagnostics company.
Anthony Viscogliosi Has Spent 40 Years Turning Research Into Companies
Before Anthony Viscogliosi built medical-device companies, he built an information advantage. Four decades later, the analyst’s habit still shapes how he and his brothers buy, operate and sometimes buy back businesses.
Aparna Divaraniya Turned a Two-Day Science Sprint Into an Eight-Year Company
The scientist who avoided business classes built Oova by treating entrepreneurship like research: assemble the right people, measure what matters, and let the evidence sharpen the idea.
David Specht Waited for the Chips to Catch Up
A former Air Force pilot spent nearly two decades helping turn his father’s telescope insight into a new kind of ultrasound. The useful lesson is less about inspiration than patience: some ideas have to wait for computing power, regulators and the market to arrive.
Denali Dahl Turned a Class Assignment Into a Company Built for the Hard Part
She never planned to run a business. Then a Duke project refused to remain a project, and Denali Dahl learned to translate laboratory precision into the stubborn work of building Kalia Health.
Eric Goslau Learned to Sell the Setback
A first-generation device, dozens of prototypes and a pandemic could have ended Transverse Medical. Eric Goslau turned each interruption into another design brief - and made resilience part of the product.