The 130-year medical-technology lineage is no longer selling scanners alone. Its bet is that imaging hardware, diagnostic drugs, cloud software and AI can work as one connected care system - without asking clinicians to become IT departments.
Medtronic began by repairing hospital electronics in a Minneapolis garage. Seventy-seven years later, its devices sit inside bodies, beside beds, and at the center of a high-stakes contest to make medicine less invasive, more measurable, and easier to scale.
Baxter rarely gets the bedside spotlight. Its pumps, beds, monitors, medicines and IV bags are the practical infrastructure that lets modern care move - and the century-old company is rebuilding itself around a more connected hospital.
REEV is a medical robotics company building AI-powered wearable robotics to restore everyday mobility for people with neurological gait disorders after stroke, multiple sclerosis or paraplegia. Its flagship DREEVEN is a lightweight (about 3kg) motorized knee orthosis driven by electro-hydraulic actuation and real-time gait sensing, paired with REEV SENSE, an IMU wearable that turns a person's walking pattern into clinical-grade gait reports. Founded in 2021 and split between Boston and Toulouse, REEV raised $9.2M in February 2025 to finalize DREEVEN, run a clinical study at Boston University and prepare for FDA trials.
ImaCor, Inc. is a New York medical-device company that built the world's first and only hemodynamic transesophageal echocardiography (hTEE) platform for the intensive care unit. Its miniaturized, disposable ClariTEE probe can stay safely in a critically ill patient for up to 72 hours, giving clinicians a continuous, direct window onto the heart - preload, contractility, and right- and left-ventricular function - so they can guide fluids and drugs in real time instead of guessing. In 2022 ImaCor and Clarius Mobile Health launched the FDA-cleared Zura Handheld Hemodynamic Ultrasound, a pocket-sized, 22-ounce TEE system that puts that window in a clinician's hand.