NousQ is a Singapore-based medical technology company founded in 2021 by ENT surgeon Dr Lynne Lim and engineer Gan Chee Wee. Its flagship product, CLiKX, is a handheld, robotic and sensor-controlled applicator that performs ventilation ear tube insertion with a single click. The device is designed to move ear tube surgery out of the operating theatre and general anesthesia setting into the outpatient clinic, cutting cost, wait times and trauma for the more than one million children who undergo the procedure worldwide each year.
Preceptis Medical is a Golden Valley, Minnesota medtech company that makes the Hummingbird Tympanostomy Tube System (TTS), an FDA-cleared handheld device that lets ENT surgeons place pediatric ear tubes in the office in about five minutes using only a topical anesthetic - no operating room and no general anesthesia. By combining the multiple tools of a traditional tube procedure into a single-pass instrument, Preceptis aims to make a very common childhood surgery safer, faster, and dramatically less expensive for families and payers.