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The Needle That Knows Where It Is
DeepSight Technology is trying to fix a peculiarly modern problem: the scan can show the anatomy, yet lose the instrument meant to reach it. Its tiny sensor shifts the question from “Can we see inside?” to “Can we see exactly where the tip went?”
MAUI Imaging Waited 17 Years for Chips to Catch Up. Now It Wants Ultrasound to See What It Used to Miss.
A father-son garage project spent nearly two decades turning telescope logic into a portable ultrasound system. The first serious proof is in, but the most interesting claims still have to survive larger clinical trials.
Philips Bet the Whole Company on Hospitals - Then a CPAP Recall Almost Broke It
It made light bulbs, then TVs, then the CT scanner in your local hospital. The story of how a Dutch electronics giant reinvented itself as a pure health-tech company - and nearly lost the bet.
GE HealthCare
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.
Braid Health
Braid Health is a San Francisco health-tech company building an FDA-cleared, AI-powered diagnostic collaboration platform for medical imaging. Founded in 2018 by Apple and Twitter alumni Kevin Quennesson and Alessandro Sabatelli, Braid pairs AI imaging copilots with board-certified radiologists to deliver faster, lower-cost reads of MRI, CT, ultrasound and X-ray studies. It serves urgent care networks, health systems and retail clinics, and in 2026 launched a direct-to-patient second-opinion service that offers expert radiologist re-reads for $199.
SonoThera
SonoThera is a South San Francisco biotech developing an ultrasound-guided, nonviral platform for delivering genetic medicines. Instead of the viral vectors that dominate gene therapy, it uses focused ultrasound and injectable microbubbles - a process called sonoporation - to open transient pores in target cells and shuttle DNA or RNA payloads into specific organs. The pitch is delivery that is targeted, potentially redosable, and decoupled from the immune and manufacturing headaches of viruses. The company raised a $125M Series B in June 2026 and is pushing lead programs in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and polycystic kidney disease toward the clinic.
CoapTech
CoapTech is a Baltimore-based medical technology company that built the world's first ultrasound-guided gastrostomy system. Its FDA-cleared PUMA-G System lets bedside clinicians place feeding tubes using only ultrasound imaging and a patented magnet-aligned catheter, replacing procedures that traditionally required an operating room, endoscopy, or interventional radiology. The approach aims to make feeding-tube placement faster, safer, and cheaper, and has been used in more than 1,000 patients across ICUs, step-down units, and long-term acute care hospitals.
Titan Advanced Energy Solutions
Titan Advanced Energy Solutions is a Salem, Massachusetts battery-tech company that uses non-destructive ultrasound and industrial AI to inspect lithium-ion cells at production speed. Its IonSight Digital Teardown platform images the inside of every cell on a manufacturing line - catching layer misalignment, contamination, dry zones, and other hidden defects that CT sampling and electrical tests miss - to improve battery quality, safety, and yield for EVs, grid storage, and consumer electronics.