February 2025, Volume 2, No. 2
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Letter from the Editors

Need fresh inspiration for your medtech company as we navigate Q125? We’ve gathered insights from some of our LSI alumni thought leaders to help you stay ahead.

Highlighting recent leadership shifts and other announcements and accolades impacting our global medtech community.

Highlights: Positive new pulsed field ablation studies, AI-powered cancer detection tools advance, robotics and endomicroscopy merge, a new no-implant atrial shunt for heart failure gains FDA and investor support, and much more.

Select Medtech Industry Financings & Deals January 2025, by Date

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Dr. Catherine Mohr shares her journey with Intuitive Surgical as the surgical robotics leader evolved as a “29-year overnight success,” and offers lessons on how to approach what she calls the wicked problems burdening the world of healthcare and medtech. Now leading the Intuitive Foundation, she’s focused on solutions that go beyond technology, ensuring innovation meets real-world needs—for example addressing the global surgical training gap in emerging markets to save patient lives.

The field of ischemic stroke treatment, where “time is brain,” is being transformed by next-generation hybrid thrombectomy devices and emerging robotics-assisted and AI-driven platforms, with a focus on improving clinical outcomes and reducing disability.

Minimally invasive cryoablation, that harnesses extreme cold to destroy cancerous and other abnormal tissue across a variety of specialties, is heating up the ablation market, thanks to precision image-guided advancements and innovative new devices.

Data sourced from LSI’s Global Procedure Volumes Database, which provides trusted coverage of 300+ diagnostic and therapeutic procedures across 37 countries.

Soltanianzadeh’s medtech journey has taken him from start-up entrepreneur, to investor, to CEO of CardiaCare: an innovative AI-based neuromodulation therapy company working to revolutionize atrial fibrillation treatment. In the midst of a Series A raise, he will be presenting at the March LSI USA ‘25 event in Dana Point, CA.

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Celebrating the recent wins of our LSI presenting company and speaker alumni community.

This month we’re showcasing technologies and organizations impacting our industry, and patient lives.

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