I decided to start weekly threads about AI healthcare startups/companies that I find exciting:

The first startup on this thread is @ActivSurgical.

A digital surgery company focused on improving surgical efficiency and patient outcome via AI-powered technology 1/9

The Boston-based company was founded in 2016 by Dr. Peter Kim:
“My mission when I founded Activ Surgical was to democratize surgical care by extending insights from experienced surgeons, ensuring world-class surgical care for everyone around the world”. 2/9

Activ Surgical’s surgical software platform technology is driven by computer vision, artificial intelligence, analytics, and machine learning to enhance a surgeon’s intra-operative decision-making and reduce unintended and preventable surgical complications. 3/9

In 2016, inspired by a vision to democratize surgery, Activ Surgical performed the first fully autonomous suturing of soft tissue, outperforming open, laparoscopic, and robot-assisted techniques. 4/9

Activ Surgical announced in April 2021 that it has won FDA 510(k) clearance for ActivSight, the company’s intraoperative imaging module for enhanced surgical visualization. 5/9

The hardware-agnostic imaging module provides surgeons with real-time intraoperative visual data and imaging.



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Activ Surgical plans for ActivSight to power its next product — ActivInsights which will use artificial intelligence and machine learning to produce surgical insights. 7/9

The first ActivInsight will involve perfusion insights, with the ability to see blood flow and perfusion in real-time without traditional dyes. 8/9

With the cutting-edge AI technology and funding to back it up (around $40 M), the future looks exciting for @Activsurgical.

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