Podcast Categories: Crux of MedTech

In this episode of The Crux of MedTech, Henry Norton sits down with Thom Rasche, Managing Partner and founding force behind Earlybird Health, the venture fund that literally changed German law to get public health insurers investing in early-stage medtech. Thom shares the unvarnished reality of European health VC: where the arbitrage lies, why the… Continue reading Changing The Law To Fund Medtech with Thom Rasche

In this episode of The Crux of MedTech, Henry Norton sits down with Toon Overbeeke, CEO and Co-founder of Vitestro, the company behind the world’s first CE-marked autonomous robotic phlebotomy device, Aletta. Fresh off a $70M oversubscribed Series B backed by Labcorp, Mayo Clinic, Sutter Health and Sonder Capital, with Intuitive Surgical founder Fred Moll… Continue reading Patients Were Fighting to Use This Blood-Drawing Robot with Toon Overbeeke

In this episode, Henry Norton sits down with Karun Naga, CEO of Apreo Health, to talk about one of the most underserved patient populations in respiratory medicine and why everything the industry tried before was heading in the wrong direction. Karun takes us inside the 25-year journey from the original Emphasys Medical valve device through… Continue reading 25 Years of Unfinished Business in Emphysema. Apreo Health Is Going Back In with Karun Naga

Liam Burns, CEO of Qaelon Medical, joins Henry Norton to talk about one of surgery’s most dangerous and overlooked complications: the anastomotic leak. With leak rates in colorectal surgery now estimated at 18-20% and the standard detection method dating back to 1910, Liam explains how Qaelon is digitizing leak detection to give surgeons real-time, objective… Continue reading Surgeons Are Still Testing for Leaks the Same Way You’d Check a Bicycle Tire with Liam Burns

In this episode, Henry Norton is joined by Neal Piper, Founder and CEO of Luminoah, the company behind the world’s smallest wearable enteral feeding pump. Neal shares the deeply personal story of how his son Noah’s cancer diagnosis exposed just how outdated tube feeding technology really is, and what he’s doing to change it.

Henry Norton sits down with Todd Dunn, CEO of Accuryn Medical, for a conversation that starts on an OR floor and ends with a question about what it really means to lead with integrity. Todd didn’t come to medtech through a lab or a VC fund, he came through a hospital in Charlotte, where a… Continue reading Kidney Monitoring Hasn’t Changed Since 1936 with Todd Dunn

In this episode of The Crux of MedTech, Henry Norton is joined by Dr. Arun Menawat, Chairman and CEO of Profound Medical, the company behind the TULSA-PRO® system, an MRI-guided, incision-free platform that’s directly challenging robotic prostatectomy with head-to-head clinical data. Arun shares the clinical trial results that show step-change improvements in patient outcomes, the… Continue reading Robotic Prostatectomy Has Run Its Course with Dr. Arun Menawat

Alzheimer’s treatments finally exist but patients are waiting months for the brain scans they need to access them. In this episode, Jannis Fischer, CEO and co-founder of Positrigo, explains how his team built an ultra-compact brain PET scanner that fits inside a neurologist’s office and cuts diagnostic timelines from months to days. From losing an… Continue reading Alzheimer’s Drugs Arrived Brain Scanners Didn’t with Jannis Fischer

In this episode, host Henry Norton sits down with Bruno Dheedene, CEO and Founder of Rods&Cones, a surgical streaming platform that’s solving one of the most overlooked problems in the OR – nobody can actually see what the surgeon is doing. Bruno shares how he bootstrapped the company from a 2018 incubation project to a… Continue reading Nobody Can See What’s Happening in Surgery with Bruno Dheedene

In this episode, your host Henry Norton is joined by Esther Reynal de St Michel Richardot, Founding Partner at THENA Capital, to discuss why so many medtech founders are building technologies without understanding their real market challenges and how early-stage thinking about value propositions and stakeholder needs can make or break a healthcare startup. Esther… Continue reading Why Medtech Is Still Decades Behind Fintech with Esther Reynal