Second Sight Shows The Way

In recent years, mounting pressures from regulators, insurers, and public investors have kept medtech off stride. The sector has steadily lost ground – and venture dollars – to the IPO-rich biopharmaceutical or the hype-heavy digital health sectors. But the past year has been increasingly kind to medtech, giving the industry hope as companies find success on public markets and forge warmer relations with payors and providers.

Few, if any, ventures represent the surge better than Second Sight Medical Products Inc. In the past two years,...