Start-Up Spotlight: Protaryx Aims To Simplify Transseptal Access

The company formed by ex-Edwards Lifesciences exec and Harpoon Medical founder raised $8m in Series A for universal catheter system for delivering beating heart treatments.

Start-up Spotlight

When a start-up company comes out of stealth phase and introduces itself to the market, the risk is it can go largely unnoticed. Perhaps even more so during a pandemic. However, what’s eye-catching about Protaryx Medical is twofold: it has been started by a team that includes a medtech entrepreneur who sold his last business for $250m; and its technology has a ready-made, and potentially huge, market.

The company is developing a novel, steerable catheter-based device for transseptal puncture, a common procedure that gains access to the...

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