Investor Eye: Juno Capital Believes Medtech Is An Optimal Long-Term Investment

Juno Capital partner Edward Rudd believes that investing in medtech offers not only a long-term strategy for allocating capital, but an altruistic relief for investors.

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Juno Capital set out to spot investment opportunities that other venture capital funds when Julian Hickman and Edward Rudd founded the VC firm in 2011.

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Investor Eye: Sofinnova Partners Are Redefining And Disobeying The Venture Investment Commandments

 

Sofinnova Partners has played an important role in defining the medtech investment space for the past 50 years, helping bring to market a plethora of life-saving technologies, even when they appear, initially, to be risky.

Investor Eye: Medtech Innovator’s Accelerator Is Catching Up With Pharma

 

Each year, Medtech Innovator whittles down a vast number of applicants to a relatively succinct shortlist of companies. Paul Grand, Medtech Innovator’s CEO, spoke to Medtech Insight about this process, as well as some of the broader trends impacting investment in medtech.

Investor Eye: Intuitive Surgical Hops, Skips, And Jumps Into VC

 

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Investor Eye: A Licensing-Based Approach May Be Best For Revolutionary IP

 

Keeping a firm grip on one’s IP is a cornerstone of most innovative businesses. However, Robert Cote, CEO of Cote Capital, believes that if the idea is good enough to keep close, it’s good enough to license out.

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THENA Capital ‘Makes History’ As UK’s First All-Female Early-Stage Medtech Fund

 

Only 16% of venture capital general partners in Europe are women, and only 9% of those have actual investment power. Thena Capital is aiming to "redefine the image of a venture capitalist."

Wired Health: ‘Early Diagnosis Often Benefits Science But Not The Patient’

 

Early diagnosis can be “detrimental” to patients, Suzanne O'Sullivan, neurologist and author of “The Age of Diagnosis,” argued at the Wired Health conference on 18 March. "You save one life from screening 2,000 women for breast cancer, but you also treat 10 women unnecessarily," she said.

LSI 2025: Intuitive Surgical CEO Gary Guthart On da Vinci 5’s Force Feedback, Digital Coaching, ION Expansion, And Robotic Surgery’s Future

 
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Medtech Insight sat down with Intuitive Surgical CEO Gary Guthart at the recent LSI USA conference to discuss the full launch of the new da Vinci 5 robotic system and planned digital enhancements. Guthart also offered his views on health care interoperability, AI regulation, outpatient surgeries, autonomous robots, and how the company is harnessing technology to shape the future of robotic surgery.