Archimedic Blog

Should a small BioTech or MedTech startup spend precious time and resources developing a corporate mission and core values? The answer is 100%, absolutely, unequivocally, YES.

A clearly stated missio...

Olympus Corporation just agreed to pay $270 million for a balloon filled with saline… Take a moment with that.

At $14.5 million in sales, that’s more than an 18x on a times-revenue basis. For what is, ...

What is the number one thing investors look for in a start-up?

"Disruptive technology" and "market opportunity" are table stakes just to get in the room.

What consistently closes deals is the leadership...

Neglected…thy name is Reimbursement.

"We'll figure out reimbursement after we get a prototype," is a common sentence in MedTech, but it can also be one of the most expensive.

I get it. Early-stage c...

FDA Pre-Submissions are one of the most underused tools in early-stage device development.

Many founders don't know this conversation is even available to them.

A Pre-Sub is a formal mechanism throu...

Why do so many medical devices fail to make it to market? The market is there. The concept is novel. The technology is achievable. It can’t NOT work, right?

And yet, the vast majority of medical devi...

Raising funds for a MedTech startup isn’t just about pitching investors—it’s about building relationships, gathering insights, and positioning your innovation for long-term success. In a recent Linked...

It’s been just over a year since I joined Robin Hood Ventures as an angel investor. While many investors in the group are far more seasoned, I’ve gained invaluable insights by diving into the due dili...

I had the privilege of interviewing the Value Analysis Whisperer himself, Mark Copeland, who cracked open the black box of Value Analysis Committees and shared the secrets that MedTech companies need ...

Here's what usually happens in MedTech. A development team is thick in the details -- designing, prototyping, and testing... They reach a level of technical maturity when they believe they're at "Desi...

Design Freeze is a significant milestone in MedTech. It's the point when you're ready to start the Verification & Validation (V&V) process. It implies maturity of your technical design and also your d...

Prototyping is an essential part of medical device development. But, the vast majority of companies get it all wrong. I've been in medical device design and development (with a heavy dose of prototypi...