Official press releases and announcements from the MedTech Innovator team.
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From a record applicant pool, four startups advance to MTI’s Grand Prize finals; live audience votes to determine the winner at The MedTech Conference powered by AdvaMed.

Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, former Director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, joins MedTech Innovator as an Advisor to guide portfolio companies on regulatory strategy and market access.

Zonova, which aims to make infection-resistant medical devices the new standard of care, won the 2026 Vision Award by live audience vote at Wilson Sonsini's 33rd Annual Medical Device Digital Health Conference.
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MedTech Innovator announced the 65 companies in its 2026 Accelerator Cohort — the top 4% of 1,835 global applicants — and launched the MTI Index, a recognition platform that makes the MTI portfolio discoverable by investors, health systems, and media.
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The 2026 Innovator Summit, June 2–4 in San Francisco, is the official kickoff for the MTI US, BioTools Innovator, and MedTech Innovator Asia Pacific programs, bringing all 121 companies together with sponsors, alumni, and invited guests.
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MedTech Innovator consolidated its multi-city Road Tour pitch events into a single event, the Radar Forum, held April 7–9 — the industry's most rigorous evaluation platform and the entry point to its accelerator.
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Powerful Medical won the $200,000 2025 Mid-Stage Grand Prize for its AI ECG diagnostics and care-coordination platform, and Wavelet was named the 2025 Value Award winner at the MedTech Strategist Innovation Summit.
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MedTech Innovator announced the finalists for its 2025 Mid-Stage Grand Prize and Value Award competitions, held at the MedTech Strategist Innovation Summit in San Diego.
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Armor Medical won the $350,000 2025 Grand Prize for its non-invasive maternal hemorrhage monitoring, Wavelet won the Execution Award with AdvaMed Accel, and Luminoah took the Best Video Award at The MedTech Conference.
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From a record applicant pool, five startups advanced to MedTech Innovator's 2025 Grand Prize finals and four to the Execution Award, with winners chosen by live audience vote at The MedTech Conference powered by AdvaMed.
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MedTech Innovator announced the 64 companies in its 2025 Accelerator Cohort — the top 4% of global applicants — who will compete for $800K in non-dilutive funding and unmatched industry access.
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The MedAscend Sales Fellowship trains driven people from non-traditional backgrounds in clinical, sales, and leadership skills, filling a critical talent gap in the medical device industry.
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Minnetronix Medical, PRIA Healthcare, Prolucid Technologies, RegNav, and Veeva joined MedTech Innovator as partners, providing mentorship and in-kind services to the 2025 cohort.
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LATTICE Medical won the 2024 Mid-Stage Grand Prize and Flow Medical won the 2024 Value Award at the MedTech Strategist Innovation Summit in San Diego.
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MedTech Innovator announced the finalists for its 2024 Mid-Stage Grand Prize and Value Award competitions, chosen from the 65 companies in its flagship accelerator.
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Samay won the $350,000 2024 Grand Prize for its COPD acoustic resonance patch, SanaHeal won the Execution Award with AdvaMed Accel, and Ozlo took the Best Video Award at The MedTech Conference.
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MedTech Innovator announced the finalists for its 2024 Grand Prize and Execution Award competitions, the culmination of the 2024 MTI Accelerator program.
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NeuroBionics, developing minimally invasive endovascular deep brain stimulation for stroke rehabilitation, won the 2024 Vision Award at Wilson Sonsini's Medical Device Digital Health Conference.
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MedTech Innovator named the 65 startups in its 2024 accelerator cohort, selected from a highly competitive global applicant pool.
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The American Heart Association's Center for Health Technology and Innovation and MedTech Innovator are collaborating to support the next generation of heart and brain health innovators.
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MicroTransponder won MedTech Innovator's inaugural 2023 Mid-Stage Grand Prize and Mirai Medical won the 2023 Value Award at the MedTech Strategist Innovation Summit.
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MedTech Innovator announced the finalists for its inaugural $200,000 Mid-Stage Grand Prize and the 2023 Value Award competitions.
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StrokeDx won MedTech Innovator's $350K 2023 Grand Prize at The MedTech Conference, and Sparta Biomedical won the Execution Award with AdvaMed Accel.
MedTech Innovator announced the finalists for its 2023 Grand Prize and Execution Award competitions at The MedTech Conference.
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The world's largest medtech accelerator announced the 61 startups in its 2023 MedTech Innovator cohort.
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MedTech Innovator and S2N Health announced a partnership to support participants in the MedTech Innovator Value Program.
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EvoEndo won the 2022 MedTech Innovator Execution Award and the AdvaMed Accel Virginia Shimer Rybski Memorial Award.
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The National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation named five winners of its 2022 'Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!' competition, sharing $150,000 in FDA grant funding.
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Phiex Technologies won MedTech Innovator's inaugural 2022 Vision Award at Wilson Sonsini's Medical Device Conference.
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Figure Technologies partnered with MedTech Innovator to support the accelerator's startups with equity management and capital-raising tools.
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Three plastic surgery startups advanced as finalists in the inaugural ASPS MTI Plastic Surgery Accelerator, competing for a share of $500,000 in cash and prizes.
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MedTech Innovator announced the top 50 startups selected for its 2022 cohort, in the tenth year of the world's largest medtech accelerator.
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Five finalists were named in the 2022 'Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!' competition and gained access to a pediatric accelerator ahead of the October final showcase.
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SMART-TRIAL, a clinical data management platform for medical devices, announced its partnership with MedTech Innovator.
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The American Society of Plastic Surgeons announced a partnership with MedTech Innovator to launch a plastic surgery accelerator.
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Five awardees, including innovators targeting congenital heart disease, won the 2021 'Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!' competition, sharing $150,000 in FDA grant funding.
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MedTech Innovator opened applications for its 2022 Global Showcase and Accelerator, featuring the top 50 medtech startups and up to $500,000 in prizes.
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PATH EX won MedTech Innovator's 2021 Value Award at the MedTech Strategist Innovation Summit for its extracorporeal blood cleansing device.
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Alva Health won MedTech Innovator's $350K 2021 Grand Prize at The MedTech Conference for its real-time, wearable stroke monitor.
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PATH EX won the 2021 MedTech Innovator Execution Award and the AdvaMed Accel Virginia Shimer Rybski Memorial Award.
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MedTech Innovator named the finalists for its $500K 2021 Grand Prize and Execution Award competitions.
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MedTech Innovator announced the top 50 medtech startups selected for its 2021 Showcase and Accelerator program.
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Five electrophysiology device innovators were named finalists in the 2021 'Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!' competition and joined a pediatric accelerator led by MedTech Innovator.
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The 2021 'Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!' competition opened applications for electrophysiology devices for pediatric heart patients, with $150K in awards.
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MedTech Innovator opened applications for its 2021 Global Showcase and Accelerator programs, featuring the top 50 medtech startups and up to $500,000 in prizes.
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cellvie won MedTech Innovator's 2020 Value Award at the MedTech Strategist Virtual Summit for its device-enabled mitochondria transplantation therapy.
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Rhaeos won MedTech Innovator's $350K 2020 Grand Prize at The MedTech Conference for its noninvasive monitoring device for hydrocephalus patients.
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Six innovators won a share of $250K in NCC-PDI grants in the 2020 'Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!' competition.
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Vena Vitals won the 2020 MedTech Innovator Execution Award and the AdvaMed Accel Virginia Shimer Rybski Memorial Award.
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MedTech Innovator named the finalists for its $500K 2020 Grand Prize and Execution Award competitions.
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MedTech Innovator and NCC-PDI selected 15 startups for the 2020 MedTech Innovator Pediatric Accelerator.
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Ten finalists in the 2020 'Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!' competition joined the MedTech Innovator Pediatric Accelerator.
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MedTech Innovator announced the top 50 medtech startups selected for its 2020 Showcase and Accelerator program.
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Thirty semi-finalists were named in the 2020 'Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!' competition, which moved to a virtual format.
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NCC-PDI and MedTech Innovator opened applications for the 2020 pediatric device pitch competition, with an accelerator track and up to $250K in awards.
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MedTech Innovator opened applications for its 2020 Global Showcase, Accelerator and Competition, featuring 50 startups and up to $500,000 in prizes.
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Forest Devices won MedTech Innovator's 2019 Global Competition and $350,000 grand prize at The MedTech Conference in Boston for its portable stroke triage device.
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Starling Surgical won MedTech Innovator's 2019 Execution Award and AdvaMed Accel's Virginia Shimer Rybski Memorial Award for its wound closure device.
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Six NICU device companies each won $25,000 in the 2019 NCC-PDI "Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!" competition and joined its MedTech Innovator-led accelerator.
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MedTech Innovator named Flosonics Medical, Forest Devices, Koya, OncoRes Medical and Venari Medical as finalists for its 2019 $350,000 grand prize.
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AdvaMed President and CEO Scott Whitaker joined the MedTech Innovator Board of Directors in 2019, succeeding AdvaMed Accel's Ashley Wittorf.
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OncoRes Medical won MedTech Innovator's 2019 Value Award at the WSGR Medical Device Conference for its intraoperative handheld breast cancer imaging tool.
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MedTech Innovator selected 50 startups for its 2019 Showcase and Accelerator, as its alumni passed $1 billion in follow-on funding.
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Five companies won the 2019 NCC-PDI "Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!" competition, each receiving $50,000 and a MedTech Innovator-led accelerator slot.
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RCSI and Trinity College Dublin partnered with MedTech Innovator to host its 2019 Dublin Pitch Event, the international qualifying round of its program.
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MedTech Innovator and NCC-PDI announced a 2019 pediatric-focused pitch event in Washington, DC on April 30 and invited startups to apply.
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MedTech Innovator announced its 2019 New York City pitch event on April 23 and invited device, diagnostic, and digital health startups to apply.
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MedTech Innovator and Medical Alley announced a 2019 pitch event in Minneapolis on March 27 and invited startups to apply.
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MedTech Innovator, USAMRMC, and MTEC announced a 2019 military-focused pitch event in Charleston, SC on March 19 and invited startups to apply.
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MedTech Innovator announced its 2019 kick-off pitch event in Los Angeles on March 4 with Magnify at CNSI and UCLA and invited startups to apply.
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MedTech Innovator opened applications for its 2019 Showcase, Competition and Accelerator, offering up to $500,000 in prizes, with a Jan. 25, 2019 deadline.
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The FDA awarded $5 million to the NCC-PDI pediatric device consortium, which added MedTech Innovator as a new consortium member.
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Sana Health won MedTech Innovator's 2018 global competition and $350,000 grand prize at The MedTech Conference for its non-invasive neuromodulation device.
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PhotoniCare won the 2018 MedTech Innovator Execution Award and AdvaMed Accel Virginia Shimer Rybski Memorial Award for its ear infection imaging platform.
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MedTech Innovator announced eight new industry partners in 2018, including Amgen, BTG, EdgeOne Medical, Fujikura, HOYA, NIPRO, Nordson Medical, and W.L. Gore.
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MedTech Innovator named AblaCare, CroiValve, FineHeart, Sana Health, and Spect as 2018 finalists, plus five Execution Award finalists.
AblaCare won MedTech Innovator's 2018 Value Award at the WSGR Medical Device Conference for its minimally invasive PCOS-infertility treatment.
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AdvaMed announced The MedTech Conference would again host the MedTech Innovator finals in 2018, as 50 startups were selected for the program.
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MedTech Innovator selected 50 startups for its 2018 Showcase and Accelerator, chosen from a record 700 applicants.
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Olympus announced a partnership with MedTech Innovator in 2018 to mentor and financially support emerging medtech startups.
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MedTech Innovator received a $100,000 BARDA DRIVe grant in 2018 as one of eight HHS-selected accelerators for health security innovation.
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MedTech Innovator was selected as a 2018 training site for the FDA CDRH Experiential Learning Program at its San Francisco Summit.
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MedTech Innovator opened applications for its 2018 competition and accelerator, with a Jan. 26, 2018 deadline and more than $500,000 in cash prizes and scholarships.
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Day Zero Diagnostics won MedTech Innovator's 2017 global competition and its $350,000 grand prize at The MedTech Conference in San Jose.
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Nanowear won the 2017 MedTech Innovator Execution Award and Virginia Shimer Rybski Memorial Award at The MedTech Conference for its heart-failure monitoring garment.
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MedTech Innovator named Abreos Biosciences, Allotrope Medical, Day Zero Diagnostics and Selio Medical as 2017 finalists, plus six Execution Award competitors.
Eximis Surgical won MedTech Innovator's 2017 Value Award at the 25th Annual WSGR Medical Device Conference for its Xcor specimen-removal device.
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MedTech Innovator selected 20 medtech startups for its 2017 four-month accelerator program from nearly 600 applicants.
MedTech Innovator selected 50 startups to present in the 2017 MedTech Innovator Showcase at The MedTech Conference in San Jose.
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MedTech Innovator named Ashley McMaster and Jenell Paul-Robinson as vice presidents in 2017.
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MedTech Innovator incorporated as an independent nonprofit in Los Angeles in 2017, naming its board of directors and founding sponsors.
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MedTech Innovator named Baxter International as its newest industry partner for the 2017 competition.
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MedTech Innovator announced its 2017 Finals at The MedTech Conference in San Jose on Sept. 26, with applications due Feb. 28, 2017.
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MedTech Innovator and the UCLA Technology Development Group announced a two-day connected medical devices event, including the 2017 Los Angeles Pitch Event.
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MedTech Innovator announced its 2017 Value Award competition at the WSGR Medical Device Conference in San Francisco on June 2, with applications due Feb. 28.
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MedTech Innovator announced its 2017 Atlanta Pitch Event on April 26-27 at the SEMDA conference, inviting companies to apply by Feb. 28 to compete for a Showcase slot.
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MedTech Innovator announced its 2017 Dublin Pitch Event and competition on April 25-26 at the MedTech Strategist Innovation Summit, inviting companies to apply by Feb. 28.
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MedTech Innovator announced its 2017 Denver Pitch Event on April 19 at the Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging, inviting companies to apply by Feb. 28 to compete for a Showcase slot.
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MedTech Innovator announced its 2017 Chicago Pitch Event on April 13 at MATTER, inviting companies to apply by Feb. 28 to compete for a Showcase slot.
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MedTech Innovator and AdvaMed Accel invited digital health companies to apply by Feb. 10 to pitch at Start-Up Sessions at the 2017 Digital MedTech Conference in San Francisco.