Patients Fought to Use This Blood-Drawing Robot with Toon Overbeeke
In this episode of The Crux of MedTech, Henry Norton sits down with Toon Overbeeke, CEO and Co-founder of Vitestro, the company behind the world's first CE-marked autonomous robotic phlebotomy device, Aletta. Fresh off a $70M oversubscribed Series B backed by Labcorp, Mayo Clinic, Sutter Health and Sonder Capital, with Intuitive Surgical founder Fred Moll on the board, Toon shares how a friend's father struggling through chemotherapy blood draws sparked the idea to automate the most commonly performed invasive procedure on the planet.
Toon breaks down how Vitestro approached the problem from…
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