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This is Cruxx
This is Cruxx is a podcast network for founders, CEOs, investors, and operators building the next generation of MedTech. On this channel: Crux of MedTech (long-form interviews across the medical device landscape) Crux of Cardio (cardiovascular innovation) Crux of Neuro (neurotechnology and neuro devices) YouTube Shorts with punchy insights on MedTech, fundraising, commercialisation, and leadership We cover topics like surgical robotics, neurotechnology, cardiovascular devices, AI in healthcare…
Episodes
This is Cruxx1 Million Patients, What Finally Changed for Withings?
In this episode of Crux of Cardio, Jordan Bergin is joined by Antoine from Withings to explore how the company evolved from a consumer wellness brand into a…
This is Cruxx3,000 TAVRs and the Questions We Haven’t Answered With Dr Michael Reardon
In this episode of The Crux of Cardio, Jordan is joined by Dr. Michael Reardon, Professor and Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital, to…
This is CruxxHow Cala Built The Most Personalised Wearable Neurostim Device For Essential Tremor
In this episode of the Crux of Neuro, Liz Moyles is joined by Deanna Harschberger, CEO of Cala Health, to explore how non-invasive neurostimulation is changing…
This is CruxxYour Brain Has Been Tired for Hours, You Just Don't Know It Yet with Dr. Ramses Alcaide
In this episode of the Crux of Neuro, Liz Moyles is joined by Dr. Ramses Alcaide neuroscientist, inventor, and CEO of Neurable, to explore what happens when…
This is CruxxDon't Use The D Word With Christian Howell
In this episode of the Crux of Neuro, Liz Moyles is joined by Christian Howell, CEO of Cognito Therapeutics, to explore what happens when neuroscience, light…
This is CruxxYour Brain Is the Softest Thing in Your Body, that's Why All Implants Are Wrong with Dr. Nicolas Vachicouras
In this episode of the Crux of Neuro, Liz Moyles sits down with Dr. Nicolas Vachicouras, PhD, CEO and Co-Founder of Neurosoft Bioelectronics, a Geneva and New…
This is CruxxThe Brain Knows How to Heal, Medicine Just Hasn't Caught Up with Dr. Leo Petrossian
In this episode of Crux of Neuro, host Liz Moyles is joined by Dr. Leo Petrossian, CEO of Kandu, Inc. the company formed from the merger of Neurolutions and…
This is CruxxThe Bravest Thing a CEO Can Say Is "I Don't Know" with Renee Ryan
In this episode of the Crux of Neuro, Renee Ryan, co-founder and CEO of PinPrint and former CEO of Cala Health. Renee traces her path from Wall Street…
This is CruxxThe Tricuspid Valve Was Forgotten for Decades. TRiCares Is Changing That with Ahmed Elmouelhi
In this episode, Jordan is joined by Ahmed Elmouelhi, President & CEO of TRiCares, the company behind Topaz, a purpose-built transcatheter tricuspid valve…
This is CruxxMigraines Are Not Just Headaches with Hubert Martens
In this episode of the Crux of Neuro, Liz Moyles is joined by Hubert Martens, physicist-turned-entrepreneur, co-founder of Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation…
This is CruxxEurope's Med Tech Advantage Is Real, But Only If You Build It Right with Tatiana Lobanov-Rostovsky
In this episode of the Crux of MedTech, Henry Norton is joined by Tatiana Lobanov-Rostovsky, Investor at Oxford Science Enterprises, the independent…
This is CruxxThe Hospital Gold Standard Catches Just 5% of Arrhythmias with Vlastimil Hrabal
In this episode, your host, Jordan Burgin, is joined by Vlastimil Hrabal, CEO and Co-Founder of Kardi AI, to unpack why a 24-hour Holter monitor the hospital…
This is CruxxWe Had Seven Days of Cash Left with Dan Rose
In this episode of the Crux of Cardio, Jordan Burgin sits down with Dan Rose, CEO of Endovascular Engineering (E2), to talk about building, exiting, and doing…
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Reimbursement Is Neurotech's Biggest Risk with Juan-Pablo Mas
In this episode, your host, Liz Moyles, is joined by Juan-Pablo Mas, Managing Director at Action Potential VC to talk about investing at the frontier of…
This is CruxxThe First Commercial Hire Makes or Breaks Your Startup with Brandon Allen
In this episode, your host, Jordan Burgin, is joined by Brandon Allen a cardiovascular commercial leader who is CCO at Atraverse Medical, the…
This is CruxxCleerly Is the Mammogram of the Heart with Jim Hartman
In this episode, your host, Jordan Burgin, is joined by Jim Hartman, Chief Commercial Officer at Cleerly, to talk about why heart disease is still caught too…
This is CruxxNobody Cares About Better, Cheaper, Faster with Jim Surek
In this episode of the Crux of Neuro podcast, Liz Moyles sits down with Jim Surek, a 33-year medtech veteran with seven M&A exits to his name, including…
This is CruxxThe Doctor Who Put a Heart Attack Detector in Your Pocket with Dr. Dave Albert
In this episode, host Jordan Burgin sits down with Dr. Dave Albert, physician, serial inventor and founder of AliveCor, the man who put a clinical-grade ECG in…
This is CruxxPutting an Expert Respiratory Therapist in Every Home with Anat Shani
In this episode, host Henry Norton sits down with Anat Shani, CEO of Synchrony Medical, to talk about LibAirty™, the first FDA-cleared at-home airway clearance…
This is CruxxThe Himalaya of Medtech: Building a Next-Gen Heart Pump From Scratch with Louis de Lillers
In this episode of the Crux of Cardio, your host Jordan Burgin sits down with Louis de Lillers, CEO of CorWave, the French company developing a next-generation…
This is CruxxChanging The Law To Fund Medtech with Thom Rasche
In this episode of The Crux of MedTech, Henry Norton sits down with Thom Rasche, Managing Partner and founding force behind Earlybird Health, the venture fund…
This is CruxxFive Billion-Dollar Deals in 45 Days: Inside the Cardiac Monitoring Gold Rush with Ken Nelson
In this episode of The Crux of Cardio, Jordan Burgin sits down with Ken Nelson, one of the most experienced commercial leaders in cardiac digital health. Ken…
This is CruxxPatients 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…
This is CruxxHalf a Million Patients a Year and No Good Options. Until Now with Dr. Lucy O'Keeffe
In this episode, your host Jordan Burgin sits down with Dr. Lucy O'Keeffe, CEO and Co-Founder of CroíValve, for the first ever in-person recording of the Crux…
This is Cruxx25 Years of Unfinished Business in Emphysema. Apreo Health Is Going Back In with Karun Naga
In this episode, Henry Norton sits down with Karun Naga, CEO of Apreo Health, to talk about one of the most underserved patient populations in respiratory…
This is CruxxThe Heart Failure Industry Has It Wrong, This Tiny Turbine Could Fix It with Arnaud Mascarell
In this episode of Crux of Cardio, Jordan Burgin sits down with Arnaud Mascarell, CEO and Co-Founder of FineHeart, the Bordeaux-based company behind the…
This is CruxxSurgeons Are Still Testing for Leaks the Same Way You'd Check a Bicycle Tire with Liam Burns
Liam Burns, CEO of Qaelon Medical, joins Henry Norton to talk about one of surgery's most dangerous and overlooked complications: the anastomotic leak. With…
This is CruxxFrom Territory Manager to CCO of a $400M Cardiovascular Powerhouse with Tarik Pacuka
In this episode of the Crux of Cardio, Jordan Burgin sits down with Tarik Pacuka, former Chief Commercial Officer of Terumo Aortic, who scaled the business…
This is CruxxBuilding the World’s Smallest Feeding Pump with Neal Piper
In this episode, Henry Norton is joined by Neal Piper, Founder and CEO of Luminoah, the company behind the world’s smallest wearable enteral feeding pump. Neal…
This is CruxxKidney Monitoring Hasn’t Changed Since 1936 with Todd Dunn
Henry Norton sits down with Todd Dunn, CEO of Accuryn Medical, for a conversation that starts on an OR floor and ends with a question about what it really…
This is CruxxRobotic Prostatectomy Has Run Its Course with Dr. Arun Menawat
In this episode of The Crux of MedTech, Henry Norton is joined by Dr. Arun Menawat, Chairman and CEO of Profound Medical, the company behind the TULSA-PRO®…
This is CruxxThe AI That Reads ECGs Better Than Your Cardiologist with Martin Herman
In this episode of the Crux of Cardio, host Jordan Burgin is joined by Martin Herman, co-founder and CEO of Powerful Medical the AI-powered cardiac diagnostics…
This is CruxxAlzheimer's Drugs Arrived Brain Scanners Didn't with Jannis Fischer
Alzheimer's treatments finally exist but patients are waiting months for the brain scans they need to access them. In this episode, Jannis Fischer, CEO and…
This is CruxxNobody Can See What's Happening in Surgery with Bruno Dheedene
In this episode, host Henry Norton sits down with Bruno Dheedene, CEO and Founder of Rods&Cones, a surgical streaming platform that's solving one of the most…
This is CruxxCardiac Ablation Has A 50% Problem, Here's The Fix with Andreu Climent
Jordan is joined by Andreu Climent, CEO of Corify Care, a cardiac mapping company using non-invasive, whole-heart technology to guide EP procedures in real…
This is CruxxWhy Medtech Is Still Decades Behind Fintech with Esther Reynal
In this episode, your host Henry Norton is joined by Esther Reynal de St Michel Richardot, Founding Partner at THENA Capital, to discuss why so many medtech…
This is CruxxVenture is First and Foremost an Adventure with Iwan van Vijfeijken
In this episode, host Henry Norton sits down with Iwan van Vijfeijken, CEO of Microsure and a four-time medtech entrepreneur who's been through the full cycle…
This is CruxxWall Street Said It Couldn't Be Done, We Did It Anyway with Wayne Paterson
Wayne Paterson, CEO and Vice Chairman of Anteris Technologies, joins host Jordan Bergen for a frank conversation about pivoting a failing drug company into the…
This is CruxxBuilding Acquisition-Ready Medtech from Series A with Gautam Kainth
In this episode, host Henry Norton sits down with Gautam Kainth, Partner at TCP Health Ventures, to unpack why medtech investing fundamentally differs from…
This is CruxxThe Heart Valve Treatment That Doesn't Touch the Patient with Carine Schorochoff
In this episode, host Jordan Burgin sits down with Carine Schorochoff, CEO of Cardiawave, to explore Valvosoft the world's first CE-marked non-invasive…
This is Cruxx100% of Nothing is Nothing with Raymond Cohen
Raymond Cohen has spent 40+ years in medtech, never at a big company but always building. After taking Axonics from whiteboard to $500M in revenue and a Boston…
This is Cruxx30 Da Vinci Copycats Will Fail with John Murphy
John Murphy left a corporate COO role to become employee number one at Virtual Incision then spent the next 14 years building MIRA, the world's first…
This is CruxxA New Vital Sign for Heart Failure with Filip Peters
In this episode of the Crux of Cardio, host Jordan Bergen sits down with Filip Peters, Co-founder and CEO of Acorai, to unpack how his team is building a…
This is Cruxx10x Isn't Enough to Change Medicine with Alan Cohen
Alan Cohen has built companies, sold companies, started a price war between tech giants and now invests in what he calls "tech med" at DCVC, a $4.5bn deep-tech…
This is CruxxVivasure $185 million exit an Interview with Andrew Glass, CEO
In this episode of The Crux of MedTech, host Henry Norton sits down with Andrew Glass, CEO of Vivasure Medical, fresh off announcing the company's acquisition…
This is CruxxThe Glucose Sensor That Predicts the Future with Mark Tapsak
In this episode, Henry Norton sits down with Mark Tapsak, Chief Science Officer at Glucotrack and one of Dexcom's earliest employees. Mark Tapsak left…
This is CruxxCan Your Voice Predict Heart Failure? With Oliver Piepenstock
In this episode of The Crux of Cardio, host Jordan Burgin sits down with Oliver Piepenstock, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based Noah Labs, to explore how voice…
This is CruxxCooling the Pancreas to Save Lives with Robert Kieval, CEO of Arctics
In this episode, Henry Norton sits down with Robert Kieval, CEO of Arctx Medical Inc, to talk about a condition that sends 300,000 Americans to the ER every…
This is CruxxFrom Research Bench to Exit with Ananth Ravi, Founder of MOLLI Surgical
In this episode of the Cruxx of MedTech podcast, host Henry Norton sits down with Ananth Ravi, founder of MOLLI Surgical and former medical physicist at the…
This is CruxxCan An Artificial Heart Replace Transplants? with Patrick Schnegelsberg, CEO at SynCardia
In this Crux of Medtech crossover with the new Crux of Cardio series, Jordan and Henry sit down with Jack, his wife and caregiver Rocky, and SynCardia CEO…
This is CruxxDual-Modality Imaging That Rewrites PCI Outcomes with Thomas Looby, CEO of Conavi Medical
In this episode of the Crux of Medtech Henry is joined by Thomas Looby, CEO of Conavi Medical. Thomas breaks down why combining IVUS + OCT in a single catheter…
This is CruxxHow to Survive FDA Battles and Boardroom Drama - with Sabine Bois
This episode of the Crux of Medtech features Sabine Bois, the former CEO of Occlutech. Sabine is a medtech leader whose career spans founding startups…
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The AI Solution That Targets Repeat Cancer Surgeries - with Adrian Mendes
In this episode, Henry Norton speaks with Adrian Mendes, CEO of Perimeter, a company using AI and optical imaging to tackle one of cancer surgery’s biggest…
This is CruxxWhy Digital Health Keeps Failing Patients - with David Pettigrew
Why are so few patients accessing the care they need when the tech is already here? In this episode, Henry Norton sits down with David Pettigrew CEO at my…
This is CruxxWhat's the Hype with Neuro? A Lesson in the Brain - With Hannah Claridge
In this episode, your host, Henry Norton, is joined by Hannah Claridge, the Head of Neurotechnology at TTP, to talk about the incredible advancements that are…
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Why Most Medtech Fundraisers Fail and What to Do Instead - Kiko Filipov, Partner at APPARIUS
Raising capital in Medtech is tougher than ever. Investor expectations have shifted. Competition is up. And many founders are still pitching like it’s 2018. In…
This is CruxxClinically Beautiful Smiles, Made with Robots - Paul Roberts, CEO of Lupin Dental
Join host Henry Norton in this episode of The Crux of Medtech as he speaks to Paul Roberts, co-founder of CMR Surgical and current CEO of Lupin Dental. Paul…
This is CruxxArtificial Intelligence Feels Like Magic - With Peter Verrillo
Meet Peter Verrillo, the CEO of Redefine Surgery. He joins your host, Henry Norton, in this episode to discuss the latest developments in orthopaedic AI…
This is Cruxx“AI is not Taking the Lead, AI is the Enabler” - With David Caumartin
Join your host, Henry Norton, and David Caumartin, the CEO of RebrAIn, as they discuss the impact that machine learning and artificial intelligence are having…
This is CruxxMaking Difficult Intubation a Thing of the Past - With Dimitri Sokolov
In this episode, your host, Henry Norton, is joined by Dimitri Sokolov, the CEO at Spiro Robotics, to talk about the limitations of laryngoscopy tools, and…