Akura Medical Funding, Investors & Competitors

GE HealthCare Technologies is a leading medical technology firm with leading market share in imaging and ultrasound equipment. The company reports four major segments: imaging (45% of revenue), advanced visualization solutions (26%), patient care solutions (15%), and pharmaceutical diagnostics (14%). The company’s sales are geographically diverse, with the United States, EMEA, China, and the rest of the world accounting for 46%, 26%, 11%, and 17% respectively. We estimate approximately half of its revenue is recurring, which consists of servicing (about one third of revenue), pharmaceutical diagnostics (about 10%-15%), and digital solutions (just over 5%).

Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co Ltd provides customers with high-performance medical imaging equipment, radiotherapy products, life science instruments, and medical digitalization and intelligent solutions. The company’s products include MRI systems, CT scanners, X-ray imaging equipment, molecular imaging systems, radiotherapy linear accelerators, and life science instruments.

SiBionics is a Chinese medical device company developing AI-based devices for chronic disease management, including its GS1 and GS3 continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems for people with diabetes. Its GS3 sensor is described as the world's thinnest CGM and has earned CE Mark approval alongside other products in its lineup, placing the company in the competitive global CGM market alongside established international players.

Originally spun out of Hewlett-Packard in 1999, Agilent has evolved into a leading life science and diagnostic firm. Today, Agilent's measurement technologies serve a broad base of customers with its three operating segments: life science and diagnostics, cross lab operations consisting of consumables and services, and applied end markets. Over half of its sales are generated from the biopharmaceutical, chemical, and advanced materials end markets, which we view as the stickiest end markets, but it also supports clinical lab, environmental, forensics, food, academic, and government-related organizations. The company is geographically diverse, with operations in the US and China representing the largest country concentrations.

Glaukos Corp is an ophthalmic pharmaceutical and medical technology company focused on developing novel, dropless therapies and commercializing associated products for the treatment of glaucoma, corneal disorders, and retinal diseases. It has commenced commercialization activities for iDose TR, a first-of-its-kind, long-duration, intracameral procedural pharmaceutical implant designed to continuously deliver glaucoma drug therapy inside the eye for extended periods of time. The company also offer commercially a proprietary bio-activated pharmaceutical therapy for the treatment of a rare corneal disorder, keratoconus. The company has three primary commercialized micro-scale surgical device products designed to treat glaucoma: the iStent, the iStent inject W, and the iStent infinite.

Scivita Medical Technology is a medical device manufacturer specializing in advanced endoscopy systems for minimally invasive diagnostics and surgery. Its portfolio includes 4K ultra-high-definition endoscopes, 3D visualization platforms, narrow-band imaging for fluorescence, and single-use disposable scopes covering flexible and rigid formats. Headquartered in Hangzhou, China, the firm holds certifications from China's NMPA and exports to over 50 countries. Scivita supplies products to hospitals in gastroenterology, urology, and ENT fields, with notable deployments in Asia-Pacific surgical centers.

Idexx Laboratories primarily develops, manufactures, and distributes diagnostic products, equipment, and services for pets and livestock. Its key product lines include single-use canine and feline test kits that veterinarians can employ in the office, benchtop chemistry and hematology analyzers for test-panel analysis on-site, reference lab services, and tests to detect and manage disease in livestock. The firm also offers vet practice management software and consulting services to animal hospitals. Idexx derives roughly 35% of its revenue from outside the United States.

MindMaze is a Lausanne-headquartered digital neurotherapeutics company founded in 2012 with offices in Zürich, Ecublens, Switzerland, and San Francisco. It develops medical-grade virtual reality platforms like MindMotionPRO for neurological rehabilitation, offering personalized VR exercises that enhance motor recovery for stroke and brain injury patients. The technology incorporates 3D motion capture, gesture recognition, augmented reality, brain imaging, and neuroscience for intuitive human-machine interfaces. MindMaze's solutions optimize clinician workflows, support therapy dosing, and extend to gaming and brain-computer control applications.

United Imaging Intelligence is a provider of AI-driven medical solutions covering diagnostics for all diseases. Based in Shanghai, China, it develops full-stack intelligent software for imaging analysis, radiotherapy planning, and healthcare workflows, integrating with United Imaging Healthcare's hardware.

Dental Monitoring is a Paris-headquartered teledentistry company founded in 2014 offering AI-powered remote monitoring for orthodontic treatments. Its app enables patients to scan teeth via smartphone, analyzed by algorithms for 200-plus clinical criteria. The firm employs over 400 staff across Europe, the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore, serving 3 million patients globally.

AcuityMD is a software platform that aggregates clinical utilization data to accelerate medical device commercialization for orthopedics and spine companies. Boston-headquartered, it analyzes procedure volumes and surgeon preferences from electronic health records across U.S. hospitals. The platform equips sales teams with market intelligence on over 10 million procedures, enabling targeted account planning and evidence-based launches.

BioRender is a Toronto-headquartered web platform enabling scientists in pharmaceuticals and life sciences to create publication-ready figures and illustrations. Launched in 2018, it hosts over 50,000 customizable icons across biology, chemistry, and medicine, used by more than 10 million researchers at institutions like Harvard, Pfizer, and Novartis. The tool supports collaborative editing, exports in vector formats for journals such as Nature and Cell, and integrates with lab notebooks, streamlining communication with consistent visual standards.

Rad AI is a San Francisco-headquartered developer of AI radiology reporting software that drafts structured notes from imaging studies. Its platform processes MRI, CT, and X-ray inputs to generate RSNA-compliant templates, integrating with PACS like Epic Radiant and Cerner. Rad AI reduces reporting time by half for chest X-rays and mammography, deployed in over 500 US hospitals. Founded in 2018, the company partners with GE Healthcare for workflow enhancements.

Johnson & Johnson is the world's largest and most diverse healthcare firm. It has two divisions: innovative medicine and medtech. These now represent all of the company's sales following the divestment of the consumer business, Kenvue, in 2023. After restructurings in 2023-24, the drug division focuses on three main therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, and neurology. Geographically, just over half of total revenue is generated in the United States.

Thermo Fisher Scientific sells scientific instruments and laboratory equipment, diagnostics consumables, and life science reagents. The firm operates through four segments as of year-end 2024 (revenue figures include some cross-segment revenue): analytical technologies (17% of sales); specialty diagnostic products (11%); life science solutions (23%); and lab products and services, which includes CRO services (the remainder).

In 1984, Danaher's founders transformed a real estate organization into an industrial-focused manufacturing company. Then, through a series of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, Danaher now focuses primarily on manufacturing scientific instruments and consumables in the life sciences and diagnostic industries after the late 2023 divestiture of its environmental and applied solutions group, Veralto.

Adobe provides content creation, document management, and digital marketing and advertising software and services to creative professionals and marketers for creating, managing, delivering, measuring, optimizing, and engaging with compelling content multiple operating systems, devices, and media. The company operates with three segments: digital media content creation, digital experience for marketing solutions, and publishing for legacy products (less than 5% of revenue).