MD START : Transforming innovative ideas into medical realities. A team of medtech serial entrepreneurs with both strategic and hands-on operational experience creating European medtech companies: Leveraging a rich tradition of European medtech innovation, incubating life-changing technologies, running companies which would not otherwise exist, increasing value through a capital efficient model and strategic alignment with our corporate investors. MD Start is a unique opportunity to invest alongside large medtech players and a financial investor with a proven track record. Invest very early in the value creation chain, with significant potential return-on-investment. CULTIVATING MEDTECH INNOVATION : MD Start is a incubator, a team of entrepreneurs and a fund brought together under the same efficient 3-in-1. MD Start II is not another fund and is not another incubator: MD Start is the entrepreneur as well as the incubator and the investor. From its proprietary deal flow originating from physician and researcher inventors, MD Start creates, develops and operates the projects, turning them into new companies with both strategic and hands-on approaches, in order to bring them to investment stage and commercial development.
Employees: 1-10
Investment Type: Accelerator
Portfolio 4
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| - | CorWave | corwave.com | $71.6M | France, Il... |
| - | LimFlow SA | limflow.com | $33M | France, Il... |
| - | SafeHeal | safehealmedical.com | - | France, Il... |
| - | AblaCare | ablacare.com | $11.26M | France, Il... |
Mentions in press and media 3
| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.10.2016 | Medtronic-supported European medtech accelerator raises $11.5M | The money will be invested from MD Start II, and four medical device companies will be incubated and managed by partners at the accelerator. “MD Start II is not another fund, nor another incubator: MD Start II is the entrepreneur as well as... |
| 24.02.2011 | Sorin Group and Versant Ventures Join MD Start as Shareholders | MD Start, a Lausanne, Switzerland-based venture capital- and industry-backed medical device technology incubator, has added medical device company Sorin Group and healthcare venture capital firm Versant Ventures as shareholders. Founded by ... |
| - | Medtronic-supported European medtech accelerator raises $11.5M | MD Start, a European medical technology accelerator, announced Thursday that it has raised $11.5 million to create and fund four new French companies that can fulfill unmet needs in the medical device market. The round was led by French Tec... |