Medtech lessons from inside the build.
Project Medtech follows operators, clinicians, investors, and founders through the working details of building medical technology. The conversations favor real process over slogans, from pediatric device funding gaps to customer discovery, patents, venture capital, and team resilience.
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Project Medtech is built around long-form conversations with people trying to move medical technology through real-world constraints. The show stays close to the work. Recent episodes feature discussions with a pediatric surgeon about device development and industry collaboration, a founder-oriented operator on engineering and marketing dynamics, a stroke neurologist on advancing care, and legal voices on patents, trademarks, and responsible AI use. It also makes room for founder psychology. Conversations about courage, pressure, resilience, and team assembly sit beside more concrete subjects like venture fund structures, customer discovery, product scope, and clinical adoption. The result is a show that treats medtech as a system rather than a pitch deck. It asks how startups find the right problem, how they avoid overbuilding, how funding gaps shape entire categories, and how teams keep moving when the path is uncertain. The interview style is patient and practical. Guests are often given enough space to build a full backstory before the conversation narrows into lessons for founders, clinicians, and operators. That pace helps the show surface useful details. A discussion about pediatric innovation, for example, becomes a look at consortium funding, local IP, regional resources, and why some device areas need support that larger institutions or venture firms may not provide. A product conversation can turn on something as small and important as keeping a tool to four buttons for the right user and purpose. Legal episodes bring IP and AI into the same practical frame as commercialization. Investor conversations explain why fund structure and market conditions change what capital can support. The 250th episode adds a more reflective angle, looking back at how Project Medtech itself grew, hired, changed teams, and learned to think more clearly about company needs. The show is strongest when it turns industry experience into usable judgment. It is conversational, warm, and grounded in the day-to-day mechanics of medtech work.
Made for: Built for medtech founders, clinicians, investors, startup operators, and service providers who want practical context on healthcare innovation. It also suits curious outsiders who can follow business and clinical detail when it is explained through stories.
What sets it apart: Project Medtech connects clinical need, startup execution, capital, law, and founder resilience in one steady interview format. Its strength is the patient attention to how medtech work actually gets done between the idea, the product, the team, and the market.
The Project Medtech podcast is interview-style podcast on the Medtech Industry where guests share stories, advice, pitfalls, trends and innovations produced by Project Medtech.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Medical-device design becomes legible here as a disciplined negotiation among users, engineers, funders, clinical institutions, and growing teams.
Project Medtech treats medical-device design as a chain of consequential choices, from identifying the right customer problem to funding development and leading the people responsible for delivery.
Four buttons, one customer: your feature wish list gets a useful reality check.
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A clear, practical look at how pediatric device consortia help startups bridge funding gaps and reach patients.
Project MedTech's conversation with Corey stays close to the practical work behind pediatric device development: how funding is assembled, how regional consortia support startups, and why these companies can struggle to draw larger backers.
Brent's four-button product makes his case for building around customer needs.
Brent describes a product built for a particular person and purpose. Engineers wanted to keep adding features; he held the line at four buttons. The product launched and, he says, found some success in its segment.
A grounded conversation about making courage, pressure, and responsibility part of medtech leadership.
Pressure, here, is treated as part of the design brief for medtech leadership: how to build courage without letting urgency harden into fear, and how to carry responsibility past the limits of one person's bench.
Sarah connects medtech fund structures to the timelines, proof points, and market pressures investors are weighing.
Venture capital in medtech comes through as a question of time horizons. Sarah explains how a fund's structure shapes what it can underwrite, the companies that fit its portfolio, and the moment when investors start looking for proof.
A candid anniversary conversation about the emotional math of building a startup team.
Project MedTech's 250th episode uses its anniversary less as a victory lap than as a candid look at how a small company learns to grow. The conversation turns on a useful shift in language: moving from the idea of a team as family to the idea of a team as a sports team.
A grounded look at turning willingness to change into clearer, more accountable medtech leadership.
Leadership lands here as a practical discipline, shaped less by slogans than by a person's willingness to keep learning. In this conversation with Louise Yohi Klein, change starts with moving away from victim thinking and waiting to see, then toward possibility, learning, and…
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Jake Ward discusses patents, trademarks, and responsible AI use for inventors and startups.
Jenny Lynn Walding, CEO of milkmade, discusses solving breastfeeding challenges with medtech after winning a pitch competition.
Pressure can be a privilege, but only if a team chooses it.
Venture capital looks different from the inside.
Project MedTech turns the mic back on itself for episode 250.
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