We exist because medtech founders deserve a straight answer.
MedTech Launch Guide is the independent education hub for the people building the next generation of medical devices, diagnostics and connected health. We translate FDA, CMS, ISO and CISA into plain English - and pair it with a live tape of what actually moved this week.
Educate
Plain-English explainers for FDA, CMS, ISO and cyber - written for founders, not lawyers.
Surface
A live tape of clearances, recalls, funding rounds and M&A so you never miss what moved.
Protect
Make cybersecurity, QMS and post-market obligations cheap to learn and expensive to ignore.
Connect
A working directory of investors who actually write medtech checks - filtered by stage and geography.
Seven parallel workstreams. One company.
Most founders treat these sequentially and lose 18 months. We map them in parallel because that is how the survivors actually run.
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01InventionDisclosure, FTO, provisional IP
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02RegulatoryPathway, predicates, design controls
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03ClinicalBench, pre-clinical, pivotal
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04ReimbursementCPT, coverage, payer dossier
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05CybersecuritySBOM, threat model, 524B
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06Business modelPricing, margin, channel
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07Go-to-marketKOLs, IDN contracts, scale
Editorial independence is non-negotiable.
We accept sponsorship to keep the guide free. Sponsors never see drafts, never approve copy, and never get coverage in exchange. Sponsored content is labelled inline and at the page-level.
If we report on a sponsor - including a recall, an enforcement action or an investigation - we report it the same way we would report on any other company.
Read the full editorial policy.