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Orthopedic Startup Funding

Your Surgeon isn’t buying your implants anymore—The hospital CFO is.

Understanding Stryker’s Strategic Move into Soft-Tissue Robotics

🔴 Tiger’s Red-Hot Innovator of the Week: Portland startup eliminates the clamp in fracture surgery

[Tiger’s Weekly Intel]

What you need to know about the Stryker CEO change.

Centinel to take the Disc Motion bet public

Surgeon > Robot

The Ortho Scoreboard That Matters

🔴 Tiger’s Red-Hot Innovator of the Week: Incisionless spine surgery.

[Tiger’s Weekly Intel]

BoneChat #146 - Raising Capital, Protecting Equity, Dilution & Staying Lean

Why do Ortho founders keep choosing the hardest business models ?

A Front-Row Seat into 1,000 Orthopedic Startups

The $11B Spine Market Is Not a Commodity. The Average Is.

You Don’t Need the Whole Market. You Need a Small Circle of True Customers.

🔴 Tiger’s Red-Hot Innovator of the Week: Startup brings a single Tissue Bank catalog. Fifteen Minutes. No Warehouse in Between.

BoneChat #145 - ASC Robots, Direct-to-Patient Marketing & Ortho Startup Reality

Stay out of the middle. Winners can own the edges.

Why Medartis Just Bought a Cadaver Lab

“An Engineer Is Not an Engineer”

The 6 PE Orthopedic Orphans

🔴 Tiger’s Red-Hot Innovator of the Week: Dutch startup plugs the knee treatment gap

[Tiger’s Weekly Intel]

DePuy Synthes: Why a PE Buyout Beats an IPO

BoneChat #144 - Defining the Standard of Care for Orthopedic Tissue Preservation & Restoration

Q&A

Reach Orthopaedics assets are for Sale

New therapy emerges to solve RA. The Ortho industry should pay attention.

The Macro Reason: Why Your Ortho Startup Still Can’t Raise