The start-up PeekMed closed an investment round with Portugal Ventures. The funding will serve “to work even more ‘software’ ‘and’ get take you to all orthopedists” focusing on the United Kingdom and United States.
PeekMed is a Portuguese start-up that developed a “software” – the PeekMed One – that allows orthopedic doctors “do all the planning process of the surgery” before the meeting, as he explained to Business in February, John Pedro Ribeiro, one of the company founders.
This week it was announced that Portugal Ventures, public society of venture capital invested in the company. The Business, João Pedro Ribeiro says that this funding “will work to further the ‘software’ from the point of view of functionality and surgical specialties.” And to “get to take the ‘software’ to all orthopedic surgeons, further focusing on markets such as the United Kingdom and the United States.”
As a rule, orthopedic surgeons “are doing when planning a more complex surgery [the ankle, knee or foot] do a CT [computed tomography].” And that’s the only analysis that can do. But PeekMed One matter the TAC and generates a three-dimensional model [3D] bone which is placed “in an environment we create for 3D structures manipulation,” also explained earlier this year João Pedro Ribeiro to the business.
In this environment, that is a window of this “software”, it is also available a database with medical supplies, also in 3D needed to practice these surgeries. Thus, the three-dimensional model of the bone and the instruments will be in the same window allowing the “manipulation of all these structures of a free and very intuitive.”
At the moment the PeekMed has more than a hundred users – orthopedists – in various parts of the world, such as Portugal, Spain, Brazil, UK, US and India. Furthermore, with regard to the use of the software in hospitals, business account starts with a pilot this year in national hospital “and is scheduled start with at least 2 more national drivers 2016 and a pilot in the States. “
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