It is costly and difficult for medical device companies to educate surgeons on how to use their devices. Touch Surgery has an educational platform that allows medical device companies to find prospective surgeons to target, cost effectively educate them on basic surgical procedures, and qualify them for high-cost interactions such as cadaver labs. The company was founded by four surgeons from London and Touch Surgery has already has been downloaded 100,000 times with paying clients.
Location: United Kingdom, England, London
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $19.76M
Founded date: 2010
Investors 2
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Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 07.11.2017 | - | $19.76M | - |
Mentions in press and media 16
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| 29.06.2020 | 18 Healthcare Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Companies to Watch | Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are redefining what’s possible in healthcare, as well as other sectors. The 18 companies listed below are some of the top virtual and augmented reality companies in the medical industry. Defin... |
| 19.06.2020 | Virtual Reality Helps Medics Beat Coronavirus | In healthcare, VR can provide clinicians with a high-fidelity, high-stress, yet safe environment to ... [+] make and learn from mistakes.Getty |
| 13.02.2020 | Medtronic seeks to boost surgical robotics play with Digital Surgery acquisition | Dr. Sanjay Purkayastha at Imperial College performs a bariatric procedure to demonstrate the efficacy of Digital Surgery’s AI platform. [Image courtesy of Digital Surgery]Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) announced today that it has acquired Digital Sur... |
| 21.11.2017 | Augmented and virtual reality companies have raised $2.3 billion this year, already matching 2016 | AR and VR entertainment apps have seen a 79 percent increase in investment year-over-year 2017 is coming to a close pretty soon, but it's not quite over yet. Still, that hasn't kept The Venture Reality Fund, a global venture capital firm th... |
| 07.11.2017 | Touch Surgery, a London medical startup, raises £15m for augmented reality surgery headsets | Tourch Surgery announces today it has raised $20m (£15m) from the backers of Facebook’s Oculus headset. Touch Surgery is an interactive mobile surgical simulator that guides you through a step-by-step of every part of an operation, and ever... |
| 06.01.2017 | Touch Surgery brings surgery training to augmented reality | Training surgeons on specific surgical procedures is expensive and hard. London-based Touch Surgery has created more than 200 training programs for surgical procedures to be completed on a mobile phone or tablet. At CES, it announces suppor... |
| 17.11.2016 | Surgery training app Touch Surgery cuts deal with Johnson & Johnson | London-based app maker Touch Surgery creates a series of apps to help surgeons train ahead of complicated surgery procedures, or to familiarize themselves with new surgical tools, equipment and procedures. The company just announced it has ... |
| 31.08.2016 | VR, simulation are new frontiers of surgical training outside OR | “Two-thirds of the world’s population don’t have access to safer, affordable surgery, but surgical training is not scalable,” said Steve Dann, who, along with Dr. Ahmed, cofounded Medical Realities about three years ago. “We started experim... |
| 25.07.2016 | How to turn your HealthTech idea into a business — Doctorpreneurs | The latest Balderton Capital podcast is a recording of the panel session from the latest Doctorpreneurs Meetup, which was held at Balderton HQ. Doctorpreneurs are the ‘global community for doctors, medical students, and individuals intere... |
| 22.04.2016 | Touch Surgery: Is Event Marketing Lean? | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website. The UK tech sector has a very busy event calendar, which is getting busier as the tech scene grows and more scaling companies are built. We hear from Andy Davis, Head of Growt... |
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