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Mirrakoi Helps Surgeons with 3D Models and 3D Prints to Prepare for Surgeries — Founder Interview

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Mirrakoi uses 3D modeling and 3D printing to help surgeons prepare for complex operations. By creating precise anatomical replicas from patient scans, the startup allows surgical teams to plan procedures in advance — reducing operating time, improving outcomes, and lowering risk.

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In this episode of Startuprad.io, host Jörn "Joe" Menninger sits down with the founder of Mirrakoi to explore how this DACH-based startup is tackling real market challenges. From early-stage hustle to scaling strategy, this founder interview dives deep into what it takes to build a startup in the German-speaking ecosystem.

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Mirrakoi Helps Surgeons with 3D Models and 3D Prints to Prepare for Surgeries

We are focusing with our technology on bone structures at the moment, … especially surgeries to reconstruct bones.Pablo Garcia-Amorena, CEO and Co-Founder Mirrakoi

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The Founder

In this interview, we talk to Pablo Garcia-Amorena (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pablo-garcia-amorena-711518166/). He is originally from Barcelona, where he studied Mathematics and Engineering as a double major. He than went on to the Swiss Federal Institute (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne). Within their program he was focusing on processing data from medical devices, where he met his two co-founders of Mirrakoi.

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The Startup

The startup is called Mirrakoi (https://mirrakoi.com/ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mirrakoi-sa) and is in a broader sense a MedTech startup. The startup helps surgeons to prepare for important operations with 3D printed models or virtual reality. They even help to 3d print assistance tools to help the surgeons with their job.

They are currently helping surgeons with the preparation of reconstructive surgeries, like the reconstruction of faces after car accidents.

For research projects, they are 3d printing what they call “surgical guides”. For example, these guides help to guide the drill of the surgeon to drill at the right point and depth during surgery.

We are focusing on models for pre-operation. Our models will right now not end up in the patient, but we have a research project for that.Pablo Garcia-Amorena, CEO and Co-Founder Mirrakoi

Venture Capital Funding


Mirrakoi is currently bootstrapped but will soon be looking for an external investor.


Health Venture Labs (Budapest)


In this small section, we talk to the accelerator program Health Venture Labs (HV Labs), and its co-founder Daniel Szemerey (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-szemerey/). HV Labs is the program Mirrakoi went through. If you are curious, they are looking for startups for their next intake: https://hvlab.eu/. As stated in the interview, they have a preference for medical imaging startups.

Part of their program is also a chance to dip into the Boston Medtech startup hub.


The Video Interview is set to go live on March 16th, 2021 17.00 CET (Frankfurt/Paris/Zurich/Milan)




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Intro


[0:00] Music.


[0:08] That I owe you were podcast and YouTube blog covering the German.


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[0:20] Hello and welcome everybody could see I can say to startupradio Duro your startup podcast and you to block from Germany as well as the world’s first24/7 internet radio station dedicated.It companies and startups today I was welcoming you guys with Chrissy and the reason is this,hello in Swiss German and I do have a start-up from Switzerland here with me hey Pablo how you doing hey hi Joe how are you.


[0:52] Prepare with them Morgan I’m doing great thank you good morgan exactly,you are not pissy the typical Pablo Garcia Amo arena is not a typical us with name,we’ll get to this very soon but let us first talk a little bit what what you’ve been doing what you’ve been up to.In your life,before that guys if you liked this interview make sure to go down here and hit the like And subscribe Button as well there will be a link to the show notes and there you can find many more information and automated transcriptand the links to the company website as well as to Pablo’s LinkedIn profile now that we have this out of the way Pablo,what you’ve been doing in your life because it looks like from your CV on LinkedIn it really looks like you’re originally from Catalunyathe area in Spain close to barthelona yeah yeah I’m from Barcelona.


The Founder — Pablo And His Journey From Barcelona To Lausanne


[1:57] So so so I studied there and study the mathematics and engineering.


[2:03] So my life will basically is about studying and and working in the field of mathematics.I really like solving problems and you know getting into hard engineering problems.With always having a balance now between the theory and the practice so in Barcelona there was a center that was dedicated for that for students who could study two degrees at the same time.So we will study in mathematics in the morning and then we go to the faculty of Engineering in the afternoon was very good.And in in this in the center it was in the inside the Polytechnic University Barcelona there was these these programs to study abroad was part of harassment.


[2:48] And then I went to Switzerland to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology this a loss is in Los Angeles.So interest under to Institutes of Technology one in-laws have one in Zurich so I went to the one in loss and because.There was these this Flagship program in know if you know about this EU Flagship program of research for brain research.And so it was that these these Swiss technology Institute was be given a very big Grant to do research about biomedical engineering in general but more specific in modeling the brain and then neurons.This is still ongoing so I was very interesting to into how to solve problems in the biomedical field now from the perspective of mathematics.So I wonder and then I studied these masters in computational science and engineering is called.Is again computational engineering problems with respect from perspective of mathematicians to have this this bridging between the two fields.


[4:00] And then I was I was you know I ended up in this laboratory where we were doing processing of biomedical tissue of of CT scans in our computer tomography scans.Magnetic resonance imaging electron microscopy so basically about processing images images of of the brain images of,of the heart of the the body of a person but also images of very small cells in a laboratory.


[4:31] So so then we were focusing on this parents of image processing and then in this laboratory I met my two co-founders of these these small startup that is called mirrakoi.And then we got into this this project which has Wonder Hey how could we do you know our real application are real world application of how we could make a product out of this research.And then we started this project of doing a start-up and that’s where I am here.


[5:07] I see this very interesting what I found intriguing as when you talked about studying mathematics and Engineering at the same time you will really smiling you will enjoy this time right yeah,yes surely,yeah yeah it’s really really amazing yeah for most people it is tough to study only engineering or mathematics but you enjoy doing both okay okay I think I get this there’s some people out there who like that.So yeah I mean it’s really people should lose their fear to study mathematics specifically means really really enjoyed about.


[5:47] Yeah and we should act because like approximately.


[5:53] Somewhere between 50% and two-thirds of the people listening to us,outside are living outside the European Union which by now also includes the UK and we should add here that the Erasmus program is like.


[6:09] European Union funded Exchange program where you can study abroad for some timewithin the European countries and sometimes like exchange to other countries where everybody should know that Switzerland is neutral and not a part of the European Unioneven though they are surrounded by on all sides yeah I should add that when I when I went to Switzerland and was in 2014,and so now what’s stealing their as much per am and then there was this boat to get out of the mobility or Schengen area,then it got kicked out of the Rasmus but then I think they made their own program to be compatible.


[6:50] With Erasmus so is still there still opportunity for people who want to do something so they.Okay so there is an Swiss program a key I see and we should add that all themedical machines you talked about like x-rays like a magnetic resonance tomography or whatever is out there it’s like image givinginstruments so you lay in you get some x-rays to get some MRT and basically that helpsthe your physician your doctor to actually determine what is going on in your body withoutthe need to actually cut it open and look at it and in some cases as you said for example in the brain it’s not very easy to cut the skull open and you will only do it if it’s really reallyreally required and that is the area we are talking about so you guys are actually a meta text on right yeah exactly.


Mirrakoi Helping With Reconstructive Surgery


[7:55] So we really work with hospitals we surgeons with clinicians.And we see we normally we get material on this Hospital Capone confidential material of images of patients and we have to cement you know specific tissue to fit.We are we are cementing now we’re focusing on bone because it’s easier and soft tissue of cardiovascular and.


[8:22] And we focus right now we are focusing for example and reconstructing fractures or reconstructing parts of the bone that are very very hard to submit here for example I have a an example.You know here we have these problem and if you see well so we had this patient.So for all the people in the audio podcast he’s holding up but part of the 3D printed skull maybe starting above the mouth and going chill like the middle of your forehead yes for the brandwas that the patient had a fracture in the orbital floor.


[9:05] And it’s so so it’s below the eye everybody is not in medical field yes honey if I go to two.Yeah don’t worry I’ll explain it totally fine but so I’m in a traffic accident in the the patient has a big trauma and below the eye has a fracture of the bone so it’s broken.And normally no this is.Very hard to send Man is Hard to Find the particular hole because if you open your CT scan.You will see a mix of tissues in our mix of things.You know I mean a mix of blood or or these the catalogue not this close to the nose.


[9:50] And and so what we want what the clinician wants is to have a model of the patient and see okay I see the whole inside the patient is exactly that.Because then before the operation because the the clinician has to put a metallic plate up there to to fix that hole.So the equation would like to see this whole beforehand no before the operation.Because when the clinician is in the operation then there’s no time to you know to to hang there and see hey how is the whole we should.Choose this plate or choose that one no there’s no time to lose the operation from so it’s better if the doctor already knows what happening so this is part of the idea of the whole.The whole project is about giving some more information to the doctor beat three D beta 3D print or bit whatever that is useful to.To give information yes.


[10:50] First and foremost very sad accident very poor patient there and basically before you guys were around the doctor had no other choice than opening up the skin and actually physicallynot to look and as everybody,so if you just eating can imagine there’s like blood and other bodily fluids flowing in the way and you can never really.


[11:14] Steve during the surgery what is going on there one of the many problems surgeons are facing so basically that is the point when you come in because you basically get the imagery,of the patient you separated the different like layers the different types of,structures the soft tissue as everybody look called The Skin or the tissue underneath it and stuff like thisfrom the bone and then you can actually 3D print a model,off the damaged area of the skull and the surgeon can really take ithave look at it memorize it and even can make with some nonsenseI would assume he has some non-sterile parts that he could play around with and can actually test in the 3D model which one would fit best and then he orders a new sterile one and actually has this at handat the surgery which gives like a huge,Leap Forward for the surgeon because he has not to make everything up on the Fly while he’s actually.


[12:25] In the surgery so just imagine guys you’re in the surgery and then you find out oh,we don’t have the right let’s say Parts here so what we gonna do now we have to make something up and that’s the stuffyou are really avoiding are externally and it’s important to note that that we focus on models for preoperative planning,that means that is to give information to a doctor so these models will not end up.In the patient right now okay so that’s a very different kind of thing that’s about implants about.We have a pilot project of what we call surgical guys that are models that let the doctor put elements into a patient like screws.So we have a research project for that but it’s not part of the with a product itself so right now it gives region anatomical regions week also show like scars like part of the spine.Here we have another example of a spine so I show part of the column a patient that is three birthday bruh.


[13:34] And in this case the dog.But everybody is not in the medical field vertebra other little pieces of bone your spine is made up of yes so in this case the patient had these these.Say is called scoliosis is a veto the deviation of the column that is congenital okay so is this.Everybody who’s watching now at my picture can see this my left shoulder is a little bit lower than my right shoulder that’s also a scoliosis that’s what you’re talking about it yeah these people who are really really bent forward.Yeah they have a hunchback like like stuff like this really bad for me it’s like a little bit lower left shoulder but foremostfor some people it’s really bad and that’s the cases you’re talking about right so this is treated with operation at is called a lumbar Fusion,so the doctor put will put screws in several of the vertebra and put a plate that is straight and we’ll put the column straight.Okay so we will we will do it in two or three levels so the doctor has to put screws it has had driller has to pull screws inside operation.So face the doctor if he has a molar of the column it’s already much better because the doctor rinnosuke so I will find this when I open the patient in the operation go.


[15:00] Then second hand and this is what we are doing for for research purpose is to have what we call surgical guides.I thought these tubes that I made.


[15:12] You see here these are two tubes that you print alongside the column and you put them on top of the column and they fit properly.So you see here my column has two tubes that are fitting the better.


[15:29] So the doctor during the operation where this will be sterilized of course if we pass a proper proper requirements of safety.


[15:39] So doctor we put the driller with a screw in every tube so the doctor we already know where to put the screw.Otherwise the doctor doesn’t have this he just has to have to try okay should be here so.Follow my intuition yeah I imagine the doctor really has to first first.Open up the patient and then,eyes look at didn’t really really really think heart where and when and how deep they actually should put it because you don’t want to damage the nerve tissue inside the Spy selling because you have theit’s by no the medulla know that that goes through your column and this is a very important part of your neurological system.So it’s a concern I mean these operations are made by very expert you cannot yes do it.You know with all those priority Intuition or experience for this is very good.


[16:43] This but but as I told you now we focus on the anatomical.Frisson of interest and this is the future this is where we come after that.


[16:56] Yes I can totally see that at the beginning I was wondering.But let me first before I ask my questions let me first clarify a little bit you guys ask the people who see it right now on YouTube will have seen you guys are actually.Doing like the imagery that the 3D printing everybody could do like except for the like too.


[17:25] Channels for the spine surgery everything deep 3D printed.Every 3D printer could do that’s not you use P that’s not what you working about you guys are actually good in like getting the real data out of the medical imagery the medical data provided,by the hospital by The Physician by the surgeon whatever to actually get a real good 3D model,that’s that’s your first point and the second point is then you can actually help with a like additional instruments like three3D printed material like the columns we’ve seen the channels for the drill and stuff like this you can then actively help the search,that’s what we’re talking about here right,yes so so so what we do is exactly the software we do the software that takes as input.CT scan or tomography or or medical imaging.And gives us output a 3D model in digital format so an STL file stereolithography is called,or any kind of Cal model that can be can be output to towards the 3D printer so we are compatible with any.3D printer in the market.


[18:47] But what is important what you said that that we’re focusing on how to convert this this image image here.


[18:56] Into a 3D model digitally so that means that we are not married to a particle you know 3D printer technique or,or facility and what’s more even we have met some people who don’t even want 3D printers that they want virtual reality for example.For that they just want a visualizer so they want to see in the the computer they want to see the 3D model and rotate around it.And make some things like that post,that was actually the next point I was trying to make until I saw like the 3D printed channels you can attach during surgeryto the spine to get the right drill and the right that I was wondering why in not do it like completely virtuallyI do believe you working on this plus I could imagine like a doctor having like some type ofin very Advanced version of Google Glasses during the surgery and actually you could guide him is is that the way you’re going yeah absolutely,yeah and this is going you know it is going mainstream,be nice I see this the some experiments of Surgeons having limited reality and virtual reality and scene,where where they have the operation and they have.


[20:20] I know I’ve not seen in person and I’ve read about it so they have the the model the 3D model that is somehow an hologram.


[20:31] Something that is put on top of the patient and this is very very useful for example when you are operating arteria or Baines.That you have to to treat a particular tyria and it’s hard because in the operating room everything is is red and dark now,so if you superpose an anatomical model with augmented reality,you can see for example one been in one color and another been in another color.Or part of the bone in one color and the other piece I saw the doctor can much better see what’s what.Dishwasher has to cut all the the element has to modify.So this is where it’s going in the future so to mix everything is 12 reality or materiality maybe a 3D.


[21:25] In order to have much faster surgeries and much much better outcomes is less risk to the patient in the end.


Mirrakoi’S Funding


[21:33] And I can now totally see the use for a 3D printer or even more 3D printers more than onein hospitals because if they can actually prepare a helpful equipment likeyou’ve been trying it here in the video that’s totally a very good case for 3D printing in medicine and maybe at one point in the future they will actually be able to print tissue and Bone there as well thatjust amazing one more question I havealso found you guys are crunchbase they say you had one funding round now with three investors yes and actually how you guys are financed right now are you looking for external investorsso so right now we didn’t have investment so we were,we were raising money in the startup scene in Switzerland and in lausanne through grants grants for for,reaching research towards private sector and.


[22:36] Right now we know because of the pandemic we had to make some restructuring of activities focus on on the core software I’m core Partnerships,so now we are good strapping still through this process we are not looking for external investment right now.Because we are looking for outcomes of these research projects and collaborations but eyes I seen that in in one year more or less.We will have very very Concrete in our roadmaps for the future and then we’ll look for.So in short terms we are right now bootstrapping and we will go for investment in short.


Mirrakoi’S Experience In Hv Labs


[23:20] End our interviewtoday is due to the arrangement of 8 V Labs you can learn a little bit more in an inter we in the interview part with HV Labs that we just,catch to this interview but can you tell usa little bit about HP labs and your experience there by the way h v means Health Venture yes Venture Labs is an accelerator program that was,is funded and organised by General Electric Healthcare in Hungary.


[23:58] Because they have the very big quarter in Hungary and we participate in that accelerator last last fall.And it was really really good because we met you know several companies in the health sector that we are all based in Europe and.And it was very good to to network and find people you know who face similar problems to the ones we Face problems like.Take care because products were this related to regulations certification of software in medic as a medical device.And we had a lot of advice in that inner sphere.I’m very unrelated to imagine for example I met several people who had also dealt with.With CT scans and how how the they are handled you know they are all follow a standard that is called icon and it’s very.Very complex standard know so you have to really get into that world in order to understand so we thanks to HB love we we we managed to get development going in that direction.Federal Assange think a cut who introduced me to to you actually.


[25:16] We met at that cat is Ekaterina and she is the person in charge of PR.In this program and actually she will not appear in any of the videos but thank you very much,yeah and a certain something interesting that you mentioned the thing about the material so so right now the the Philippines that I show are in Racine.Tada.Tech some kind of plastic no but but you know the 3D printing technology is is really advancing at a crazy peso.So now you can print with any kind of material with metal you know with.Food food material no but now there’s the bio printing materials coming on so many printers I will print.I don’t know if exactly bone tissue or soft tissue but something that really resembles that tissue.


[26:17] And something that at some point will be clear for for regulation and will be allowed to to be put as implant or has extension of tissue into the patient.


[26:30] So that’s also where we are really going forward to you know we are looking at that for the future I mean this is some point and basic.Dip and my understanding is that you can then use your software when you are at the stage where you can.3D print the replacement,for all let’s say a little piece of bone or soft tissue and your software actually would give the dimensions,for this as well as help the surgeon prepare the the implantation of the artificial bone yet next time.We will not I mean it’s like a right now we we are already ready to print whatever.For example in an operation of Monday work instruction you have to use some bone for the fuel from the fibula the patient.So you can think of a situation where you will not need to.To make this reconstruction with bone of the patient that you will be able to print part of the mandala in bone tissue or something that is compatible.With a patient.


[27:43] So we can think about that but in terms of our activity right now it’s like a we don’t depend on that right now no that’s some work for the 3D printing industry.


[27:55] To develop you’re just there to tell them what to do right.


[28:00] Yeah exactly yeah with me we have to we have to give you know all the,responsibility to every actor involved yeah I like your smile doing that thank you very much it was a muchas gracias it was a pleasure having you as a guest.And best of luck for your future endeavors as well as for the patients and the surgeons there.


[28:28] Thank a show that’s really pretty nice having a chat with you thank you pleasure was all mine please.


[28:36] And as for just one last thing so try you can try our software for free in our website mirrakoi.com.And you can just contact you know to all the audience to just try the software and contact us to get to know more about it links for the download will be down here in the show notes of course thank you very much thank you.Bye-bye bye-bye see you.


Health Venture Labs — Daniel Szemery — Co-Founder Hv Labs


[29:08] Hey guys we just talked to mirrakoi and we talked about the HV lab also known as the hell,Venture lab and now I have Daniel here who’s running this Venture lab hey Daniel how you doing hi great to be here thank you very much for having me,in your in your podcast and your show,yeah and and we waited here for 20 minutes because we got all kinds of technical problems but now you’re here very glad about this tell us just a little bit about,hbr Health Venture lab and what are you looking for in your next application round Pluswhen people actually can apply so Health Center like really came together under the wings of g health care and European Union,body called git Health which is European innovation technology and basically we help healthcare companies,who have already developed the minimum viable product and that currently building out there early customer base and we are basically connecting these startups with experts,in the field of healthcare and helping them you know build this customer base and so we have a program running where the rec room is actually ongoing right now and which is finishing in the middle of March.


[30:32] And we look for startups all over Europe actually one of the biggest advantages that you have a European why base.


[30:41] Of startups that actually can help you so they are in a similar shoes and you are also trying to tackle a hard problem like healthcare,and so you can I would advise to go on our website to check it out but that’s that’s basically it March March mid-march.Of course everybody would like to learn more when you can go down here in the show notes there we link Daniels personal profile as well as the HV lap till us like a little bit about what,what the people can of can,now with Corona will it be a remote or in-person accelerated program where you guys headquartered and what else do you do then send them to to meetings with the CEOs where they drink coffee.Yeah that’s a great question so and so the first question was and how does it look like in Corona and so.Health insurer that was based on a physical programs but because of Corona we you know as a lot of other organizations we had to reinvent how we do our program.


[31:49] And fortunately.And so it was kind of an interesting push we experience that our digital programs were far better in some sense than our physical ones,because because it actually saves a lot of the time for startups which they spent on traveling,so they can we could actually count provide value and the right mountain right time and in a very efficient manner,so this program is also going to be run entirely remotely.Health insurance left team is connected to the GE Healthcare here in Budapest in Hungary,but just like GE Healthcare is a multinational organization and we have connections all over Europe and actually also,mm to Boston and we are also collaborating with universities like the Medical University of wood in Poland,ISC business school in Barcelona but also local universities here in Hungary called University of debrecen for example,and and so it’s kind of a network of Partnerships so although we are based in Budapest it’s really your white white organization and program.


[33:05] We actually have a lot of s here I know that,you were basically your base in Germany and that the result of the erroneous is in Germany and so we had a number of German startups during our program and in our alumni soand we also welcome welcome start Healthcare startups from fromcentral European region and and Germany specifically and we have very good experience with the startups from thereadmittedly we are also like popularin Croatia in Italy in the United States and Canada and many many other countries but basically our focus is Europe and North America and,the rest of the world they always make up 1/3 so.Where would you draw kind of the boundaries for startups that can apply do you have any type of limitation.


[33:56] We are really focusing on the European market so we are like we are trying to other we had as I said we have contacts to North America for examplethis is more of a Direction Where We help European startups take a foot in the Boston echo system,and also develop together for example we have a program that helps Venture level takes part in called Catalyst Europewhich really aims it’s a program developed at MIT and we together with a lot of Partners in Europe we.Further developed to adopt it to the European market and basically that’s for researchers to go through the entrepreneurial path and understand how to research intosomething impactful rather than to Simply Publications so that’s for example that’s just an example of how actually we leverage our North American partners,but the start of themselves they all come from Europe so that’s the only limitation,the other the other limitations are more qualitative so where they are in the states so we are looking for companies who already have a product it doesn’t have to be super fancy but something that they can already sell,they have to be incorporated and,and they have to be dedicated on on actually learning business methodology about the healthcare market and networking so these are kind of the criteria that we look for when we start off Supply.


[35:25] I would have one more question before we wrap this up is there like a really specific type you’re looking for you always talk about research is it more like research heavy like.Biotech companies you looking out there or everything,related to healthcare because you could also have an app where you can store your X-ray pictures which would also qualify as Healthcare is there a certain type of startup so certain,orientation you looking for we have a soft focus with our program called reactor which we are which will talk beforeand we look for medical imaging companies but it’s a soft focus so around sixty percent of the startups who apply to us or we are going to fill up the course,is going to be related to Medical Imaging,but we are we are more driven by finding great teams and great technology so we had a lot of Hardware companies for example that’s relatedit can relate to Medical Imaging by can relate to a lot of different fields.


[36:31] What I personally prefer but it’s not really a criteria is to have deep deep tech companies so actually,companies that are not just a marketing product they are more based on technological or research innovation.However as I said so this is a preference but we have start of where we have startups where we thought that the team is so interesting so ambitious,and there was not necessarily a great leap in technological innovation but in terms of product Innovation so we also accepted those.


[37:09] So we have a soft focus and a preference for medical imaging companies which are which are hopefully detest but I encourage everybody who has an interest in health care product,we don’t we don’t work with Pharmaceuticals but for a really Life Sciences health care companies if you feel like if this fits you and you can Leverage,you know industry giants like a GE Healthcare the expertise and the universities are on that and I’m.I’m sure the audience who hears this will understand if they fit this criteria or not just to be clear you would also take in.App which allows to arrange dates for people to go to cat owners and quetta cats for medical purposes that’s also fine that’s also something you would consider,we would consider although and I would say they have a tough competition so I can give you an example we had we had an app called Doki app which was really about booking booking medical professionals.


[38:15] But this is not necessarily the generalized there’s Annalise would be for example we have another company and called Baby index they are looking for crystallizingso we look for crystallization in the saliva of women so that they can predict the ovulation period,and so this is also an app with actually a microscope attached to your phone but actually the research behind it and how they do it,requires a bit more that that’s of research and development but I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily,and we are not how they see arrogant about all this is only an app it can be an app if it addresses the right problems with the right tooling and with the right team.


[39:04] Thank you very much and everybody who would like to learn more go down here in the show notes they are links to Daniel and the h.


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What Is Mirrakoi?

Mirrakoi helps surgeons prepare for complex surgeries by providing 3D models and 3D-printed anatomical replicas. Founded by Pablo Garcia-Amorena, the startup uses patient-specific imaging data to create physical and digital 3D models that allow surgeons to plan procedures more precisely, reducing surgical time and improving outcomes.

Introduction

In this founder interview originally published March 16th, 2021, Startuprad.io speaks with Pablo Garcia-Amorena, founder of Mirrakoi. The startup creates 3D models and 3D-printed anatomical replicas that help surgeons prepare for complex procedures. By converting patient imaging data into physical models, Mirrakoi enables surgeons to practice and plan before entering the operating room, potentially reducing complications and surgical time.

Executive Summary

Mirrakoi operates at the intersection of medical 3D printing and surgical planning. Founded by Pablo Garcia-Amorena, the startup creates patient-specific 3D models and prints that surgeons use to prepare for complex procedures. This technology enables better pre-surgical planning, potentially reducing operating time and improving patient outcomes. The company represents the growing MedTech innovation emerging from the DACH startup ecosystem.

Key Takeaways

  • Mirrakoi creates 3D models and 3D-printed anatomical replicas for surgical preparation and planning.

  • Founder Pablo Garcia-Amorena built the company to help surgeons plan complex procedures more precisely.

  • Patient-specific imaging data is converted into physical models that surgeons can examine before operating.

  • The technology has the potential to reduce surgical time and improve patient outcomes.

Atomic Answer

Entities Referenced in This Episode

  • Pablo Garcia-Amorena — Founder of Mirrakoi

  • Mirrakoi (mirrakoi.com) — MedTech startup, 3D surgical models and prints

  • Topics: Medical 3D printing, surgical planning, MedTech, patient-specific models, surgical preparation

Quote Highlights

  • "Mirrakoi uses 3D modeling and 3D printing to help surgeons prepare for complex operations. By creating precise anatomical replicas from patient scans, the startup allows surgical teams to plan procedures in advance."

  • "My life basically is about studying and working in the field of mathematics. I really like solving problems and getting into hard engineering problems."

  • "In order to have much faster surgeries and much better outcomes — less risk to the patient in the end."

  • "Because of the pandemic we had to make some restructuring of activities, focus on the core software and core partnerships — so now we are bootstrapping still through this process."

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Mirrakoi and what does it do?

Mirrakoi helps surgeons by creating patient-specific 3D models and 3D-printed anatomical replicas from imaging data. Surgeons use these to plan and practice complex procedures before entering the operating room.

What are the main takeaways from this discussion?

Medical 3D printing creates physical replicas of patient anatomy from imaging data like CT or MRI scans. These models help surgeons visualize complex cases, plan approaches, and potentially reduce surgical time and complications.

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