Imagine if someone had visibility into all early orthopedic innovation. Even more specifically, if someone had early discussions with startups working quietly in the shadows — pre-revenue, pre-IP, or even pre-website.
No one person sees every startup. Some of us just see more of them than others.
I still pinch myself. Through startup recruiting at Tiger Recruiting, the BoneChat community, and this OrthoStreams blog and newsletter, I get honest conversations with founders far upstream. I still find a new orthopedic company almost every day — call it 300 a year. Every Monday I write 🔴 Tiger's Red-Hot Innovator of the Week. (that's just 52 per year.)
Let's dive in by category:
Personalized Implants
Incumbent Context: Restor3d / ConforMIS
Featured Company: ALM Ortho
This U.S. team is quietly turning “the catalog doesn’t have that size” cases into patient-matched EBM titanium implants. Their Implant as a Service model works directly with surgeons on complex reconstruction, revision, tumor, and irregular-defect anatomy — scan in, design with the surgeon, print in medical-grade Ti-6Al-4V, ship a custom device instead of forcing odd bone into a standard tray.
Sports Medicine – Bracing...
