A look back at Mako.

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Mako Surgical was a great startup with exponential growth. Just look at these numbers that Mako produced before the 2013 Stryker acquisition.

2006 - first-in-man
2008 - 500 surgeries
2009 - 1,000 surgeries
2012 - 23,000 surgeries with a run rate of $100M gross sales

Message: If you want a high valuation for your orthopedic startup, you need to generate an exponential adoption rate.

Mako Surgical was founded and began by Rony Abovitz, Maurice Ferre M.D, and other members of Z-KAT, Inc. team in 2004. Together, they were developing a novel haptic robotic system for medical applicatio...

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