The Crux of Medtech

Welcome to The Crux of Medtech, where we sit down with special guests from the medtech industry. We tell the stories of this incredible sector by looking inside businesses from across the trade. Our guests are leaders from companies at all levels, from pre-seed startups and scale-ups to global-scale players. We’re uncovering experiences from the whole medtech ecosystem.

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The Crux of Medtech

Episodes (66)

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The Crux of Medtech

Apr 2, 2026
1½ hours
58 MB

In this episode of the Crux of Cardio, host Jordan Burgin is joined by Martin Herman, co-founder and CEO of Powerful Medical the AI-powered cardiac diagnostics company behind PM Cardio. Martin shares how a software engineering background, a medical student brother, and a search for a truly pioneering problem led him to build an AI platform that can now diagnose 46 cardiovascular conditions from a single 12-lead ECG with over 120,000 doctors already using it in clinical practice. They cover the journey from early scepticism to clinical proof, the brutal reality of MedTech fundraising, and what FDA...

The Crux of Medtech

The AI That Reads ECGs Better Than Your Cardiologist with Martin Herman

The Crux of Medtech

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