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ExplORer Surgical

414 N Orleans St Ste 306, Chicago, IL, 60654, United States

Overview

ExplORer Surgical offers a platform that combines video, role-specific digital procedural playbooks, and time-stamped intraoperative data capture to support virtual proctoring, case support, clinical trials data collection, and product launches. The company originated from a research laboratory in the University of Chicago Medical Center Department of Surgery and integrates remote, HIPAA-compliant two-way video connectivity so offsite team members can join procedures. Its Remote Case Support feature, launched in early 2020, drove a 6X increase in sales over the last year. ExplORer has built more than 1,000 unique procedures on its platform and onboarded over 10 new medical device customers in under three months, including large global MedTech companies and startups. The company plans to use the new funding to grow headcount from about 30 to roughly 50, expand technology, marketing, and customer success teams, and deliver additional platform updates; it also expects to raise another round later this year. ExplORer Surgical offers a software-as-a-service platform for intraoperative surgical and interventional procedure workflow management and analytics. The platform lets hospital and device company teams guide, track and analyze activity in the operating room, during training events and throughout stages of clinical use. Each team member sees their own content on any connected device, and the system collects live procedural data. Led by CEO and co-founder Jennifer Fried, the company is based in Chicago, IL. ExplORer intends to use the recently raised funds to accelerate growth of its surgical software platform. The article does not disclose revenue or user metrics. ExplORer Surgical offers a software-as-a-service interactive digital playbook to manage, track and analyze intra-operative activity and information for operating rooms and interventional suites. The platform supports team coordination during procedures and delivers granular analytics on procedure activity. Customers include hospitals and medical device manufacturers that use the tool to improve intraoperative workflow and data capture. The company was founded out of a research laboratory at the University of Chicago Medical Center and is led by CEO Jennifer Fried. ExplORer intends to use the new financing to accelerate commercialization of its workflow management platform. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois. ExplORer Surgical builds an interactive surgical playbook as a software-as-a-service intraoperative workflow management tool. The platform aims to optimize operating room teamwork by preventing delays and disruptions caused by missing or incorrect instruments. It also seeks to reduce instances of opened-but-unused disposable items and to capture granular intraoperative data in real time. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Jennifer Fried, with Dr. Alex Langerman as Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Marko Rojnica, Eugene Fine as CTO, and Tom Knight as COO. ExplORer says it will use the funding to scale operations.

Total raised
$12M
Funding rounds
4
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
Apr 2021

Industries

  • Clinical Trials
  • Health Care
  • Hospital
  • Medical Device
  • Software
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    Apr 2021

    $3M

  2. Equity

    Apr 2019

    $5M

  3. Series A

    Aug 2017

    $3M

  4. Seed

    Sep 2016

    $1M

Team

  • Jennifer Fried

    Co-Founder & CEO

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  • James Surek

    Vice President of Sales

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  • Matt Krause

    Sales and Support

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  • Rustam Borzov

    Manager of Technical Operations, Support, and Compliance

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