Surgicure Technologies is the medical device platform transforming proven battlefield breakthroughs into the new standard of care. More than $2B annually goes into U.S. military medical R&D, yet up to 90% of what it produces never reaches civilian patients and warfighters—a structural gap, not a product gap. Moving a device out of a military lab isn’t one problem—it’s five: clinical need, IP discovery, federal licensing, regulatory and product development, and dual-channel commercialization. Surgicure has built all five into a single system, with each spoke strengthening and compounding as more devices move through it. A proprietary intelligence layer sits upstream of that system, continuously monitoring DoD technology transfer, SBIR awards, and military medicine sources to identify and validate licensable technologies before the broader market sees them. Our first product proves the model. The HORSESHOE™ is the first face-free airway security device, developed at Brooke Army Medical Center and exclusively licensed to Surgicure. It replaces a 50-year-old standard—taping life-sustaining breathing tubes to the face—that fails under blood, trauma, and movement. The HORSESHOE™ is exempt from FDA approval, U.S.-manufactured under Surgicure’s ISO 13485-certified quality system, has demonstrated zero adverse events at Mass General Brigham, and has been combat-deployed on the active frontlines in Ukraine. We sell at full list price through established distributors covering 60% of the U.S., with additional distributors onboarding, two SDVOSBs supporting federal procurement, and 120+ active hospital opportunities representing ~$9M in evaluation pipeline. We took our first device from discovery to commercialization in six years versus a 10–15-year industry standard. Six additional military-born devices are now under active evaluation, each inheriting the relationships, regulatory playbook, and dual-channel commercial engine already built. Surgicure is building the platform the entire military-to-civilian MedTech pipeline runs through.
3
Clients
0%
Churn Rate
$1.8M
Previous Round
124
Active Hospital Pipeline
6
Additional Devices Under Evaluation
0
Adverse Events
2
Clinical Studies in Review
70
Clinical/Field Patients
100% of list price
Commercial Price Realization
26
Distributor Reps Selling
3 (4th onboarding)
Exclusive Distributors
1
Exclusive Federal Licenses
2 SDVOSBs
Federal Procurement Partners
3
GPO Pathways Identified
84%
Gross Margin at Scale
2
Issues Patents
~$9,000,000
Pipeline Value
Year-end 2026
Target National Distribution
$25,000,000
Targeted Series A
6 years vs. 10-15 industry standard (Target: 2)
Time to Commercialization
$2,395,000
Total Raised to Date
60-70%
U.S. Market Coverage
Surgicure's flagship device, the HORSESHOE™, provides rapid, reliable airway security without relying on facial compression, addressing one of the most consequential—and preventable—failure points in critical care. Airway management accounts for more than 50% of combat casualty care challenges, while in civilian care, unplanned extubations can be catastrophic, with approximately 30% resulting in death; device-related pressure injuries can be devastating; and airway-related complications create more than $8 billion in preventable healthcare costs. Yet the standard of care still relies on flimsy tape and legacy facial securement devices that are vulnerable to blood, trauma, movement, and prolonged use—and are increasingly facing recalls and litigation amid rising pressure-injury and infection concerns. Developed by respiratory therapists at Brooke Army Medical Center and exclusively licensed to Surgicure, the HORSESHOE™ is the first face-free airway security device, using the patient’s jaw biomechanics rather than adhesives or facial attachment points to keep life-sustaining breathing tubes securely positioned through surgery, ICU care, repositioning, and high-motion casualty evacuation.
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WHO WE ARE - Surgicure Technologies is a medical technology platform company building the infrastructure for military-born medical breakthroughs to become the new standard of care. The team is made up of physicians, serial medical device entrepreneurs with multiple exits, and seasoned executives from large Enterprise such as Merck, Boston Scientific, Anika Therapeutics, Bay State Anesthesia, Roche Diagnostics, and more—backed by academic training from MIT and Harvard Medical School. WHAT WE DO - Leveraging deep subject matter expertise coupled with a unique network, we operate a five-spoke flywheel that identifies unmet clinical needs across military and civilian medicine, matches them to licensable military IP through a proprietary intelligence platform, validates devices in both channels simultaneously, and commercializes through live dual-channel infrastructure. Every device that passes through the platform inherits the same regulatory playbook, clinical network, manufacturing partner, distribution engine, and capital relationships—compressing the industry-standard 10–15 year license-to-commercialization timeline to under 2 years per device. - The HORSESHOE—Surgicure's platform proof-of-concept spun out of the U.S. Army—is a face-free airway security device that is exempt from FDA approval, live in use in the theatre of war, and generating initial hospital sales across the United States. WHY THIS MATTERS - Some of the most transformative technologies in modern history—from GPS to the EpiPen to modern trauma surgery—were born in military R&D. The U.S. military invests over $2 billion annually in medical R&D, yet up to 90% of battlefield-proven innovations never reach soldiers or civilians. There is no platform player that owns the end-to-end military-to-civilian medical device pipeline. Billions in Army, Navy, Air Force, and DARPA innovation sit unlicensed across airway, hemorrhage, TBI, burns, and surgical categories—invisible to the commercial market—while the civilian standard of care lags behind what medics already know works. This is not a product gap. It is a structural gap in how validated, life-saving innovations move from battlefield to bedside—and it spans every clinical category. The company that builds the repeatable infrastructure to close it—the licensing relationships, the regulatory playbook, the dual-use channel commercial engine—doesn't just build a medical device company. It builds the platform that the entire military-to-civilian MedTech pipeline runs through. This is what Surgicure is building. OUR UNFAIR ADVANTAGE - Exclusive Army license secured. Active relationships operational with Brooke Army Medical Center, Army Tech Transfer, and the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research. The only recurring military-civilian clinical consortium convening demand across six anchor cities being built. 2 co-development agreements with the military’s primary MedTech labs in process. A combat-validated device on active frontlines in Ukraine with the Chief Surgeon of the Armed Forces of Ukraine serving as an ongoing clinical intelligence partner—providing direct field feedback shaping our next generation of devices and an open channel for continued real-world validation at the point of greatest need. Federal law (PL 115-92) fast-tracks military-priority devices through FDA with breakthrough-style review—pathway extends to civilian use. The licensing relationships, regulatory playbook, and dual-channel commercial engine are designed from day one to scale across every device that follows. Built in alignment with the Tactical Combat Casualty Care guidelines and the mandates of leading patient safety, quality, and infection prevention organizations, each device we bring to market enters with a clear standard-of-care pathway already written around it—one that legacy devices, burdened by recall history and injury data, are disqualified from accessing. TRACTION TO DATE - FDA pathways cleared, full clinical validation complete: mechanical, biocompatibility human factors (Dartmouth), cadaver (Texas Tech), and human clinical testing (Mass General Brigham) complete. Zero adverse events. FDA Class I, 510(k)-exempt. ISO 13485-certified. - Live in theatre: combat-deployed on active frontlines and stabilization points in Ukraine. Federal and military procurement activated—registered across key DoD/DLA systems. - U.S.-based manufacturing live and selling—3 exclusive distributors (4th in diligence), ~60-70% U.S. market coverage secured through inbound demand, 124 active hospital opportunities, over $9M in evaluated pipeline, first POs in hand at full price. - Seed oversubscribed (January 2025). ~$2.4M raised to date. Techstars '24, MassChallenge '25, Tampa Bay Wave '26. OUR FAR-TERM STRATEGY - The HORSESHOE is the platform proof-of-concept. 6 additional military-born devices are in active pipeline evaluation—each inheriting our distributor network, regulatory precedent, military procurement access, and clinical credibility. Our pipeline gets cheaper and faster with every launch. - Build Surgicure into the defining medical device platform company—the one clinicians reach for when standard tools fail, the one the military trusts in the field, and the one acquirers will have to own to lead this space. - Underpinning all of it: a proprietary intelligence layer with standalone IP value—monitors DoD tech transfer, SBIR/STTR awards, and military medicine sources in real time—surfacing licensable IP 6-18 months before the market sees it, auto-screened and enriched against FDA pathway and commercial viability, competitive research, and evidence benchmarking before human time is invested. Airway is the proof point of a larger Wave 1 pipeline (airway, respiratory care, critical care transport, burn care, ICU patient safety), TAM: >$50B. Long-term platform ceiling: $600B+ global medical device market ($218B U.S.). OUR CURRENT ROUND - We are raising a $2M Pre-Growth Round focused on fulfilling existing contract demand and pipeline opportunities, manufacturing ramp, team expansion, and maximizing the downstream Series A. - Target Valuation: $15M pre-money - Runway Extension: 24 months - Previous Raises: $610K Pre-Seed; $1.785M Seed (oversubscribed; Launchpad Venture Group lead). Previous investors are doubling and tripling down.