Andromeda Surgical

Autonomous surgical robots

Y CombinatorSummer 2023ActiveHealthcareMedical DevicesArtificial IntelligenceHard TechMachine LearningMedical Robotics

What they do

Problem

Surgeries are complex, cognitively demanding, and costly, with current robots offering limited assistance beyond physical manipulation.

Solution

Andromeda Surgical builds AI-driven autonomous surgical robots that provide cognitive automation to make procedures safer, easier, and more efficient, starting with prostate enucleation.

Who it's for

Surgeons and hospitals performing surgical procedures, initially urology teams doing prostate enucleation.

Founders

Nick Damiano

Founder

First YC medtech founder and only 2x YC medtech founder; Co-founder & CEO @ Andromeda Surgical S23; Founder & CEO @ Zenflow W15 - treated > 300 patients so far, Class 3 FDA approval, raised > $100M; Co-founder & CTO @ Avail MedSystems (f.k.a. Nurep, acq. by Mendaera) - launched in 1000 hospitals, raised $120M; Venture Partner @ Pioneer Fund; Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellow & Stanford MS/BS; Generalist/SW engineer; Dad to two daughters; Semicolon enthusiast;

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Kartik Tiwari

Founder

Background in robotics 3x technical founder, 2x YC founder Led the team at Starsky Robotics to become the first in the world to have a driverless truck on a public road