Meditronica

The founder of Meditronica (the company began work in 2019) is entrepreneur Alexei Sobchenko. Prior to that, he was engaged in the supply of medical goods and the import of auto parts from China for several years. He was prompted to create this startup by acquaintance with an athlete who lost his limb in a car accident and spent several hundred thousand rubles on a prosthetic foot. Despite the high cost, the prosthesis was rigid and dysfunctional. Sobchenko decided to build a business on more affordable and comfortable prostheses.

The startup prints its prostheses on a 3D printer. The sole is made of special foamed rubber, which makes walking soft. The device is assembled according to a modular system, which, according to the developers, allows in case of breakdown to change only the broken part.

History

2024: Attracting 39 million rubles of investments

In May 2024, it became known about investing 39 million rubles in Meditronica. In exchange, investors received 15% of the share capital. startup

As the representative of Meditronika told the Russian Venture Telegram channel, investors have invested in the Russian developer of prosthetic legs through the Zapusk Tech crowdfunding platform. They estimated the startup at 260 million rubles.

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According to the SPARK-Interfax system, by the end of May 2024, 80% of the developer of prosthetic legs belongs to Meditronika JSC. The remaining shares are distributed between Irina Denezhkina (19%) and Andrei Velichkin (1%).

By the end of May 2024, Meditronica can produce 20 prostheses a month, but expects to expand production.^[1]

2022

Meditronica has been a resident of Skolkovo"" since 2022. At the same time startup , he received an investment of about 3 million from the Skolkovo fund, rubles Innovation Promotion Fund and allocated a grant to the company for 4 million rubles. Another 5 million rubles in 2022, Meditronica attracted in exchange for a 20% stake from an unnamed private investor, Russian Venture clarifies.

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