Meridian Trace for Medical Device Startups

Before your first approval you are building a network, choosing a route and raising money, usually in spreadsheets. Meridian Trace puts all of it in one workspace, with over 2 million device registrations across 31 markets already inside it.

Your network, in one place

Advisers, consultants, clinicians, investors and suppliers are contacts with a type, a company and a history, not tabs in five different files. Each follow-up is a task with a date.

When you need a regulatory consultant or a local representative, pick your target markets and see the firms that actually file registrations there, ranked by how many of your markets they cover. The ranking is registry fact: it says who does the work, not who does it well, and the page says so.

Suppliers who already make devices like yours

Search more than 21,000 contract manufacturers, component and materials suppliers, combination-product developers and research labs. Where the registries show who a supplier makes for, you see it: which device companies, in which markets. What a supplier says about itself is kept apart from what we work out, and a certificate nobody has stated shows as "not stated", never as a yes.

Add the ones you are talking to, and track each from first contact to approved, with the quality certificate, first article, quality agreement and supply agreement checked off as they come in.

Clinicians who know your device area

Find more than 26,000 clinicians through the trials they have run and the papers they have published, filtered by country, specialty and device keyword. For a US clinician you can see which companies pay them and for what. Run one KOL project per market, from searching to shortlisted to engaged.

A regulatory strategy you can defend

Launch planner. Describe your device and talk it through. You get a draft launch plan by market, with the likely route, timing and cost, built only from our own data, and every figure in it traces to that data or is left out. Nothing becomes a project until you click.
Predicates and comparable devices. Search the US 510(k) predicate graph and comparable registered devices in ten other markets.
Classification rules, word for word. Each market's rules quoted from the official text, with the link, so you can see why a device lands where it does.
Approve here, then rely there. Some markets shorten their review for devices already approved by a reference regulator. The plan shows which approvals open which markets.

A route in the plan is an estimate based on how comparable devices were registered. It is not a regulatory opinion, and the plan says which.

Which market first

A market entry assessment for one country works before you hold any registration: give it your device area and see the registrations already there, the competitors behind them, who holds their licences locally, and what entry costs. It prints as a report you can take to your board.

Raising the money

Investor pack. Freeze a launch plan, add your raise, the story and your assumptions, and see how far the money goes, phase by phase. A market opportunity figure needs a source before it goes in.
Round tracker. Each investor with their stage, cheque size, whether the pack was sent, committed amounts and pass reasons. Only committed money counts; nothing is probability-weighted.
Investor directory. Venture investors, with the firms that have backed device companies shown first and the evidence for each. Add one to your round in a click.
Grants and R&D funding. More than 1,700 open and upcoming grant and R&D calls, matched to your device area, with eligibility stated (including whether a foreign company may apply), never silently filtered out.

Start with a free market snapshot

One page: where devices like yours are registered, three sensible next markets with the likely route, and three distributors in one of them. We send it within two business days.

Get the snapshot →

Priced for your stage

Companies without a product on the market yet have their own startup programme. It is priced differently from an established manufacturer's plan and includes setup help and check-ins while you get ready. Ask us about it.