ActivOrtho

What ActivOrtho does

ActivOrtho is a Minneapolis-based, privately held medical device company founded in 2017 that develops nitinol-based products intended to improve healing across a broad range of orthopedic indications. Nitinol, a nickel-titanium shape-memory alloy, is the company's core materials-science platform, applied to orthopedic devices. No specific products, FDA clearances, indications, clinical milestones, or technical architecture details are disclosed in the available data; the company's offering is described only at the materials-platform level.

The company's reported scale is small, with 1-10 employees and approximately $2.6 million raised across five funding rounds between March 2017 and September 2020 from undisclosed investors. Leadership is limited to two named individuals: co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Andrew Palmer, and Executive Chairman John Deedrick. There is no disclosed revenue model, pricing structure, customer segment, distribution channel, or partnership activity in the available data.

The most material data point in the input is operational rather than commercial: ActivOrtho's primary web domain (ActIvOrtho.com) is currently listed for sale on HugeDomains at $8,495, with no functional company website behind it. Combined with the absence of post-2020 funding activity and the lack of any disclosed product launches, customers, or regulatory milestones, this strongly suggests the company is no longer actively commercializing, may have wound down, or has migrated its web presence elsewhere without public disclosure. Operating status cannot be definitively confirmed from the available sources.

Name

ActivOrtho

Website

https://activortho.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

ActivOrtho is a Minneapolis-based private medical device company founded in 2017 that develops nitinol-based orthopedic products intended to improve healing across a broad range of indications, though its current operating status is unclear.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Minneapolis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

ActivOrtho is a medical device company that develops nitinol-based products aimed at improving healing outcomes across a broad range of clinical indications. The company leverages the shape-memory and superelastic properties of nickel-titanium (nitinol) alloys to design orthopedic and surgical implants intended to support and enhance the body's natural healing processes.

Product overview

No product or service information is available. The source content is from a domain name marketplace listing (HugeDomains) offering the domain "ActIvOrtho.com" for sale at $8,495. The page does not contain any information about ActivOrtho's actual products, services, or business offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Stryker: One of the largest orthopedic medical device companies globally, with broad product lines in trauma, extremities, and surgical instruments. Represents the competitive landscape ActivOrtho would face at scale.
• Orthofix Medical: Orthopedic and spine device company with product lines in bone growth stimulation, spinal hardware, and biologics — overlapping with ActivOrtho's healing-focused value proposition.
• Smith+Nephew: Global medical device company with strong orthopedic reconstruction, sports medicine, and wound healing franchises. Comparable as an incumbent competing across multiple orthopedic and healing indications.
• Arthrex: Privately held orthopedic device leader focused on sports medicine, extremities, and trauma. Comparable in its orthopedic focus and surgical device orientation, though at vastly larger scale.
• Integra LifeSciences: Medical device company with orthopedic, neurosurgical, and regenerative tissue franchises. Comparable as a mid-to-large player in orthopedic surgical devices and healing-related technologies.
• Zimmer Biomet: Major orthopedic device incumbent covering reconstruction, trauma, extremities, and sports medicine. Comparable as the dominant incumbent in the same orthopedic healing space ActivOrtho targets.
• NuVasive (Globus Medical): Spine and orthopedic device company (now part of Globus Medical) with an extensive implant portfolio. Comparable as an established orthopedic medtech incumbent focused on surgical implants for healing.

Direct peers

• MedShape: Orthopedic device company specializing in nitinol- and PEEK-based implants for foot/ankle and extremity surgery. Closest direct peer to ActivOrtho's nitinol-based orthopedic healing platform.
• Conventus Orthopaedics: Develops nitinol-based orthopedic implants for fracture fixation and extremity applications. Highly comparable to ActivOrtho in underlying material technology (nitinol) and orthopedic indication focus.

Emerging players

• MiMedx: Regenerative medicine company focused on placental tissue allografts for wound and soft-tissue healing. Comparable as a smaller, healing-focused medtech player pursuing adjacent indications to orthopedic tissue repair.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/activortho

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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