MakerHealth

Name

MakerHealth

Legal name

MakerHealth

Website

https://makerhealth.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Clinical Innovation Services

NAICS

Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing (33911), Offices of Physicians (6211)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAMAHAH

Healthcare On‑Demand Platforms (Telehealth, Home Care, Nursing)

Business & Public Services/Web, Mobile & Digital Platforms/On-Demand, Gig & Local Services Platforms

Keywords

• Medical device prototyping
• Hospital makerspaces
• Clinical innovation platform
• Healthcare fabrication tools
• Point-of-care prototyping

Headquarters

HQ city

Cambridge

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Create Cloud Membership: Subscription-based membership program for hospitals providing cloud-based access to medical making tools, remote design sessions, teleprototyping consultations, and construction kit generation for clinician experiments. Enrolls hospital clinicians in the Create platform and generates ongoing construction kits.
2. Create Cloud Lab Membership: Premium membership for hospitals that includes installation and operation of a dedicated on-site Medical Makerspace. Includes deployment of Fabrication Modules, permanent onsite team member for operations management, and continuous clinician onboarding.
3. Makerspace Installation & Setup: One-time deployment and setup services for installing dedicated MakerHealth Spaces within hospital facilities, including identification of facility locations and integration with onsite teams.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

MakerHealth provides hospital-based medical making programs through two engagement models: Create Cloud, a remote membership giving clinicians access to teleprototyping consults and the Create App that generates construction kits for medical experiments; and MakerHealth Space, an onsite dedicated medical makerspace installed in the hospital, equipped with Fabrication Modules and staffed by a permanent MakerHealth team member. Both models leverage the proprietary Medical Making Engine, developed over 15 years of MIT research, to enable frontline clinicians to prototype medical technologies at the point of patient care.

Product overview

MakerHealth operates as a medical technology innovation platform that empowers clinicians to generate medical technologies through democratized making tools. The core offering consists of Create Cloud (a cloud membership platform), the Create App (which generates construction kits for experiments), and Diffusion Lab (for deployment and scaling). For hospitals seeking physical infrastructure, MakerHealth installs and operates dedicated Medical Makerspaces equipped with Fabrication Modules, managed by an onsite team member. The company originated from the MakerNurse research project at MIT.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Create Cloud
• MakerHealth Space

Quantifiable outcome

• Clinicians can rapidly prototype medical solutions without waiting for external engineers or companies
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Xealth: Xealth is a digital health platform that enables clinicians to discover, order, and manage digital health tools and content within hospital EHR workflows. Like MakerHealth, it sells into health systems via enterprise sales and embeds clinician-facing capabilities inside the hospital, though Xealth focuses on digital care delivery rather than physical prototyping.
• Makerbot Industries: MakerBot is a desktop 3D printer manufacturer with significant adoption in educational, maker, and prototyping environments including hospitals. Its hardware is comparable to MakerHealth's Fabrication Modules for prototyping use cases, with both targeting the broader 'maker' movement including clinical applications.
• Formlabs: Formlabs manufactures professional 3D printers widely used in hospitals, dental clinics, and medical device prototyping workflows. Its hardware and materials ecosystem is directly comparable to MakerHealth's Fabrication Modules, with both enabling point-of-care manufacturing of clinical devices and anatomical models.

Broad incumbents

• Symplr: Symplr is a healthcare operations and workforce management platform sold to hospital systems for governance, credentialing, and provider data management. It overlaps with MakerHealth on enterprise hospital sales motion and embedded deployment but operates in adjacent healthcare operations categories rather than clinical innovation.
• 3D Systems: 3D Systems is a major additive manufacturing company with healthcare applications spanning surgical planning, prosthetics, and medical device prototyping. It overlaps with MakerHealth on the medical prototyping tooling category but operates as a broad incumbent serving multiple industries rather than a hospital-focused clinical innovation platform.
• Health Catalyst: Health Catalyst is an enterprise healthcare data and analytics platform sold to hospital systems to improve clinical and operational performance. It overlaps with MakerHealth on enterprise health system GTM and embedded hospital workflows but addresses data/analytics rather than clinical innovation and prototyping.
• Stratasys: Stratasys is a global leader in 3D printing and additive manufacturing with a dedicated healthcare/life sciences business unit. Its systems are used in hospitals for anatomical models, surgical planning, and medical device prototyping, overlapping with MakerHealth's Fabrication Modules and clinician-led prototyping use case, though Stratasys operates as a broad incumbent rather than a specialized hospital makerspace platform.

Emerging players

• Notable Health: Notable Health provides AI-driven automation of administrative and clinical workflows for hospitals, sold via enterprise contracts. It shares MakerHealth's enterprise health system GTM and aim of freeing clinicians for higher-value work but addresses workflow automation rather than medical prototyping.
• b.well Connected Health: b.well is a consumer health platform that aggregates health data and enables patients and clinicians to coordinate care. It shares MakerHealth's mission of empowering clinicians and patients at the point of care and its enterprise healthcare sales model, though it focuses on data interoperability rather than physical prototyping.
• Vineti: Vineti provides a software platform for cell and gene therapy supply chain and orchestration, sold into hospital systems and biopharma. It overlaps with MakerHealth on enterprise healthcare platform GTM and integration into clinical operations but operates in specialty therapy logistics rather than clinician-led prototyping.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/makerhealthco

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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