Golden Hour Medical

What Golden Hour Medical does

Golden Hour Medical, Inc. is a Boca Raton, Florida-based medical device company that has developed and commercialized the AutoTQ, an FDA-registered automatic tourniquet protected under U.S. Patent No. 12,070,229 B1. The device is designed to address a documented clinical gap: traditional tourniquets are misapplied more than 84% of the time immediately after training, and patients arriving without prehospital tourniquets face a 4.5x higher mortality rate from hemorrhagic shock. AutoTQ differentiates through a two-step operation (tighten and inflate) using air pressure, combined with pre-recorded audio-guided voice prompts that enable bystanders with no medical training to apply the device correctly — the company reports 92% first-time user success and 100% successful arterial occlusion in testing on limbs up to 33 inches around.

The business model is a direct enterprise hardware sale of the AutoTQ device, which is reusable with disposable components, assembled in the USA, and certified compliant with ANSI/ISEA Z308.1-2021. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, with multi-year contract structures available for bulk enterprise purchases. The company employs a sales-led go-to-market for enterprise buyers alongside product-led adoption among safety-conscious communities, supported by dedicated sales phone lines, demo scheduling, and contact-to-buy CTAs. GTM is segmented vertically across four primary use-case categories: Hazardous & Industrial (construction, manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, forestry), Emergency & Healthcare (hospitals, EMS, law enforcement, military tactical), Education & Public Space (K-12 schools, universities, government buildings), and Community & Sports (venues, stadiums, transportation hubs). The company's stated positioning — "the AED for bleeding" — targets placement alongside automated external defibrillators in public and workplace safety infrastructure.

The company is founder-owned and bootstrapped, with no disclosed institutional funding rounds, no M&A history, and no partnerships in the input data. It operates with 1-10 employees from a single Boca Raton headquarters and currently serves a Southeast USA market. Distribution of awareness has been built primarily through earned media, with features in Good Morning America, Business Insider, IEEE Pulse, JEMS, Firehouse, Police1, and Medscape. The company has signaled intent to develop additional easy-to-use emergency aid devices beyond the AutoTQ and holds a pending U.S. Utility Patent alongside its granted patent.

Name

Golden Hour Medical

Legal name

Golden Hour Medical, Inc.

Website

https://goldenhourmedical.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Golden Hour Medical is a Boca Raton-based medical device company that makes the AutoTQ, an FDA-registered, audio-guided automatic tourniquet that enables untrained bystanders to control severe hemorrhage. It sells directly to enterprises across industrial, healthcare, education, and public-venue verticals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Emergency Medical Devices

NAICS

Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing (339112), Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing (334510)

SIC

Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus (3841)

akta.pro primary industry

Surgical Stapling, Suturing & Hemostasis (Staplers, Clips, Sealants, Tourniquets) (HLAHADAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Personal Medical Devices & Home Diagnostics (Thermometers, Blood Pressure Monitors, Glucose Meters, Rapid Tests) (CRADAMAK)

Keywords

• Automatic tourniquets
• Bleeding control devices
• Emergency medical equipment
• Hemorrhage control kits
• Tactical medical devices

Headquarters

HQ city

Boca Raton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. AutoTQ Device Sales: One-time hardware sales of the AutoTQ automatic tourniquet system. The device includes both reusable and disposable components, and comes with included training.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Golden Hour Medical designs, manufactures, and sells the AutoTQ, an FDA-registered, patented automatic tourniquet that uses air pressure and audio-guided voice prompts to stop severe bleeding in a two-step process (tighten and inflate). The reusable device is sold with disposable components and included training to enterprise and institutional buyers such as hospitals, EMS, law enforcement, schools, and industrial sites, and is positioned as 'the AED for bleeding' for bystander use.

Product overview

Golden Hour Medical offers a single unified product — the AutoTQ automatic tourniquet system — along with associated emergency bleeding control kits and training materials. The core offering is AutoTQ, an FDA-registered, patented automatic tourniquet that guides users through stopping severe bleeding via voice prompts and visual cues. The company sells the device alongside included training resources and offers its use across a range of safety-conscious industries and public-access deployment scenarios.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AutoTQ: Audio-guided, reusable automatic tourniquet that stops bleeding with two steps: tighten and inflate. FDA-registered and patented device.

Products and services

• AutoTQ Automatic Tourniquet The only patented, FDA-registered automatic tourniquet that stops bleeding via a two-step process (tighten and inflate) using air pressure and voice prompts. Audio-guided and reusable, with disposable components, it enables bystanders with no prior training to control severe hemorrhage correctly on first attempt. Sold to enterprise buyers in healthcare, emergency services, law enforcement, military, education, and industrial safety markets.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% successful arterial occlusion on limbs up to 33 inches in testing
• +3 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature3 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• North American Rescue: Dominant US supplier of combat and civilian tourniquets, including the market-leading CAT (Combat Application Tourniquet) used across US military and EMS. Directly comparable as a tourniquet-focused medical device company selling into the same emergency/tactical customer base as Golden Hour Medical.
• SAM Medical: Manufacturer of the SAM XT windlass tourniquet and a broader line of trauma medical devices for military, EMS, and hospital use. Directly competes with AutoTQ on tourniquet ease-of-use claims and shares the same first-responder buyer.
• Tactical Medical Solutions: Designer and manufacturer of tactical medical kits and devices, including tourniquets such as the SOF-T Wide. Comparable as a focused trauma-medicine device vendor selling into law enforcement, military, and EMS channels.
• RevMedx (Tricol Biomedical): Developer of innovative hemostatic and trauma-control devices including the XSTAT and windlass-style tourniquets. Comparable as a device-led innovator pushing automation and novel mechanisms into the bleeding-control market, overlapping with AutoTQ's positioning.
• H&H Medical Corporation: Manufacturer of tactical medical devices including tourniquets, hemostatic dressings, and chest seals used by military and law enforcement. Sells into the same Emergency & Healthcare and law enforcement segments that Golden Hour Medical targets.
• PerSys Medical: Maker of the Emergency (Israeli) Bandage and a range of hemorrhage-control and wound-care products sold globally to military and first responders. Comparable as an emergency-care device vendor with overlapping buyers.
• Avcor Health Care Products: US manufacturer of compression bandages and hemostatic devices, including elastic and tactical tourniquets sold into first-aid kit and tactical channels. Comparable as a mid-sized tourniquet/bleeding-control device competitor.

Broad incumbents

• ZOLL Medical (Asahi Kasei): Major medical device company best known for AEDs and cardiac care, with a meaningful emergency-care portfolio. Highly relevant given the 'AED for bleeding' parallel positioning and shared buyer base in schools, airports, and enterprises.
• Philips HeartStart (Royal Philips): Global leader in AEDs and defibrillation products under the HeartStart brand. Comparable as the dominant incumbent defining the public-access defibrillator category that Golden Hour Medical's 'AED for bleeding' positioning attempts to parallel.
• Stryker: Large diversified medical device company with emergency, surgical, and trauma-adjacent product lines. Comparable as a broad incumbent that controls significant hospital and EMS procurement relationships that AutoTQ must win into.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/golden-hour-medical

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

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