Hobbs Medical

What Hobbs Medical does

Hobbs Medical is a US-based contract designer and manufacturer of single-use endoscopic accessories used in gastrointestinal and pulmonary endoscopy procedures. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, the company produces a portfolio that includes cytology brushes, injection needles, snares, retrieval devices, catheters, and stents, and has reported more than 100,000 cumulative implants across its product lines. Its products are sold directly to clinical end users under the Hobbs Medical brand and also manufactured on a private-label basis for OEM customers through a contract manufacturing and product development service offering.

The company operates a direct sales model with no minimum order requirements, same-day shipping, and NET 30 terms, serving a mix of VA hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, medical universities, and OEM partners. Its quality system has been certified to ISO 13485 since 2002 and to MDSAP since 2020, providing a multi-country audit footprint covering the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, and Brazil. The October 2025 launch of the patent-pending CleanCapture Aspiration Catheter, co-developed with Cedars-Sinai, and a June 2026 strategic partnership with mBIOTA Labs extending into microbiome and SIBO-related applications, indicate incremental moves to broaden the product and clinical footprint beyond the legacy accessory base.

Name

Hobbs Medical

Legal name

Hobbs Medical, Inc.

Website

https://hobbsmedical.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Hobbs Medical is a 40-year US manufacturer of disposable endoscopic accessories (brushes, catheters, snares, needles, stents) for GI and pulmonary endoscopy, serving VA hospitals, ambulatory centers, medical universities, and OEM partners via direct sales and contract manufacturing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Endoscopy Devices and Accessories

NAICS

Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing (339113), Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing (3391), Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (423450)

SIC

Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus (3841), Wholesale-Medical, Dental & Hospital Equipment & Supplies (5047)

akta.pro primary industry

Endoscopy Systems & Accessories (Scopes, Cameras, Light Sources, Insufflation) (HLAHADAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Endoscopic Therapeutic & Access Devices (Trocars, dilators, biopsy/ablation tools) (HLAHADAN)

Keywords

• Endoscopic accessories
• GI endoscopy devices
• Pulmonary endoscopy supplies
• Medical device manufacturing
• Flexible endoscopy tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Stafford Springs

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Endoscopic Device Sales: Direct sales of endoscopy devices and accessories to healthcare providers including hospitals, medical universities, ambulatory centers, and clinics. Products include brushes, catheters, stents, needles, retrieval devices, and accessories. Revenue generated through individual product purchases with payment terms of NET 30 days.
2. Contract Manufacturing Services: OEM contract manufacturing services where Hobbs Medical produces and/or assembles devices, parts, or components based on customer specifications. Works with medical device manufacturers to produce their products. ISO 13485 and MDSAP certified manufacturing capabilities.
3. Product Development and Prototyping: Product development and prototyping services including R&D, testing, and prototyping. Assists clinicians and medical device manufacturers in transforming ideas into products. Engineering staff support for new product ideas and product improvement suggestions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Hobbs Medical manufactures and supplies disposable diagnostic and therapeutic accessories used in flexible gastrointestinal (GI) and pulmonary endoscopy procedures, including endoscopic brushes, aspiration and push catheters, polypectomy snares, injection needles, retrieval devices, biliary and pancreatic stents, and associated accessories. The company also offers OEM contract manufacturing and product development/prototyping services for medical device manufacturers.

Product overview

Hobbs Medical is a manufacturer and supplier of endoscopy devices and accessories for gastrointestinal (GI) and pulmonary endoscopy procedures. The product portfolio centers on disposable diagnostic and therapeutic accessories including brushes (cleaning, cytology, nasal cytology, and microbiology), catheters (aspiration, CleanCapture, push, and spray), electrocautery devices (polypectomy and short throw snares), needles (injection and transbronchial aspiration), retrieval devices (looped retrievers), stents (biliary double pigtail and Freeman pancreatic flexi-stents in single pigtail and straight variants), and accessories (cell transport system, scope introducer). The CleanCapture Aspiration Catheter represents their flagship innovation for microbiome sampling. Beyond standard products, Hobbs Medical offers contract manufacturing and product development/prototyping services for medical device manufacturers and clinicians.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Good-Bi Cleaning Brushes Double-ended cleaning brush system for scope channel cleaning in a single pass, featuring a tapered two-brush configuration with a blunt looped tip to protect delicate channels; intended for endoscopy units reprocessing scopes.
• Cytology Brushes Endoscopic brushes for cellular sample collection with PTFE sheathing, radiopaque ball tip for mucosal safety, and high-tempered stainless steel wire construction; available for GI and pulmonary cytology indications.
• Nasal Cytology Brushes Brushes designed for non-endoscopic access to the nasal passage for cell collection via abrasion exfoliation, with stainless steel wire construction and bullet tip to prevent mucosal trauma.
• Microbiology Brushes Protected specimen brushes with spring-loaded handle for seal at distal tip and tear-drop shaped tip to reduce contamination risk during advancement and withdrawal through the endoscope channel.
• Aspiration Catheters Catheters for collection of fluids through flexible endoscopes, featuring clear sheathing for visualization, available with permanent or removable Luer-lock Adapter, and a spiral pattern of holes at the distal tip.
• CleanCapture Aspiration Catheters Endoscopic device with a pioneering sheath-within-sheath design and patent-pending protective membrane to reduce contamination risk during duodenal and jejunal fluid collection for microbiome and SIBO research; sterile single-use packaging.
• Push Catheters Catheters designed for therapeutic ERCP procedures to assist in placement of biliary and pancreatic stents, featuring flexibility and maneuverability for navigating GI tract pathways.
• Spray Catheters Catheters for delivering a 360-degree spray mist pattern for chromoendoscopy procedures and irrigation, dispersing colored dyes around tissue for anomaly identification.
• Polypectomy Snares Disposable snares for gastrointestinal polypectomy procedures with braided stainless-steel wire loop, available in various loop shapes and sizes including hexagonal and oval configurations.
• Short Throw Polypectomy Snares Ergonomically designed polypectomy snares with a shorter handle for enhanced comfort and control, particularly beneficial for practitioners requiring closer control during endoscopic procedures.
• Posi-Stop Injection Needles Endoscopic injection needles featuring a Posi-Stop retraction/extension system for accurate needle positioning, with radiopaque tip for fluoroscopy visualization and color-coded handles.
• Transbronchial Aspiration Needle 21-gauge bronchoscopy needle with positive-stop feature for precise control, designed for maximum specimen retrieval when used with a vacuum-locking syringe.
• Looped Retrievers Spring-loaded gripping devices for foreign body retrievals including food impactions, featuring looped prongs with a blunt end to minimize mucosal trauma.
• Biliary Stents (Double Pigtail) Double pigtail stents for biliary duct occlusions made from flexible biocompatible material, MR safe, featuring equal radius pigtail ends and six side ports for enhanced drainage.
• Freeman Pancreatic Flexi-Stents (Straight) Straight pancreatic stents with double external flanges and distal anchoring flange to prevent migration, designed to bridge the sphincter into the distal duct.
• Saccomanno Cell Transport System Cell fixative system with prefilled transport vials for collection and preservation of cellular specimens collected via brushes, forceps, and needles.
• Scope Introducer, Single Use Single-use device that maintains an open working channel during endoscopic procedures for easy access to irrigation and passage of accessories, compatible with 2.8mm or larger working channels.
• Contract Manufacturing Services OEM contract manufacturing services for medical device manufacturers, producing and assembling devices, parts, or components to customer specifications under ISO 13485 and MDSAP certifications.
• Product Development and Prototyping Services Product development and prototyping services for clinicians and medical device manufacturers, including R&D, testing, and prototyping to transform ideas into finished products.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 100,000 successful Freeman Pancreatic Stent implants
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• mBIOTA LabscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 June 2026Strategic partnership to improve patient access to accurate Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) diagnosis and evidence-based management solutions. Through this collaboration, patients are connected with providers using Hobbs Medical's CleanCapture Aspiration Catheter for small bowel aspiration sampling, and can access mBIOTA's clinically proven elemental diet for managing SIBO and other GI conditions.
• Cedars-Sinai (GI Motility Program)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 December 2025Product development collaboration with Dr. Ali Rezaie, Medical Director of Cedars-Sinai's GI Motility Program and Lead Developer of the CleanCapture device. Dr. Rezaie collaborated with Hobbs Medical to develop the novel aspiration catheter with protective membrane technology for contamination reduction in small bowel sampling.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Creo Medical: Creo Medical develops advanced energy-driven endoscopic surgical devices for GI procedures, including Speedboat Inject and other therapeutic endoscopy tools. Smaller, focused manufacturer competing in advanced endoscopy niches — comparable to Hobbs's strategic positioning in specialized endoscopic accessories.
• Ambu A/S: Ambu is a manufacturer of single-use endoscopy and airway products, with a growing portfolio of disposable endoscopic accessories and commitment to single-use scope technology. Comparable in its focus on single-use disposable endoscopy accessories and its challenger positioning versus legacy incumbents.

Direct peers

• Cook Medical: Cook Medical is one of the closest comparables: a medical device manufacturer with deep GI endoscopy accessory lines (stents, catheters, sphincterotomes, biopsy tools, ERCP accessories). Hobbs's pancreatic and biliary stent offerings and overall accessory portfolio compete most directly with Cook's endoscopy division, but at materially smaller scale.
• Micro-Tech Endoscopy: Micro-Tech Endoscopy is a smaller focused manufacturer of GI endoscopy accessories including needles, snares, biopsy forceps, and catheters. It is one of the closest small-company comparables to Hobbs in terms of product breadth, target customer (GI labs and ASCs), and scale.
• Merit Medical Systems: Merit Medical manufactures endoscopic accessories including biliary stents, drainage catheters, and other GI endoscopy products. Direct overlap with Hobbs's stent and catheter portfolio, but Merit operates at substantially larger scale with public-company capital access.

Broad incumbents

• Boston Scientific: Boston Scientific's Endoscopy division produces a full portfolio of GI and pulmonary diagnostic/therapeutic devices, including stents, biopsy forceps, and infection-prevention products. Hobbs competes for the same hospital budgets but as a fraction of Boston Scientific's overall scale, distribution, and clinical evidence base.
• CONMED: CONMED offers GI endoscopy and pulmonology products including biopsy forceps, snares, and other disposable accessories used in endoscopic procedures. Comparable product overlap with Hobbs's brushes, catheters, snares, and needles, though CONMED operates at meaningfully larger scale and broader portfolio.
• Pentax Medical (HOYA Corporation): Pentax Medical is a major manufacturer of flexible endoscopes and complementary endoscopic accessories for GI and pulmonology. Comparable to Hobbs in its accessory offerings for GI/pulmonary endoscopy, with broader scope including the endoscope platforms themselves.
• Olympus Medical: Olympus is the dominant manufacturer of flexible endoscopes and a major supplier of compatible accessories, single-use devices, and cleaning/reprocessing products for GI and pulmonary endoscopy. Hobbs's accessories are typically used alongside Olympus scopes, so Olympus is both a partner context and a competing accessorizer.
• STERIS (formerly US Endoscopy): STERIS acquired US Endoscopy, a manufacturer of GI endoscopy accessories including retrieval devices, snares, and stents. Comparable product categories to Hobbs's portfolio, though within STERIS's much broader infection-prevention and sterilization portfolio.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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