Ali Mackanic

co-founder & cto @ @mosaicintel_lab

[Ali Mackanic @alimackanic]

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[Ileana Pirozzi @ilepirox]

Surgery is the work of the thinking hand.

Today we’re sharing the Manifesto behind @mosaicintel_lab - the first verbalization of our convictions about the future of surgical machine intelligence, and the deeply human purpose we believe it should serve.

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

@ilepirox @mosaicintel_lab @alimackanic 🔥

[Ali Mackanic @alimackanic]

@davideasnaghi @mosaicintel_lab insane software and service @diodeinc -- to many more PCBs!!

[8VC @8vc]

The future of surgery lies in the far reaches of the endovascular network, where many of the most pervasive and deadliest diseases originate.

This has always been one of the hardest areas in medicine: visibility is poor, observability is nonexistent, and there is no room for error. Existing procedures can only be performed by a relative handful of highly experienced surgeons.

We backed @mosaicintel_lab through 8VC Build to equip surgeons with semiautonomous, intelligent instruments to extend their grasp and dexterity, push the frontier of non-invasive intervention, and make the rarest procedures abundant.

Congratulations to co-founders @ilepirox and @alimackanic, who will be sharing more throughout the week!

[Alex Laplaza @laplza]

Convincing @ilepirox to marry me is my proudest achievement.

Surgery still scales at the rate of specialized individuals undergoing decades of intensive training.

@mosaicintel_lab's embodied intelligence enables surgeons to perceive and navigate inside human blood networks, laying the foundation for autonomous surgery and scaling access to life-saving interventions at the rate of robotics.

[Ali Mackanic @alimackanic]

@ADoricko hard agree

[Augustus Doricko @ADoricko]

Track this one. Ileana is brilliant and a killer

I’m much more optimistic about the future of health and medicine because of Mosaic

[Ali Mackanic @alimackanic]

@vvkgopalan well said

[Ali Mackanic @alimackanic]

@michaeljcalvey @ilepirox @mosaicintel_lab 🤝 @antiochrobotics

[Sebastian Caliri @SebastianCaliri]

Surgery cannot be mastered by simply reading books. It would be convenient if true, because training great surgeons requires decades of hands-on experience and we don't have enough of them.

What if there was another way to scale surgical intelligence? Mosaic Intelligence Labs was founded to solve this difficult and important problem. Today we are excited to introduce Mosaic to the world.

Mosaic's focus is on endovascular procedures - surgeries that use flexible catheters to reach deep inside the body through blood vessels, entering through a puncture just millimeters wide (often the femoral artery near the groin - see animation).

Mosaic is building sensing-enabled surgical instruments, spatial intelligence, and robotics. The immediate goal is to give surgical machines their own perception of the anatomy they navigate and expand what surgeons can perceive. Machine perception is a foundation for a future of reasoning and robotic actuation that assists surgeons.

If successful, Mosaic will enable more patients to access a broader range of interventions with less cost. It will give every surgeon the intuition and dexterity of the very best practicioners in the world, enabling new procedures and substituting invasive surgeries with access through blood vessels.

It is a mission that we are extremely proud to support at @8vc as the lead investor in Mosaic's $47M seed round.

Cofounders, the excellent @ilepirox and @alimackanic will be sharing more through the week.

And we are hiring in San Francisco! Read more at https://t.co/INkXFzUgk8

[Kevin Hartz @kevinhartz]

Excited to back @ilepirox, @alimackanic, and the team at @mosaicintel_lab building the next generation of robotics for surgery!

[Ali Mackanic @alimackanic]

@ilepirox @mosaicintel_lab hell yeah

[The Information @theinformation]

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[Ali Mackanic @alimackanic]

lets do this

[Ileana Pirozzi @ilepirox]

Today, I'm proud to introduce @mosaicintel_lab
the company I've spent the past year building with my cofounder and best friend, @alimackanic.

We are emerging from stealth with $47M in seed financing, to build machines that can make extraordinary surgery far more ordinary.

[Ali Mackanic @alimackanic]

@Luckyballa 🙌

[Alex Frommeyer @AlexFrommeyer]

@SebastianCaliri 'the surgeons are already here, they're just not distributed evenly yet.'

[Sebastian Caliri @SebastianCaliri]

I have been working with a team for the past year on a new autonomous surgery company. It is one of the most talented groups of people I have ever found.

We believe that new medtech is best developed in the field with surgeons. We are looking to hire our first CDE (clinically deployed engineer): a scrappy, high candor individual who wants to sit in the operating theater with our surgeons and help define the software and hardware that will reinvent this entire part of the economy.

If that person is you, or if you know that person, please send me a DM.

We will be saying more about this company in the month ahead.

[José Murillo @jose_murillo_d]

1/ Today, @Primero_ai is announcing its public launch and a $12m seed, one of the largest seed rounds in LatAm.

Primero is the AI transformation company for Latin America's largest enterprises.

[Ali Mackanic @alimackanic]

@levchizhov @alephneuro @SebastianCaliri

[Ali Mackanic @alimackanic]

@PalmerLuckey You’re thinking of HASELs (hydraulically amplified self-healing electrostatic actuators). Electrostatic force locally generates hydraulic pressure within dielectric fluid-filled polymer pouches. Originated in Keplinger’s lab (Boulder) and commercialized by Artimus Robotics.