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Against the clock.
Until it's right.
Time is the hardest constraint in medtech, so we move with urgency, and work as hard and as long as it takes to get it right. Tell us what you're building, or what you'd like to understand.
Team
Dr. Rupesh Ghyar
Founder & CEO, Elephant Hawk
- PhD · Biomechanical engineering
- Ex-Senior Executive Officer, BETIC
- IIT Bombay
Dr. Rupesh Ghyar is a biomechanical engineer who has spent his career turning medical-device research into products that reach patients. He led operations at IIT Bombay's BETIC, one of India's foremost medical-device innovation centres, carrying device programs from concept through regulatory clearance and manufacture. He purpose-built Elephant Hawk's engine, Chrysalis, to do that work faster and more reliably, for industry and innovators alike. He works between the US and India, and still answers his own email and WhatsApp.
The Office of the Founder coordinates introductions and scheduling year-round: rupesh@elephanthawk.com.
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Mr. Reed Lorimer
Marketing Development & Growth
- MS Business Analytics · Cornell
- BS Biomedical Engineering · Boston University
- Python · SQL · Tableau
Reed Lorimer is a biomedical engineer who works the commercial side of the engine, pairing device fluency with an analytics discipline. As founder and campaign director of Lorimer Cabot Racing he raised roughly $400K to fund a Paris 2024 Olympic campaign, owning the budgeting and the logistics across seven countries. Earlier he mapped a healthcare sector for Shore Capital Partners to support investment decisions. He brings that measure-then-move discipline to positioning, demand generation, and partner development at Elephant Hawk.
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Office hours · open to all
Thirty minutes with the team.
Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays · 8–10 AM Eastern
Rupesh and Reed both keep open office hours, for industry, innovators, startups, and sponsors alike. Bring a program, a device concept, an early insight, a market question, or a build-vs-partner call; no agenda beyond understanding the work.
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Industry & innovators
Building a regulated product, or expanding a portfolio? Tell us what you're working on and where the path is slow; that's where we come in.
Tell us what you're working on →For sponsors
Sponsors
Sponsoring a medtech idea, holding one of your own, or needing one vetted? Bring it; we'll send back a Context Brief, a straight viability read, in five business days.
Tell us what you're working on →The deliverable · free
What's a Context Brief?
Deciding whether a medtech idea is worth building is a multivariate problem: market, regulatory, technical, competitive, and economic, all at once. A Context Brief gathers that whole context and distills it into one short, honest document you can act on. That's the name: the full context, briefed.
It's first principles applied to your idea, the same method we run everything on, and how the brief is built:
- 1ContextMap the whole picture: the idea, the market, the regulatory landscape, the economics.
- 2QuestionSharpen the one question that matters: is this worth building, and as what?
- 3DistillReduce the multivariate problem (dozens of variables) to the few that actually decide it.
- 4SimplifyTurn it into one clear call you can act on: go, reshape, or no-go.
- 5AccelerateCompress it to days, not quarters: your brief in five business days.
- 6ScaleRun by the engine, not a one-off team, so every brief is rigorous and repeatable.
Every brief draws on Seeker & Score's 13-layer model, live FDA & regulatory data, and a market, product, and competitor read: the same engine we'd use to build it. The result: a clear go / reshape / no-go, free.
Request yours below: about two minutes, and someone from the Office of the Founder follows up within 24 hours.
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