Compressing medtech time to market
Where innovators meet operational conviction
We take regulated medtech from idea to cleared product — 3–5× faster — by compressing every discipline through one AI-native engine: Chrysalis.
What we do
The path from breakthrough idea to product is too slow, fragmented, and expensive.
That engine has a name — Chrysalis, our AI-native platform that compresses the path, so regulated medtech products reach the people who need them sooner.
It's more than the idea. Chrysalis is the transformation that distills every variable a product must satisfy — from market need to a cleared, manufacturable device — into one product. The path runs in four phases:
Prefer to kick the tires first? Use our free tools — Chrysalis Intelligence and the Seeker & Score engine.
US-protected · one integrated platform
What we deliver.
Elephant Hawk is a US company with one integrated engineering and manufacturing platform — IP and ownership protected here, the work built by the world's best, at a fraction of the cost.
United States
Protected here
- IP, contracts & ownership held in the US, under US law
- Engineered to FDA 510(k) / De Novo clearance standards
- US entity from day one — Sheridan, Wyoming
An Elephant Hawk company
IF MedTech — the engineering arm
- One of the world's deepest medtech engineering benches
- Rooted in India's leading device institutions
- World-class engineering at a fraction of US cost
IF MedTech Pvt. Ltd. — an Elephant Hawk company — is our Indian engineering and manufacturing arm.
Visit IF MedTech →Delivered by scalable, cross-functional pods — engineers, designers, regulatory, quality, and the specialists each program needs.
Who we serve
One engine, four kinds of partner — and the sponsors who back them.
Medtech
A program that needs speed
An established device program that would move faster with a 3–5× cycle-time partner — without losing the file that clears.
Founder's office hours, Tue–Thu →Pharma
Devices & combination products
Drug-delivery and combination products engineered, evidenced, and carried to clearance alongside your pipeline.
Founder's office hours, Tue–Thu →Innovators
An insight that needs an engine
A clinician or inventor with a real insight that needs design, evidence, and a regulatory pathway — not another pitch deck.
Founder's office hours, Tue–Thu → Ask about co-sponsorship →Startups
Engineered to milestones
A product built to fundable, regulator-ready milestones — fast enough to keep your runway working for you.
Founder's office hours, Tue–Thu → Ask about co-sponsorship →Sponsors
Backing or vetting an idea
Sponsoring a medtech idea, holding one of your own, or needing one vetted? We'll send back a Context Brief — a straight viability read on the opportunity, in five business days.
Selected work
How we've partnered — real programs.
Anonymized to protect our partners. The shape is real; the specifics are theirs — full client references available under NDA.
Featured · Industry · Surgical
Imported-grade hardware, built domestically
A major pharmaceutical group wanted OR-grade surgical hardware — pulse-lavage and modular power tools — at a domestic cost. Chrysalis engineered a modular, sterilizable, reusable platform to ISO 13485, IEC 60601, and CDSCO Class B, with the regulatory file built against precedent.
Industry · US partner
A US device company, engineered in India
A US surgical-device company needed a laparoscopic ligation device at a cost imported staplers can't touch — US market, India build. Chrysalis designed a single-device 5 mm/10 mm system to Class C and mapped freedom-to-operate against the incumbents' IP.
Innovator · Clinician
Designed by the surgeon who needed it
A practicing cardiac surgeon knew hypothermia kills in trauma and surgery, yet imported inline warmers price Indian trauma centres out. Chrysalis engineered an inline warmer taking 4°C blood to 37°C in a two-minute prime, with a low-cost single-use cassette, to IEC 60601 and Class B.
Innovator · Clinician
Fertility expertise, engineered into a product
OB/GYN clinicians wanted a less-traumatic, outpatient alternative to invasive PCOS surgery for the tens of millions of women affected. Chrysalis engineered a transvaginal RF-ablation device (single-use, Class C) to IEC 60601-2-2 and the CDSCO pathway, with safety-margin tuning and clinician training.
Industry · Connected care
Hospital-grade monitoring, domestically priced
A health-devices partner needed continuous patient monitoring for India's hospital-at-home shift, where imported vital patches cost many times the domestic target. Chrysalis engineered a reusable multi-vital patch (ECG, HR, respiration, temperature, fall) on BLE 5.3 to clinical-grade accuracy, Class B, with a companion app and clinician dashboard.
Leadership
Built by a biomechanical engineer.
Dr. Rupesh Ghyar · Founder & CEO
- PhD · Biomechanical engineering
- Senior Executive Officer, BETIC
- IIT Bombay
Dr. Rupesh Ghyar is a biomechanical engineer who led operations at IIT Bombay's BETIC — one of India's foremost medical-device innovation centres — and built Elephant Hawk's engine, Chrysalis, to bring regulated medtech products to market faster.
Elephant Hawk is founded by health and medtech entrepreneurs and innovators — for other innovators. We've been on your side of the table, and we build that way.
Ideas crawl in. Products fly out.
For as long as the work requires.
Start with a Context Brief.
A complete viability read on your idea — our 13-layer model, live FDA & regulatory data — free, in five business days.
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