CONUS

CONUS structures fragmented medical device information for surgeons, pulling manufacturer documentation, hospital protocols, and medical research into one place so clinical teams can get reliable answers across products and procedures . The same platform is used on the other side by medical device manufacturers to equip the field reps who train and support surgeons on their implants and instruments. The launch arrives with the product live in 20+ hospitals, which is notable for a company that only recently exited stealth and is announcing itself through the YC F26 batch. The company is based in Cologne, Germany, and was founded by Maximilian Becker, Vincent Paffrath, and Alexander Schulz . Paffrath, the CEO, describes CONUS as the AI layer for surgery, connecting medical device manufacturers to clinical teams , and brings a background in generative AI research at ETH Zurich and GenAI rollouts at Bosch. His cofounders come from engineering and MedTech backgrounds, with Becker having helped scale an industrial automation startup and Schulz having built embedded systems for biomedical instruments at Miltenyi Biotec. For investors and operators watching MedTech go-to-market, the interesting bet is that device knowledge, which today lives inside rep relationships and vendor PDFs, becomes a shared infrastructure layer that both sides of the sale depend on. The stated long-term ambition is to serve as the knowledge infrastructure connecting medical device companies and clinical teams worldwide, with reliable product and clinical knowledge available in seconds across specialties , with hospital procurement of implants as a plausible next surface area.