{"id":691914,"date":"2025-09-25T14:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chipirons-big-idea-rethinking-mri-access-not-replacing-old-machines\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:20:32","slug":"chipirons-big-idea-rethinking-mri-access-not-replacing-old-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chipirons-big-idea-rethinking-mri-access-not-replacing-old-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Chipiron\u2019s big idea: rethinking MRI access, not replacing old machines\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chipiron\u2019s big idea: rethinking MRI access, not replacing old machines | Equity Podcast\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b06AqrRPgMg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medical device funding is hitting levels we <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchbook.com\/news\/reports\/q2-2025-medtech-vc-and-pe-trends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">haven\u2019t seen since 2021<\/a>, with investors pouring billions into diagnostics and imaging companies. While innovation has raced ahead, a fundamental problem still hasn\u2019t changed: Critical medical hardware like MRI machines cost millions of dollars and is limited to large hospitals. So how do you take one of the most expensive, hospital-bound technologies and make it available anywhere?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evan Kervella, founder and CEO of Paris-based startup <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chipiron.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Chipiron<\/a>, joined Equity to walk us through the problem and his vision for solving it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Equity is TechCrunch\u2019s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Subscribe to us on<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><em> Apple Podcasts<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><em> Overcast<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><em> Spotify<\/em><\/a><em> and all the casts. 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While innovation has raced ahead, a fundamental problem still hasn\u2019t changed: Critical medical hardware like MRI machines cost millions of dollars and is limited to large hospitals. So how do you take one of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":691915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/chipiron-MRI.jpg?w=898","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[151516,158833,158754,52711,158834,158835,81524,70917],"class_list":["post-691914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-biotech-health","tag-chipiron","tag-equity-podcast","tag-hardware","tag-medical-hardware","tag-medical-technology","tag-mri","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}