{"id":82128,"date":"2025-09-25T14:47:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/chipirons-big-idea-rethinking-mri-access-not-replacing-old-machines-equity-podcast\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:47:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:47:38","slug":"chipirons-big-idea-rethinking-mri-access-not-replacing-old-machines-equity-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/chipirons-big-idea-rethinking-mri-access-not-replacing-old-machines-equity-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Chipiron\u2019s big idea: rethinking MRI access, not replacing old machines | Equity Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical device funding is hitting levels we haven&#8217;t seen since 2021, with investors pouring billions into diagnostics and imaging companies. <!--more--> But while innovation has raced ahead, a fundamental problem still hasn&#8217;t changed: critical medical hardware like MRI machines cost millions of dollars and is gatekept by large hospitals. So how do you take one of the most expensive, hospital-bound technologies and make it available anywhere? <\/p>\n<p>Evan Kervella, founder and CEO of Paris-based startup Chipiron, joined Equity to walk us through the problem and his vision for solving it. <\/p>\n<p>Equity is TechCrunch\u2019s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.  <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical device funding is hitting levels we haven&#8217;t seen since 2021, with investors pouring billions into diagnostics and imaging companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}