b'Surviving cancer drove Bob Witkow to found Emet Surgical and improve the experience for other patients.Emet Surgical Powers the University of Minnesota, alerts surgeons toBootstrapped, mission-driven, and built from Smarter Surgery with apotential malignancies as they operate. Emetslived experience, Emet Surgical is tackling Survivors Perspective development team is not standing still. Whilesystemic gaps in surgical care with urgency clinical studies are starting in 2025, the teamand humanity. Bob Witkow founded Emet Surgical as ais working on enhancements that will enableWe arent chasing shiny objects, Witkow said. deeply personal response to surviving cancer.ESPs use in endometriosis surgeries. Were solving real problems for real people After undergoing eight surgeries and radiationPeople talk about the patient perspective, butbecause Ive been one of them.treatment, he wasnt content to recover andI lived it. My voice, my health, and my familys move on.The experience was terriblefor me and mylives were all disrupted. I wanted to createIts not just access something that helps surgeons and makes the whole family, he said. I had life-threateningexperience less traumatic for patients. to great talent and complications, and I started thinking: if ImWitkows decades in data systems and tech facing this, others are too. I couldnt let that go.Ratherthanacceptthelimitationsoflicensing uniquely positioned him to bringresearch; its the ESP to life. From his early days in data storage current surgical tools, Witkow used his techtechnology and his international work devel- energy. People background and inventive instincts to buildoping technology with top-tier labs in Israel, something better. Emet Surgicals flagshiphes built a career around problem-solving andhere are curious, system, Enhanced Surgical Precision (ESP),cross-industry innovation. is a software system designed to enhanceThatspiritisthrivinginColorado.Thecollaborative, and visual feedback during minimally invasiveecosystem here is extraordinary, Witkow procedures, essentially acting as a surgeons co-pilot.shared. The Colorado BioScience Association,motivated to makeInnosphereVentures,andFitzsimons ESP enhances the surgeons video display byInnovation Community, theyre all part of whya difference.identifying anomalies in real-time and over- Emet is here. Its not just access to great talent laying findings on the surgeons monitor. Itsand research; its the energy. People here areBOB WITKOWcancerous tissue recognition engine, devel- curious, collaborative, and motivated to makeFOUNDER & CEOoped with intellectual property licensed froma difference. EMET SURGICAL10 BIOSCIENCE COLORADO 2025-2026'