Product development for startups
Successfully launching a new product as a startup is like an adventure full of challenges. At IMT, we know this because we have also developed our own innovative devices and marketed them worldwide. Trust us as your competent partner in high-tech product development. We are happy to support you from conception to worldwide approval to accelerate your time to market.
Startups often grapple with swift technological shifts and the pressure to build market awareness and attract investors before product launch. Balancing these demands with the complexities of internal product development can be challenging. IMT presents the solution to this conundrum. As an innovative, dependable partner with 30 years of experience in crafting pioneering devices and systems for the medical and industrial sectors, we're well-equipped to handle these challenges head-on.
Our startup services encompass a comprehensive suite of solutions tailor-made to address your unique needs. We offer strategic consulting, robust concept testing, meticulous development and testing and precise calculation of development and manufacturing costs upfront. In essence, IMT experts work alongside your team to provide innovative, competent, and reliable support from conception to market launch, enabling you to focus on what truly matters - building your business and creating impact.
From the idea to the concept
Our experts are skilled in distilling the ideas into actionable concepts that can form the basis for a successful product. We also offer guidance in regulatory affairs and quality management from this early stage, to help prepare your concept for the journey towards market launch. To further enhance this stage, our innovation workshops offer a structured approach to uncover user needs, refine your concept, and align stakeholders on a clear path forward. Explore how our Design Thinking Workshops can help drive innovation and set your project up for success.
Concept validation & development roadmap
We rigorously review your design ideas, transforming them into proofs of concept and simulations, while also creating hands-on functional prototypes. Our team collaborates with you to craft a comprehensive development roadmap, which outlines essential milestones, deliverables, and timelines. At this stage we also provide you with with the calculation of development and production costs to plug them into your company business plan.
Product industrialization
Our engineers craft realistic specifications for your product's functionality, usability, and performance, considering the regulatory environment and user needs. Together we define system and software architecture, addressing the risk analysis results. We develop a comprehensive test strategy tailored to the product's requirements. All steps happen in our requirements engineering tool to ensure perfect traceability and documentation.
Evaluation of components & suppliers
Let us evaluate and verify your key product components and identify suppliers to ensure efficient prototype development and easy, reliable transfer to production.
Regulatory approvals & device registrations
Mitigate risks and comply with regulations. Our regulatory affairs and quality management experts know the regulatory requirements that apply worldwide, especially for medical devices, and support you in successfully registering your products.
Design transfer for series production
Make your design transfer a success! Our experts help you establish and maintain procedures to ensure that your device designs are correctly translated into production specifications and assembly procedures.
Startup customers
Discover innovative startups whom we support in the development of high-tech medical products and solving urgent clinical needs.
Your benefits
We make
your ideas
work
Our experience
We engineered multiple products for other companies but also founded several start-up companies that successfully scaled up their product business worldwide.
Highly qualified team
100+ experts transform your idea into a future-oriented, marketable product.
Personal service
We love what we do and maintain long-term partnerships and proactive, accessible personal service.
Regulatory affairs expertise
Our in-house team for successful product registration and certification has extensive know-how. Standardized development process according to V-model and current standards.
Flexibility for our customers
We are flexible and adapt to customer tools and processes for smooth handovers.
Efficiency through agility
Waste is never a good thing - Agile response, smart way of working, and added value through lean structures for our customers.
Contact
Stuck in development dilemmas? IMT provides bespoke solutions for your challenges. Discover how we can propel your startup's growth.
Benno Bieri
COO & Head of Business Development