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Ryan James

Co-Founder and CEO, Dopl Technologies · 2 appearances on the record.

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Ryan James leads Dopl Technologies, a startup developing telerobotic and AI platforms to enable sonographers and specialists to perform ultrasound procedures remotely. He holds a PhD in Biomedical and Health Informatics from the University of Washington and previously held engineering roles at Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Pluto VR.

13statements → 7claims → 5claims resolved → 40%fully supported → 4/5average certainty → 1.54/5average debate potential →

2 supported 1 partly supported 2 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 1 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 5 assertions · 1 insight · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ryan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Doppel uses off-the-shelf Universal Robots hardware used in warehouses
“Yeah, this is an off-the-shelf robot that anyone can use. It's made by Universal Robotics. So this robot is not only used in medicine, it's also used to move boxes in warehouses and things like that.”
Ryan James Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 6:58 Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup?

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Doppel on track to launch first US telerobotic ultrasound system
“Yes, so right now, all of the big ultrasound manufacturers have been trying to tap into the rural market, but they can't because the specialists aren't there, and so we're on track to be first to market with a telerobotic ultrasound system in the U.S., and tha…”
Ryan James Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 5:49 Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup?

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
0% certainty 3
63% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

Everything Ryan James said on the Pitch that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Telerobotics value lies entirely in software stack, not new hardware
“The really important insight was that all the technology is already here. Like, they're fantastic robots. They're fantastic devices. We don't need to rebuild any of that. The missing piece was a software stack that connected it all. So all of our IP, all of ou…”
Ryan James Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 5:20 Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup?
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Doppel on track to launch first US telerobotic ultrasound system
“Yes, so right now, all of the big ultrasound manufacturers have been trying to tap into the rural market, but they can't because the specialists aren't there, and so we're on track to be first to market with a telerobotic ultrasound system in the U.S., and tha…”
Ryan James Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 5:49 Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup?
Assertion Supported
Doppel uses off-the-shelf Universal Robots hardware used in warehouses
“Yeah, this is an off-the-shelf robot that anyone can use. It's made by Universal Robotics. So this robot is not only used in medicine, it's also used to move boxes in warehouses and things like that.”
Ryan James Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 6:58 Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup?
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Doppel projects FDA Class II 510(k) clearance by mid-2025
“In Europe and Canada, but not in the U.S. They haven't tried to sell their device in the U.S. Yet, and so that leaves this, not only this enormous market opportunity in the U.S. For us, but it also just like rolls out the red carpet in terms of getting FDA cle…”
Ryan James Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 7:43 Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup?
Disclosure
Doppel hired the former regulatory consultants of its French competitor
“So we actually hired their former regulatory consultants.”
Ryan James Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 8:19 Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup?
Assertion Supported
Medicare reimburses critical access hospitals for capital costs of new equipment
“So when one of those critical access hospitals performs a procedure, Medicare will reimburse them for the cost of performing that procedure. They'll also do that when they purchase a new system.”
Ryan James Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 10:32 Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Doppel converted four LOIs into contracts after hospital prototype tests
“Since starting our company two years ago, we've tested our prototype In multiple hospitals, we've turned four LOIs into contracts”
Ryan James Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 2:51 Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup?
Disclosure
Doppel Technologies is seeking to raise $4M
“And I'm here to raise four million dollars to build a future where everyone has the same access to care regardless of where they live.”
Ryan James Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 2:57 Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup?
Assertion Partly supported
Founders performed remote heart procedure on a pig from 2,000 miles away
“The first system that we built was for a minimally invasive heart procedure. The electrophysiologist was in Chicago. Our system was in Seattle, and we did a heart procedure on a pig, and we did it successfully.”
Ryan James Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 4:55 Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup?
Disclosure
Doppel plans $60,000 hardware pricing plus $50-$100 per-procedure fee
“Our basic business model is, ah, cost us about 50 K to build the system. We're planning to sell the system for 60 K and then charge a 50 to 100 dollar per procedure fee, and so we really start to see economic success with volume of procedure.”
Ryan James Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 11:04 Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup?
Assertion Open · timeframe Oct 2024
Dopl tested remote robotic system between Houston and Seattle over 5G
“We actually did a test from Houston to Seattle over T-Mobile's, five G network.”
Ryan James Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 11:33 Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup?
Disclosure
Dopl plans to test telerobotic ultrasound platform in a moving ambulance
“We're about to do a test in a moving ambulance.”
Ryan James Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 11:39 Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup?
Disclosure
Dopl has raised $870,000 to date, including Techstars investment
“We did Techstars fall of twenty-twenty-two. That was our first 120 K and then a ton of very forward thinking angels that include physicians and technologists. To date, we've raised 870 K.”
Ryan James Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 14:09 Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup?

Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Season 12 Finale: What Happened After The Pitch? Dec 12, 2024 3m
Will VCs Bet $4M on This Robot Healthcare Startup? Oct 30, 2024 11m
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