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Answer a few questions about your device and get a suggested FDA pathway (510(k), De Novo, PMA, or exempt) with concrete next steps.
Find your pathway → Live TrackerSBIR/STTR due dates, accelerator windows, and pitch competitions with live countdowns, sorted by what's due next.
See what's due → Founder GuidesPlain-English guides to your first 510(k), the SBIR application timeline, and reimbursement strategy, written for first-time founders.
Read the guides →If you're pre-submission and pre-revenue, these three plays put the library above into a sequence.
Start with our Pathway Finder, classify your device in the Product Classification database, find predicates in the 510(k) database, then pressure-test your pathway with a free Q-Sub. Investors fund companies that know their pathway cold.
Before pitching VCs, apply for NIH SBIR and MedTech Innovator: equity-free capital that also validates your science. Watch every date on our Deadline Tracker and the Cicada Opportunity Tracker.
Read the CMS medtech guide, check the Medicare Coverage Database for analogues, and use Early Payor Feedback so your pivotal trial produces the evidence payers require. New CPT codes take 18-24 months, so the clock starts now.
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