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Hanger Ventures, the investment arm of the largest O&P provider network in the United States, has put money into Prosthetic Fit 360, maker of the Limn Fit sensor system. The announcement tells you something real about where socket sensing technology is heading—and something useful about the gap between a funding round and a fitting appointment.
Hanger Ventures has invested in Prosthetic Fit 360, maker of the Limn Fit sensor system. The clinical case for data-driven socket monitoring is straightforward. The path from investment to clinic visit is not.
A Purdue–Notre Dame photonic textile that maps shear force at the socket interface and a Hanger Ventures investment in a continuous fit monitoring startup landed in the same news cycle. The approaches are at different distances from a clinical appointment, funded differently, and likely to arrive on different timelines. Here is what each is actually doing.
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