Co-founder, Shira MedTech | Shira Clamp
Anand Parikh is a co-founder of Shira MedTech, an award winning medical device innovation start-up. He is an alumnus of IIT-Madras and Stanford India Biodesign. Shira Med-tech strives to address the deficit of medical practitioners and care providers in India. At Shira, innovative products are invented, developed and commercialized in an interdisciplinary manner, by putting engineers and designers in hospitals and inviting doctors to their R&D studio. Shira Clamp, their flagship product, is a micro-surgical instrument to make blood vessel surgeries easier. Such surgeries are practically non existent beyond major cities due to a sharp deficit of specialist surgeons. Shira aims to simplify surgeries for junior surgeons to make micro-surgeries more accessible. Shira's potential to bring about social change by leveraging the power of product design has been recognized by the Government of India, Lockheed Martin, Titan Company, Ratan Tata and Tata Trusts through various awards and generous grants.