Medsider: Learn from Medtech and Healthtech Founders and CEOs - Breaking Down Barriers in Women's Health: Interview with Neuraura CEO Claire Dixon

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

In this episode of Medsider Radio, we sat down with Claire Dixon, CEO of Neuraura.Neuraura is developing LoOop, an over-the-counter wearable that targets PCOS through low-frequency electrical... stimulation.Claire brings over 25 years of international leadership experience to her role as co-founder and CEO of Neuraura. With a master's degree in engineering from Cambridge and an MBA from Harvard, she spent 15 years as a strategic consultant to capital-intensive businesses before transitioning to entrepreneurship. She was recently named among the “Top 200 Trailblazing Leaders in Women's Health and femtech” by Women of Wearables.In this interview, Claire shares insights on navigating regulatory pathways, designing for real user needs, and building strategic partnerships to bring innovative women's health solutions to market through a direct-to-consumer approach.Before we dive into the discussion, I wanted to mention a few things:First, if you’re into learning from medical device and health technology founders and CEOs, and want to know when new interviews are live, head over to Medsider.com and sign up for our free newsletter.Second, if you want to peek behind the curtain of the world's most successful startups, you should consider a Medsider premium membership. You’ll learn the strategies and tactics that founders and CEOs use to build and grow companies like Silk Road Medical, AliveCor, Shockwave Medical, and hundreds more!We recently introduced some fantastic additions exclusively for Medsider premium members, including playbooks, which are curated collections of our top Medsider interviews on key topics like capital fundraising and risk mitigation, and 3 packages that will help you make use of our database of 750+ life science investors more efficiently for your fundraise and help you discover your next medical device or health technology investor!In addition to the entire back catalog of Medsider interviews over the past decade, premium members also get a copy of every volume of Medsider Mentors at no additional cost, including the latest Medsider Mentors Volume VII. If you’re interested, go to medsider.com/subscribe to learn more.Lastly, if you'd rather read than listen, here's a link to the full interview with Claire Dixon.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Nobody has it all figured out, particularly in the early stages, I would say, obviously it just comes down to the team. But for me, it's specifically around the ability to make and have conviction of decisions, but then to throw those away when new information arises, right? The ability to kind of be agile. You know, the propensity for action is huge. There's no time for navel gazing, right? Welcome to Medsider, where you can learn from the brightest founders and CEOs in medical devices and health technology. Join tens of thousands of ambitious doers as we unpack the insights, tactics, and secrets behind the most successful life science startups in the world. Now, here's your host, Scott Nelson.
Starting point is 00:00:51 Hey, everyone, it's Scott. In this episode of Medsider, I sat down with Claire Dixon, CEO of Naurra. Claire brings over 25 years of international leadership experience to her role as co-founder of the company with a master's degree in engineering from Cambridge and an MBA from Harvard. She spent 15 years as a consultant to capital intensive businesses before transitioning to entrepreneurship. Recently named among the top 200 trailblazing leaders in women's health and femtech, Claire's leading Rora to develop Loop, the first effective, widely accessible over-the-counter treatment for PCOS, a condition affecting nearly one in five women.
Starting point is 00:01:22 Here are few of the key things that we discussed in this conversation. First, choose the regulatory pathway that maximizes patient access rather than following conventional wisdom. Sometimes the traditional approach isn't optimal, particularly for conditions with high rates of underdiagnosis. By pursuing an over-the-counter strategy for loop, despite pushback from traditional med tech stakeholders, Claire prioritized reaching the 75% of women with PCOS who lack formal diagnosis. Second, design products with continuous user feedback, particularly for underserved conditions, by assembling into user advisory boards and adopting agile methodologies even for hardware development. Third, build strategic partnerships with complementary companies serving the same patient population
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Starting point is 00:03:21 We've even created three custom packages to help you with your next fundraise. Learn more about Medsider Mentors and our premium memberships by visiting MedsiderRadio.com forward slash mentors. All right, without further ado, let's dive in in the interview. All right, Claire, welcome to Medsider Radio. Thanks, Scott. Great to be here. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:44 Looking forward to recording this conversation, even though the Canadians beat the Americans last night in hockey, you know, we're still going to have this. We're still going to have a friendly discussion. Oh, my goodness. I think Trudeau said friends about 30 times in his little video. So, yeah, let's stay friends. It's funny. It's funny. I'm not, I'm not a, I wouldn't consider myself like a hockey fan, but I kind of, those kind of, that kind of stuff kind of pulls you. It's, it's pretty fun. But with that said, though, we're not going to discuss hockey. I don't think in this, in this interview anyway, we're going to be talking about your background, you know, your background. We're going to be talking about your background. Give us like an elevator style pitch in your own words, you know, maybe. You've got a really kind of interesting background across kind of the startup space, both in deep tech, you know, fimp tech, which you're working on now. Give us like an elevator style pitch in your own words, you know, maybe. maybe in a couple minutes of your journey leading up to co-founding.
Starting point is 00:04:33 And Rora. Yeah, this might be a bit of an anti-pitch, right? Yeah, I definitely look good on paper. That doesn't necessarily give you a lot of insight into my DNA as an entrepreneur. So, yeah, I did a master's degree in engineering at Cambridge and MBA at Harvard, spent the formative years of my career in consulting, and then held a number of operational roles before transitioning into the startup space. but it probably tells you a lot more about me if I tell you that I was the first person in my family
Starting point is 00:05:04 to say at school past 16. So I come from a family of blue collar entrepreneurs. So kind of coming into this space kind of late in life is like coming home. And the other thing you probably would guess if we spend enough time together is I also got diagnosed with ADHD in my 40s, right? So my path here wasn't always smooth being undiagnosed nirido virgin and obviously you talk to a lot of entrepreneurs so you know that's pretty common but yeah like a lot of common themes across my career i'd say the thing that's kind of always carried me forward is navigating technical and commercial complexity so working in a variety of fields very early on but then as you say transitioning into deep tech health tech that's really kind of helped
Starting point is 00:05:50 I think the last thing, really in the CEO role, we kind of smash our heads against the wall repeatedly, hoping for a different result every time. So I have unhealthy levels of personal courage to push myself out my comfort zone. And so that's kind of part of what's got me into trouble and got me here. I love it. I love the fact that you, the phrase you use, you feel like it's sort of coming home, right? An entrepreneur that, you know, has obviously a very impressive sort of resume on paper in terms of like, you know, academic pedigree, but also, you know, kind of from the old school kind of roll up your sleeves, kind of blue collar sort of entrepreneurial mentality. So it should be a fun conversation. So we're recording this in Q1 or 25 for
Starting point is 00:06:29 those listening, you know, kind of maybe maybe down the road. But you've been at it at Noura. Am I pronounced that right? Noura, Noura. At least based on your LinkedIn profile, you know, you founded the company in mid, mid-2018, you know, so gosh, you know, coming up on six and a half, seven years now, give us a sense for kind of what you're building. And really, really, maybe start with kind of the major problem that you're, you know, you're trying to solve. Yeah, so it's worth bringing my, I mean, big picture. This is Neurora 2.0. So, yeah, we actually spun the company up, out of the University of Calgary back in 2017 and initially focused on brain machine interface applications. So core technologies are neural electrodes. We optimized it around
Starting point is 00:07:11 actually reading electrical signals directly from the brain to start with. So invasive, focused on epilepsy as an initial use case. And then we pivoted. just over two years ago. So today, with Loop, we're building a bi-awareable platform. It's a first-in-kind solution for PCOS, polycystic ovarian syndrome. Now, a lot of people have never even heard of PCOS, but it's actually the most common hormonal condition. It affects almost one in five women.
Starting point is 00:07:39 So it's pretty profound leading cause of infertility, results in insulin resistance in 70% of people. And it's a risk factor in most of the major killers of women. So, yeah, we're building. building a device, which is minimally invasive, stimulates at very low frequencies to alleviate the metabolic menstrual reproductive symptoms, and then we're building a digital platform around that, really focused on the overall burden of disease, which is quite tremendous in this condition. I may be one of the few that has heard of PCOS before. I had no idea that it was that prevalent,
Starting point is 00:08:12 but give us a sense for kind of standard of care right now. Is there a sort of a generally kind of accepted kind of pathway or way of treating PCOS now versus kind of what your device does? So quite disappointingly, the standard of care today is to use hormonal contraceptives. So the pill. In most cases, that's offered prior to even a formal diagnosis. And so recognize that once you're on the pill, you can't reliably do those blood tests to get a diagnosis either. Challenges with the pill, like it gives you a regular cycle, but it's entirely fake, right?
Starting point is 00:08:46 like it has no relation to your real menstrual cycle. If you do have like excessive bleeding, really bad acne, for some people, it does offer some relief. But really it doesn't do anything to help with fertility. Like it actually makes confounds fertility. It makes it even worse. You know, a lot of people gain weight when they're on the pill and when they come off it as well. So escalates that.
Starting point is 00:09:10 And then obviously you've got a whole bunch of side effects with the pill, which if you do have a higher BMI often are more impactful. So yeah, I mean, there's lots of exciting things happening in this space. So, you know, you've got the rise of the at-home hormone testing companies, right? So a lot more people hopefully will have access to diagnosis. You know, there's a bunch of hormonal health platforms with telehealth services, building awareness. But in terms of actual treatments, things that actually can make this better, there really hasn't been an innovation in that space since the 1960s. Wow, so it sounds like a pretty pressing need. And that's one of the things I've always appreciated about the med tech space,
Starting point is 00:09:50 even though I would consider myself like maybe a little bit more personally interested in biology, right, in biologic mechanisms is the fact that, you know, our aim is to hopefully help either augment or maybe reduce or completely remove kind of drugs or out of the equation, right, with some sort of device that treats a certain disease or certain issue in a more effective way. So that's pretty cool that this is like, sounds like, of the few devices that may may have some real promise here. Can you give us a sense? I'm on the website now, which is, and we'll link to both, both the company website as well as the website that's specific
Starting point is 00:10:24 to this device, which is Git Loop, which G-E-T and then L and there's three-Os, right? Three-Os, loop.com. We'll link to it in the full write-up on MedSider, but Gitloop.com, loop is with three-Os instead of two. But give us an idea. Like, if this device was available for me to purchase or with a prescription today, what is it? Just picking up on that. We have decided to go an over-the-counter route because of the pill being the standard of care and various other issues. The diagnostic gap is around 75%, so it's definitely north of 70. So a lot of women know or suspect they have the condition, but maybe have to fight for a decade or two to get a formal diagnosis. So we're going over the counter to make it as accessible as possible.
Starting point is 00:11:04 You know, we are translating a body of research at Sweden. So our advisor, Dr. Stainer-Victoran has really worked with her colleagues over the last 30 years. to hone the stimulation protocol. You know, she used acupuncture needles in her studies to deliver this low-frequency electrostim, but we've already validated that it translates to a less invasive delivery mechanism. And so, yeah, we're productizing it.
Starting point is 00:11:28 You know, if you had a fancy TENS machine at home, you could probably find the setting and do it yourself, but obviously we're turning into something that everybody can access, use, you know, on the go or, you know, in the comfort of their homes. You know, our history is in hardware, but the more we learn about the condition, the more I learn about the condition,
Starting point is 00:11:47 recognize that the burden of disease is about so much more than just the symptoms themselves, right? The information gap for starters is just tremendous in terms of people's understanding. You know, it's been classified historically as a reproductive condition, which, you know, if you think about the fact that, you know, increases your risk of diabetes by like four times, dementia by double, that really underplays the significance in,
Starting point is 00:12:12 the most, you know, the women who are going through life and accumulating the burden of comorbidities. It's interesting that you bring up even, even dementia and Alzheimer's because you're so right. I mean, and I'm certainly no expert in this in this domain, but like my mom was recently diagnosed with dementia and Alzheimer's and Louie Body actually. It's like all three at one time, but she had hormonal issues like dating back to like, I don't know, probably 20 years ago now and never really, I would say never really proactively or treated it really that well. And it's hard to quantify at this point, right? But how much that led up to her diagnosis, I mean, she's, she's pretty young to be diagnosed with all three issues.
Starting point is 00:12:45 And so, yeah, I mean, I think you're spot on, right? I mean, like just the hormonal aspect of this and the comorbidities kind of associated with that are probably, probably huge. So very cool. And I always love doing these interviews with entrepreneurs that are working on OTC or non, sort of non-prescriptive devices. I mean, I have sort of a, obviously kind of a bias towards that, you know, with my experience at you.
Starting point is 00:13:04 But, I mean, the impact, sort of the one-to-one, and actually, you know, and really one-to-min impact that you have going OTC, you know, with the device. is like it's pretty special, you know? Yeah, very, very cool. So again, we're recording this in Q1 to 25, but give us a sense for kind of where you're at with, with Loop right now. On the device side, we're closing the gap to our first FDA clearance. There's no coding for PCOS. So it's our first clearance and eventually we'll be submitting for DeNovo for the PCOS claims. In parallel, we're hoping to get the beta version of the app out in the next couple of months. And then, you know, obviously working furiously on the data strategy in the background as well, because we think that's a really rich
Starting point is 00:13:40 source of future value, both for the end users and commercially. And then, yeah, we're, we're hoping to start our pilot clinical studies, formal clinical studies in March, right? So hopefully by the time this comes out, they'll be, we'll be in recruitment mode for those. Got it. Yeah. Very cool. So you, so your intention right now is to submit for, for 5K clearance with some certain indications and then down the road, submit for de novo with the PCO's claims. Is that? Exactly. Yeah, got it. So they just penetrate the outlier. of the skin, but they consider them the same risk category as tense. Got it.
Starting point is 00:14:14 And then, you know, we'll use that device, which will have the functionality for what we need to set it to for PCOS, for our formal clinical studies, like a full scale ones, and then to create de novo cutting. And also to gather real world evidence as well around, you know, people who are using that setting. Cool. Sounds like a pretty thoughtful plan. So again, get loop.com is the website for everyone listening.
Starting point is 00:14:36 We'll link to it in the full, the full write-up on MedSider, but it's get loop. Loop is spelled with 3Os, getloop.com. We'll also link to Norora, the parent company's name. We'll link to that website as well in the full write-up. So hopefully this kind of sets the stage for the rest of the conversation, and we'll spend maybe the next 20 or 30 minutes kind of going through some key functional areas, right, that any entrepreneur is going to have to kind of manage or tackle right on their way to, you know, eventual commercialization, hopefully success.
Starting point is 00:15:00 So first one on the docket, Claire, is you've been around a lot of startups, right? And, you know, and you've been at founding, Norara, even through its pivot over the past, you know, five plus years now, kind of thinking back to whether you want to kind of base this on your experiences with Nura and the Pivot or just the wide variety of ideas that you've seen concepts that you've seen that either you thought had legs, maybe didn't have legs, et cetera. Give us a sense for kind of how you go about determining whether or not something is worth pursuing, right? Because we all know these projects that eventually hopefully turn into companies. They take a lot of time, a lot of capital, that take a lot from you, right?
Starting point is 00:15:35 So that decision on whether I'm not to pursue it is a big one. And so give us a sense for kind of how you look at things from your entrepreneurial lens? Yeah, I mean, clearly, I love all entrepreneurs who are out there trying to solve real problems, particularly when they're having the courage to be truly innovative, because not everything is, right? There's a lot of incremental stuff out there. You know, nobody has it all figured out, particularly in the early stages, I would say, obviously it just comes down to the team. But for me, it's specifically around the ability to make and have conviction of like decisions, but then to throw those away when new information arises, right? The ability to kind of be agile. You know, the propensity for
Starting point is 00:16:16 action is huge, you know, having been in consulting, has a lot of time around academia, right? Like, you know, you've got to get stuff done as an entrepreneur, right? There's no, there's no time for navel gazing, right? I like it, but like this constant reinvention, and kind of getting over yourself because, you know, what's required of me to be successful next week for sure is going to be different from what was required last week, right? So I think that, you know, whether it's foolishness or courage just to, you know, get back up again and try again, try something different and, you know, know that your limitations, particularly in a small team in the early stages, right?
Starting point is 00:16:55 You've got to kind of break through those. So, you know, I see a lot of entrepreneurs who maybe have had, you know, a lot of success. you know, they've got their PhD. They've really become experts in their field, but crumple under like that strain of having to like, yeah, but you've still got to like learn to do X, Y, Z. So true, right? That bias towards action. It's like one of the, the key things that I always look for, even if someone that kind of wants to join a startup, right, maybe they've spent most of their career in larger, larger companies, larger strategics, and they want to join a startup. It's often something I try to look through, look for, you know, during the interview process even is, you know, is this person
Starting point is 00:17:32 does it appear that they are biased towards, towards action? Because that's so, so crucial, right, for any sort of success with a startup. But, like, circling back around to what you said earlier, this idea of, this framework of, do I have conviction in this idea? And then am I willing to let that conviction go, right? When the signals, you know, tell me otherwise, sort of sounds counterintuitive, but, like, makes all the sense in the world if you've been at startups. But I love that because I think it's so, we all see a variety of concepts or ideas that could work, right?
Starting point is 00:18:02 that maybe even solve a real, like a real pain point, but trying to like genuinely answer that question in five, you know, three years from now, five years from now, will I really have, do I have conviction, right, to get behind this product, this device, you know, this disease or whatever I'm trying to, I'm trying to, I'm trying to treat. So I think that's a, that's a really good framework, right, to like, you know, take a pause and really try to answer that, you know, in a very genuine kind of authentic way. I think for us, as you might imagine, like you like you like things in the OTC space. Like, you know, we've taken a lot of flack from more traditional med tech stakeholders, right? They're like, why would a woman use something if their doctor doesn't tell them to?
Starting point is 00:18:39 Like, how are you going to get your customer acquisition costs down? But when we actually talk to end users, right, the people are going to be our customers, you know, I've had probably 110, 120 one-on-one conversations in private, and they all want it, right? Like, it's not even a question. You know, yes, if it was 10 times the price. Maybe that wouldn't be true, but, you know, we're obviously trying to hit a point where for most people who want this, it's accessible. And then the other thing that was really surprising to us, I think, was we've taken a very, like, clear co-optition approach in terms of, like, being much more embracing of partners and thinking about partnerships as a huge part of our commercial strategy. You know, in particular, distribution partners in the first conversation, talking to, like, large, online pharmacies, talking to a lot of pharmaceutical company in North America, they just got it
Starting point is 00:19:35 straight away because they have that direct link with the end users. They've seen the paucity, the gap in care. And then, I mean, I think probably one of the most beautiful things about working in the women's health of them tech space is this incredible global network of, you know, male and female founders who are working to, you know, realize these huge commercial opportunities, but close the gap in health equity. So we have an amazing network and it's really not hard to build that because we're all driving towards a future,
Starting point is 00:20:06 which is different. Yeah, yeah. I couldn't agree with you more, though, with respect to like kind of the pushback that you like, I shouldn't say I couldn't agree with you more. It resonates with me, right? The pushback that you probably get from traditional like med tech or device folks, right?
Starting point is 00:20:19 And that, you know, questioning or critiquing, you know, the approach to, you know, going, you know, sort of direct to consumer, right? OTC. I heard that so so many times, right, in the early days of Juve. I mean, and it was a bit, a bit foreign, right? Because I spent, you know, my entire career in more traditional medical device space. I'm back in, I would say more traditional medical device.
Starting point is 00:20:38 But, but I mean, just to give me an example, like our average order value at Juve, and this was, I mean, I think it's even higher now, but I've been away from the company for a handful of years. But it was like $13,400. And so this idea of people not wanting to, or unwilling to pay like a significant amount of money for something, you know, to treat, to treat an issue, like they will. People will pay, you know. And I, I live to breathe that, you know, firsthand. So I would say, you know, keep keep pressing into that if that means anything. Because I think it has, you know, it's a very, very valid approach and channel. So with that said, you've got, you know, an impressive engineering background as well.
Starting point is 00:21:14 I want to get your sense for, for kind of early stage development, right? Because this is often, And I always kind of think this is, this is probably one of the hardest sort of stages, right, in a startup is, you know, you're typically don't have a lot of capital. And you're trying to, you're trying to kind of make it, make, you know, meaningful iterations on your on your, on your device. So walk us through kind of your approach to kind of, you know, going from, you know, early, early concepting to alpha to beta, you know, are there some things that's, that's kind of stood out in your experiences or even at, you know, with Loop specifically
Starting point is 00:21:46 that you believe that would be helpful for other, other entrepreneurs? Yeah, I mean, we've been incredibly fortunate, to be honest, right? You know, we haven't been a wash with in-kind support and great talent. So, you know, the first two iterations of our device were student projects, right? Like one of our team members that has been with us since 2019, she's like, I'll do it as my capstone, right? And assembled a team around it. So very, very scrappy. And it's only now that the device design is really reaching maturity with some of that in-kind support
Starting point is 00:22:17 from SymbX and MHub in particular, shout out. On the app, I think that was a prime story of being prepared to throw things away. So we got great external help. So we have, you know, for example, the piece of code that you use the app to control the device, it's perfect, right? Like it works perfectly. But I found myself sitting across from an all-male development team. And, you know, we just started from the complete wrong paradigm.
Starting point is 00:22:45 So PCOS kind of one of the core symptoms is a regular absent periods, right? And so although a lot of the period tracking apps out there are looking at the PCOS market, if that's you and you open up something and you see a calendar view, that's probably quite triggering, right? You're not normal because you don't fit this, right? And maybe you haven't had a period in a year, right? And so, you know, that's not a great experience. So we started from the wrong paradigm and we had to scrap that.
Starting point is 00:23:15 and start again. So it's this delicate line we're walking. We intentionally are taking like a whole person approach to this condition and recognize it shows up differently in different people and differently across lifespan. So trying to bring that layer of personalization and choice to the user, it's a little bit more nuanced than you might see some of the kind of women's health apps. A lot of them look very much the same.
Starting point is 00:23:42 But, you know, we're now paying much closer attention to that. will be really focused on giving them the lens that makes most sense for what their goals are. You know, the goal might be, for me, it might be like, how do I not get dementia, right? How do I get my cholesterol down? For somebody else, it might be weight loss or maintaining a healthy weight. For somebody else, it might be, I want to get pregnant in two years. How do I, what do I do now to optimize my fertility? So really taking that frame, like goals based and then tying the symptoms to make it more meaningful.
Starting point is 00:24:14 So yeah, that's a prime example of where there was early iterations. I just looked to them and was like, this isn't right. You know, like acknowledging all the effort that went in there, but it just didn't fit. Yeah. And your willingness to kind of cut gut bait and kind of start from scratch. That's a really interesting point, though, because I mean, and this is not maybe not applicable to every sort of development team, but the fact that you had an all-male team working on an app, it sounds like, right? And they're coming at this and designing a UI, right, that kind of made sense to them.
Starting point is 00:24:43 but in reality, like, you know, your audience is predominantly female, you know. And so I think it just speaks to the importance of ensuring that you're as close to the customer as possible, right? And even on the development side, right, that makes sense, it could make sense to ensure that you have got a diverse team, you know, thinking kind of holistically across the board, you know, as they think through, you know, whether it's UI or something else for that matter. But that's a really, really interesting point. We've assembled an end user advisory board, right? So we have a group of people we can get quick answers from. You know, I think kind of more and more we need to use them really frequently to
Starting point is 00:25:16 help to do quick iterations. You know, years ago, we decided to adopt a kind of agile approach to even hardware development. So kind of building that in. But yeah, I mean, I've had some very funny conversations where having to explain that period pain just doesn't just happen around your ovaries to people, right? Like, but yeah, I mean, it's something we're very conscious of. But in a way, those who've like really embraced what we're doing like one of our interns he hadn't heard of PCOS before he started working with it i saw his work and he's brilliant so like you have to work with it you know he went home and he talked to like his mom his sister and his best friend who's female and he learned that all of them have PCOS right and his relationship with those important
Starting point is 00:26:00 women in his life can change completely because all of a sudden he knew them better right like experience and like, you know, I found that too. When I talk about what we're doing, people come up to me and they say, well, you know, this is the first time, right? I felt seen and heard because they have been dismissed by a health provider, right? Like they've been, you know, we all know the statistics about pain and things like that. And women will get prescribed antidepressants rather than actually dealing with their physiological problems.
Starting point is 00:26:29 So, yeah, like it's quite a beautiful thing when you work in this space and you feel like you're already having an impact just by trying. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no doubt. Hey there, it's Scott. And thanks for listening in so far. The rest of this conversation is only available via our private podcast for MedSider Premium
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