Fred Moll, the cofounder of $200 billion Intuitive Surgical, has invested in some 15 companies building robots that could help make both complex and common surgeries more accessible to everyone.

D r. Fred Moll left the practice of medicine more than four decades ago. But he’s responsible for some 3 million surgeries a year, done by robots that he helped invent as the cofounder of Intuitive Surgical, the leader in robotic surgeries with more than 10,000 machines deployed and $8.4 billion in 2024 revenue.

Now, three decades after its founding and nearly 25 years since he departed Intuitive to start more companies, Moll has plowed around $100 million of his own funds into the next generation of surgical robotics startups. Colonoscopies. Cataract surgeries. Heart-valve replacements. One da

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