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Leading the AI revolution in cardiovascular care

The mission behind pmcardio

Powerful Medical is redefining the landscape of medical diagnostics with its AI-driven solutions. The company’s certified PMcardio platform revolutionizes the way cardiovascular diseases are detected, offering rapid and accurate diagnostics that pave the way for timely and effective treatment.

Our impact in numbers

120K

Heart Attacks Detected

100,000+

Clinicians Worldwide

2.5M+

ECGs
Analyzed

25+

Clinical Validation Studies

150+

Hospital Deployments

$5M invested by
70+ clinicians.

Emergency physicians and cardiologists across the US and Europe have personally backed Powerful Medical — the same professionals who rely on PMcardio to make the right call for their patients every day.

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Awards & Recognition

2026

JACC

Cardiovascular Interventions — Spencer King Award 2025: Awarded for the TCT Late-Breaker paper

2025

MedTech Innovator

Grand Prize Winner: $200,000 Grand Prize awarded from the world's largest medtech accelerator

2025

Deloite

Deloitte Fast 50 Winner: Impact Category for Healthcare

2025

FDA

FDA Breakthrough Device Designation and TAP Program: PMcardio STEMI AI ECG Model (Queen of Hearts™).

2025

European Heart Journal

Most cited and viewed paper in European Heart Journal – Digital Health, the landmark validation study of Queen of Hearts™

2024

AHA

AHA Health Tech Competition 2024 — Best Science Pitch and Overall Winner: First company ever to win both at the 100th AHA Scientific Sessions.

2024

Forbes

Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe: Co-founders Martin Herman and Dr. Robert Herman.

2024

Google

Google for Startups Growth Academy — AI for Health: Selected from 500+ EMEA applicants.

2023

European Union

European Parliament SME Award 2023

2023

CVCA

Venture Capital Deal of the Year Award - CVCA

2023

Ministry of Education in Slovakia

Scientific and Technical Team of the Year

+ 45 other awards and Recognitions

Significant Milestones

2026

Year to Date

  • AI ECG TIMI Study completes patient enrolment — 703 patients across 9 sites in Belgium, Italy, and Austria.
  • Approximately 75% of acute MI patients in Slovakia now benefit from PMcardio.

2025

From Clinical Validation to FDA-Class Evidence

  • FDA Breakthrough Device Designation granted for the Queen of Hearts™ STEMI AI ECG Model.
  • €40M non-dilutive IPCEI Tech4Cure grant awarded by the European Commission — among the largest EU healthcare-tech contributions to date.
  • PMcardio 3.0 launched. Full health-system deployments, LVsense™ (reduced EF) Module and new user interface
  • Late-Breaking Clinical Science at TCT 2025, San Francisco. Presented by Dr. Timothy D. Henry: Queen of Hearts™ reduced false-positive cath-lab activations five-fold and significantly improved STEMI detection.
  • DIFOCCULT-3 RCT results presented at TCT 2025 — the largest RCT of AI in cardiology (6,000 ACS patients); approximately 5-hour reduction in ECG-to-balloon time.

2024

Unprecedented Growth

  • Registered clinicians nearly doubled to 60,000 (from 32,000).
  • €2.5M grant from the European Innovation Council for Queen of Hearts™ validation
  • MDSAP, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 certification, and HIPAA compliance achieved.
  • PMcardio for Organizations launched — an enterprise platform with desktop, web, and notification capabilities designed for health systems.
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2023

Commercial Launch and First Clinical Validation

  • PMcardio officially launched — the first CE-certified AI platform for ECG interpretation.
  • Queen of Hearts™ STEMI AI ECG Model released. Detects heart attacks on average 3 hours faster and with twice the sensitivity of standard STEMI criteria.
  • First independent validation studies in Cardiovascular Digital Health Journal, European Heart Journal — Digital Health, and Journal of Electrocardiology.
  • PMcardio expanded to 16 European markets.
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2022

From Product to Medical Device

  • Achieved ISO 13485 certification as a medical device manufacturer (TÜV SÜD).
  • CE Mark (Class IIb under EU MDR 745/2017) — PMcardio becomes the world’s first CE-certified AI-powered ECG platform for cardiovascular diagnosis under the new EU Medical Device Regulation.
  • Closed €6.2M Seed round. Investors: Venture to Future Fund, CB ESPRI Impact One, BPD partners, and angels.
  • Diagnostic coverage expanded from 23 to 38 conditions.
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2021

First Recognition

  • Scientific Advisory Board established with founding members Prof. Dr. Jozef Bartunek, Prof. Dr. Robert Hatala, and Prof. Dr. Leor Perl.
  • R&D partnership established with the Cardiovascular Research Center Aalst, Belgium.
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2020

Foundation

  • Powerful Medical founded by Martin Herman, Dr. Robert Herman, Felix Bauer, Viktor Jurasek, Simon Rovder, and Timotej Palus.
  • Raised €1.2M pre-seed from Zero Gravity Capital
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Leadership team

Different minds
driven by the same vision

Powerful Medical, backed by 28 leading cardiologists and steered by our prestigious Scientific Board, merges decades of expertise in patient care, clinical research, and medical devices. Our research is effectively translated into market-ready solutions, thanks to our diverse team of over 50 experts, including physicians, data scientists, AI pioneers, software engineers, regulatory specialists, and commercial strategists.

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Martin Herman

Co-founder and CEO

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Dr. Robert Herman, PhD

Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer

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Felix Bauer

Co-founder and COO

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Viktor Jurasek

Co-founder and CPO

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Simon Rovder

Co-founder and CTO

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Dr. Jozef Bartunek, PhD

Co-Founder and Chair, Clinical Strategy Advisory Board

Commercial and Partnerships

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Michal Martonak

Commercial Lead

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Amani Farid

Head of Strategic Partnerships

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Mike Wall

VP of Sales

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Daniel Rusin

Europe Sales Director

Technology and Regulatory

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Adam Rafajdus

Head of AI

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Arezou Azar, PhD

US and Global Regulatory Advisor

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Gabriela Rovder Sklencarova

Head of Infrastructure

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Adam Dej

Head of PMcardio for Organizations Engineering

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Arieh Levy

Head of PMcardio for Individuals

Clinical

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Dr. Pendell Meyers

MD — ACS Pathway Lead

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Dr. Anthony Demolder, MD, PhD

HF Pathway Lead

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Dr. Timea Kisova, MD

Clinical Research Lead

People

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Matus Horvath

Head of People

Business Advisory Board

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Dr. Dave Pearson, MD

Business Advisor

Scientific Advisory Board

Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Pathway

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Timothy D. Henry, MD

ACS Pathway Advisor

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Prof. Marco Valgimigli, MD

ACS Pathway Advisor

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Suzanne J. Baron, MD, MSc

ACS Pathway Advisor

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Prof. Dr. Leor Perl, MD

ACS Pathway Advisor

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Scott Sharkey, MD

ACS Pathway Advisor

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Prof. Emanuele Barbato, MD, PhD

ACS Pathway Advisor

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Prof. Stephen W. Smith, MD

ACS Pathway Advisor

Heart Failure and Arrhythmia Pathways

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Prof. Dr. Robert Hatala, PhD

Co-founder and Chief Scientist

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Dr. Ward Heggermont, MD, PhD

HF & Arrhythmia Pathway Advisor

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Dr. Martin Penicka, MD, PhD

HF & Arrhythmia Pathway Advisor

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Dr. Tom De Potter, MD

HF & Arrhythmia Pathway Advisor

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Powerful Medical is redefining the landscape of medical diagnostics with its AI-driven solutions. The company’s PMcardio platform deploys certified AI-ECG Modules that revolutionize the way cardiovascular diseases are detected, offering rapid and accurate diagnostics that pave the way for timely and effective treatment.

 

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Powerful Medical, Inc. | PMcardio and the PMcardio logo are registered trademarks of Powerful Medical. Additionally, Queen of Hearts is claimed as a trademark of Powerful Medical.

Certain AI ECG Modules are CE-marked medical devices under EU MDR and only certified for marketing in the European Union and the United Kingdom. Powerful Medical technology has not yet been cleared or approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for marketing in the USA. Not all modules of the PMcardio platform may be available in your region.

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Martin Herman

Co-founder and CEO

Martin started coding at 14 and moved to Silicon Valley at 18, founding several companies including a US-based startup before returning to Europe with his brother Robert to build Powerful Medical. He comes from a family of doctors, which shaped his conviction that AI belongs wherever it can genuinely save lives. Forbes 30 Under 30 (Europe 2024).

Dr. Robert Herman, PhD

Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer

Robert is a physician-scientist who served on the Research, Digital and Innovation Committee of the European Society of Cardiology. He bridges medicine and AI, connecting clinicians, researchers, regulators, and trial leaders to translate algorithms into clinical practice. He founded multiple AI ECG models, leads international clinical trials validating them, is a recipient of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology Spencer King Award, and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2024.

Felix Bauer

Co-founder and COO

Felix was part of the Hyperloop team that repeatedly competed and won in Elon Musk’s SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. He holds a degree from the Technical University of Munich and brings a rare combination of engineering rigor, regulatory discipline, and operational excellence to the company, spearheading operations, compliance, regulatory, quality management, and global market access since day one.

Viktor Jurasek

Co-founder and CPO

Viktor was modding computer games before his teens and has spent the last decade shipping digital products across advertising, finance, and healthcare. As co-founder and CPO, he has led PMcardio’s product and design since the first prototype, setting the bar for how a clinical-grade tool should feel in a physician’s hands — fast, clear, and trustworthy at the point of care.

Simon Rovder

Co-founder and CTO

Simon began his engineering career at Microsoft and holds a Master’s degree in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh. He built and scaled Powerful Medical’s technology organization from the ground up to a team of 20+ engineers, leading the architecture of a CE-certified Class IIb medical device now deployed in hospitals across Europe.

Dr. Jozef Bartunek, PhD

Co-founder and VP Clinical Strategy

Interventional cardiologist and Co-director of the Cardiovascular Center in Aalst, Belgium — one of the world’s leading heart centers. A Fogarty International NIH Fellow at Harvard Medical School and visiting Professor of Medicine at Catholic University Leuven, he has authored more than 240 peer-reviewed publications in heart failure and structural heart disease, and anchors Powerful Medical’s clinical and research strategy.

Michal Martonak

Commercial Lead

A mathematician by training, Michal leads commercial strategy, go-to-market, and strategic partnerships with healthcare providers and clinical institutions worldwide. He previously built Powerful Medical’s data and clinical partnerships function, acquiring the large-scale clinical datasets that underpin the company’s certified AI models.

Amani Farid

Head of Strategic Partnerships

Amani leads partnership strategy with a hands-on approach to integration, unlocking long-term value through collaboration and scale. A University of Chicago Law School-trained attorney and former M&A and capital markets associate at two top international law firms, she brings the rare combination of legal precision and commercial execution refined across nearly a decade at Stryker and as VP of Corporate Development at RapidAI — spanning medtech, digital health, and AI-driven diagnostics.

Mike Wall

VP of Sales

Mike brings more than twenty years at UnitedHealth Group to the table, where he served health plans, employer groups, and public-sector entities as a consultative healthcare sales executive. He combines market intelligence, clinical insight, and financial acumen — the three ingredients needed to bring AI-powered diagnostics into US health systems at scale.

Daniel Rusin

Europe Sales Director

Daniel leads commercial strategy, go-to-market execution, and market expansion across Europe at Powerful Medical, building partnerships with hospitals and healthcare providers that translate AI-powered cardiovascular diagnostics into real clinical adoption and measurable patient outcomes. He brings over twenty years of experience across healthcare, energy, and telecommunications, with a track record of scaling revenue, building high-performing sales teams, and executing complex transformation projects. Before Powerful Medical, he served as Chief Sales Officer at Carebot AI and held senior leadership roles at Medirex Group — one of Central Europe’s largest medical laboratory networks — where he led major digital and commercial innovations.

Adam Rafajdus

Head of AI

Adam is the Head of AI at Powerful Medical, working across the full lifecycle of bringing AI into clinical practice – from data infrastructure and model development to regulatory clearance. He leads the team behind the Queen of Hearts™ AI ECG models, the company’s ECG digitization pipeline, and its broader AI portfolio. Focused on AI since university, Adam joined as an MLOps Engineer and has grown into his current role over six years.


Arezou Azar, PhD

US and Global Regulatory Advisor

Arezou helps shape and guide the company’s global regulatory strategy across thethe FDA, EU MDR, and international frameworks. She has been part of nearly every major breakthrough in AI cardiology and is an expert in US and global regulatory strategy, SaMD/digital health launches, with experience at Eko Health, Verily, AliveCor, Cardiologs, and Apple. She specializes in regulatory strategy in high-paced global organizations.

Gabriela Rovder Sklencarova

Head of Infrastructure

Gabriela designs the scalable, secure, distributed systems that keep PMcardio running around the clock for clinicians worldwide. She joined from Google, where she was a senior software engineer building core libraries that kept Google’s services resilient against billions of requests, and holds a BA and MA in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

Adam Dej

Head of PMcardio for Organizations Engineering

Adam leads engineering for PMcardio for Organizations at Powerful Medical, driving platform architecture, backend systems, and infrastructure behind one of the company’s key growth products. He began programming at 13, entered professional IT at 17, and studied computer security at Comenius University’s Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics. Known for technical depth across distributed systems, infrastructure, and security, he builds scalable and resilient software with a sharp focus on customer impact. He also champions responsible use of AI and LLMs as force multipliers for modern engineering teams.

Arieh Levy

Head of PMcardio for Individuals

Arieh leads the PMcardio for Individuals product at Powerful Medical, guiding its development as a clinical tool for emergency physicians, cardiologists, and primary care physicians. He holds a First Class MEng in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London, where he specialised in AI for cardiology, building physics-informed neural networks to model atrial electrical properties, giving him a background that bridges the clinical and technical demands of building a certified AI medical device used at the bedside every day.

Dr. Pendell Meyers, MD

ACS Pathway Lead

Emergency medicine physician, prolific educator, and Co-Editor of Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog. He is one of the leading voices behind the Occlusion Myocardial Infarction (OMI) paradigm, the clinical framework that reshaped how heart attacks are identified from the ECG — and which sits at the core of the Queen of Hearts™ model.

Dr. Anthony Demolder, MD, PhD

HF Pathway Lead

Research physician with a PhD on arrhythmias in heritable thoracic aortic disease. He has led international studies at the intersection of cardiology and AI — including earlier work on atrial fibrillation at AZ Sint-Jan Brugge — and now drives Powerful Medical’s heart failure pathway and LVsense™ AI model development.

Dr. Timea Kisova, MD

Clinical Research Lead

Timea leads Powerful Medical’s global external validation studies, including the multi-country AI ECG TIMI Study. With a background in biomedical sciences and a medical degree from Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, she brings the clinical discipline required to generate the prospective, real-world evidence behind every PMcardio module.

Matus Horvath

Head of People

Matus leads hiring strategy and culture at Powerful Medical, bringing a strong track record of building and scaling high-performing teams. He previously ran the People Team at Slido, the SaaS startup acquired by Cisco, where he played a key role in scaling a fast-growing, values-driven organization. His broader experience now shapes Powerful Medical’s growth, culture, and talent strategy.

Dr. Dave Pearson, MD​

Business Advisor

Academic emergency medicine physician, entrepreneur, investor, and researcher with nearly two decades at Atrium Health, one of US largest health systems. Brings expertise at the intersection of clinical care, healthcare innovation, and strategic leadership.

Timothy D. Henry, MD

Medical Director of The Carl and Edyth Lindner Center

Leading expert in interventional cardiology and STEMI treatment. Co-founder and principal investigator of the Midwest STEMI Consortium, a registry of more than 20,000 consecutive STEMI activations. Presenting author for the TCT 2025 Late-Breaking Clinical Science on Queen of Hearts.

Prof. Marco Valgimigli, MD

Deputy Chief Cardiocentro Ticino Institute

Head of Cardiology at Cardiocentro Ticino and Principal Investigator of the TITAN-OMI randomized controlled trial. His research has shaped both European and US clinical practice guidelines on coronary stents, antithrombotic therapy, and vascular access.

Suzanne J. Baron, MD, MSc

Director of Interventional Cardiology Research

Director of Interventional Cardiology Research at Massachusetts General Hospital. Holds a Master’s degree in health economics from Harvard School of Public Health. Expert in cardiovascular device impact on healthcare costs and patient-reported outcomes.

Prof. Dr. Leor Perl, MD

Director of Cardiac Catheterization Institute

Director of Complex Cardiac Interventions and Chief Innovation Officer at Rabin Medical Center. Graduate of the Stanford Biodesign Program.

Scott Sharkey, MD

Chief Medical Officer

Chief Medical Officer of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation and practicing cardiologist at Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute. Co-founder of the STEMI Midwest consortium and Takotsubo cardiomyopathy research program and a widely published clinical investigator in STEMI care.

Prof. Emanuele Barbato, MD, PhD

President of EAPCI

Interventional cardiologist specializing in coronary artery disease and coronary physiology. Acting president of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) and contributor to the clinical practice guidelines for STEMI care.

Prof. Stephen W. Smith, MD

Professor of Emergency Medicine

Faculty physician in Emergency Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Co-inventor of the OMI paradigm and editor of Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog, the most-visited US-based ECG interpretation blog.

Prof. Dr. Robert Hatala, PhD

Co-founder and Chief Scientist

Head of the Arrhythmia and Pacing department at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Slovakia. More than 150 publications and 10,000 citations. Contributor to ESC clinical practice guidelines and executive editor of the European Heart Journal since 2020.

Dr. Ward Heggermont, MD, PhD

Co-director at the Cardiovascular Center

Co-director at the Cardiovascular Center of Aalst Hospital, specializing in heart failure. Research focus at the intersection of cardiology, virology, and metabolism.

Dr. Martin Penicka, MD, PhD

Cardiologist at the Cardiac Center Aalst

Cardiologist at the Cardiac Center Aalst since 2009, specializing in non-invasive imaging and valvular disease. Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (FEACVI).

Dr. Tom De Potter, MD

Cardiologist at the Cardiac Center Aalst

Cardiologist specializing in Pacemaker Device Therapy and Electrophysiology. Leads the electrophysiology unit at the Heart Center in Aalst, holds an executive board position at the European Heart Academy, and serves as EHRA scientific program committee co-chair.

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