The Memo: Oath Surgical Rebuilding the System from the Ground Up

After years of investing in and advising surgical innovation from the vantage point of Intuitive Ventures, Oliver Keown is stepping into the founder’s chair — with a bold new vision for the future of outpatient surgery.

“At Intuitive, I had the privilege of sitting atop a giant, seeing where surgery was headed,” Keown said. “But I also saw the system’s fragmentation — and a gap no one else was addressing.”

His answer is Oath Surgical, a company emerging from stealth this past week. Oath isn’t launching with a single device or platform. Instead, it’s building an entirely new surgical system — one that fuses AI, infrastructure, and incentives to power the next generation of outpatient care.

Origin Story

Keown’s career spans medicine, venture capital, and surgical innovation. As a trained physician and former leader of Intuitive Ventures, he’s spent the last decade evaluating the future of medtech from every angle.

“I realized I had a unique opportunity — and responsibility — to act,” he said.

In late 2023, Keown left Intuitive to build Oath. The mission: reinvent surgery from the outpatient lens, blending digital infrastructure with physical surgical centers. “We’re not layering point solutions into a broken system — we’re rebuilding the system itself.”


This blog is originally published here: https://www.lifesciencemarketresearch.com/insights/the-memo-oath-surgical-rebuilding-the-system-from-the-ground-up 

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