About the Company

NousQ ( ) is a Singapore medtech startup founded in 2021. NousQ is the inventor of CLiKX®, the world’s first handheld robotic device with sensors to treat Otitis Media with Effusion (OME or “glue ears”). CLiKX® has recently obtained HSA (Singapore) and TGA (Australia) in April and May 2026 respectively. OME is the foremost reason why children visit a doctor. It affects the hearing of millions of children worldwide annually. When conservative treatments do not work, surgery is required to place a tiny ventilation tube to drain the fluid from the middle ear. Given the invasive nature of the current surgery, an operating theatre, general anaesthesia and an expensive large non-portable surgical microscope is needed. Currently an estimated 120 million OME surgeries are required every year globally but only 18 million surgeries are done. This is due to the lack of healthcare infrastructure, poor ENT patient ratios, anaesthetists, conce...