23 DAILY MICCAI Tuesday With over 40 full-time employees and organic growth spanning 11 years, ImFusion has created a strong foundation, but it remains vigilant about potential challenges. The loss of key customers and critical personnel is recognized as a possible risk. However, Wolfgang considers this unlikely, citing happy clients and an ambition to be one of the best places to work in Germany, aided by a new HR colleague focused on improving employee benefits and overall long-term satisfaction. Also, with a rising interest in what it offers, the company continues to focus on hiring new people. “You could say there’s a risk in people licensing software for this because of the fast-moving pace of all the libraries and fundamentals changing,” he ponders. “Some large players, the big tech companies, NVIDIA, and others keep developing powerful libraries. We interface well with them, and we recommend them. It might be that, at some point, the focus will have to be less on our own software. We want to focus more on that, but if it doesn’t work, we’d retreat back to contract work. Therefore, overall, we’re actually not a very risky business. I guess we’renot much different from RSIP Visionanyway!” ImFusion is bootstrapped, meaning it operates without external investors, providing the freedom to move in the direction it feels would most benefit existing and future clients. “We want to be sustainable and are not geared toward any quick exit,” Wolfgang continues. “We’re serving multiple customers in a very responsible way with long-term relationships.” While the company’s role as a subcontractor for larger corporations can be volatile, he points out that its flexible approach, experience, and size allow it to navigate unexpected changes in project priorities and funding with relative ease. What might be a setback one year could be an opportunity the next. “Nowadays, what’s important is that you have people who are the absolute “… it has two papers on the MICCAI program this year and its is staffing a booth …” ImFusion
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