Who we are, who leads the work, and where the name comes from.
Arakotis provides consulting, guidance, and hands-on expertise to medical technology companies and new entrepreneurs working to bring an idea to market. We work across every phase of that journey — building the business from the ground up, testing feasibility, shaping product development, and carrying a concept through testing and clinical trials to a real go-to-market strategy.
Founders rarely need someone to hand them a plan; they need someone who has stood in both the lab and the clinic, and who can translate between the two.
Whether you're still sketching the concept on a whiteboard or already navigating your first regulatory submission, Arakotis meets you at that stage and helps you move to the next one.
Ahmed Ramadan is a former physician who turned to biomedical engineering, holding a Master's degree in Translational Medicine — the discipline built specifically around moving discoveries from the bench to the bedside. That pivot, from treating patients to engineering the technologies meant to treat them, sits at the center of how Arakotis works.
Ahmed is an expert in both medical technology and startups, having worked closely with early-stage companies navigating the technical, regulatory, and business decisions that determine whether a promising idea actually reaches patients.
Ahmed was born in Alexandria, Egypt — a city with one of the ancient world's most storied names. Long before Alexander the Great founded Alexandria in 331 BC, an Egyptian settlement already stood on that stretch of Mediterranean coastline: Rakotis. It was Rakotis' harbor and shoreline that the new city was built around, and the name lived on as the city's original Egyptian quarter — the seed from which one of history's great cities grew.
Alexandria went on to become a symbol of guidance itself — home to the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, whose light guided sailors safely to shore across the Mediterranean for centuries. It was also home to the Library of Alexandria, where scholars such as Euclid and Eratosthenes gathered from across the known world to push the boundaries of mathematics, astronomy, and science itself.
Arakotis carries both threads forward. The "AR" is Ahmed Ramadan's own initials, joined with Rakotis — a name that is, at once, personal and historical: guidance for founders navigating uncertain waters, and a namesake city once defined by the pursuit of knowledge.