This startup wants to make listening to the heart and lungs easier with ‘Taal’ digital stethoscope

A few minutes into a conversation with Sumukh Mysore and Arvind Badrinarayanan, the duo behind the Taal digital stethoscope, one thing is clear: they don’t want to be called just another stethoscope company.

“We are not a hardware or a tech company, we are more of a sound diagnostics company,” Mysore sets the tone of how the world should see Bengaluru-based Muse Diagnostics. Badrinarayanan chips in, “We aren’t just improving efficiencies in an existing process, we are creating an entirely new paradigm of medicine.”

Mysore, who is a sound engineer and a geneticist, recalls the first time he met Badrinarayanan, a veterinarian, in 2016 at a recording studio in Bengaluru.