We build prosthetics for the people that existing solutions forgot.

Over 57 million people live with upper limb loss. Most of them will never hold a functional prosthetic — not because the technology doesn't exist, but because nobody built it for them.

Our mission

To build the prosthetic that low-resource communities actually need — affordable, repairable, and co-designed with the people who will use it.

Accessibility

A prosthetic that costs $15,000 is not accessible. We engineer every decision around a sub-$500 target — not as a constraint, but as the mission. When cost stops being the barrier, the only question left is fit.

Co-design

We do not build for communities. We build with them. Every design decision is tested against the reality of the people who will use it — their environments, their needs, their daily lives. That means going there, not just reading about it.

Repairability

A device that cannot be fixed locally is a device waiting to be abandoned. Every component in Myogen is chosen to be sourced, replaced, and serviced without specialist infrastructure — because the communities we build for deserve technology that lasts.

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Daniel Xie & Jacob Pfohl

Daniel is a 19-year-old Mechatronics Engineering student at Waterloo. He started Myogen because the more he read about prosthetics, the more obvious it became that the problem wasn't technical — it was that nobody had designed for the right people. He has spent months in conversation with prosthetists, amputees, and rehabilitation professionals across Africa and Asia before touching a single CAD file.

Jacob is a Mechanical Engineering student and former Tesla intern who makes things that actually work. Between them, they have the stubbornness to keep going and the sense to listen before they build.

Where we've been.

2026

Myogen founded

Two engineering students at Waterloo ask a question that turns into a company: why do tens of millions of people live without a functional prosthetic when the technology to build one exists?

2026

Norman Esch Award

Myogen receives $10,000 in non-dilutive funding from the University of Waterloo's Norman Esch Enterprise Co-op Award — the first external validation that the mission is worth backing.

2026

Ubumwe Community Center

We cold-email our way to a conversation with Zacharie Dusingizimana, who runs a disability rehabilitation centre in Gisenyi, Rwanda. He tells us to come. We are working on it.

2026

Rwanda

We are going.