SafKan Health is behind the ear-cleaning device that removes earwax and aims to supplant current clinical approaches to removing built up gunk.“We want to essentially do for your ears what Sonicare and electric toothbrush companies have done for teeth,” said CEO Sahil Diwan, in an interview with GeekWire.The startup recently raised $8 million to fuel expanded manufacturing and marketing efforts for its OtoSet device, which has been placed in hundreds of clinics.In 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the device for use by clinicians through a regulatory pathway that required the startup to show “substantial equivalence” to an existing device’s safety and effectiveness.“It really makes you button everything up.”The FDA greenlit the device at the height of the pandemic and so it wasn’t until late 2021 that the company began its soft launch, bringing the device in person to professional conferences."