Meet the newest members of the MATTER startup community

Between October and December 2021, thirty-nine startups joined the MATTER community. Their innovations range from femtech and digital health to medical devices and solutions for diabetes care management. What do they all have in common? They’re all aiming to transform healthcare.

If you’re interested in joining the MATTER community, you can apply today or request more information and a member of our team will be in touch.

Meet the startups

accreVAL Laboratories — Milwaukee, Wisconsin
accreVAL Laboratories is engaged in the development of the aV Connector, a line of aseptic connector devices for performing aseptic connections and disconnections. By targeting and mitigating human risk factors, their connector technology aims to save lives by reducing episodes of catheter-related infections across a range of treatments including chemotherapy, total parental nutrition and peritoneal dialysis.

Assurance Health Data — Chicago, Illinois
The Assurance Health Data platform is a trusted clinical data ecosystem, enabling researchers, healthcare providers, patients, as well as diagnostic and life sciences companies to solve the biggest data problems in healthcare — together.

Badger Dental Products — Madison, Wisconsin
Badger Dental Products has developed a novel device to address emergency dental trauma.

Bionode — Indianapolis, Indiana
Bionode’s first-generation system pairs custom, disposable contact lenses with an advanced wireless eyeglass frame. When activated, it significantly and rapidly reduces intraocular pressure. Bionode’s integrated app provides critical information to the patient and clinician with a first-of-its-kind, unique feedback loop on usage and outcome.

Caren Pharma — Chicago, Illinois
Caren Pharma is a preclinical stage biopharmaceutical company aiming to be the first to stop Alzheimer’s disease progression. Their patented product uses natural components to uniquely combat what they believe is the root cause of the disease — hormone deficiency.

Debtle — Sheboygan, Wisconsin
40 percent of patients attempt to negotiate their own medical debt. Debtle’s cloud-based software enables healthcare organizations to automate patient discounts, assistance and negotiations for overdue medical bills. Debtle clients see an increase in revenue, a decrease in expense and improvements in overhead and patient experience.

Equibands — Vernon Hills, Illinois
Equiband’s lightweight wristband, Minimize, provides immediate relief against hand tremors, reducing tremors by at least 80 percent and even up to 95 percent in many cases. Using the same technology to stabilize buildings from earthquakes, Minimize users can track their tremor severity over time on a mobile app. Users can then share information from the app with their physicians.

Fillow Inc. — Chicago, Illinois
Fillow is the only period product that couples the most appealing features of menstrual products sold in the aisle today: comfort and convenience in pads and tampons and safety and 12-hour wear in menstrual cups and discs. Fillow’s patent-pending design allows menstruators to apply the product like a tampon while capturing periods as a cup would.

fluidIQ — Newbury Park, California
fluidIQ provides easy-to-deploy technology solutions based on proprietary fluidics technology. The company was founded by a group of doctors, engineers and patient advocates who joined together to find solutions for gaps in medical needs, including ventilators, in the midst of the coronavirus-caused world crisis. fluidIQ’s product roadmap is based on its proprietary platform of fluidics-operated devices dedicated to filling gaps in emergency and preparedness protocols that are user-friendly, scalable and cost-effective.

Fruit Street Health — New York, New York
Fruit Street delivers the CDC’s Diabetes Prevention Program using telehealth, wearable devices and mobile applications. The diabetes prevention program is a year-long diet and lifestyle intervention designed to help pre-diabetic patients lose five to seven percent of their weight through diet and lifestyle changes. The program is based on clinical research that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2002 which showed that patients who complete the program have a 58 percent risk reduction for developing diabetes.

GlucosePATH — Celebration, Florida
GlucosePATH was developed based on a common interest between a physician and a computer scientist to help patients find affordable and effective treatments for Type 2 Diabetes. Through this process, they have leveraged the powerful computational tools from the travel and finance industries to help clinicians and patients sort through the thousands of treatment pathways for individualized solutions.

Heart Connect — Chicago, Illinois
Heart Connect builds recommendation systems for patient support networks to connect them to relevant health information and similar patient users.

HelpWear — Toronto, Canada
HelpWear’s HeartWatch, a 24/7 wearable heart monitoring system, detects when the user suffers a heart attack and contacts EMS. HeartWatch also records minor heart palpitations and arrhythmias and can flag them for review by a physician.

HIVE Medical — St. Louis, Missouri
HIVE is a remote patient monitoring company that is developing a smart clave connector, CloudConnect, to seamlessly and in real-time detect at-home IV medication adherence. It will empower clinicians and home health services to intervene the moment non-adherence is detected, lowering the rate of costly, unplanned readmissions.

Immunebro Therapeutics — Chicago, Illinois
Immunebro Therapeutic’s goal is to harness engineered immune cells to treat diseases. At the current stage, they develop novel allogeneic “off-the-shelf” T cell therapeutics and engineered B cell therapeutics for cancer.

JioVio Healthcare — Madurai, India
JioVio Healthcare provides an end-to-end solution that ensures the availability of high-quality maternal care for mothers in remote places. JioVio provides personalized and predictive maternal care using AI, IoT and wearable technology. They have devised an easy method to collect critical maternal data digitally.

KYRAL Health — San Francisco, California
KYRAL Health is fundamentally reimagining healthcare to create a connected future of health — accessible, available to all and, most importantly, controlled by patients. KYRAL believes patients should be in control of their lives, health and data. To that end, KYRAL Health aims to make patients the center and focus of the healthcare system and have it revolve around their lives and plans.

Lexeme Technologies — Iowa City, Iowa
Lexeme Technologies’ product, LexeNotes, is a software product that writes medical notes for physicians — and does so about as fast as they can read the note out loud. LexeNotes is the fastest way to create beautifully written notes, enabling doctors to get back to doing what they do best: caring for patients.

LiquidGoldConcept — Ypsilanti, Michigan
LiquidGoldConcept addresses the global shortage of timely and skilled lactation support for mothers by providing best-in-class lactation education to health professionals using their groundbreaking simulation technology. They manufacture newborn, breast health and breastfeeding simulators in four skin tones and incorporate that technology into tele-simulations, where health professionals engage in live clinical practice over video calls with mock patients. Their education solutions dramatically improve health professionals’ clinical competence in prenatal and postpartum care.

Maternal 911 — Ithaca, Michigan
Maternal 911’s safety program is a 100 percent online education course for any healthcare professional that’s working with pregnant, laboring or postpartum women. This program provides evidence-based education to ensure safe, quality care is provided to every woman, all the time. Women can now be fully confident in their healthcare team.

Memora Health — San Francisco, California
Memora Health has helped over 50 major healthcare organizations meet patients where they are and make patient care more accessible, actionable and always-on. Memora Health’s technology platform digitizes and automates complex care workflows, making them simple for patients and clinicians to navigate. The Memora team puts patients and care teams at the center of all product design, learning from their stories to iteratively improve.

MemoryBeach Company — Chicago, Illinois
MemoryBeach has developed a proprietary memory assessment tool that uses humor to help destigmatize memory loss and avoid stereotype threats, resulting in helpful suggestions for supporting that person’s independent functioning.

MindTrace — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
MindTrace was founded with an important mission: to protect neurosurgery patients’ minds. Since spinning out of Carnegie Mellon University, their goal has been to develop software tools that aid neurosurgeons in surgical planning. By leveraging MindTrace’s machine learning platform, neurosurgeons can simulate surgical plans and predict their patient’s cognitive outcome – all before the first incision. Personalized Mind Tracing™ gives patients confidence they will be the same person coming out of brain surgery as they were going in.

Neap — Falmouth, England
Neap is a mindful diabetes management app that supports people living with diabetes to manage their mental and physical health. Founded by people living with diabetes, Neap is a university spin-out company that has undergone a year of in-depth, vigorous market research in collaboration with their local NHS Trust.

Neursantys — Calgary, Canada
Neursantys creates innovative wearable diagnostic and therapeutic devices that expand access to comprehensive personalized diagnoses and treatments for people with balance disruptions caused by aging, injuries or disease.

NovaXS Biotech — Chicago, Illinois
NovaXS Biotech is a smart medical device startup focused on advanced drug delivery and users’ long-term health. Their patent-pending technology, Telosis, is a needle-free drug delivery platform that could deliver medications transdermally, intramuscularly and into the lymphatic system within 0.3 seconds.

NUA Surgical — Galway, Ireland
A consequence of the global obesity epidemic is that many of the 29 million C-sections performed each year face a major challenge in that exposure of the uterus is obstructed by excess abdominal tissue. This often leads to longer surgeries with a higher rate of infant and maternal complications. NUA Surgical has developed the SteriCISION™ C-Section Retractor, a device ergonomically designed for the obstetrician and their assistant, allowing hands-free unobstructed access to the uterus and delivering safer outcomes for mother and baby.

NurtureTalk — Langdon, New Hampshire
61 percent of U.S. infant deaths can be prevented by increased access to nutrition care. NurtureTalk uses a journey-based approach to baby-feeding support with ongoing connections with registered dietitians. New parents can receive on-demand, personalized nutrition care and ongoing baby feeding support from experts through a secure, interactive mobile app. They offer affordable weekly subscription services so families can get baby feeding comfort connection and support for as long as they need it.

NXgenPort — Saint Paul, Minnesota
NXgenPort (NGP), has designed an innovative and transformative technology to maximize remote care in cancer patients requiring an implantable chemo-port catheter. Combining proven chemo-port efficacy with microchip and sensor technology, NGP measures, monitors and reports physiological body functions in vivo over the course of disease and treatment.

Orlando Health — Orlando, Florida
Orlando Health is a 3,200-bed system that includes 16 wholly-owned hospitals and emergency departments. Nearly 4,500 physicians, representing more than 90 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 23,000 team members. Areas of clinical excellence are orthopedics, heart and vascular, cancer care, neurosciences, surgery, pediatric specialties, neonatology, women’s health and trauma.

Ping — Forest Park, Illinois
Ping’s health monitor watch is designed to continuously measure key vitals of older adults. Data is made available for family and caregivers instantaneously, helping them reduce worry and stay informed at all times.

ProMedix — Portland, Oregon
ProMedix allows rapid, accurate and noninvasive assessment at the bedside to diagnose sepsis and patient decompensation earlier, while simultaneously monitoring therapeutic interventions.

PurelyMed — Clarendon Hills, Illinois
PurelyMed is advancing telehealth with a multiuse medical device to capture and transmit key patient vitals remotely to clinicians.

Skali — United States
Skali provides SafeAir, a HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform that acts as a point-of-care aide for airline crews responding to in-flight medical emergencies, providing airlines the ability to connect passengers directly to doctors on the ground. The software will enable face-to-face telemedicine treatment, and the hardware will connect with existing on-board medical equipment to transmit relevant vital statistics as needed.

Skypiatrist — New York, New York
Skypiatrist provides on-demand telepsychiatry through the use of a proprietary, HIPAA compliant platform. Skypiatrist offers patients the best in convenience and privacy through a mobile-accessible platform, appointments that always start on time and the ability to visit their doctor from the comfort of their own home.

SNAQ — Zurich, Switzerland
SNAQ helps people living with diabetes take the guesswork out of mealtime decisions. The award-winning app helps count the carbs, protein and fat content of meals by snapping a photo and supports learning how to keep glucose levels in target range after meals. SNAQ connects to popular glucose sensors and diabetes apps like Dexcom, Abbott, Medtronic, mySugr, Sugarmate, Tidepool and more.

Stabl — Naperville, Illinois and Toronto, Canada
Stabl is a real-time, 3D biometric scanning app that brings hospital-level physical therapy into the living room, optimizing patient recovery outcomes at a fraction of the cost.

Viora Health — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Viora Health’s HIPAA-compliant solution leverages data, behavioral science and community-based resources to proactively address health inequities perpetuated by social and behavioral determinants before they result in disease progression and episodic costs. Their solution improves the patient experience and access to care and while reducing episodic costs of care for health plans and integrated health systems.

Walela — Chicago, Illinois
During birth, doctors and nurses have to guess the condition of the baby using interpreted heart rates. Walela’s solution removes the guesswork and gives them the baby’s blood pH in real time, which is the gold standard in determining the baby’s condition.

If you’re interested in joining the MATTER community, you can apply today or request more information and a member of our team will be in touch.