November 2023: Meet the newest members of the MATTER startup community

Over the last few months, 36 startups became part of the MATTER community as Select members. Joining from all over the world, our new members span different areas of healthcare, and some come to the community through our innovation challenges — Accelerating Innovation in Aging, which is supported by RRF Foundation for Aging, and Healthy Kids Healthy Future, which is run in partnership with Parkview Health.

If you’re interested in joining the MATTER community, you can learn more about our membership options here. You can also view our innovation challenges here.

Meet the startups

DIGITAL HEALTH STARTUPS

52North — Cambridge, United Kingdom
52North is reinventing the healthcare journey by developing fully integrated clinical-, AI- and medical device-based systems to improve healthcare delivery and quality of life. They create affordable technologies that empower people and enable decentralized clinical decision-making. They prioritize human-centered design and engage with people living with disease throughout their product life cycle to reinvent their healthcare journeys.

ActiveAging — Ra’anana, Israel
ActiveAging is an early stage startup with a mission to transform the relationship between Medicare Advantage (MA) health plans and their aging members. They offer an AI-based management solution that continuously generates data insights to help MA plans proactively and precisely target supplemental benefits to their aging member’s needs and preferences, all while continuously optimizing plans to reduce health expenses and improve member retention and star ratings.

Acurable — London, United Kingdom
Acurable is a venture-backed, fast growing, medical device company that creates accurate, user-friendly wearable medical devices intended to be used by patients at home. Their first family of products is called AcuPebble™. AcuPebble products are based around innovative wearable acoustic sensors that are able to continuously sense information-rich patient biosignals. Sophisticated, product-specific signal processing algorithms analyze these signals and extract disease-related biomarkers. These biomarkers are also automatically interpreted, leading to either a diagnostic or a disease management output.

CARI Health — San Diego, California
CARI Health is developing the next generation of remote medication monitors that will allow clinicians to prescribe medications and receive real-time reporting on medication levels. CARI’s small, wireless sensors are worn on the patient’s skin and continuously monitor medication levels, sending alerts when necessary. With a CARI remote medication monitor, clinicians can provide precision care in this new era of telehealth medicine.

Credo Therapies — London, United Kingdom
Credo Therapies is building a digital, stepped care platform for people with recurring binge eating. Their mission is to empower individuals to overcome recurring binge eating through accessible, evidence-based and personalized digital care. They are an Oxford University spinout and count two of the leading experts in eating disorders as their co-founders. Their platform is derived from a proven treatment with ample clinical evidence. Credo Therapies combines a digital therapeutic, coaching and teletherapy to provide high-level care with significantly fewer clinicians.

Decimal Code — Ann Arbor, Michigan
Decimal Code is a medical coding company aiming to utilize artificial intelligence to automate medical billing and optimize repayment effectiveness by minimizing lost revenue generating opportunities.

Dentite — Chicago, Illinois
Dentite is a med tech company that’s building an automated and scalable ”dental for medical” platform, making it easy for dentists to sign up and achieve a 10 percent increase in incremental annual revenue​​. Utilizing the power of AI, they’re able to create an end-to-end solution that seamlessly retrieves and interprets diagnostic and procedure data, translating it into medical claims and submitting them to major medical payers.

equalityMD — Richmond, Virginia
equalityMD’s mission is to change how the LGBTQ+ community perceives and experiences healthcare. They believe every patient deserves to receive affirming care that recognizes and values their diverse personal identities with compassion, understanding and respect. The equalityMD platform empowers people to become the superhero of their own healthcare story. They can find and choose mental health and primary care providers who genuinely listen to their unique needs, not just give them a diagnosis. Their network of therapists, doctors and nurses are certified with cultural competency training through the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center at the Fenway Institute.

FemGevity Health — New York, New York
FemGevity Health’s digital telemedicine platform empowers women by providing them with personalized and cost-effective healthcare that addresses the ever-changing landscape of their menopause symptoms. The cornerstone of their service is a monthly program, which ensures regular check-ins and consistent support tailored to each woman’s unique needs. They’ve also partnered with a supplement company to provide tailored nutraceutical support and diagnostic lab analysis.

Cognes Medical Solutions aka Genad — Domsten, Sweden
Utilizing novel technologies, Cognes has developed a machine learning, image-based analysis model implemented on a smartphone app. Cognes is designed to be easy to use, objective, scalable and non-invasive. The software app will enable clinicians to screen and monitor patients remotely, and the software as a service solution is intended to be distributed worldwide through their international partnerships, connecting more potential patients to care globally.

Intely — Davenport, Florida
Intely is on a mission to break down the barriers of interoperability so healthcare technology and providers can thrive. They provide a no-code healthcare interoperability platform that provides pre-built electronic health record and app connectors, single API connections, a drag and drop workflow builder, a data converter and mapper and visibility and support.

Junum — New Orleans, Louisiana
Junum helps hospitals understand and address malnutrition so they can maximize the value of their clinical teams, drive revenue and deliver exceptional patient care. A women-founded company, Junum is the first to bridge technology and nutrition by using health informatics as a technology solution. Their intuitive tools operate within existing electronic health record workflows, giving clinicians easy access to the nutrition insights they need to drive improved outcomes.

Machine Medicine — London, United Kingdom
Machine Medicine develops a platform, called Kelvin, to help better assess people with Parkinson’s disease. Named after the famous physicist, the platform allows researchers to record, score, store and analyze video of Parkinson’s patients during motor assessment and can be used from any device. Once captured and organized, Kelvin uses a cutting-edge computer vision technique, called pose estimation, to objectively track the movement of the patients down to the fingertip level and deliver objective metrics of core symptoms, such as tremor and bradykinesia.

Overwatch Digital Health — Dallas, Texas
Overwatch Digital Health is a technology company that develops medical software solutions. Their software application allows people living with epilepsy to regain their autonomy while reassuring families and caregivers that their loved ones will get assistance if they experience a seizure.

Simpl Healthcare — Los Angeles, California
Simpl Healthcare, a comprehensive health management platform, believes that data and insights are the keys to revolutionizing healthcare. Their approach is centered around leveraging health data, technology, top-level data security and AI to deliver solutions that empower providers, payers and patients. They go beyond traditional healthcare settings, engaging users before, during and after appointments to provide comprehensive care.

SkinVision — Amsterdam, Netherlands
SkinVision is a regulated medical service that empowers people to take charge of their skin health. With a smartphone app at the core of its service, SkinVision expands one’s ability to self-examine their skin and elevates their knowledge of when to act, how and why. It provides accurate and timely skin cancer detection, along with the most reliable personalized skin health advice and health path recommendation.

Tinted Health — New York, New York
Tinted Health’s mission is to provide access to minority doctors within communities to help people meet their health needs. At Tinted Health, they understand that representation matters and has the ability to produce better health outcomes and healthy lives. They believe it is essential for individuals to choose the kind of care that they want, with providers that live, work and are active within their communities. Tinted Health has expanded upon and created an arena for Black and Brown providers to transform the way health conversations take place with underrepresented populations.

TestDynamics — Austin, Texas
TestDynamics is set to revolutionize the incorporation of AI solutions for medical imaging and diagnostics through their one-stop Satori platform. The team is comprised of both engineers and medical professionals who have made it their missions to finally make AI accessible to physicians, hospitals and the patients they treat.

MEDICAL DEVICE STARTUPS

Biologic Input Output Systems — Carlsbad, California
Biologic Input Output Systems combines the cutting-edge technologies of neurotech, AI/machine learning and robotics to create a USB port for the human body. Their interface allows fast, accurate, intuitive movement and lifelike sensory feedback. Their first application is designed for limb loss and limb difference individuals, allowing them to not only replace their missing limb with a robotic one but also to use that robotic limb in a natural and intuitive way. With the direct two-way communication between the brain and the robotic limb, they can both move the robotic limb as they would a natural limb and feel sensations experienced by the robotic limb.

Bone Health Technologies — Redwood City, California
Bone Health Technologies has developed the Osteoboost belt, the first and only safe and effective treatment for the 63 million people in the U.S. with osteoporosis or osteopenia, as well as a comprehensive digital therapeutic platform. Osteoboost puts clinically-proven NASA vibration technology into a convenient belt form factor, focusing the vibration on the most vulnerable anatomy — the hips and lumbar spine — and resulting in reduced loss of vertebral bone strength and density.

CSW Therapeutics — Domsten, Sweden
CSW Therapeutics is developing a next-generation extracorporeal shockwave therapy device, called Remwave, that is non-invasive, compact and administered outside of a hospital environment. Remwave is primarily targeted at remote monitoring and treatment of refractory angina and other conditions related to dysfunctional myocardial circulation, such as heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) or for post myocardial infraction recovery. The technology behind the device involves the use of cardiac shockwave therapy to stimulate regenerative cell growth within cardiac tissue.

Pelvital — Eagan, Minnesota
Pelvital’s FDA-cleared device, Flyte®, is the only at-home intravaginal device that delivers the proven therapeutic treatment modality of mechanotherapy to treat stress urinary incontinence and strengthen pelvic floor muscles at home.

True Concepts Medical Technologies — Dayton, Ohio
True Concepts Medical Technologies is on a mission to save lives and reduce costs of care with intelligently designed solutions that reduce or minimize the opportunity for human error. Their devices are designed by clinicians for clinicians with a focus on areas that have significant morbidity and mortality such as sepsis and sudden cardiac arrest.

VenoVision — Wilmington, Delaware
VenoVision is on a mission to transform cardiac care and improve the lives of millions of heart failure and at-risk patients. VenoVision is an affordable, easy-to-use, thermal imaging-based biosensing device and hemodynamic monitoring platform. It analyzes the blood flow in the jugular vein of the neck to the heart, delivering cardiac insights from the medical guidelines previously limited to invasive catheterizations or highly skilled ultrasound assessment.

ACCELERATING INNOVATION IN AGING CAREGIVING STARTUPS

CareYaya — Durham, North Carolina
CareYaya is a tech startup and applied research lab focused on enhancing care delivery. Their flagship product is a technology platform that lets people quickly book experienced caregivers that are uniquely all students in the healthcare field, helping expand the care workforce amidst a critical caregiver shortage. In addition, CareYaya is launching new applications of artificial intelligence to help people better manage caregiving, aging and serious illness.

Family Proud — San Diego, California
Family Proud is a community support platform focused on easing the burdens on caregivers and their families. They help employers understand the impact of caregiving on their workforce and bottom line, enabling them to provide crucial support to caregiving employees and foster a caring work environment. Their mission is to empower caregivers and their families, making a meaningful, positive social impact.

Onward — San Leandro, California
Onward’s mission is to eradicate transportation as a social driver of health and alleviate the burden of caregiving. The Onward platform provides door-through-door companion rideshare services and transportation management solutions designed for healthcare. Today Onward supports thousands of rides each month for partners including the VA Health System, UCSF Health and Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).

SandwYch — Austin, Texas
SandwYch is an online platform that positively impacts the journeys of patients living with dementia and their caregivers by providing critical collaboration from hospital to home. Using a self-assessment in the SandwYch app, family caregivers unlock resources that are tailored to their own needs, support for their loved ones and real-time communication. Your care. Your way.

TCARE — St. Louis, Missouri
TCARE is an evidence-based, comprehensive program designed to mitigate caregiver burnout. Using intelligent technology and data-backed insights, TCARE identifies leading risk factors and provides tailored well-being management delivered through digital tools and human touch advocacy. Taking a holistic approach, TCARE empowers caregivers as they navigate through their caregiver journey so they can continue to provide a high level of care while remaining productive and engaged in their everyday life. Care receivers benefit from having a familiar, consistent caregiver to encourage healthy living and proper nutrition, support recovery, improve medication and rehab compliance and drive better outcomes.

Zinnia — Winnetka, Illinois
Zinnia helps caregivers for people living with dementia navigate daily caregiving responsibilities and look after their own well-being through a library of over 200 research-driven video interventions designed to be used with the person receiving care. Zinnia is a non-pharmacological solution to reduce unwanted behaviors, accomplish essential activities of daily living and provide engagement, connection and joy. Zinnia also creates opportunities for caregiver respite and features content that encourages education and self-care.

HEALTHY KIDS HEALTHY FUTURE STARTUPS

Augment Therapy — Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Augment Therapy is an award-winning digital health company that engages people of all ages and ability levels in immersive, gamified exercise from hospital to home. Leveraging MOCAST™, their patent-pending technology, Augment Therapy offers a unique combination of full-body skeletal tracking and augmented reality-based interactive exercises accessible simply through a tablet or phone.

Happypillar — Austin, Texas
Happypillar is a child and family mental health app that takes the tools of evidence-based therapies and makes them available 24/7. Their innovative program uses AI to provide individualized support, analyzing parent-child communication and providing personalized feedback specific to children’s needs and goals. Winner of the 2022 National Parenting Product Award and the 2023 Mom’s Choice Award, Happypillar has helped thousands of families who were desperately searching for options and plans to serve millions of children and families in the future.

Oncoustics — Ontario, Canada
Oncoustics creates advanced AI solutions for low-cost, non-invasive surveillance, diagnostics and treatment monitoring of diseases with high unmet clinical need. Unlike other players in the space, they are not doing image recognition alone. Instead, they also apply AI to raw ultrasound signals to measure acoustic biomarkers and enable a “virtual biopsy” using non-radiating, non-invasive, low-cost ultrasound for tissue analysis and characterization on adults and children of all ages.

One Day at a Time — Fort Wayne, Indiana
One Day at a Time is an innovative, non-profit mental health app designed to empower users with a sense of belonging and community. The app connects users to resources, coping skills and inspiration as they navigate the struggles of daily life.

Xploro® — Cleveland, Ohio
Xploro is a disease-agnostic and clinically validated patient education platform that uses augmented reality, gameplay and an artificially intelligent avatar guide to deliver health information to young patients, reducing the stress and anxiety associated with hospitalization, improving health literacy and fostering better engagement with health services. They started with children with cancer, but they’re building a health information platform for any patient, of any age, with any condition, anywhere in the world.

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