Summer 2024: Meet the newest members of the MATTER startup community

Recently, 14 startups became part of the MATTER community as Select members. Our new members span different areas of healthcare, from maternal healthcare to medical devices and more.

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Meet the startups

Arithmedics — Cupertino, California:
Arithmedics is harnessing the transformative power of augmented analytics to reimagine the future of healthcare and empower data-driven decision making. Their initial focus was on the complex problem of medical billing, a daunting challenge in the healthcare sector. They have developed a powerful tool that can accurately and efficiently automate the claims process by leveraging the data intelligence in completed claims, thus enabling healthcare systems to get billing codes right the first time, every time.

Armor Medical — St. Louis, Missouri:
Armor Medical is a woman-owned, woman-led med tech company founded to catalyze innovation in women’s health. They are bringing to market the first commercial product to address the urgent demand for an objective, real-time early warning system for obstetric hemorrhage. This innovative solution is the first in a pipeline of technologies that protect and empower women’s health.

BAKS Medical — Chicago, Illinois:
​​BAKS Medical, founded by two medical students with expertise in business and engineering, is on a mission to revolutionize maternal healthcare. Their primary objective is to provide an innovative medical device that effectively addresses postpartum hemorrhage in low-resource settings, underscoring their commitment to advancing women’s health worldwide.

Ciconia Medical — San Diego, California:
Ciconia Medical is introducing the first medical device revolutionizing vaginal exams during labor, currently done by fingers. Their AI-powered imaging probe standardizes data collection and interpretation of labor progress while eliminating pain for laboring patients.

Elythea — San Jose, California:
Elythea uses machine learning to detect risk of life-threatening maternal complications as soon as the first prenatal visit. At-risk moms receive proactive social determinants of health support and specialist telehealth services to prevent their complications from ever happening.

Emboa Medical — West Lafayette, Indiana:
Emboa Medical has developed a novel blood clot extraction device to address the prevalent issue of stroke, which is the second leading cause of death in the world. Using nature-inspired design, Emboa Medical has developed a novel tool that increases blood clot extraction forces regardless of catheter size.

Expect Fitness — New York, New York:
Expect saves lives and slashes healthcare costs with the most cost-effective weapon against maternal mortality and complications: pre- and post-natal fitness. Expect is streaming fitness crafted by an MTV veteran and is the only platform where every workout is approved by OB-GYNs.

Malama Health — San Francisco, California:
Malama Health’s tech-enabled care solution enables remote monitoring of patients with high-risk perinatal conditions. Through its patient-facing app, gamified tracking and EHR-integrated provider portal, Malama users have a 21 percent lower NICU admission rate and 40 percent lower preterm birth rate as compared to other high-risk populations.

NUA Surgical — Galway, Ireland:
NUA Surgical is an award-winning Irish startup that strives to reduce the risk of maternal complications following cesarean delivery through their patented technology. The company has developed the SteriCISION C-section Retractor, ergonomically designed to improve access and visualization to the uterus, reduce the risk of wound trauma and facilitate safer surgery. The experienced founding team of Barry McCann, Padraig Maher and Marie-Therese Maher is bolstered with the recent appointment of Dr. Elizabeth Garner, global women’s health thought leader, as their board chair.

Parent Ready — Alexandria, Virginia:
Parent Ready supports parents of teens, their employers and the institutions that engage them. Through evidence-based solutions, they prepare and support parents through the uncertainty of raising teens, help employers build a productive and engaged workforce and empower institutions to better engage with families with teens.

PLU Ophthalmic — Coral Gables, Florida:
PLU Ophthalmic is preventing blindness by improving the surgical treatment of glaucoma. They are innovating in Micro-Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) through a revolutionary cannula that safely and effectively reduces intraocular pressure to levels comparable to those obtained in traditional trabeculectomy surgery.

Rheumera — Bloomington, Illinois:
Rheumera is on a mission to improve the lives of rheumatic patients and the providers who care for them. Rheumera, designated as a software as a medical device, elevates the traditional office-based relationship and extends it into the daily lives of patients. Rheumera, via its mobile app, tracks and monitors each patient’s unique experiences and symptoms so that their physician, leveraging the physician portal and AI-generated summaries, can measure therapeutic responses to treatments and adjust as needed. While Rheumera’s initial offering targets the remote therapeutic monitoring space, their larger ambition is to improve access and quality by standardizing virtual detection, diagnosis and treatment protocols within the rheumatology field.

Vasowatch — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
Vasowatch is developing clinical decision support technology to improve the birthing experience for better maternal outcomes. Their initial product is a novel labor and delivery technology that provides continuous monitoring of a mother’s risk for postpartum hemorrhage, excessive blood loss after childbirth, the leading cause of maternal deaths and complications globally. They provide up to 10x greater predictive accuracy hours ahead of delivery, saving lives and averting complications.

Virtual Hallway — Halifax, Canada:
Virtual Hallway is a Nova Scotia-based digital health company committed to transforming healthcare communication and access. Their innovative platform serves as a conduit between primary care providers and specialist physicians, facilitating rapid and efficient peer-to-peer consultations via phone and text. Modeled after the traditional “hallway consult,” Virtual Hallway digitizes this informal yet effective practice, saving both physicians and patients valuable time while optimizing healthcare outcomes.

About MATTER
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