These 12 Startups Are Ensuring Every Child Has Access to Quality Care
We’ve compiled a list of the startups in our portfolio that are innovating in the Children’s Health Moonshot.
Investors, get a first look at how you can back health moonshots through StartUp Health’s new rolling impact fund.
For 2021, we’re excited to introduce Moonshot Programming in which we highlight leading Health Transformers focused on our 12 Health Moonshots. This month, we’re highlighting the startups in our portfolio that are focused on creating a world where every child has access to quality care.
Remarkable progress has been made in the last 20 years in reducing the childhood mortality rate and prevalence of diseases. However, quality and access to care still vary significantly around the world, with new health concerns emerging.
According to research, eight percent of children in the US have an identified food allergy. Every year, more than 1.7 million children under the age of five die of preventable environmental hazards like air pollution, hazardous chemicals, inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene. Nearly 100,000 kids under 15 die of cancer even though the vast majority of childhood cancers are potentially curable with existing treatments. We’re also seeing the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic take a toll on children’s health and wellbeing during important periods of physical, social, and emotional development.
At StartUp Health, we’re proud to have backed dozens of innovative entrepreneurs who are combatting these exact issues to ensure that every child has access to quality care. Browse the full list below.
Get to know the StartUp Health companies that are innovating in the Children’s Health Moonshot:
Alerje
StartUp Health portfolio company Alerje is developing a proactive patient engagement platform to improve the lives of those impacted by the leading chronic diseases, starting with food allergies. The platform consists of what they refer to as “Treatment x Lifestyle.” The “treatment” aspect of the Alerje platform refers to the company’s portable epipen that integrates into a phone case for patient adherence improvement and emergency notifications. The company’s “lifestyle” mobile app was designed to improve patient behavior as well as their dietary choices to help them avoid life-threatening food allergy reactions.
Health Transformer: Javier Evelyn, CEO & Founder
Health Moonshot: Develop a proactive patient engagement platform to improve the lives of those impacted by food allergies.
Buddy Healthcare
For hospitals and clinics that aim to digitize care coordination operations, Buddy Healthcare is a mobile care coordination platform that automates patient pathway coordination. With an easy-to-use digital format, providers can easily implement their care protocols and patient journey workflows. The BuddyCare App provides patients with all of the information, tasks, questionnaires, and instructions needed to navigate throughout a care period. The BuddyCare dashboard provides care professionals real-time visibility over patients’ preparation and recovery procedures, helping to focus on patients that need special attention. The system uses data analytics to identify risks for cancellations, delays, and no-shows before the surgery as well as find evidence-based best practices for patient pathways to improve the quality of care.
Health Transformer: Jussi Määttä, CEO & Founder
Health Moonshot: Transform care coordination in hospitals and clinics by making care accessible and measurable for everyone, everywhere, and anytime.
HealthTechApps
For teenagers and athletes who suffer concussions, HealthTechApps’ technology called MyHealthStory is a platform that pairs short videos with AI/ machine learning and natural language processing, to capture, compute, and communicate brain health, symptoms, and triggers as they unfold over time. HealthTechApps’ proprietary algorithms digest this data and deliver an efficient report for physicians to create treatment plans that prevent injuries.
Health Transformer: Kyle Chang, CEO & Co-founder
Health Moonshot: Transform the brain health of millions of people across the world.
Lactation Lab
For breastfeeding mothers who want to optimize their infants’ health, Lactation Lab provides testing kits that analyze a woman’s breast milk to show exactly what nutrition their infant is getting, allowing mothers to recognize and replenish deficient nutrients. The startup has developed proprietary methods to analyze how a woman’s breast milk is affected by her nutrition. The test collects milk over a 24-hour period and comes in three different kits to measure different levels of nutritional information. Once the lab has run the test, the mother receives a test result package that provides action items to supplement their milk to ensure their infants are getting all their nutrients (i.e. increase specific vitamins or caloric intake).
Health Transformer: Stephanie Canale, MD, CEO & Founder
Health Moonshot: Optimize infant nutrition and maternal health.
PigPug
For children with autism and attention deficit disorder (ADHD), PigPug provides an AI-based telemedicine brain training platform. Their solution includes an online telemedicine platform for NFB trainers, AI diagnostic and initial protocols, an easy-to-use EEG headset, and neurofeedback brain-training games.
Health Transformer: Vitali Karpeichyk, CEO
Health Moonshot: Create a simple, non-medication way to treat kids with ADHD and autism.
Resility Health
For teams and individuals who want to achieve peak performance and reduce the negative physical and mental effects of chronic stress, Resility delivers digital therapeutic programs, games, and exercises that incorporate training exercises, coaching, and biofeedback from wearable sensors that are personalized for each individual. The company’s proprietary Resility Score measures stress and resilience based on user input and physiological data so users and organizations can track changes over time. Predictive analytics prescribes exercises based on each individual’s needs and learning style and adapts based on individual responses.
Health Transformer: Sarah Davidson, CEO & Founder
Health Moonshot: Unlock every person’s power of resilience to improve physical and mental health.
sameview
sameview is an online platform that provides one place to connect and share disability care information between families and their teams. The platform allows users to capture sessions with videos, photos, and files, connect team members with just their email — no matter where they work, share progress and updates linked to goals and with notifications, and maintain full control over your privacy and security in your team. You can communicate with team members without multiple emails and calls and is just one click, get a full detailed report with profile, goals, and progress for plan reviews.
Health Transformer: Danny Hui, Founder
Health Moonshot: Improve the lives of families caring for people with disabilities.
SchoolCare
SchoolCare is an activation and care coordination platform that enables all stakeholders in the pediatric healthcare ecosystem to work together to achieve optimal health outcomes for kids. For public schools that serve as the front line of pediatric care for 50M students, SchoolCare helps deliver crucial health services more efficiently and safely. The startup partners with K-12 school nurse offices to seamlessly connect children and their families to healthcare services.
Health Transformer: Brett Shamosh, CEO
Health Moonshot: Seamlessly connect children and their families to healthcare services.
Tahmo
Tahmo is bringing to market smart and connected health and comfort products for consumers and clinical applications. Amid COVID-29, the company developed a wearable thermometer — Thermi — that continuously monitors and tracks the body temperature of infected people remotely and continuously.
Health Transformers: Arif Quronfleh, CEO & Founder, and Ziad Ghannoum, Co-founder
Health Moonshot: Diagnose at the first degree by developing wearable and connected technology that improves patient care.
Tickit Health
Tickit is a web-based (SAAS) platform that uniquely captures personal information from individuals via digitally empathetic surveys and assessments, coupled with management tools for the organizations that use the data to service them. Tickit’s inclusive digital solutions support caring organizations in capturing data directly from people through surveys, assessments, and educational tools, to improve the breadth and depth of collected information from vulnerable, diverse, hard-to-reach populations.
Health Transformers: Sandy Whitehouse, MD, Interim CEO, Co-founder & Chief Medical Officer, and Eric Gombrich, CRO & CPSO
Health Moonshot: Enable each individual to more effectively share their story and personal information with the individuals and organizations that support them, to ultimately improve outcomes and care efficiency.
TQIntelligence
The team at TQIntelligence is enabling therapists serving at-risk youth. The startup is one of a handful of startups that is developing an objective measurement of emotional distress severity to support low-skilled therapists at the point of care. TQIntelligence offers school-based support services and community mental health services that allow users to track patient’s progress, and monitor high-risk patients. Their scientifically validated surveys give therapists additional scientific measurement tools that allow therapists to be equipped to treat patient concerns faster and more accurately. The TQIntelligence system enables therapists to track patient’s scores over time, showing quantitative and scientific reactions to treatment. This lets therapists know whether their treatment is effective.
Health Transformer: Yared Alemu, MD, CEO & Founder
Health Moonshot: Transform mental healthcare for at-risk youth globally, using voice recognition technology and AI to objectively quantify and predict psychiatric disorder severity.
Undivided
Undivided helps parents raising kids with disabilities dream bigger and achieve more through community, collective knowledge, and resource support. The company’s dedicated navigators, a library of collective knowledge, and parent-led support spaces connect families and create breakthroughs. Parents can simply register and download the Undivided app to gain access to a vast network of support and the platform. The platform will gather information about your child’s strengths, loves, and needs, and then will determine immediate goals that move your family forward by accessing articles, how-tos, resource lists, educational videos, and Undivided’s exclusive network of experts.
Health Transformer: Jason Lehmbeck, CEO & Co-founder
Health Moonshot: Help every child live their best life by unleashing the collective power of families raising children with disabilities.
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