myHealth Sentinel Holdings, a Singapore-based telehealth company, is seeking public funds for its latest telehealth project on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
For the past 12 months, mHS has developed TM+ Telehealth, which will allow caregivers to monitor six patients remotely. It features the smart assistant TM+ technology that measures a patient's oxygen level, blood...
RedCrow, a crowdfunding investment platform, launched last week with healthcare as its premier vertical. The company counts Talking Heads guitarist and keyboardist Jerry Harrison as part of its founding team.
The platform currently is only accepting investments from accredited investors, but was founded with the goal of eventually taking advantage of newly live provisions of the 2012 JOBS ACT...
Israeli equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has launched a new fund specifically focused on the digital health field, called OurCrowd Qure. They will work with Johns Hopkins University to provide validation of value, market access, and on-going feedback on the startups.
"I think that crowdfunding for digital health makes a huge amount of sense," John Medved, CEO of OurCrowd, told...
At CES in January, Samsung showed off a concept for a smart belt called Welt (a portmanteau of wellness and belt). At the beginning of the summer, the company announced that the Welt team had spun off into its own startup. Now Welt has brought its device to crowdfunding website Kickstarter, where it proved an overnight success, raising $64,485 over the long weekend.
Welt comes from Samsung...
A new activity tracker company is about to launch a crowdfunding campaign, and this one is aimed at a very particular kind of athlete: rock climbers. The Whipper, from Portola, San Francisco-based Mbientlab, is a small clip-on device that tracks climber-specific metrics like pace, form, number of climbs, and vertical feet, as well as calculating caloric expenditure.
In addition, the device will...
The makers of SunSprite, the clip-on wearable for tracking sun exposure that raised $67,000 on Indiegogo two years ago, are looking to sell the company. Cambridge, MA-based GoodLux Technology announced today that it has contracted with MJK Partners to auction off the company's assets, including the SunSprite device business and issued and pending US and foreign patents.
"We believe light tracking...
A former Apple executive has launched an Indiegogo campaign for Cor, his two-year-old consumer blood tracking startup formerly known as Neuon. Bob Messerschmidt worked on optics and spectrometry for the Apple Watch for three years after his previous startup, Rare Light, was quietly acquired by Apple.
The company already has $1 million in seed funding, according to a report in TechCrunch, but is...
MobiHealthNews' last crowdfunding roundup wasn't too long ago, but there are already a number of new digital health apps and devices on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Read on below for a smart water bottle and a smart baby bottle, PERS and PHRs, an activity tracker for swimming, an app for anxiety, and more.
Flo
Flo is a smartphone-connected noncontact thermometer. Like Withings’ recently-announced...
Nearly a year after announcing its direct-to-consumer fitness tracker AmpStrip -- and after raising more than $500,000 on Indiegogo for it -- Fitlinxx has announced that it will not be developing AmpStrip as a fitness tracker, but rather as a medical device. The company will refund all of its nearly 4,000 backers on request. Engadget first reported the news.
The news came in an update to the...
It's been almost two months since MobiHealthNews has surveyed the mobile and digital health crowdfunding landscape, but the tide of projects hasn't slowed down. At the end of March, we looked at smart jump ropes, smart canes, two wearable thermometers, and an app-connected home blood test kit. Three out of five of those companies -- Kenkodo, Smart Rope, and STEMP -- made their goals (with the...
