Shark Tank

By  Tom Sullivan 03:51 pm December 6, 2018
With so much innovation happening in healthcare today, and hospitals creating innovation or transformation labs, some are even conducting Shark Tank-style initiatives to glean new ideas from the very people who will ultimately use the technology. Count NewYork-Presbyterian and Stony Brook Medicine among those. It starts, as so many innovations do, with ideation and design. Stony Brook Medicine...
By  Jonah Comstock 03:12 pm November 27, 2017
Online mail-order lab testing startup EverlyWell showed off its wares on ABC’s Shark Tank last night, securing a $1 million line of credit from host Lori Greiner. CEO and founder Julia Cheek appeared on the long-running reality TV show, in which entrepreneurs pitch a panel of high-profile investors. “I think it’s an incredible milestone to have a company like EverlyWell — it’s incredible for the...
By  Aditi Pai 08:34 am May 21, 2014
Just three months after smartphone breathalyzer company Breathometer pitched its product on ABC show Shark Tank Breathometer's sales grew from $140,000 to $1 million. The company's pitch on the show resulted in an unprecedented $1 million investment from all five investors. Breathometer is also moving on to new health conditions like halitosis, dehydration, diabetes, and asthma. The Shark Tank...