Sonde Health

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By  Jessica Hagen 12:16 pm December 9, 2022
AI-enabled voice technology platform Sonde Health announced it raised $19.25 million in a Series B funding round led by Partners Investment, bringing its total raise to $35.25 million. KT Corporation, NEOM Company and existing investors also participated in the round, including cofounder PureTech Health and M Ventures. WHAT IT DOES Sonde Health uses patented voice technology to detect various...
Executive Director Lim Seung-hyuk (right), head of KT's Digital & Bio Health Business Group, is taking a photo after signing a strategic partnership with Sonde Health CEO David Liu (center) and COO Jim Harper (left)
By  Adam Ang 11:33 pm November 13, 2022
South Korean telecommunications giant KT Corporation is making a $2 million strategic investment in US-based voice analysis platform Sonde Health.  According to a press release, the companies will cooperate to use Sonde's voice analysis technology to upgrade KT's AI-powered voice business solutions.  Aside from that, KT plans to integrate Sonde's technology into its telemedicine platform in...
Sonde Health
By  Laura Lovett 02:50 pm October 5, 2021
Sonde is looking to use vocal biomarkers to help evaluate mental wellness with its new API called Sonde Mental Fitness.  According to the company, health systems, employers and wellness service providers are able to tap into the API as a way to gather insights about their patients. The tool uses audio signal processing and machine learning to analyze 30-second audio clips of a user’s voice and...
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By  Mallory Hackett 02:15 pm July 8, 2021
Sonde Health, a PureTech Health spinout company that creates vocal biomarker technology, today announced it’s collaborating with wireless technology company Qualcomm Technologies. The partnership will integrate Sonde’s machine learning vocal biomarker capabilities with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 and 778G 5G mobile platforms to bring health screening and monitoring applications to mobile devices...
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By  Laura Lovett 02:55 pm January 4, 2021
Digital biomarker company Sonde Health has named two new sales leads. In the U.S., Jim Bradley, who previously worked for MAMSI and Kaiser Permanente, will be joining the team as VP of National Sales. Meanwhile, Simran Kaur, who has worked a Medibuddy SRL Diagnostics and Reliance Communications, will serve as the VP of National Sales India. “At Sonde, we strive to enable any organization to...
By  Dave Muoio 02:28 pm August 25, 2020
Sonde Health, a PureTech Health spinout focused on vocal biomarkers for various health conditions, has acquired voice-based survey-platform-maker NeuroLex Laboratories, the companies announced this morning. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, although the companies noted that NeuroLex CEO Jim Schwoebel will be stepping into Sonde's executive team as its new VP of data and research. Sonde's...
By  Dave Muoio 03:01 pm July 8, 2020
A new app announced this morning by PureTech Health spinout Sonde Health will listen to employees' voices to determine whether they have a potential respiratory condition and shouldn't return to work. The Sonde One app combines a COVID-19 questionnaire, user-reported temperature and a six-second voice sample to render its judgement and provide guidance to the employee. These guidances can be...
By  Laura Lovett 02:51 pm April 10, 2018
This week has spurred some major patent announcements from digital health companies Akili Interactive and Sonde Health, which are both affiliated with PureTech Health, a cross disciplinary biopharma company. The two companies announced they have been granted the rights to multiple international digital health patents. Akili revealed they are developing a technology aimed at using neural...
By  Jonah Comstock 01:59 pm June 29, 2016
Boston-based Sonde Health, a recent spin-out of PureTech Health, has licensed a health-focused voice scanning technology from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratories.  The technology, developed by Thomas Quatieri, detects a range of mental health conditions from biomarkers in a person’s voice. In pilot studies, it has shown promise in measuring symptoms of depression, mild traumatic brain injury, concussion,...