Two former Northwestern students are working on a health care analytics startup aimed at better managing long Covid and other chronic illnesses, and recently secured a $500,000 pre-seed round to help their launch later this year.
The startup, JupiterDX, hopes to help patients better navigate the complex world of health care and Covid by managing their care and health information more effectively.
Led by Alex Bahram and Mason Secky-Koebel, JupiterDX is set to launch its beta version in March.
Bahram said he came up with the idea for the company while working at SummerBio, a Covid testing startup.
“We started to see the emergence of long Covid, and that’s where we’re focusing our initial efforts to just reduce the feedback loop and the friction associated with dealing with a chronic illness in today’s day and age,” he said.
Long Covid refers to the long-term effects that some people who have been infected with the Covid-19 can experience.
Bahram wants to help people with long Covid by offering data integrations with people’s wearable tech such as Apple Watch and Fitbit to track things like their energy expenditure and heart rate, which will drive insights into what the best treatment will be.
He described JupiterDX as a “swing for the fences” and wants to disrupt the health care industry from day one so that long Covid patients don’t get frustrated by an industry that can sometimes be slow to act.
The pre-seed round was led by Drive Capital and was the first Chicago-based investment for Landon Campbell, the creator of the "InTheir20s" business podcast who is helping to launch Drive Capital’s new seed program in Chicago.
