The Cedars-Sinai accelerator has announced the 10 new health-tech startups accepted to its latest cohort. The companies are creating a variety of healthcare tools, from culturally-sensitive digital mental health services to wearable devices that help patients manage chronic asthma.
After going entirely virtual in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the accelerator launched a hybrid model in 2021. The hybrid model has stayed, enabling company leaders to choose whether to attend in person or virtually.
During the three-month program, company leaders collaborate with doctors, researchers and administrators to understand how their products and resources can work in a real-world environment to benefit patients, clinicians and hospitals.
Each company accepted into the program receives a $100,000 investment from Cedars-Sinai. At the end of the program, founders will share their progress with an audience of investors, mentors, potential customers and members of the news media at a Demo Day.
The new Cedars-Sinai Accelerator class includes:
Acolyte Health, using voice and face recognition software, Acolyte creates tailored video content, including preventive health care, pre- and post-visit education, reminders and more, all delivered securely to patients on the device of their choice. Patients using the interactive videos can take immediate action, resulting in better outcomes, like reduced readmissions, increased medication adherence and increased patient satisfaction.
Aevice Health has created an artificial intelligence-powered wearable device that continuously monitors key biomarkers of respiratory diseases like asthma. Chronic diseases like asthma account for 25% of emergency department visits, mainly due to patients’ lack of objective data to help them assess disease progression at home. With the device, the company’s goal is to empower patients to manage their condition, optimizing the affordability of health care and hospital resources.
Aidin has created a digital health care workflow platform that helps to streamline and structure hospital workflows, helping case managers accomplish daily tasks faster and transition patients to trusted care providers. The company aims to help reduce patients’ length of stay, manage staff assignments and address delays in real time.
Candlelit Therapy is a digital mental health provider for underserved, new and expectant parents at risk of perinatal mood and anxiety conditions. Candlelit Therapy’s perinatal mental health service is rooted in cultural competency, celebrates Black identity and offers an easy way to access culturally based treatment while helping obstetricians, nurse midwives and birth workers proactively screen and manage life-threatening conditions in a more culturally appropriate and affirming way.
GattaCo claims that its A-PON plasma separator eliminates the need for bulky equipment currently needed for most blood tests. The A-PON is a self-collection device that uses fingerstick blood to produce lab-quality liquid plasma. Plasma is the most widely used sample type in clinical lab testing to detect and monitor medical conditions, diseases or therapy responses.
HealthLeap offers an artificial intelligence-enabled clinical nutrition app, NutriLeap, that helps health care professionals prevent and treat malnutrition. The app helps hospital dietitians make precise nutritional calculations and provides recommendations based on the most up-to-date clinical guidelines.
Luminare has created a digital platform that aims to accelerate the speed of sepsis detection in order to save lives, reduce alert fatigue, and increase revenue through improved clinical documentation.
Shift Bias provides learner-focused nurse training through virtual reality, real-time adjustments and insight. The company’s growing library focuses on advancing health equity, nurse onboarding, infection prevention and mandatory trainings. Female-founded Shift Bias aims to reduce the amount of time, money and staff resources needed for nurse training and give nurses the tools to improve patient outcomes.
Siimee has created a recruiting platform that directly connects job seekers and employers by creating a one-to-one matching experience, highlighting users’ backgrounds and interests to opportunities, while educating employers with the aim of eliminating early biases that historically occur in the recruiting process.
Syntho provides artificial intelligence-based, privacy-enhancing technology to generate anonymous synthetic data points. These data points are then used by medical researchers in a variety of research projects.
