Packed Demo Day Caps Off Inaugural LaunchKC Health Accelerator
November 22, 2019 / Nueterra Capital MarketingOver 200 investors and entrepreneurs attended Wednesday night’s Demo Day for the LaunchKC Health Accelerator powered by Nueterra Capital. Demo Day marked the conclusion of the 75-day accelerator and featured presentation pitches from each of the six cohort companies.
After a short networking reception in The Chesterfield bar inside the Alamo Drafthouse Kansas City, guests moved to Theater One to hear remarks from Launch Health Accelerator partners and sponsors before the company pitches.
Guests mingle at the pre-pitch reception.
Nueterra Capital CEO Jeremy Tasset congratulated the founders of cohort companies Healium by StoryUp, medZERO, Sickweather, Spoke Health, TheraWe and WellBrain, and talked about the unique ability of the Launch Health Accelerator to relate to the founders. “This is the very first Launch Health Accelerator, so in some ways, we’re very much a start up, too,” Tasset said. “We understand that as a start-up, you have good days, you have bad days, you have wins, and you have setbacks. The point is that what you’re doing matters. You may not be able to see the change overnight, but the change is happening. Public-private partnerships are the future, and you are a big part of that.”
Nueterra Capital CEO Jeremy Tasset addresses the crowd.
Launch KC’s Drew Solomon also thanked the partners and the Kansas City community for their support of both the accelerator and of the spirit of entrepreneurship and job creation. After a brief video, Entrepreneur-in-Residence Don Peterson spoke about the honor of working with the Accelerator.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence Don Peterson congratulates the cohort.
Each of the six companies then presented to the crowd:
Healium by StoryUp: Healium is the world’s first virtual and augmented reality platform powered by brainwaves and heart rate via consumer wearables. It is a biometrically-controlled, drugless solution that creates story-driven escapes powered by the user’s feelings of positivity and calm via their wearables and Healium’s patented technology. Healium stories, packaged in a portable, digital kit, allow users to see their feelings heal virtual worlds.Frontiers in Psychology and the Journal of Neuroregulation both published studies on Healium’s ability to quickly reduce moderate anxiety and increase feelings of positivity in as little as four minutes using real-time EEG feedback and heart rate. Healium is used worldwide in areas of situational stress.
medZERO: medZERO is the world’s first mobile payments platform dedicated to serving the healthcare industry by providing immediate mobile access to funds to pay for healthcare bills. These funds are made available with zero interest, zero fees, and zero hassle. Employees repay via payroll deductions or through pre-tax HSA payroll contributions. Utilizing payroll deductions through their HSA creates a tax savings for the employee that would have otherwise been lost without medZERO. Employees can rest easy and recover knowing their healthcare costs are covered.
Sickweather: Everyday thousands of people around the globe update social media sites like Facebook and Twitter when they (or someone close to them) get sick. Just as Doppler radar scans the skies for indicators of bad weather, Sickweather scans social networks for indicators of illness, allowing people to check for the chance of sickness as easily as they can check for the chance of rain. Sickweather powers cold and flu trackers for the Weather Channel and other outlets and can predict sickness on a hyperlocal basis for as many as 15 weeks.
Spoke Health: Spoke Health is a technology solution designed specifically to rapidly scale high ROI value-based health care programs. The Spoke Health platform brings together technology for managing episodes of care with high quality provider networks and consumer engagement tools to enable the most efficient execution of value-based programs with demonstrable ROI. Spoke Health’s hub technology platform connects all the critical spokes for value-based care, optimizing healthcare for all.
TheraWe: TheraWe is a mobile, HIPAA-compliant, video platform that helps bridge the learning gap for parents of pediatric therapy patients between the home and the therapy center. TheraWe allows parents and providers to create therapy session videos, upload documents, and share notes to stay organized. Interactive videos, gamification, and remote communication change the game for parents and providers.
WellBrain: WellBrain is a digital chronic pain management and addiction prevention platform designed by doctors, for doctors. WellBrain’s founding Stanford, Harvard and Mayo Clinic trained physicians were impacted daily by the lack of solutions for their patients. They designed WellBrain to help providers assess, engage and monitor patients physical and mental health over time and to make informed decisions about their care. WellBrain is helping providers across 17 states to offer the best quality of care and ensure optimal outcomes.
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