Six early-stage health-related companies selected for XLerate Health
Summary
The platform is designed to extract quantitative and qualitative information from leading published biomedical journals, EMRs, FDA drug labels and patient forums. The company is led by an experienced, multidisciplinary team of entrepreneurs, physicians, and software developers.CredentialedCARE, San Diego: Protocols for performing background checks on direct care workers are overly fragmented. The permanent brain damage to young children that leads to learning and behavior disorders can be avoided with this EPA-tested technology that converts toxic lead on contact to a molecular form that cant be absorbed by the body or leach into the environment.Liberate Medical, Louisville, Ky.: Liberate Medical is developing an abdominal electrical muscle stimulator, which synchronizes with a patients breathing activity, as a platform technology to treat patients with respiratory disease. Out of a large pool of applicants, we have identified an outstanding first group of early-stage companies with technologies that are solving real problems within the healthcare delivery and wellness continuum. Mentorship can range from providing a single phone call for advice to a much more intensive interaction depending on the needs of the company and the time commitment of the individual mentor.