Iron Yard Ventures has announced its next class of nine startups. Each of the companies accepted to the Spartanburg, South Carolina-based digital health accelerator receive $20,000 in seed funding along with a number of perks in exchange for 6 percent equity in their startup. Said perks include legal and financial advice, office space, as well as living space on-site for companies who relocate from out of town.
“These nine startups and their founders are a diverse group with standout backgrounds that are solving real problems that have potential to improve our healthcare system and make significant impact in customer’s lives as well as their bottom line,” said Iron Yard Ventures Managing Director Marty Bauer said in a statement.
The nine startups in Iron Yard Ventures’ newest class include:
- ProAlert – which has developed a security monitoring system that helps first responders save time by integrating dispatch data with GPS.
- Prenovate – offers an online nutrition program for people with chronic diseases, allowing users to send in pictures of their food and drinks via text message with a short description. The service analyzes the users’ diet to help them set healthy eating goals. The service targets people with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, history of heart attack, and people that are overweight. It costs $15 per week, $40 per month, or $100 every three months.
- Play-It Health – helps patients administer their medications. The company has recently completed an 18-person pilot with Duke and is recruiting patients for a number of other pilots.
- Headsup Health – helps users bring all of their health records and fitness data into one place. Headsup Health can also integrate data from fitness devices, including Fitbit, Jawbone, Withings, RunKeeper, and Strava.
- Intuneto – social network for people interested in health and fitness, allowing them to share their healthy habits with others so that they can engage, inspire, and challenge their followers.
- Triage Security – not really a digital health startup, it enables users to detect and prevent cyber security attacks.
- Hygeia Health – developer of an outpatient healthcare kiosk that helps clinicians save time entering data into EHRs. The kiosks can collect data on a patient’s blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, body temperature, oxygen saturation, and weight. It also will ask for and verify demographic information.
- Data Minded Solutions – which provides decision management platform for diabetes care.
- GlassChart – this startup is working on a voice-activated personal assistant, like Siri, for doctors.
[Via: mobihealthnews]