Healthcare innovators from the region gathered at Wantable Cafe on Wednesday night for the Healthcare Innovation Pitch Contest. The popular MKE Tech Week event featured nine companies vying for $50,000 in cash prizes and membership in Milwaukee Venture Partners. All contestants received a Healthcare Direct Primary Care (DPC) account through TipaScRXipt. The HealthTech pitches were … Spotted: Healthcare Innovation Pitch
Britt Gottschalk, the founder and CEO of Geno.Me, invited leaders in the biotech industry, investors, and data contributors to Saint Kate on September 28 to view the company’s newly released software. The product allows people to sell their health and wellness data to medical researchers in a safe transaction that benefits both parties and will … Spotted: Geno.Me Launch Party
Did you know there is a NASA spin-out company just a stone’s throw away from Milwaukee? Sheboygan-based VibeTech, headed by engineer and founder Dr. Jeff Leismer, is using technology developed to help astronauts combat the physical effects of space travel to build muscle in immobile patients. Leismer became interested in creating tools to overcome the … Exercise without effort? VibeTech makes it possible
Deepak Arora’s life was forever changed in the summer of 2020 when he lost his daughter. The toddler became one of the estimated 236,000 accidental drownings worldwide that occur annually. “My background has been all in computers and electronics engineering. I just could not bear the fact that this couldn’t have been avoided,” Arora said. … Wear Tech for a safer world
Ross Bjella says medical benefits is “one of the most exciting businesses out there.” Bjella should know. The founder and CEO of Alithias Inc., a patient advocacy company, is an expert in the field. In 2010, he started the business that strives to get the employees of self-insured employers the best possible healthcare, while saving … Meet Alithias founder Ross Bjella
An estimated 20% of Americans suffer from laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR), and as our diets and activity levels change, those numbers continue to increase. The condition causes gastric juices to travel from the stomach, through the esophagus and into the throat. Symptoms of LPR include a chronic cough, difficulty swallowing and hoarseness. Unlike gastroesophageal reflux disease, … N-Zyme takes aim at reflux
Dr. Tiffany Mullen is living a purpose-driven life. As a toddler, Mullen was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis. The chronic disease meant her childhood was filled with countless doctor appointments and medical tests. Rather than feeling supported by her medical team, she felt frightened and vulnerable after years of impersonal care. As an adult, she chose … Vytal Health fosters vital connections
Milwaukee-based Rapid Radicals, was the grand prize winner of the 19th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. Rapid Radicals Technology, which can treat water at a municipal scale where there is a spill point confluence of storm and sanitary sewers, was also the winner of the contest’s Advanced Manufacturing category. Founder and chief technology officer … Milwaukee shines in Business Plan Contest
Is GenoPalate Milwaukee’s next unicorn? Founder Dr. Sherry Zhang, the molecular biologist at the helm of the Wauwatosa-based company with the global reach, is taking aim at the lofty status. The company, launched in 2016, analyzes a customer’s DNA, and then offers nutrition guidance based on the analysis, with a focus on combating metabolic syndrome. … DNA as a diet guide
By Anna Lardinois Startup Storyteller According to the National Safety Council, there were 55.4 million injuries and more than 200,000 preventable deaths in the United States in 2020. Many of those injuries will become personal injury claims. Approximately 95% of these claims are settled out of court and provide an estimated $37.5 billion in revenue … CaseConnectMD: Making injury claims less painful