Award: AgeTech Collaborative™ from AARP – AgeTech After Dark: Aging Made Easier Pitch Event Grand Prize Winner

John Ralston and the Neursantys team won the Grand Prize at the AgeTech After Dark pitch competition held in San Francisco on June 11, 2024. Source: @AgeTechCollab X.com Post - June 12, 2024 https://twitter.com/AgeTechCollab/status/1800977836507005201

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Acquisition: Kinto is strategically acquired by Rippl Care

SEATTLE, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Rippl, a leading dementia-focused specialty care provider, announced it has acquired Kinto, a Boston-based, AI-enabled dementia caregiver support platform. This combination will fuel reaching an exponentially larger group of people living with dementia and their caregivers with human-centered care far beyond traditional bricks-and-mortar models. Kinto was founded to harness technology to dramatically improve the dementia caregiver experience and we have validated that our model can do just that. By partnering with Rippl, we can combine, enhance and scale our solutions to become leaders in virtual dementia care. AI will revolutionize dementia care navigation and caregiver support by vastly expanding access and availability of this critically needed service.Joe Chung, Kinto FOunder and CEO Human-driven, tech-enabled, AI-powered This partnership brings together Rippl's proven dementia care model, validated by clinical research including the UCSF Care…

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Grant Funding: a2 Collective Pilot Award to explore LLMs as a support to caregivers of individuals with dementia

The Rippl team (formerly Kinto) led by Joseph Chung is part of a GY3 pilot award collaborating with McLean Hospital to evaluate Rippl's LLM as a resource for caregivers of individuals with dementia and to determine if it gives accurate and useful information and appropriate emotional support to caregiver queries. Source: https://massaitc.org/2024/04/18/creating-a-framework-for-large-language-models-for-caregiver-support-in-dementia/

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Grant Funding: a2 Collective Pilot Award for attachment-less smartphone blood-pressure monitoring advancement

The Billion Labs Inc team led by Ed Wang has received a GY3 pilot award to further develop and achieve FDA clearance for a novel zero-attachments, smartphone only solution, VibroBP, to enable ubiquitous, low-cost blood pressure monitoring. The VibroBP technology was a result of the GY1 pilot work on the BPClip. Limitations of the mechanical solution led to the software only innovation. Source: https://massaitc.org/2024/04/19/a-downloadable-oscillometric-bp-monitor-for-all-smartphones-with-no-attachments/#

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Accelerating Balance Recovery Using Adaptive EVS Therapy

John Ralston, Neursantys Inc. VP Nguyen, UMass Amherst This project will develop ML-driven methods to adapt EVS stimulus parameters to each patient’s unique sensory and motor impairment profile to increase the effectiveness of NEURVESTA’s current treatment protocol.

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