Pilot Outcomes

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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Grant Funding: a2 Collective Pilot Award for “Creating a Framework for Large Language Models for Caregiver Support in Dementia (CARE-ALL)”

The team including Drs. Vahia and Sava and previous a2 Pilot awardee, Rippl (formerly known as Kinto) received GY3 pilot award to explore the use of LLMs to support caregivers of individuals with dementia. Source: https://massaitc.org/2024/04/18/creating-a-framework-for-large-language-models-for-caregiver-support-in-dementia/

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Accelerator Entry: Moneta Health joins the StartUp Health Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot Community

What they said: Moneta Health is like physical therapy for the brain, delivered through a traditional phone call for maximum accessibility.  It’s an elegantly simple sounding idea, but the Moneta team has a few important things going for them that make us particularly excited to support them.  In Campbell and Flexman, they have a powerful combination of experience, combining digital health operational ability with engineering and deep knowledge of neurodegeneration.  They’re also very smart in their go-to-market strategy. By showing strong early results in terms of improving cognitive function and patient quality of life (with more trials to come), they’re securing big name referring partners. They’re also tapping into known reimbursement codes, so that they can generate revenue to feed product development.  And, as we have found to be so important in this market of…

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