Pilot Outcomes

Grant Funding: NIA R01 (R01AG089169)

Title: Neural mechanisms of gait disturbances as individualized digital biomarker trajectories in preclinical dementia Public Health Relevance Statement: In this project, the research team uncovers the neural mechanisms of gait and mobility disturbances in preclinical dementia and identifies trackable individualized digital biomarkers (from videos). They evaluate the specificity and sensitivity of these gait-based biomarkers and relate those to neural mechanisms and clinical phenotypes. By leveraging these identified markers, they can monitor the disease's progression, potentially minimizing or even replacing the demand for expensive neuropsychological or neuroimaging evaluations. Source: R01AG089169 (NIH RePORTER)

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Award: Recognition as most comprehensive monitoring system for older adults from National Council on Aging (2025)

Experts from the National Council on Aging (NCOA) have selected the Top 5 Home Monitoring Systems for older adults for the year 2025 and Livindi has been named the most comprehensive solution currently on the market. The pros of their solution were noted as the affordability, the variety of sensors available (including bed sensor and activity tracker), accessibility to telehealth, the favorable return policy (30-day return window), connectivity options (both Wi-Fi and cellular), and easy self installation. What they said: "The Livindi home monitoring system works well for people who want to participate in their own health monitoring, as some of the devices, like the weight scale and blood pressure monitor, require users to take their own daily measurements. That said, many of the sensors, like the motion and door monitors, work passively in the…

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Award: Don Norman Design Award 2024 – Special Recognition

Billion Labs Inc was honored with a DNDA24 Special Recognition for "Reducing Barrier to Access Hypertension Screening Globally." What they said: Billion Labs Inc. is a startup company whose mission is to transform the billions of smartphones in everyone’s pocket to screen for critical health conditions like all-cause mortality, hypertension, diabetes, and more with nothing but a download of an app, making health monitoring affordable and accessible to everyone. Their solution, Vibro, is a smartphone app that requires no extra devices to measure blood pressure. The ultimate goal is to provide affordable blood pressure monitoring by leveraging the existing smartphone infrastructure. Even if an individual does not own a smartphone personally, access can be bootstrapped through family and community support, reducing barriers of accessing hypertension screening. Through iterative design process, the team continues to refine…

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Grant Funding: NIA SBIR Phase I (R43AG090129)

Title: AVA AI Video-Based Mobile Application for Reliable, Accessible, and Low-Cost Fall Risk Assessments of Older Adults Public Health Relevance Statement: This project presents AVA, a video-based mobile app for at-home fall risk assessment of older adults, only using a smartphone to enable a much higher access, low-cost solution with full privacy protection. AVA empowers caregivers to assess the gait, balance, and strength of their older adults independently without the direct supervision of healthcare professionals. The Phase I study focuses on validating AVA's AI-based assessment technology and its usability in diverse home and independent living settings which can lead to revolutionizing current fall risk assessment practices. Source: R43AG090129 (NIH RePORTER)

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Grant Funding: U01: Assessing Alzheimer disease risk and heterogeneity using multimodal machine learning approaches

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia characterized by progressive loss of cognitive function. Unfortunately, currently there is no effective treatment for AD and clinical interventions of AD have largely failed despite enormous efforts. For the current application, we seek to develop multimodal machine learning models by leveraging the rich collection of AD-related omics data and phenotypical data recently generated from large-scale collaborative projects such as Alzheimer Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), Accelerating Medicines Partnership-AD (AMP-AD) and the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP). Three aims will be pursued in the current application. Aim 1. We will build an expandable multimodal unsupervised machine learning framework to investigate AD heterogeneity. Given the multifactorial nature of AD, we will perform AD subtyping by harnessing the rich information across multiple spectrum of data. Aim 2.…

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Funding: $38 million in Series B funding secured with an emphasis on growth in the senior living community sector

“Our focus for this strategic funding is to continue to support enterprise customers and meet the strong demand for our technology in senior care.”Honghao Deng, CEO and co-founder, Butlr Burlingame, Calif. – August 26, 2024 – Butlr, a physical AI (PAI) startup, today announced $38M in Series B funding to meet the increasing demand for its sensors and anonymous data that can be used in any building to better understand how humans interact in a space. This results in more collaborative, energy efficient and safer buildings where people work and live. Butlr’s primary customers are in senior living communities and workplaces, with a growing interest among brick-and-mortar retailers. To date, the company has raised $68 million with Foundry as the lead investor for Series B.   An MIT Media Lab spinout, Butlr has patented the combination…

Continue ReadingFunding: $38 million in Series B funding secured with an emphasis on growth in the senior living community sector