CIE@IIITH’S Medtech Accelerator program, a 6-month cohort-based program that includes mentorship, connections, investment that culminates into a public pitch event or demo day to accelerate the growth of early-stage startups in the medical deep tech domain, announced the early stage startups selected for its 1st cohort:
- Psynapce India Private Ltd, founded by Raji Harish and Girish Patinharepat has created the Savika platform that brings the human, technology and product offerings together to aim at making pregnancy an enjoyable experience for couples by providing ways and means to prepare for, learn and understand the journey.
- Peregrine Innovations, founded by Nimish Mehra will work on designing, development and fabrication of a cost effective, precise and robust powered (bionic) trans femoral (above knee) prosthetic leg. Peregrine uses ‘Electrical sensors’ (Rotatory Potentiometers and Piezos) and by placing ‘EMG’ (Electromyography) sensors on the residual part of the limb which can capture the muscle activity.
- Onward Health, founded by Dinesh Koka will provide Oncology analytics tools that will help Oncologists look at information of a large volume of patients and come to accurate clinical diagnosis.
- Pinoty, founded by Dr. Niranjan Ravuri, has developed a heuristic questionnaire, which identifies risk in any user and segregates them accordingly. Every user is subjected to a battery of investigations like blood tests, urine tests, fasting lipid profiles, thyroid levels etc. A baseline ECG, Echocardiography and a USG abdomen are also taken and stored in a HIPPA compliant electronic medical record format for future comparison and measure the developments.