Start-Up Previews, November 2013
Executive Summary
This Month's Profile Group: Heightened Concussion Awareness Calls For New Detection Tools, features profiles of Cerora, MC10, Oculogica, and Sway Medical. Plus these Start-Ups Across Health Care: Bicycle Therapeutics, Crosstrees Medical, Rescue Therapeutics, and Sensulin.
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Crosstrees Medical Inc.
Forget about inflating balloons to treat vertebral fractures: the PVA Pod System from Crosstrees Medical Inc. is a woven-fabric container that is positioned in the spine, and enables orthopedic surgeons or interventional radiologists to precisely control delivery of cement while reducing the threat of cement leakage.
Sway Medical LLC
Sway Medical LLC hopes to bring an objective and inexpensive tool for the assessment of concussions to the playing field. Its Sway Balance system combines the hardware that is built into every iPhone with Sway’s proprietary software to assess players’ balance – a well-accepted measure for diagnosing concussion and measuring recovery from concussion – from the sidelines.
MC10 Inc.
MC10’s wearable Biostamp, an extremely thin sensing patch akin to an artificial tattoo, has myriad applications in consumer and medical device markets. The start-up’s first product, launched in collaboration with Reebok International, is the CheckLight for detecting potential concussions in athletes who participate in contact sports.