FiReStarters II: Companies Changing the World for the Better
Hosted by Lesley Curwen, Host, “Business Daily,” BBC World Service:
- Active Life Scientific: Davis Brimer, Founder and CEO
- Percutaneous microscopic wire can enter the body no more intrusively than a blood draw to get a quantitative measure of the strength of our body tissue
- Reference point indentation: first ever analysis of in vivo biological material strength
- In US alone, over $800 billion is spent on musculo-skeletal healthcare in one year
- Biological material strength: doctors diagnose strength of joints and bones by touching them, but it’s not a metric
- MAR Systems: Anthony Lammers, President and CEO
- Clean water technology company
- Remove contamination from water streams: heavy metals
- Metals they remove are things you don’t want in your water streams
- Bridge conflict between industry and environment. Companies will have to fix their discharge problems.
- Sole licensee, 3 patents
- Single-use media that bonds contaminants to it
- Looking for continued intros to industrial streams and Series C funding
- Morphlabs: Winston Damarillo, Co-Founder and CEO
- cloud computing company started in 2007
- Will the rest of the world connect to U.S. service or is technology better off regionalized?
- Replicated the tech and introduced it in different countries.
- Introduced solid-state storage to save power
- Built open source technologies
- Become a backbone for educational systems in the Philipinnes
- Simavita: Philippa Lewis, CEO
- Age care sector
- Adult incontinence: uses wires, sensors, cloud computing to monitor
- Incontinence is single most expensive part of adult care: 9 billion around the world.
- None of us want to go into long-term care, but incontinence is the second leading cause of going into long-term care
- Imbedded sensor into adult diapers that has helped us to understand why you’re incontinent, how you’re incontinent, etc
- They’ve been able to prove that many people we think are incontinent are not