Rhythmic Health

Rhythmic Health builds biosensors for precision health and wellbeing.

Website: https://rhythmic.health

Team: Nick Melosh (Stanford), Marc Ferro (Stanford), Ben Lowenstein (Serial Entrepreneur, ex-Airbnb), Paul Litvak (ex-Airbnb)

Milestones: Team met through the BrainMind Engine in 2019, Founded 2020

Origin Story: Nick Melosh is an accomplished Professor of Materials Science and serial entrepreneur at Stanford University and Marc was a post-doctorate researcher focused on brain computer interfaces. Their research was pivotal in the bioelectronic interfaces field. BrainMind brought them together with two serial entrepreneurs in our ecosystem, Ben and Paul, whose expert product management and machine learning skills were cultivated at one of the largest marketplace technology companies in the world. With a natural rapport and unusual creativity, the team rapidly crafted the idea for an ultra low-cost biosensor, with potential to transform the precision with which we manage our wellbeing, in illness and in health.

Reveri Health

Reveri is a new self-hypnosis program that draws on over 40 years of research and clinical experience by psychiatrist Dr David Spiegel, helping alleviate chronic-pain, smoking addiction, anxiety, and insomnia

Website: https://reverihealth.com/

Team: David Spiegel (Stanford) and Ariel Poler (Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor)

Milestones: Team met at BrainMind Summit at Stanford 2016, Founded 2020

Press: Big Think

Origin Story: The first company born at a BrainMind summit started with a Stanford scientist’s research using hypnotherapy to help people quit smoking. Dr. David Spiegel’s guided hypnotherapy approach was so effective that half of patients quit smoking after one face-to-face therapy session. However, without a recurring revenue business model and rapid scaling ability, Spiegel could not find investor interest to deploy this life-altering therapy, and this breakthrough was restricted to use in the lab for years. At the first-ever BrainMind Summit in 2016, Dr. Spiegel had a spirited conversation with Ariel Poler, an angel investor and entrepreneur. Overnight, Ariel coded an Alexa Skill for Spiegel’s hypnotherapy program that could be invoked by any of the 100 million Alexa-enabled devices in the world. Any of the millions of smokers in the world can now tell their enabled devices “Hypnosis Quit Smoking” and immediately receive hypnotherapy. Since then, they've expanded the capabilities to include programs for anxiety, chronic-pain, and insomnia.  

BraInsight Discovery Portal

BraInsight uses live caregiver information crowdsourcing to drive dementia research

Website: https://www.beingpatient.com/

Team: Jane Roskams and Deborah Kan

Milestones: Team met at BrainMind Summit at Stanford 2018, Founded 2019, Collaboration initiated with Chloe Duckworth and Brainstrong 2020

Press: Special Session at TransTech 2020

Origin Story: Deborah Kan is an internationally renowned journalist and the founder of Being Patient, a B-corp that communicates accurate information about Alzheimer’s to a rapidly expanding community of over 100 thousand patients and caregivers. Dr. Jane Roskams is an accomplished neuroscientist and a Professor of Neuroscience and Neurosurgery at the University of British Columbia and University of Washington. At the BrainMind Summit at Stanford in 2019, they met each other and hatched a plan to bring together their communities to help alleviate the pain that Alzheimer’s inflicts on millions of patients and their families every day. They are building a *BraInsight Discovery Portal* to collect stories and targeted information from dementia patients and caregivers to allow experts to mine the patient and caregiver experience for key pieces of data missing from our understanding of dementia progression. Their project journey begins with creating a platform to better understand lucidity (moments when memories from the past come rushing back and the patient is able to engage in spontaneous meaningful and relevant communication). Building upon a growing, highly interactive patient-caregiver community, they are designing a product to apply machine learning and NLP to crowd-sourced patient-focused information from thousands of ethnically and socio-economically diverse families that could be critical to the better stratification, understanding, and treatment, of dementia. They are also developing a secure parallel and integrated site where healthcare providers can share real-time insight and strategies for dementia care. The collaborative project promises to deepen understanding of phases of neurodegenerative disease, create a new platform for big data in health, and bring interventions more rapidly to patients and their caregivers.