Sheffield Hallam College’s Superior Wellbeing Analysis Centre (AWRC) has unveiled the businesses set to affix the 2024 cohort for its Superior Wellbeing Accelerator programme.
The distinguished six-month accelerator programme, which is able to assist 10 start-ups and SMEs, was 3 times oversubscribed and noticed a 30% improve in functions on the earlier yr, reflecting the energy of demand for early-stage R&D assist amongst healthtech firms.
The profitable candidates embody a Welsh firm that has developed a patented cooling system to allow life saving vaccines to be transported effectively, and a Chester-based tech firm that has developed a bioanalytics engine able to monitoring 160+ biomarkers to offer medically validated well being plans.
The accelerator has been match-funded by Sheffield Hallam College and Barclays Eagle Labs Ecosystem Partnership Programme. Profitable candidates embody a various mixture of firms utilizing know-how in several methods to enhance well being and wellbeing.
This yr, the college will improve the accelerator’s affect on early-stage ventures by offering the cohort with devoted assist from its gifted world MBA college students, who will assist the businesses with advertising and marketing, enterprise technique, finance and extra. That is the primary time it’s offering this type of assist for the reason that launch of the accelerator programme three years in the past.
The profitable candidates for the 2024 cohort are:
Aspedan, primarily based in Chester, has developed a Bioanalytics Engine able to monitoring 165+ biomarkers to offer incentivised, personalised and medically validated well being plans by way of a smartphone app and clinician portal.BERRI, primarily based in Matlock, creates medical analysis instruments that establish, assist and monitor childrens’ psychological wants, which allow them to supply individualised studies for caregivers.FLX Well being, primarily based in Hull, makes use of proprietary Intrinsic Biomechanics Mannequin algorithms to enhance the way in which individuals transfer in an effort to handle ache and forestall musculoskeletal illness and damage.Hero of Well being, primarily based in Sheffield, present Digital Way of life Hubs to extend GP profitability by constructing clinically confirmed activated neighbourhoods that forestall and reverse power sickness, leading to elevated mobility, enhanced psychological well being, and sustained weight reduction.Hytro, primarily based in West Byfleet, seeks to advance human well being and efficiency by way of patented blood circulation restriction (BFR) wearables.Ideabatic, primarily based in Wales, has developed a patented cooling system to allow life-saving vaccines to be transported and administered effectively.Dwell Extra Offline, is a Yorkshire-based digital wellbeing consultancy, and makes use of a Digital Tradition Diagnostic™ to assist organisations searching for to enhance productiveness and retain expertise by way of more healthy working cultures. They supply data-driven insights into staff’ digital work experiences and coaching to enhance digital methods of working.Prorizon, primarily based in Birmingham, is a health-tech start-up utilizing bio-psycho-social knowledge to construct science-first, AI-enabled, personalised options for optimum psychological and bodily well being and efficiency.Choose Analysis, primarily based in Malvern, have developed the Physique Quantity Index (BVI), a digital measurement system and weight problems answer that analyses digital photos and demographic knowledge to offer insightful knowledge outputs.Merely Join Options, primarily based in Sheffield, put social prescribing within the arms of the person by offering quick access to psychological well being and wellbeing assist companies.
These companies will profit from Sheffield Hallam’s analysis experience, professional mentors and as much as £25,000 of non-dilutive R&D assist to entry world main amenities and gear delivered by the AWRC on the Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park.
Sirinda Bhandal, CEO and Founder, Merely Join Options Ltd, mentioned: “We’re over the moon to be becoming a member of the well being and wellbeing accelerator programme and actually wanting ahead to working with the AWRC and Sheffield Hallam to assist validate our product and obtain our objective of serving to individuals to get their lives again on monitor, accessing the correct assist, once they want it.”
Jason Brannan, Deputy Director of the Superior Wellbeing Analysis Centre, mentioned: “If we’re to actually tackle the widening hole in well being inequalities and productiveness throughout the UK, evidenced clearly in post-industrial Northern economies, we should give attention to the prevention of illness and the resilience of individuals. Superior wellbeing and bodily exercise have an essential function to play on this, one thing that grew to become obvious all through the Covid pandemic and past. These firms have an essential function to play right here and the AWRC Accelerator will assist them in bringing their merchandise to market.”