Three corporations have been chosen to undergo to the ultimate stage of the CivTech Spherical 9 Accelerator, who all have tech-based options to empower ladies to higher perceive the menopause and entry the best help.
The Scottish Authorities-funded programme has superior 13 corporations via to the accelerator spherical, together with health-focused corporations Adora Digital Well being, Lumino and Cohesion.
The three corporations had been all named as winners, responding to the problem: how can expertise assist empower ladies to higher perceive menopause and entry the best help for his or her particular person wants on the proper time? This problem was sponsored by Scottish Authorities’s Chief Scientists Workplace.
Adora Digital Well being gives direct entry to trusted well being consultants, reminiscent of gynaecologists, in addition to a user-friendly symptom tracker. Lumino is working to develop a cognitive behavioural remedy digital product to help ladies via the menopause, whereas Cohesion is a digital well being firm that’s exploring the supply of help on the group pharmacy stage.
The profitable corporations will spend the following few months working alongside their problem sponsors, to progress their options, to develop a minimal viable product.
CivTech is an accelerator for digital public companies and was launched in 2016. However in contrast to different accelerators, reminiscent of DigitalHealth.London’s lately introduced inaugural Leap programme, CivTech is the world’s first government-run scheme. CivTech Spherical 9 has seen as much as £7.48 million invested from the Scottish Authorities and on the finish of the method, the profitable companies hope to win contracts ranging in worth from a number of hundred thousand kilos as much as £1.3 million.
Asserting the winners on Thursday 18 January, on the official launch of the accelerator stage, Scottish Authorities’s innovation minister, Richard Lochhead, stated: “Options being developed via the most recent CivTech Accelerator promise to have a constructive and significant influence on Scotland’s society and folks. Utilizing the very newest expertise, together with synthetic intelligence, we’re tackling real-world challenges to assist construct a stronger and fairer financial system.
“Our funding within the CivTech programme is creating tangible and accessible options. This exhibits the tech sector’s urge for food to make use of advances in areas reminiscent of AI, machine studying, satellite tv for pc, and drone expertise to make folks’s lives simpler and higher.”
