#make tech matter

We’ve been following the activities of Biolite since we discovered them last year as part of our 2015 Make Tech Matter Monday segments. This company is a model to follow in its approach to solving real world problems.

Today, they announced a 10-part series entitled The Road to Impact:

This is your journey too, and we think you deserve a full, unfiltered, behind the scenes look into the daily work of building a new kind of energy. With this in mind, I’m proud to announce The Road to Impact, a year-long 10 part series from BioLite in which our community will ride shotgun for each step in the process of building an impact business.

Make Tech Matter Monday | Sam Frons makes mobile technology matter

Addicaid is a social-recovery mobile app for the prevention and treatment of addiction. The Brooklyn-based startup is a data-driven platform that allows its users to have the support of a like-minded community while improving access to professional help.

Per Addicaid’s website, here’s a description of their mission:

Addiction is not a character flaw to be penalized or a behavior that can be modified by willpower alone. It is a chronic disease that requires community, compassion, and respect. Our mission is to help the people who need it most, and help the world learn more about the addiction spectrum.

Make Tech Matter Monday | Shireen Yates and Scott Sundvor make sensor technology matter.

6SensorLabs’ mission is simple: to change living with food allergies, forever. The San Francisco startup develops  consumer products aiming to make the meal time experience less worrisome by helping people identify what’s in their food.

Their flagship product, the Nima, is a gluten sensor that allows its users to measure and tracks gluten composition in your food. The team describes their device as follows:

Nima uses antigen-based chemistry in a proprietary chemical-mechanical process to detect the presence of gluten in samples of food at a level of at least 20ppm (why 20ppm?). The process and the chemistry have been developed, tested, and re-tested by our brilliant science team who have their own share of food-sensitivities, and who share a dedication to providing food-transparency to all through Nima. 

Nima is available for pre-order on their website. Check them out!

Make Tech Matter Monday | Connor Landgraf makes mobile and cloud computing matter

Eko Devices is a San Francisco startup that builds innovative medical devices in order to bring healthcare to the 21st century. Its flagship product, called the Eko Core, is the first major iteration on the traditional stethoscope in decades. The smart device allows physicians to record amplified heart sounds, visualize the collected data thanks to its mobile app and save the recordings for future consultation.

Many health startups in the tech field have been tackling issues in medicine on the software and data storage side. Eko’s founding team, consisting of three recent graduates of the University of California, Berkeley, has decided to tackle issues on the tool and diagnosis side (with reported AI feature to come). Kudos to Connor and the rest of the team.