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The Startup Betting Your Ears Know Your Heart Better Than Your Wrist
synseer's HealthBuds skip the wrist and the fingertip, reading your heartbeat through sound inside your ear canal. It is a bet that the next big health tracker is a thing you were already wearing to take calls.
HelpWear
HelpWear is a Toronto-based medical device company building the HeartWatch, a medical-grade ambulatory ECG monitor engineered for extended, continuous wear. Its signature dry-electrode, non-adhesive design avoids the skin irritation that limits traditional adhesive patch monitors, letting patients wear it comfortably for long stretches while it streams clinical-grade heart-rhythm data to physicians. The company targets hard-to-catch conditions like cryptogenic stroke, unexplained syncope and long-term arrhythmia detection, positioning the device as a tool to guide physician decisions and support telemedicine.
Kardigan
Kardigan is a South San Francisco heart health company modernizing cardiovascular drug development. Founded by the team behind MyoKardia, it pairs a late-stage clinical pipeline in dilated cardiomyopathy, acute severe hypertension and calcific aortic valve stenosis with a 'cardiac intelligence' platform - real-world patient data and AI - to match disease drivers to the right responders.