Coway spent three decades convincing Korea to lease its water purifiers by the month. Now its Los Angeles office is testing whether Americans will pay a subscription for cleaner air, softer water and a bidet that cleans itself.
Carecubes makes the Carecube, an FDA 510(k)-cleared negative-pressure isolation canopy that turns any standard hospital bed into an airborne-isolation unit in about 20 minutes. Born from a DARPA-funded Ebola-era project at San Francisco research lab Otherlab, the device pulls air through an H14 HEPA filter, holds negative pressure, and lets caregivers reach patients through glove walls - isolating the pathogen instead of the patient. The Arden Hills, Minnesota company closed a $6.5M Series A in March 2026 and has deployed across dozens of communities and health systems.