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Apollon
Apollon is a Korean-American medtech company building MOGLU, a needle-free continuous glucose monitor that reads blood sugar through the skin using Raman spectroscopy instead of a subcutaneous filament. Founded in Seoul in 2021 by Aram Hong and researchers tied to MIT and Asan Medical Center, the company is developing a compact wearable that reported accuracy comparable to leading CGMs in early MIT clinical testing, has been granted FDA Breakthrough Device designation, and won a 2025 CES Innovation Award.
Aram Hong
Aram Hong is the CEO and co-founder of Apollon, a Seoul-born, Cambridge-based medtech company building MOGLU, a needle-free continuous glucose monitor powered by Raman spectroscopy. A former EY advisor and Genoplan executive who moved his family from Seoul to Boston to scale the company alongside MIT researchers, Hong has turned a laser-and-optics idea into a CES 2025 Innovation Award honoree that, in peer-reviewed clinical testing, matched the accuracy of leading needle-based sensors from Abbott and Dexcom.
Pattern Computer
Pattern Computer is a Washington-based AI company that builds a 'Pattern Discovery Engine' - a system designed to surface novel, higher-order patterns in complex, high-dimensional data that conventional tools and even exascale computers miss. Founded by technology forecaster Mark Anderson and a team that includes an Autodesk co-founder, the company focuses first on medical research and diagnostics, where its technology has improved cancer-screening accuracy and powered a reagent-free, near real-time COVID-19 test.