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It was earlier this year, in the early days of the pandemic, that the three-women team behind Raybaby, an IoT (Internet of Things) based baby monitor, realized that their device could be used to track the respiratory rate of covid-19 patients and provide vital data to doctors about treatment and prognosis.

Raybaby, which was launched at the prestigious American tech conference CES in 2017 (and was a finalist in the 2019 CES in the Baby Tech category), was developed as a high-tech baby monitor by three Bengaluru-based engineers: Aardra Kannan Ambili, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) scientist, Ranjana Nair, a computer science engineer specializing in gesture-based technology, and Sanchi Poovaya, a mechanical engineer. The Raybaby is based on advanced radar and motion sensor technology and is different from regular baby monitors (which are usually simple camera devices) in that it is able to capture the baby’s breathing rate and analyse the breathing pattern.

The device is currently being used by doctors at HCG hospital in Bengaluru in the COVID-19 ward. The Raybaby team has developed an app for use by medical professionals that gives them a dashboard to monitor patients under their care using data from the device. “If the breathing rate of a patient goes over a particular threshold, the app sends a notification to the doctor’s phone, alerting them that they need to check on the patient. It significantly reduces the burden on medical teams,” explains Ambili. Since covid-19 is a disease that aggressively attacks the respiratory system, tracking the respiration rate is an important way to monitor the well-being of patients.

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Early stage investment firm Anthill Ventures and Bengaluru-based cancer care provider HealthCare Global (HCG), have shortlisted six startups for their healthtech focused accelerator program, Lumos Health. 

The selected startups include AI-enabled radiology diagnosis solution Alixir, pulse diagnosis application AyuRythm, equipment trading platform BiMedis, human cell sampling tool C-Test Medicals, wound and tissue analysis system Kronikare, and non-wearable sleep and breathing baby monitor Raybaby. 

The 12 month accelerator program was launched in the late 2018, and has since then, recieved over 120 applications from across 10 countries. Lumos Health will help the selected startups to raise investments, assist them in getting regulatory approvals and provide mentoring to increase the startup’s customer base and help in generating more revenue. 

Lumos will also take advirsory equity in the selected companies, depending on the startup’s current funding stage and valuation. 

Prasad Vanga, founder and CEO of Anthill Ventures said, “We will help these startups to scale into globally markets as some of them will work on real use-cases, and deploy their products in real client engagements through our tailored market access program.”

The program claims to provide market access in India, Africa, Middle East, and Southeast Asia. The focus sub-sectors of the program include oncology, fertility, genomics, bionics, and research & diagnostics, among other emerging sectors. 

Anjali Ajaikumar, program director of Lumos Health and vice president of HCG said, “Under the Lumos Program, startups will enhance their product, have impactful interactions with our 30+ partner companies in both the local and global network and see how their company is making a difference in the quality of health and patient care.” 

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Lumos Founding Member, Devang Mehta weighs in with an inspirational look at the the India startup ecosystem and how it is spawning many Unicorn stories.

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