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type private venture funded industry telepresence videoconferencing founded 2013 headquarters austin texas united states key people ceo kyle samani number of employees 20 website www.pristine.io pristine is a vc funded startup that develops software for hands free smartglasses and smart mobile devices enabling video collaboration and remote support in industrial and manufacturing environments field service management and healthcare . 1 pristine is based in austin texas . contents 1 history 2 partners 3 products 4 see also 5 references history edit pristine was founded by kyle samani and patrick kolencherry may 2013 shortly after google announced the google glass program . it raised initial funding through angel investors 2 and began piloting in a major academic medical center . in the months following pristine raised over 5 million in venture capital investment from s3 ventures 3 4 capital factory healthfundr and others . pristine took second place at hatch pitch 2013 5 a start up pitch competition that was held at the george r. brown convention center . at the 2013 demo conference pristine ceo kyle samani demonstrated on stage how an emergency room surgeon would use google glass to request support from another physician . university of california irvine participated in a smartglasses pilot in october 2013 and announced in february the following year that they would roll out the technology to outpatient programs and wound care . 6 pristine launched the first google glass pilot in an emergency room at rhode island hospital in april 2014 . 7 8 9 it resulted in a peer reviewed study published in jama dermatology on the use of smartglasses in a healthcare environment . 10 11 12 13 in may 2014 the ceo spoke at tedxyouth austin about rural healthcare and how telemedicine could help those affected by the 2010 haiti earthquake . in december 2014 pristine cto patrick kolencharry spoke at aws re invent conference keynote about how pristine used aws and docker to build a high availability platform on aws . in april 2015 pristine attended himss15 conference in chicago and showcased a smartglasses technology with the university of pittsburgh medical center with intel . partners edit pristine is one of the ten official partners of google s glass at work 14 15 program . the company also has formal partnerships with vuzix as well as epson . products edit pristine develops software for smartglasses to enable hands free video collaboration and supports mobile to mobile capabilities on web browsers android and ios platforms . built on webrtc mongodb redis angularjs the technology supports secure two way audio and video messaging annotations and high resolution snapshots . see also edit augmented reality hands free computing mhealth telehealth references edit strickland eliza 2014 08 19 . start up profile pristine is bringing google glass to the hospital ieee spectrum . spectrum.ieee.org . retrieved 2015 05 07 . microventures marketplace reaches 50m milestone austin business journal . bizjournals.com . 2014 09 17 . retrieved 2015 05 07 . pristine grabs 5.4 m to cure the doctor shortage and save lives with google glass venturebeat health by tom cheredar . venturebeat.com . 2014 09 29 . retrieved 2015 05 07 . pristine nabs 5.4 m to expand telehealth through google glass . hitconsultant.net . 2014 09 29 . retrieved 2015 05 07 . hatch pitch at techstreet winners announced hatch pitch . hatchpitch.com . 2014 03 10 . retrieved 2015 05 07 . stephanie m. lee 2014 02 05 . startups see healthy future for google glass in medicine . sfgate.com . retrieved 2015 05 07 . rhode island hospital launches country s first google glass study in emergency department setting . rhodeislandhospital.org . retrieved 2015 05 07 . mooney tom 2014 03 07 . r.i. hospital s emergency department first to test google glass on medical conditions video . providencejournal.com . retrieved 2015 05 07 . rhode island hospital is first in nation to adapt google glass for ed use department of emergency medicine . brown.edu . 2014 06 09 . retrieved 2015 05 07 . feasibility and acceptability of google glass for emergency department dermatology consultations rhode island hospital uses google glass to diagnose skin conditions . golocalprov.com . 2015 03 30 . retrieved 2015 05 07 . patients prefer google glass over telephone consults study finds . ihealthbea.orgt . 2001 10 26 . retrieved 2015 05 07 . google glass in the er health care moves one step closer to star trek . kaiserhealthnews.org . 2015 04 20 . retrieved 2015 05 07 . google developers . developers.google.com . 2015 05 01 . retrieved 2015 05 07 . al sacco 2014 10 22 . google adds 5 new glass at work partners . cio.com . retrieved 2015 05 07 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pristine company & oldid 722902128 categories display technology companiestelemedicinetelepresenceteleconferencingemerging technologiescompanies based in austin texascompanies established in 20132013 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