headquarters nasa ames california usa founder s walter de brouwer sam de brouwer misha chellam employees 25 1 website www.scanadu.com scanadu is a silicon valley based company that makes medical technology devices for consumers . 2 it was founded some time before january 2011 by walter de brouwer sam de brouwer and misha chellam 3 4 in silicon valley . 5 in mid 2011 scanadu set up a lab at nasa ames research center in mountain view calif. to help grow the company . 3 a prototype of scanadu s first product the scanadu scout was unveiled on november 29 2012 . 6 the scanadu scout is a portable electronic device for consumer use designed to measure different physiological parameters including temperature heart rate blood oxygenation respiratory rate ecg and diastolic systolic blood pressure . 7 8 the device s expected price will be around 199 . 9 scanadu s goal was to make the scanadu scout available by march 2014 to those who preordered it through indiegogo and afterwards to general consumers by q1 of 2015 . 10 scanadu is seeking approval by the u.s. food and drug administration fda for the device before bringing it to market to ensure clinical grade accuracy . 11 scanadu missed the initial shipping deadline ; the devices finally began shipping in february 2015 . 12 as of april 2016 scanadu stated that the clinical trial with over 4 000 participants was ongoing . 13 contents 1 products 2 personnel 3 funding and clinical trials 4 press and accolades 5 references products edit on november 29 2012 the company unveiled a suite of new tools to revolutionize consumer healthcare . the scanadu scout is a lightweight device that is touched to a patient s temple and is touted as being able to return key vital sign results in less than 10 seconds . project scanaflo is a urinanalysis test for conditions like preeclampsia gestational diabetes kidney failure and urinary tract infections . project scanaflu is used when a patient is exhibiting cold like symptoms . the saliva test checks for strep a influenza a and b adenovirus and rsv . 6 the suite of products originally conceived of in partnership with ideo 14 is being designed by award winning industrial designer yves behar . 15 scanadu s long term product vision is to combine a broad array of electrical and biochemical sensors with intelligent algorithms to create a real life tricorder . 16 accordingly the company is often mentioned as a leading contender for the 10m qualcomm tricorder x prize . 17 another of scanadu s goals is to develop a corps of users willing to share their medical readings such as heart rates and stress over many years . 18 the idea is to help enable personalized medicine by generating collective information about the relationships between such readings as respiration temperature and oxygen intake before the onset of a disease . 18 the need for a product like the scanadu scout occurred to ceo walter de brouwer in 2003 after his five year old son 19 fell about 40 feet and lapsed into a coma for 11 weeks . 18 de brouwer learned that none of his son s various health data was being consolidated for collective analysis . to someone from the tech world this was like something from the dinosaur age he told the new york times . 18 personnel edit walter de brouwer a co founder stepped down from ceo in april 2016 and jaime tenedorio was promoted to chief executive officer . 13 the company includes exceptional team members specializing in the fields of design hardware software algorithm development regulatory clinical testing manufacturing and in vitro diagnostics . funding and clinical trials edit during summer 2013 scanadu raised 1.66 million from 8 800 backers in more than 100 countries through indiegogo . 18 20 of those investors more than 20 percent were u.s. based medical professionals such as doctors and nurses . 18 scanadu has since received an additional 10.5 million in series a funding from relay ventures tony hsieh s vegastechfund jerry yang s ame cloud ventures the broe group mindful investors and redmile group . 5 21 as of november 2013 scanadu had raised 14.7 million . 11 the funding will support scanadu s goals of participating in clinical trials to win fda approval and then bringing the scanadu scout to market . 11 also in november 2013 scanadu announced it had formed a medical advisory board and would conduct its first clinical trials at the scripps translational science institute . 22 the institute s study will test the accuracy of scanadu scout and will be drawn from scanadu s indiegogo contributors . 18 in april 2015 scanadu announced it had raised 35 million in new funding and 49.7 million in total funding so far . 23 24 press and accolades edit scanadu has received press attention from a number of blogs and media outlets such as the new york times 18 the wall street journal 25 nbc s today show 26 popular science 27 the economist 28 fast company 29 forbes 30 time 31 techcrunch 32 wired 33 and the mit technology review . 34 it has also won a number of accolades including ces innovations 2014 design and engineering award for health and fitness honorable mention . 35 2014 everyday health award for innovation in the healthy consumer category . 36 venturebeat 26 amazing startups you need to watch in 2014 . 37 ces best innovation of 2013 in personal electronics category . 38 company of the year by the 14 000 member digital health linkedin nasdaq lnkd group beating out other notable health tech companies such as fitbit withings alivecor and proteus digital health among others . 39 number two health story of 2012 in fast company 40 number ten medtech story of 2012 in venturebeat . 41 references edit crunchbase . crunch base . retrieved 13 february 2014 . fowler geoff . medical devices allow you to check vitals at home . http www.wsj.com . the wall street journal . retrieved 4 february 2015 . external link in website help a b wauter robin 8 november 2011 . tech crunch . techcrunch . retrieved 20 january 2013 . della cava 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