HelpWear is striving to better at-home healthcare by developing affordable and accessible products for patients all around the world. HelpWear is currently developing its first product, the HeartWatch, allowing for 24/7 at home heart monitoring with an embedded emergency contact system for furthered prevention and bettered treatment of heart related illness.
Location: Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $100K
Founded date: 2015
Investors 5
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Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 20.10.2017 | - | $100K | - |
Mentions in press and media 8
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| 06.04.2020 | TMCx names 9 health tech startups to its 2020 cohort | Now, more than ever, is time to think about the future of health care. Lucky for the Texas Medical Center, they've been doing that for years with their accelerator program, TMCx, which has just announced its latest cohort of health tech sta... |
| 04.02.2020 | TMCx names 19 startups to be considered for 2020 cohort | The Texas Medical Center is one step closer to narrowing down its next TMCx cohort. It will be the first group of startups for the accelerator following an overhaul and redesign of the program that was announced last year. TMCx has identifi... |
| 17.05.2018 | UPMC, Philips, AHA, form new fund targeting cardiovascular treatment innovations | Nancy Brown, American Heart Association CEO said in the statement that the collaborative investment approach was one way to address the escalating costs of cardiovascular treatment, which the AHA projects will teeter into the $1 trillion ra... |
| 22.08.2017 | Five startups from Y Combinator that should be on your radar | A handful of the startups that presented at Y Combinator’s Demo Day have ties to the healthcare industry, according to TechCrunch. Here are five to keep on your radar. Based (unsurprisingly) in Cambridge, England, Cambridge Cancer Genomics ... |
| 21.08.2017 | All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1 | Biotech and artificial intelligence have emerged as the top startup trends at Y Combinator‘s 25th Demo Day. The 124 companies presenting at the entrepreneur school’s twice-yearly graduation event compose YC’s largest batch from its 12.5 yea... |
| 24.08.2016 | Helpwear wins $25,000 grand prize at CNE’s Emerging Innovators Pitch Competition | Over the course of a weekend, startups got the chance to pitch and showcase their products in a venue not commonly associated with tech: the opening weekend at the CNE. With an expected 200,000 in attendance, the CNE Innovation Garage featu... |
| - | UPMC, Philips, AHA, form new fund targeting cardiovascular treatment innovations | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Philips, and the American Heart Association have banded together to start venture capital fund, Cardeation Capital. The $30 million fund, which will be managed by healthcare investment firm Aphelion ... |
| - | Five startups from Y Combinator that should be on your radar | On Monday, Y Combinator’s 2017 Summer Demo Day kicked off in Mountain View, California. The three-day event presents an opportunity for the incubator’s newest class of startups to showcase what they’ve got. In addition to its biannual Demo ... |