/PRNewswire/ The Diocese of Orange, The Orange Catholic Foundation and music ministry of Christ Cathedral are pleased to announce the completed $3-million.
/PRNewswire/ The Diocese of Orange, The Orange Catholic Foundation and music ministry of Christ Cathedral are pleased to announce the completed $3-million.
Aktiia: Health-tech taking the pressure off blood pressure monitoring
Image: Michael Kisch, CEO, Aktiia
Swiss start-up Aktiia is tackling hypertension with a wrist-worn monitor that can capture data over a continuous period.
“Aktiia has developed a more elegant solution to monitoring blood pressure,” said CEO Michael Kisch.
Major brands such as Apple, Samsung and Fitbit are working their wearables into the health-tech market, but this Swiss start-up has a 15-year head start with a well-researched and clinically validated bracelet.
Rather than overall health and fitness tracking, however, Aktiia’s focus is homed in on hypertension, or high blood pressure. The World Health Organization estimates that 1.13bn people worldwide have this condition, which significantly increases the risks of heart, brain, kidney and other diseases, and thus is a major cause of premature death around the world.