2018 was a busy and productive year for Vivametrica. We are grateful for the opportunities we have been given and as we continue to lead the field in health analytics, we are always revisiting our vision and goal of making people healthier. This past year has been instrumental in accelerating our growth and providing [...]
Vivametrica is exited to announce a newly formed joint venture with Performance Labs: Engagerate. Based in San Francisco, EngageRate leverages Performance Lab's patented activity analytics and personalized participant experience along with Vivametrica's reinsurance-validated use of activity data to more quickly, accurately and cost-effectively underwrite life and health insurance. The company will bring to market a [...]
This year, at NASS2018, the North American Spine Society's annual meeting and exhibition, a paper authored by Dr. Christy Lane, and Vivametrica Co-founders Dr. Rick Hu and Dr. Matt Smuck received the award for outstanding paper in basic science. This paper, Digital biomarkers of spine and musculoskeletal disease from accelerometers: Defining phenotypes of free-living physical [...]
We are proud to announce that Vivametrica Founder and Co-CEO Dr. Christy Lane has been named a top contender in Quesnay’s Female Founders in InsurTech Competition - the first global competition for women-led startups in insurance. Christy was selected as one of five top female founders out of 73 qualified applicants. "The competition was fierce. With [...]
We are pleased to announce that our Co-founder and Co-CEO Dr. Christy Lane has temporarily relocated to the Bay Area. Currently Christy, Vivametrica's CFO, Haydn Lane, as well as co-founder Dr. Matt Smuck are all in Silicon Valley, a global hub for technology and innovation. Christy, who takes her second post as Visiting Professor [...]
Vivametrica's collaboration with SCOR to develop a Biological Age Model (BAM) for insurance is nominated for the EFMA Accenture Innovation in Insurance Awards. Vote for us today! Vivametrica has been working along-side SCOR to bring new products and innovations to the insurance market. Vivametrica is on the leading-edge of research in the field of [...]
Vivametrica was one of six teams chosen to pitch yesterday evening at the TENET i2c Innovation to Commercialization pitch competition. TENET i2c is a “Dragon’s Den” style pitch competition that awards up to $100K to a team to transition medical innovations into commercial products. This is the second year that Vivametrica was a finalist at the [...]
Vivametrica to sponsor upcoming Western Canada IoT, Big Data Healthcare Summit January 31-February 1 which will be held in Vancouver BC. IoT Healthcare Western Canada was launched after the success of the Toronto Summit on June 21-22, 2016. It is an umbrella event that will encompass IoT, Big Data, and Machine to Machine (M2M). The objective of the [...]
CALGARY, AB--(Marketwired - October 12, 2016) - Plug and Play describes itself as "The ultimate startup platform." With a track record of success stories that include both PayPal and Dropbox it would be hard to argue otherwise. Two weeks ago, Sep. 27, 2016 Plug and Play announced the companies accepted into its first ever insurance [...]
Vivametrica is one of the first batch of companies to be selected by Plug and Play (PNP) Insurance. Arguably one of the biggest seed-stage investor and innovation platforms, Vivametrica will join the ranks of Dropbox and Paypal to name a few others who have also gone through Plug and Play's program. 23 Startups Have Been Hand-Picked [...]