Wave Therapeutics
A new wave of comfort and health Chicago-based Wave Therapeutics: Founded in 2020 by Jessica Bussert, RN, CEO, Wave Therapeutics has developed the first AI-enabled, soft robotics cushioning technology to prevent and treat pressure injuries such as bedsores which afflict 3 million Americans every year. Mobility-impaired people are especially vulnerable to pressure injuries, which can […]
Growing to Support You
Good Morning, Readers! We’re excited to share a significant milestone for The Nursing Beat. This past week, we secured funding from the nation’s only nurse-led investment fund, Nurse Capital, a partnership that underscores our commitment to amplifying voices within the nursing community. Over the past two years, our dedicated team of nurses has built this […]
Investing in Nurse Entrepreneurs
Founded by Marla Weston and Beth Brooks, venture capital firm Nurse Capital closed its inaugural $1M Fund to support nurse-led startups. It’s investing in RN-led companies creating innovative healthcare products and services. Weston and Brooks, who hold doctorates in nursing science, aim to fill a funding gap for nurse entrepreneurs, focusing on healthcare devices, technology platforms, software, patient […]
VC firm run by nurses invests only in nurse-run startups
A new Chicago-based venture capital firm seeks to harness nurses’ experience and creativity to create products and services that will transform healthcare. Nurse Capital will invest only in nurse-founded, nurse-led startups to take advantage of a “groundswell of nursing coming in with an entrepreneurial spirit” and digital know-how, said co-founder Beth A. Brooks. Related: New nurses have more […]
Nurse Capital Closes Debut, First-of-Its-Kind Venture Fund
Nurse Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in nurse-led enterprises providing innovative solutions in healthcare, announced today the close of its inaugural $1M Fund. The Nurse Founders Fund will invest in Late Seed and Series A rounds of startups founded and led by Registered Nurses (RNs) who are launching innovative products and services that […]
Navi Nurses
Bringing care home Healthcare is complicated. Patients often face complicated conditions and families are overwhelmed trying to provide care. Two RNs saw the need and created Navi Nurses – on-demand same day care at home provided by experienced RNs. Navi Nurses created a web platform where consumers can hire an expert RN to provide care […]
Roddy Medical
From inspiration to innovation Lindsey Roddy was working as a critical care RN in an intensive care unit with open-heart surgery patients when she almost lost one of her patients due to a medical tubing hazard. While assisting a patient getting out of bed after surgery, the line carrying the patient’s life support tangled and […]
The Health Care Technology Ecosystem: Supporting Nursing Student Entrepreneurs in Your College – Part 2.
In my earlier post on The Health Care Technology Ecosystem – Part 1, I introduced terms useful for budding entrepreneurs. The budding nurse entrepreneurs (NEs) in your college are clamoring for support, resources, and mentoring, which can be accessed from the ecosystem. Below I offer ideas to support NEs at the college of nursing (CON), curricula, and course levels.
The Health Care Technology Ecosystem: Terminology – Part 1
For the past two years I have served as a mentor at MATTER, a health care technology incubator and accelerator in Chicago. MATTER is incubating 200 start-ups, companies that offer medical devices, pharmaceutical and diagnostic solutions, big data analytics, virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence (including voice activated), and patient education solutions, along with health, wellness, and care coordination. I noticed that many of these start-ups have only physicians on their advisory boards, even when the specific issue requires more of a nursing care solution (e.g., care coordination, patient education).