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Healium adapts VR to needs of COVID ‘stress olympics’ — wins P&G Ventures innovation challenge

Stress levels rose with the number of Coronavirus cases over the past few months — and neither seem headed for decline any time soon, said Sarah Hill, the recently announced winner of the P&G Ventures Innovation Challenge. “This is the stress olympics. Not everyone has trained for it. Not only are we trapped in our homes,…

American Red Cross workers using Healium in Nashville

KC startup helps Nashville tornado survivors escape into VR ‘mental health armor’

Locally built virtual reality tools are helping victims cope after a suspected EF4 tornado devastated part of Nashville early Tuesday morning.  “We grabbed headsets and we went to the shelters to see if individuals wanted to escape and relax,” Sarah Hill, founder of Healium, explained of the startup’s reaction to the storm that killed more…

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2020 Startups to Watch: Healium uses VR to envision a world with empty medicine cabinets

Editor’s note: Startland News selected 10 Kansas City firms to spotlight for its annual Startups to Watch list. The following is one of 2020’s companies. Click here to view the full, ranked list of Startups to Watch. If its a situation that sucks, virtual and augmented reality offer a solution, said Sarah Hill.  “[The world] is now a…

10 Kansas City Startups to Watch in 2020

Their hustle is fierce — their stories, strategies and strengths uncommon.  The future newsmakers rounding out Startland News’ Kansas City Startups to Watch in 2020 list are hungry to disrupt. They’re eager to drive and inspire innovation in industries under-explored or altogether forgotten.  They’re creating awareness; offering sustainable solutions to everyday problems.  These are startups…

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Packed demo day at Alamo Drafthouse caps inaugural Launch Health Accelerator 

More than 200 investors and entrepreneurs attended the recent Demo Day for the Launch Health Accelerator powered by Nueterra Capital. Demo Day marked the conclusion of the 75-day accelerator and featured presentation pitches from each of the six cohort companies.  After a short networking reception in the Chesterfield bar inside the Alamo Drafthouse Kansas City,…