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UnaliWear’s Kanega LTE watch wins Best IoT Device Award at the 2019 VOICE Summit
UnaliWear is thrilled to announce that the Kanega LTE watch was awarded the Best IoT Device at the inaugural 2019 VOICE Summit awards ceremony. At the Summit awards, the voice industry recognized UnaliWear’s excellence in pushing boundaries, imagining the impossible, and solving the solvable while using voice first technology. This award showcases that the Kanega LTE watch is a leading innovation in Voice tech and AI solutions.
read moreIoT For All Highlights the Kanega Watch
IoT For All highlighted the Kanega watch and UnaliWear’s CEO Jean Anne Booth in its feature Senior Care: How IoT Solutions Allow the Elderly to Live Independently. You can see the entire article at... read moreShe Built a Wearable for Her Mother, and for Every Senior Wanting Independence
Founder and CEO, Jean Anne Booth, is dedicated to providing independence to vulnerable populations. Read Start Up + Health Transformer article about her mission to create a smartwatch that gives senior citizens greater independence. ... read moreUnaliWear to Present at CB Insights A-ha! Demo Day
CB Insights today will showcase innovative startups at its first-ever Demo Day where companies can present to investors without giving up any equity. While more than 2,000 companies applied for the opportunity to pitch at Demo Day, UnaliWear™ was one of 40 companies chosen to present at the A-ha! Conference. CB Insights selected UnaliWear as part of an elite group of startups driving progress in artificial intelligence, fintech, health and bleeding-edge technologies. For details, see the press release... read moreJean Anne Booth at Health Tech Austin
Founder and CEO Jean Anne Booth presented UnaliWear and the Kanega Watch at the Health Tech Austin’s Startup Showcase on October 9th. Read Health Tech Austin’s interview with Jean... read more
Smart Hustle Magazine Interviews UnaliWear Founder and CEO
Smart Hustle Magazine features UnaliWear Founder Jean Anne Booth in an interview on the motivations for the creation of UnaliWear. You can see the interview... read moreMore Press
UnaliWear’s Kanega LTE watch wins Best IoT Device Award at the 2019 VOICE Summit
UnaliWear is thrilled to announce that the Kanega LTE watch was awarded the Best IoT Device at the inaugural 2019 VOICE Summit awards ceremony. At the Summit awards, the voice industry recognized UnaliWear’s excellence in pushing boundaries, imagining the impossible, and solving the solvable while using voice first technology. This award showcases that the Kanega LTE watch is a leading innovation in Voice tech and AI solutions.
read moreIoT For All Highlights the Kanega Watch
IoT For All highlighted the Kanega watch and UnaliWear’s CEO Jean Anne Booth in its feature Senior Care: How IoT Solutions Allow the Elderly to Live Independently. You can see the entire article at... read moreShe Built a Wearable for Her Mother, and for Every Senior Wanting Independence
Founder and CEO, Jean Anne Booth, is dedicated to providing independence to vulnerable populations. Read Start Up + Health Transformer article about her mission to create a smartwatch that gives senior citizens greater independence. ... read moreUnaliWear to Present at CB Insights A-ha! Demo Day
CB Insights today will showcase innovative startups at its first-ever Demo Day where companies can present to investors without giving up any equity. While more than 2,000 companies applied for the opportunity to pitch at Demo Day, UnaliWear™ was one of 40 companies chosen to present at the A-ha! Conference. CB Insights selected UnaliWear as part of an elite group of startups driving progress in artificial intelligence, fintech, health and bleeding-edge technologies. For details, see the press release... read moreJean Anne Booth at Health Tech Austin
Founder and CEO Jean Anne Booth presented UnaliWear and the Kanega Watch at the Health Tech Austin’s Startup Showcase on October 9th. Read Health Tech Austin’s interview with Jean... read moreSmart Hustle Magazine Interviews UnaliWear Founder and CEO
Smart Hustle Magazine features UnaliWear Founder Jean Anne Booth in an interview on the motivations for the creation of UnaliWear. You can see the interview... read moreJean Anne Booth Named as 50+ Innovation Leader
We are excited to have MedCity News and AARP name Jean Anne Booth, UnaliWear CEO, to their inaugural list of 50+ Innovation Leaders, consisting of the leading innovators of services and products designed to serve the booming 50+ consumer health market. The complete list of 50+ Innovation Leaders can be seen at http://medcitynews.com/50-plus-innovation-leaders/.... read moreThe American Genius Highlights the Kanega Watch
The American Genius highlighted UnaliWear’s Kanega watch, naming it “OnStar for the People.” See the article... read moreThe Rivard Report features UnaliWear’s CEO Jean Anne Booth
The Rivard Report features UnaliWear’s CEO Jean Anne Booth in their article “Ventures and Inventors: Annual Startup Week Launches at Geekdom”. The details can be found on The Rivard Report’s website... read morePC Magazine Features the Kanega Watch
We would like to thank PC Magazine for featuring UnaliWear and the Kanega watch. You can read the entire article... read moreBuilt In Austin Names UnaliWear a 2017 Austin Startup to Watch
We are excited to be named as Built In Austin’s Annual 50 Startups to Watch. Built In Austin selected selected 50 local startups — all less than five years old — that have been generating buzz. And we’re honored to be in that... read moreUnaliWear named as one of Austin’s 50onFire
Thank you to Austin Inno for selecting UnaliWear as a 50 on Fire award winner! The 50 on Fire awards celebrate the 50 most exciting and innovative people and companies in Austin. We are honored to be a part of that... read moreJean Anne Booth, CEO of UnaliWear, mentioned in: “StartUp Health Announces 10 Health Moonshots with Global Army of Health Transformers to Improve Health of Everyone in the World”
We would like to thank the team behind the article: “StartUp Health Announces 10 Health Moonshots with Global Army of Health Transformers to Improve Health of Everyone in the World” for mentioning our CEO, Jean Anne Booth. Click here to read the full article. Today, StartUp Health, its global army of Health Transformers and Vice President of the United States Joe Biden kicked off the 14th annual Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit sharing an urgent message with nearly 2,000 health leaders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs: the time is now to organize, break down silos, and adopt a “Health Transformer Mindset” to speed up progress in solving big health challenges like ending cancer, ensuring access to care, and improving the wellbeing of people worldwide. For the fourth consecutive year, StartUp Health’s Health Transformer Showcase kicked off the Medical Innovation Summit featuring 15 Health Transformers and a keynote from StartUp Health CEO and Co-founder, Steven Krein, where he shared a five-year update on their bold 25-year master plan. “In 2011, StartUp Health launched an ambitious movement to organize and support a global army of Health Transformers with the long-term goal of improving the health and wellbeing of everyone in the world,” said Steven. “Over the past five years, we’ve organized thousands of entrepreneurs, innovators and organizations committed to transforming health. In addition to rapidly growing this global force, StartUp Health and our partners are investing in and focusing on 10 Health Moonshots, each which will impact billions of people.” StartUp Health’s army of Health Transformers and network is organized around 10 Health Moonshot themes, all of which are connected and integral to... read moreUnaliWear Mentioned in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in: “The Business of Aging”
We at UnaliWear would like to thank all the parties involved to include us as a mention in the Wall Street Journal in the article: “The Business of Aging”. You can read the complete article here: http://partners.wsj.com/pgim/the-business-of-aging/ By 2030, the number of Americans over the age of 65 is expected to top 70 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. For investors, one of the biggest challenges will be understanding the implications of where and how those millions of people will live. Historically, as people aged they moved to assisted-living communities and long-term care facilities. But in the next 20 years, researchers predict the aging population will have different requirements for how they live. For example, as seniors begin to outnumber younger generations, industry watchers expect to see an exponential increase in demand for senior housing as the need for such developments as student housing, shared rental units and first homes declines. In fact, Census Bureau analysts expect that U.S. home ownership rates will continue to decline from their peak in 2005 of 69.1 percent as younger generations opt for apartments and shared living spaces over buying a home. The real estate industry is responding to this shift with greater focus on accessible retail locations, home working environments and less traditional retirement communities. … Technology is already changing how health care is accessed and delivered. Tablets and hand-held computers are standard features in examination rooms today, giving doctors and other health care professionals immediate access to patient history, lab results and current medications to help diagnose and treat patients more quickly and efficiently. And most medical practices already... read moreNewly funded UnaliWear launches market test
Company’s Kanega offers independence, dignity, says JeanAnne Booth. AUSTIN, Tex. – With new funding in hand and a test underway, UnaliWear is poised to hit the market with its Kanega smart watch early next year. The company recently closed the first $2.1 million tranche of a $3.5 million Series A round of funding. The money will allow the company to move forward with market testing on 6,600 people. “Our first step is a 600-person user experience at the end of this month,” said JeanAnne Booth, UnaliWear founder and CEO. The initial test for the Kanega will include participants in the United States aged 23 to 97. UnaliWear is targeting a large market for the Kanega—not just seniors, but people with Multiple Sclerosis, ALS, Parkinson’s Disease and Down syndrome, blind people and disabled veterans. “When we talk about vulnerable populations, people tend to automatically think of senior citizens, but it’s much broader than that,” Booth said. Connected by an AT&T cellular network, the Kanega looks just like a traditional watch, and uses an easy speech interface rather than buttons or touch screens. It learns the wearer’s lifestyle to provide predictive, pre-emptive support, such as directions home or notification of gait or speech changes that may be signs of a medical problem such as stroke. Booth developed the Kanega watch after her own mother wasn’t willing to wear available emergency alert products because she didn’t like the way they looked. “The big help button on most products is socially stigmatizing,” Booth said. The Kanega also features a patent-pending battery system in the band so wearers don’t need to take off the... read moreLet's get together
Come meet with us at any of these events:
- Guidewell Aging in Place Innovation Showcase, Orlando FL, February 24, 2020
- SXSW, Austin TX, March 13-17, 2020