Sr Director Digital Health Microsoft joins Decorte
#Announcement: we are absolutely delighted to announce that the Senior Director of Digital Healthcare Innovation and Transformation of Microsoft, Mr Trupen Modi, is formally joining Decorte’s board on 01/01/2023, with a view to joining as NED.
Mr Modi writes:
“The Decorte team have built a market differentiator product that will transform the healthtech landscape. Integrating with existing infrastructure, their engine can identify and monitor alignments, resulting in efficient data collection as well as early detection and intervention. I personally believe this team is extremely talented and will generate substantial revenue.”
Mr Modi joins the co-founder and ex-CTO of Arm, the CPO of Raspberry Pi, the ex-CTO of IKEA and Disney Online, alongside other founders and venture capitalists, in backing Decorte’s AI engine for health data collection from sound, for which it has so far raised $1.6M, with its seed round ongoing. The company has been working with various parties at Microsoft and Google as they explore integration into existing infrastructures.
For the Press Release, see below.
PRESS RELEASE
CONTACT:
Decorte Future Industries Ltd
founder@decortefutureindustries.com
RELEASE DATE:
29/11/2022
MICROSOFT SENIOR DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL HEALTHCARE INNOVATION AND TRANSFORMATION BACKS UK-BASED AI STARTUP
It is announced on 29/11/2022 that Mr Trupen Modi, the US-based Senior Director of Digital Healthcare Innovation and Transformation at Microsoft, is joining the board of a UK startup that extracts health data from sound.
Pennsylvania-based Mr Modi, who has been a Director at Microsoft for 7 years, had been advising the startup since November 2021, as the company and the software giant began exploring paths of cooperation. After becoming intimately acquainted with the technology of the Cambridge-based startup – which has so far raised $1.6M to enable microphones to pick up complex health metrics, with its seed round ongoing – the Director of Digital Health Innovation at Microsoft formally decided to join its board. Mr Modi is set to join the advisory board on the 1st of January, set to formally become an NED at the company.
Mr Modi is joining Gordon Hollingworth, the CPO at Raspberry Pi, Mike Muller, the co-founder and ex-CTO at semiconductor and software giant Arm, Susan Standiford, the ex-CTO at IKEA and Disney Online, as well as other founders and venture capitalists, in backing the health-from-sound startup.
The Cambridge-based startup in question, Decorte Future Industries Ltd, deploys novel Machine Learning methods, inspired by research at the University of Cambridge, to extract health data directly from sound collected by standard microphones. The company previously built various hardware architectures to support its data collection efforts. Its core product is an AI engine that any third party can connect to in order to extract complex and accurate human health data simply from microphones embedded in existing devices and infrastructure.
Decorte Future Industries non-invasively extracts cardiovascular, respiratory, mental, neurological and gastrointestinal health data from individuals’ bodies at a fraction of the cost and complexity of existing methods. In 2021, the company successfully proved a 99.6% efficacy compared to ECG-gathered ground truth data, using a simple microphone. On the cardiovascular side, its Machine Learning algorithms were being expanded in 2022 to include arrhythmia and murmur detection, including atrial fibrillation – with mass clinical observation studies being conducted in India.
The company’s tech is set to slot into existing hardware and software infrastructures, and the company has been working with various parties at Microsoft, Google and other international players in the software, consumer device and healthcare sectors to explore integration.
Mr Modi writes: “the Decorte team have built a market differentiator product that will transform the healthtech landscape. Integrating with existing infrastructure, their engine can identify and monitor alignments, resulting in efficient data collection as well as early detection and intervention. I personally believe this team is extremely talented and will generate substantial revenue.”
