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Empatica
Medical wearables
- 101-200 employees
- Healthcare
- B2C
- B2B
- Personal health
- Fitness
- MedTech
- Downtown Crossing, Boston, MA
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Company mission
Empatica's mission is to create groundbreaking technology that is friendly, caring, and more human.
Our take
Empatica is an MIT Media Lab spinoff that designs medical grade wearables for collecting and interpreting physiological data. Among the many companies looking to capitalize on tech developments to create fine-tuned personal health monitoring wearables, Empatica stands out both for its quality of product and remarkable applications.
The Embrace wrist device was the first to be FDA cleared as a seizure alert solution for adults and children aged 6 and up, and Empatica has partnered with NASA’s Translational Research Institute, the US government’s BARDA DRIVe initiative, and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, along with private organizations looking to improve health outcomes for employees and recovering addicts.
It’s continuing to develop new products with outstanding applications in other fields, too, making substantial progress in the field of remote patient monitoring and early detection of infectious transmissions. With the company’s rapid growth, partnered with demonstrable success in the growing market of remote care, Empatica looks set to carve out an impressive position going forwards.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Membership for mental health and wellness platforms
- Flexible working hours
- Personal learning and development budget
- Multiple opportunities to be challenged and step up your career in a fast-growth company in one of the hottest areas of tech
- Employee stock options - we want everyone who joins us to own part of the company and our success
- We have offices in Milan City Center and Downtown Boston. And every summer, we hold an amazing beach retreat in Sardinia, Italy
- Gympass membership with access to gyms, online classes, personal training sessions, and nutrition plans
- Free healthy lunch every day
- Organic fresh fruit
- Your personal MacBook
- Free Kindle and books
- Remote working option
- Free cookies, if you deserve them
Company values
- Passionate
- Honest
- Bold
- Persistent
- Humble
- Fun
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2022
$27.4m
SERIES B
Jun 2020
$0.8m
GRANT
Total funding: $35.1m
Leadership
Matteo Lai
(CEO)A computer science graduate turned serial entrepreneur, who co-founded C-Lab Association, Taaac Srl, and Shicon.
Simone Tognetti
(CTO)A PhD graduate whose research focused on the measurement of emotions from physiological data in real-life. Subsequently worked as a software engineer at Taaac, before moving on to found EmoticaGames.
Rosalind Picard
(Chief Scientist)Has been an MIT professor for over three decades, serving as the Director of Affective Computing Research and Co-Director of Advancing Wellness. Also co-founded Affectiva.
Maurizio Garbarino
(Chief Software Architect)With a PhD in computer science, subsequently held a graduate teaching assistant position at the Politecnico di Milano before moving on to a software engineering role at Taaac.