Pops

Pops is democratizing chronic condition health management with a self-care platform.

  • Stage Product In Market
  • Industry Medical Devices and Equipment
  • Location Minneapolis, MN, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded June 2016
  • Employees 10
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website popsdiabetes.com

Company Summary

Pops, the Own Your Life® company, has commercialized an AI Self-care platform for chronic condition management, starting in the diabetes space. Pops provides individuals the resources to enable them to successfully care for themselves versus remotely monitoring them. The platform is centered around Mina, an AI Virtual Health Assistant. Mina is surrounded by a growing ecosystem of service/education/sensors/therapies to reduce the barriers to optimal health, including Pops’ proprietary Rebel glucose meter. The platform is sold as a subscription service both D2C and B2B (through clients like Best Buy Health), and it is being used in all 50 states and in Australia with published clinical study outcomes.

Team

  • CEO and co-founder

    As one of the Co-Founders of Pops, and as our CEO, Lonny brings his deep passion for user experience and changing lives to enable the total Pops Mission. Lonny has led Pops for six years including successfully generating investment capital. Prior to Pops, Lonny spent 30-years at Medtronic in a variety of roles including executive roles leading a $1B business unit. Lonny left Medtronic to co-found Pops.

  • VP R&D and co-founder

    Dan is our champion of product development as our VP of R&D. Dan has led many products from research through commercialization, and he loves creating a Pops experience that people rave about. Prior to co-founding Pops, Dan spent time at 3M, Otto Bock, Nolato, and other companies developing and manufacturing products.

  • VP Manufacturing and co-founder

    Curt has never met a manufacturing challenge he could not conquer. As our VP of Manufacturing and one of Pop's founders, Curt has been instrumental in putting quality processes in place for our products and serving our users. Curt has more than 40 years of experience doing manufacturing and quality support at 3M and Pops.

  • Chief Medical Officer

    Tim's mission has always been to help people live more healthy lives, and he delivered on that passion as a practicing primary care physician for many years. Now, as Pops' Chief Medical Officer, Tim is helping people live their healthiest life through the Pops platform. Tim's experience includes practicing primary care for more the 30 years.

  • Stephanie Toomey
    Customer Success Director

    As our Customer Success Director, Stephanie ensures that each of our clients and users get a premier experience. She leads all of the marketing, enrollment, and digital presence activities at Pops. Stephanie has more than ten years of experience in this area with most of that at an online and TV shopping company, Shop HQ.

  • Janet Stormo
    VP Operations

    Janet's passion is driving efficiency and creating order. She works as our VP of Operations across all of our departments to improve processes, generate metrics to run the business, and ensure our clients and owners are getting the experience they deserve. Janet brings more than 25 years of experience at Medtronic and Honeywell, including leading Medtronic's US customer service and field inventory teams.

  • Business Development Manager

    Kevin is our leader for client sales. Kevin has great passion for searching out and landing those clients who can benefit the most from working with Pops. He has worked with multiple startups to create and grow their client sales. Kevin has more than eight years of experience in business development and startup investing.

Advisors

  • Victor Corbett
    Medical Advisor
    Unconfirmed
    Arick Wierson
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Investor
    Dan Davis
    Investor
    Unconfirmed
    Curt Christensen
    Investor
    Unconfirmed
  • TreeHouse Health
    Unconfirmed
    Dakota Ventures
    Unconfirmed
    30 Ventures
    Unconfirmed
  • Revolution ROTR
    Unconfirmed
    Flying Point Industries
    Unconfirmed

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