Thrive365
Thrive365 has a patented food scoring engine that helps people with pre-diabetes/diabetes better/more easily manage their nutritional intake and blood glucose.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Healthcare Services
- Location Louisville, KY, US
- Currency USD
- Founded June 2014
- Employees 2
- Website thrive365.com
Company Summary
There are 100M+ people in the US with prediabetes/diabetes, costing the US healthcare system $245B. To prevent the progression of the disease, one must carefully manage food intake in way that stabilizes their blood glucose. People with diabetes currently use a complex process of counting carbs. Thrive makes it easy by assigning a personalized score and providing accesses to a food/restaurant database that has 330,000+ Thrive scored items.
Team
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Jackie has more than 30 years' experience in the healthcare industry, spending 15+ yrs at Humana building behavioral based clinical programs for their 3M+ members. Jackie is a Master’s prepared Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist, holds an MBA from the University of Louisville’s entrepreneurship program, a MSN from the University of Pittsburgh and a BSN from Villa Maria College.
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Investor/Executive Chairman
Bob is Managing Partner of OCA Ventures and Saunders Murdoch and Associates and is an active investor in several healthcare startups. Bob was formerly a Managing Director at Chrysalis Ventures from 1997 to 2009. He has invested in several dozen startup companies and has mentored many more. Bob received a B.A. from Stanford University, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and an M.A. from Harvard University.
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Scientific/Analytic Lead
As Scientific lead for Thrive, Rebecca is applying Thrive algorithms to published diabetes datasets to validate the use of the Thrive score for controlling blood glucose levels through diet. Rebecca is a Neuroscience PhD candidate at Yale University. She received her B.S. in Neuroscience from Brown University. Rebecca completed internships both in Yale’s Office of Cooperative Research and in the Lead Discovery department at Bristol-Myers Squibb.
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Technology Lead
Daniel is a process-driven entrepreneur. Prior to founding his current company, Daniel led teams on technology projects ranging from quick market tests to implementation of enterprise systems that improved business forecasting, process improvement & resource allocation. Daniel coaches startups and is involved in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Daniel holds a BSBA in Computer Information Systems and an MBA, both from the University of Louisville.
Previous Investors
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Managing Partner at Titan Equity PartnersRobert (Bob) SaundersSaunders Capital GroupUnconfirmed
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