Billion Labs Inc: Reducing Barrier to Access Hypertension Screening Globally
Billion Labs Inc. is a startup company whose mission is to transform the billions of smartphones in everyone's pocket to screen for critical health conditions like all-cause mortality, hypertension, diabetes, and more with nothing but a download of an app, making health monitoring affordable and accessible to everyone.
Their solution, Vibro, is a smartphone app that requires no extra devices to measure blood pressure. The ultimate goal is to provide affordable blood pressure monitoring by leveraging the existing smartphone infrastructure. Even if an individual does not own a smartphone personally, access can be bootstrapped through family and community support, reducing barriers of accessing hypertension screening.
Through iterative design process, the team continues to refine the solution beyond the original research concept developed at Professor Edward Wang’s Digital Health Technologies Laboratory at UC San Diego.
Edward Wang - Assistant Professor at UCSD Design Lab and CEO - Business development, fundraising, partnership development
Colin Barry - PhD student at UCSD and CTO - Oversees technology development and testing
Amparo Averbuj - UI/UX Designer - UI development and UX research
Tatsuo Kumamoto - Software Engineer - Frontend and backend development
Ann Lin - UI/UX Designer - UI development and UX research
