Pristine (company)

Pristine.io
Private (venture funded)
Industry Telepresence, Videoconferencing
Founded 2013
Headquarters Austin, Texas, United States
Key people
 CEO: Kyle Samani
Number of employees
 20+
Website www.pristine.io

Pristine is a VC funded startup that develops software for hands-free smartglasses and smart mobile devices, enabling video collaboration and remote support in industrial and manufacturing environments, field service management and healthcare.[1] Pristine is based in Austin, Texas.

History

Pristine was founded by Kyle Samani and Patrick Kolencherry May 2013, shortly after Google announced the Google Glass program. It raised initial funding through angel investors[2] and began piloting in a major academic medical center. In the months following, Pristine raised over $5 million in venture capital investment from S3 Ventures,[3][4] Capital Factory, Healthfundr, and others.

Pristine took second place at HATCH Pitch 2013,[5] a start up pitch competition that was held at the George R. Brown Convention Center. At the 2013 DEMO conference, Pristine CEO Kyle Samani demonstrated on stage how an emergency room surgeon would use Google Glass to request support from another physician.

University of California, Irvine participated in a smartglasses pilot in October 2013, and announced in February the following year that they would roll out the technology to outpatient programs and wound care.[6]

Pristine launched the first Google Glass pilot in an emergency room at Rhode Island Hospital in April 2014.[7][8][9] It resulted in a peer-reviewed study published in JAMA Dermatology on the use of smartglasses in a healthcare environment.[10][11][12][13]

In May 2014, the CEO spoke at TedXYouth@Austin about rural healthcare and how telemedicine could help those affected by the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

In December 2014, Pristine CTO Patrick Kolencharry spoke at AWS re:Invent conference keynote about how Pristine used AWS and Docker to build a high-availability platform on AWS.

In April 2015, Pristine attended HIMSS15 conference in Chicago and showcased a smartglasses technology with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center with Intel.

Partners

Pristine is one of the ten official partners of Google’s Glass at Work[14][15] program. The company also has formal partnerships with Vuzix, as well as Epson.

Products

Pristine develops software for smartglasses to enable hands free video collaboration, and supports mobile-to-mobile capabilities on web browsers, Android and iOS platforms. Built on WebRTC, MongoDB, Redis, AngularJS, the technology supports secure two-way audio and video, messaging, annotations, and high resolution snapshots.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Strickland, Eliza (2014-08-19). "Start-up Profile: Pristine Is Bringing Google Glass to the Hospital - IEEE Spectrum". Spectrum.ieee.org. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  2. ↑ "MicroVentures Marketplace reaches $50M milestone - Austin Business Journal". Bizjournals.com. 2014-09-17. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  3. ↑ "Pristine grabs $5.4M to cure the doctor shortage and save lives with Google Glass | VentureBeat | Health | by Tom Cheredar". VentureBeat.com. 2014-09-29. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  4. ↑ "Pristine Nabs $5.4M To Expand Telehealth Through Google Glass". Hitconsultant.net. 2014-09-29. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  5. ↑ "HATCH pitch at TechStreet Winners Announced — HATCH pitch". Hatchpitch.com. 2014-03-10. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  6. ↑ Stephanie M. Lee (2014-02-05). "Startups see healthy future for Google Glass in medicine". SFGate.com. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  7. ↑ "Rhode Island Hospital Launches Country’s First Google Glass Study in Emergency Department Setting". Rhodeislandhospital.org. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  8. ↑ Mooney, Tom (2014-03-07). "R.I. Hospital’s emergency department first to test Google Glass on medical conditions/ Video". Providencejournal.com. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  9. ↑ "Rhode Island Hospital is first in nation to adapt Google Glass for ED use | Department of Emergency Medicine". Brown.edu. 2014-06-09. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  10. ↑ Feasibility and Acceptability of Google Glass for Emergency Department Dermatology Consultations
  11. ↑ "Rhode Island Hospital Uses Google Glass to Diagnose Skin Conditions". GoLocalProv.com. 2015-03-30. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  12. ↑ "Patients Prefer Google Glass Over Telephone Consults, Study Finds". iHealthBea.orgt. 2001-10-26. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  13. ↑ "Google Glass In The ER? Health Care Moves One Step Closer To Star Trek …". Kaiserhealthnews.org. 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  14. ↑ "Google Developers". Developers.google.com. 2015-05-01. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  15. ↑ Al Sacco (2014-10-22). "Google Adds 5 New 'Glass at Work' Partners". CIO.com. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
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