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10 December 2020

Cohorts Three and Four

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Cohorts Three and Four – meet the companies helping the population to move more, sleep better and manage chronic illness.

In the period of June to October 2020, we accepted ten more incredible companies onto the AWRC Wellbeing Accelerator programme. Here they are, in order of acceptance (click on the companies to find out more): 

Run3D, Buddyboost, Loved By, KiActiv®, ALSAD Medical, Braintrain2020, Salus Fatigue Foundation, SimpleBulb, Exyo Design Ltd, PelliTec®



This diverse cohort has brought a range of innovation to the AWRC Wellbeing Accelerator and includes medical devices, wellbeing products and digital health apps. All of which meet one or more of our key themes as well as addressing key health and wellbeing challenges being faced by the world’s population.

Despite the pandemic, this programme is fast becoming a hub of global innovation. In fact, the shift to virtual delivery has encouraged more companies to join us than if we’d been a physically located accelerator. Two more international companies have been accepted onto the accelerator over the past couple of months, including ALSAD Medical from Budapest, Hungary and SimpleBulb from Philadelphia, USA. Both of which are planning to expand to the UK with Sheffield on this list of possible bases. This presents exciting opportunities for our University, Sheffield, and the City Region.

As we emerge from a second national lockdown, the AWRC and its researchers are excited to welcome some of our participants into the building to begin a range of COVID safe studies. This will kick off with Run3D, an Oxford University spin-out, in December. We will work with Run3D to validate their technology against the AWRC gold standard lab system in a bid to bring 3D gait analysis out of the research laboratory and into everyday clinical practice to help people walk and run without pain.   

Watch this space for future updates on the AWRC Wellbeing Accelerator and engage with us on Twitter @SHU_AWRC and @SHU4Business.

If you’d like more information please email our Relationship Manager, Kim Holland, k.holland@shu.ac.uk