Caltech Spin-Out Aims to Empower Women with Non-Invasive Hormone Monitoring LOS ANGELES , Oct. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Persperity Health, Inc., a new company spun out of Caltech, announced today it has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate the development of its groundbreaking sweat-sensing technology, set to transform women's health by providing real-time, non-invasive hormonal insights.
Led by Freeflow Ventures with participation from Caltech, Wilson Hill Ventures, Heritage Group, and ATMA Capital, this investment underscores the revolutionary potential of Persperity's platform to redefine personalized health monitoring. Exclusively licensed from Caltech and developed by Dr. Wei Gao and Dr.
Cui Ye , Persperity Health's advanced technology enables real-time hormone monitoring through device-based sweat analysis. This innovation grants women unprecedented access to personalized health data, fundamentally changing how they and their providers can manage fertility and menopause care. "If you look at what's commercially available, devices can track heartbeat and steps, but they aren't capable of studying your health at a molecular level," said Dr.
Wei Gao , co-founder and inventor of the core technology at Persperity Health. "By analyzing sweat, our device provides detailed information about what's happening inside your body. Once you realize the potential of sweat for health monitoring, it's hard to go back to conventional methods.
" Sweat contains a wealth of inf.