| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.05.2017 | Upskill acquires Pristine, another company in the AR-for-manufacturing space | Upskill, the Herndon, Va.-based company that makes augmented reality software to help manufacturers do safe and timely work, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Austin, Texas-based Pristine. Pristine works in a similar space, providin... |
| 03.08.2016 | Rethinking the customer relationship in medtech | Kyle Samani Contributor
Kyle Samani is CEO of Pristine.
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In what contexts should messaging be the UI?
Autonomous Cars Break Uber
In light of Dollar Shave Club’s recent sale, I started thinking about other indus... |
| 30.07.2016 | In what contexts should messaging be the UI? | Kyle Samani Contributor
Kyle Samani is CEO of Pristine.
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In what contexts should messaging be the UI?
Autonomous Cars Break Uber
The current messaging hype is overstated. There are certainly some interesting an... |
| 25.04.2016 | Google Glass startup Augmedix raises $17M from Sutter, Dignity, others | Augmedix, a San Francisco-based startup that uses Google Glass to reduce the time physicians spend on documentation, has raised $17 million in strategic investments in a round that includes some of its largest health plan customers: Sutter ... |
| 29.12.2015 | FCC’s next gen Google Glass pix offer reminder of healthcare applications for smart glasses | Here’s a reminder of some of the health tech startups that have been working on smart glass applications
Surgical aid
Despite its rebrand to Vital Enterprises from Vital Medical earlier this year, the company continues to embrace smart glas... |
| 18.09.2015 | Autonomous Cars Break Uber | Kyle Samani Contributor
Kyle Samani is CEO of Pristine.
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Rethinking the customer relationship in medtech
Autonomous Cars Break Uber
As Bill Gurley (General Partner at Benchmark Capital and board member of Uber)... |
| 04.08.2015 | What Augmented Reality Is—And Isn’t | Guest author Kyle Samani is the cofounder and CEO of Pristine, a maker of video-based field-service solutions.
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are becoming hot buzzwords in the tech ecosystem. Giant companies are placing bet... |
| 24.05.2015 | Smart glasses begin to take hold in the enterprise | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google Glass was not the consumer success Google had hoped for. But, contrary to many predictions, Glass is not dead. In fact, its been... |
| 24.05.2015 | Smart glasses begin to take hold in the enterprise | Google Glass was not the consumer success Google had hoped for. But, contrary to many predictions, Glass is not dead. In fact, its been spun off into its own department, spearheaded by Nest CEO Tony Fadell. While Fadell works to stage a tur... |
| 04.03.2015 | Google Glass Is Alive And Well And Living In The Enterprise | Rumors of Google Glass’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Google Glass is not dead. It’s not hospitalized. It’s not gravely ill. It is not even convalescing.
In fact, it’s alive and well, hard at work and living in the enterprise.
The ... |
| 25.02.2015 | Smart glasses, coming soon to an enterprise near you | Up to now smart glasses have been a bit of a gimmick, but they could soon be making a major impact in the enterprise market, allowing workers to communicate as they carry out tasks.
Eyewear technology company Vuzix has announced a partnersh... |
| 06.02.2015 | Smart Glasses App Developer VitalMedicals Raises $925k | VitalMedicals, a San Francisco-based company developing smart software platform for surgical teams and hospitals, to improve operational efficiency and patient safety, has announced it has raised $925k in seed funding from professional ange... |
| 05.02.2015 | Advancing smart glasses as augmented reality tool for surgeons drives Vital Medicals’ capital raise | It currently has three products across smartphones and smart glasses. VitalVideo streams live ultrasound, fluoroscopy,and endoscopy video to smart glasses and tablets during procedures. The idea is to bring the data to the surgeon’s field o... |
| 05.02.2015 | VitalMedicals takes $925,000 for doctors’ smart glasses apps | A growing number of startups are working on streaming clinical information and communications tools to glasses worn by surgeons. Think Droiders, Atheer Labs, Augmedix, Pristine, and Avinent.
One of the more mature solutions we’ve seen comes... |
| 05.02.2015 | VitalMedicals takes $925,000 for doctors’ smart glasses apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A growing number of startups are working on streaming clinical information and communications tools to glasses worn by surgeons. Think ... |
| 12.01.2015 | Google Glass startup Augmedix raises $16M | While Google Glass hasn’t been the blockbuster that the search engine giant had maybe hoped, it appears that healthcare is still a viable application of the divisive device. Augmedix, headed by CEO Ian Shakil, said it is operating in 10 sta... |
| 25.12.2014 | The Future Of Wearable Technology Is In The Enterprise (At Least For Now) | The first iteration of Google Glass was a flop with consumers (almost from the beginning), most wearables ultimately go unworn, and even boosters bemoan the state of the current wearable market for consumers.
Amid all the gloom there’s one ... |
| 12.12.2014 | Google Glass may be a technology in search of a problem, but what’s wrong with that? | Dr. Paul Porter is an emergency medical physician for Rhode Island, Hasbro Children’s and The Miriam hospitals in the Lifespan health system. and the Director of Special Projects and Telemedicine at Brown University in Rhode Island. He has ... |
| 02.12.2014 | Google Glass in Healthcare Is Here to Stay | Kyle Samani of Pristine shares his insights on the state of Google Glass in healthcare and why its demise is an exaggeration.
Kyle Samani, CEO at Pristine
In the past couple of weeks, a number of press outlets have announced what is amounti... |
| 20.10.2014 | Is Google Glass headed for extinction? | “It wasn’t outliving its usefulness like VCRPlus and keywords; it was negative social pressure that made them go,” Dvorka writes, predicting that Glass will be shutdown within a year.
Importantly, he correctly notes:
“In some ways this is a... |
| 30.09.2014 | Pristine Raises $5.4M in Series A Financing | Pristine, an Austin, Texas-based developer of HIPAA-compliant video streaming and checklist solutions for Google Glass, raised $5.4m in Series A financing.
The round was led by S3 Ventures with participation from Capital Factory, HealthFund... |
| 30.09.2014 | Pristine Raises $5.4M In Series A |
AUSTIN, TX, Developers of the only HIPAA-compliant video streaming and checklist solutions for Google Glass, announced today that it has raised $5.4 million in Series A financing.
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| 29.09.2014 | Funding Daily: Country-western edition | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gather round the campfire for today’s stories of the great tech wild west. Credit Karma rounds up $75M
Credit Karma, a startup that pro... |
| 29.09.2014 | Pristine taps Healthfundr, S3 Ventures in $5.4M fundraise for Google Glass for doctors | Pristine sees the opportunity for its technology to be applied to several aspects of medicine such as telewound, ambulances, emergency medicine and patient homes.
Update: This story was updated because Pristine doesn’t have a relationship w... |
| 29.09.2014 | Pristine Nabs $5.5M To Expand Telehealth Through Google Glass | Google Glass medical app developers Pristine, announced today that it has raised $5.5M in Series A financing to expand telehealth through Google Glass. Pristine is only company that has developed a HIPAA-compliant video streaming and checkl... |
| 29.09.2014 | Pristine Lands $5.4 Million in Venture Capital | Pristine, a startup developing healthcare apps for Google Glass, has raised $5.4 million. |
| 29.09.2014 | Pristine grabs $5.4M to cure the doctor shortage and save lives with Google Glass | Wearable health tech startup Pristine has raised a fresh $5.4 million in funding, the company told VentureBeat today.
Pristine has developed a Google Glass app that allows medical professionals to get remote help from experts via a live str... |
| 29.09.2014 | Funding Daily: Country-western edition | Gather round the campfire for today’s stories of the great tech wild west. Credit Karma rounds up $75M
Credit Karma, a startup that provides credit scores and recommendations for credit cards, announced a $75 million round this morning, jus... |
| 29.09.2014 | Google Glass medical app maker Pristine raises $5.5 million | Austin, Texas-based Pristine, maker of a video streaming Google Glass product for healthcare, raised $5.5 million in a round led by S3 Ventures with participation from Capital Factory, HealthFundr, and strategic clients. This brings the com... |
| 29.09.2014 | Pristine grabs $5.4M to cure the doctor shortage and save lives with Google Glass | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Wearable health tech startup Pristine has raised ... |
| 19.06.2014 | Apple Health: Will the company have the right answers for all the open questions? | 2) Does the patient give consent per data value, or is it all or nothing? How long does consent last? Must consent be taken at the hospital, or can the patient opt in or out any time on their phone? Who within the health system can access t... |
| 21.05.2014 | Pristine Raises $750K in Funding | Pristine, an Austin, TX-based HIPAA compliant telehealth solution optimized for Google Glass in healthcare, raised $750k in funding.
The round was raised via RockThePost.
Led by CEO Kyle Samani and CTO Patrick Kolencherry, Pristine has deve... |
| 15.05.2014 | UC Irvine is the first medical school to add Google Glass to its curriculum | Google Glass is going to medical school.
On Thursday, the University of California at Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine announced that it is integrating the already-iconic wearable into its four-year curriculum for medical students — the firs... |
| 14.04.2014 | Beyond Google Glass hype. Is this a real-world way to use glass in healthcare? | In a phone interview with Remedy co-founder Gina Siddiqui, she talked a little about pilot programs with hospitals and health systems, including Cambridge Health Alliance. The focus is patients who need surgical consults — high acuity patie... |
| 12.03.2014 | Google Glass could be a powerful tool for disruptive innovation in healthcare | I decided it was finally time to take the plunge and become a Glass Explorer and got my Google Glass just in time for the annual HIMSS conference to end. For those who have not yet seen Google Glass or don’t understand how they work, it is ... |
| 10.03.2014 | The 5 hottest health-tech startups at SXSW | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
AUSTIN, Tex. — Health technology startups shone t... |
| 10.03.2014 | The 5 hottest health-tech startups at SXSW | AUSTIN, Tex. — Health technology startups shone this year at South by Southwest Interactive.
Pedicab bikers raved about TumorPaint (the inventor of the “molecular flashlight” delivered a rousing talk), and Misfit Wearables piqued excitement... |
| 27.02.2014 | Google Glass startup expecting third healthcare client in less than 6 months | A third client will turn on the app in its emergency department on March 7, Samani said at the Health Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference in Orlando, Fla. Pristine was among the 44 vendors displaying their wares a... |
| 21.02.2014 | 15 Health Tech Startups to Watch at HIMSS 2014 Startup Showcase | A list of the 15 most promising new health tech startups to watch at the first ever HIMSS 2014 Startup Showcase
For the first time ever at this year’s HIMSS is the Startup Showcase that will feature 44 of today’s most promising new health t... |
| 14.02.2014 | Ten Semi-Finalists Named for SXSW Pitch Competition | By SUSAN LAHEY
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| 04.02.2014 | Google Glass startup pivots from surgery to wound care and telemedicine | Making telemedicine easier will help providers get care to patients more quickly.
“The longer it takes to get a patient to appropriate experts, the higher the likelihood that the wound can become either life threatening or require an amputa... |
| 06.11.2013 | Greater Austin Chamber and SXSW Interactive Name 12 Startups to Fall A-List | The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and South by Southwest Interactive Wednesday named 12 companies to its 2013 Fall Austin A-List.
The list includes companies categorized by their investment stage including emerging, growth and scale an... |
| 29.10.2013 | Betting on Google Glass for surgeons pays off big time for Austin startup | “Doctors are happy because they are not wasting time running around, nurses are happy because they’re not waiting on their doctors, patients are getting a better, faster, safer experience,” he said.
Samani said that another pilot project wi... |
| 17.10.2013 | Google Glass in the OR: There’s an app for that, but would you trust it with your spleen? | SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Remote healthcare has long been one of the most exciting promises of the Google Glass platform, and today at DEMO, we got a taste of how that would actually work.
Pristine EyeSight and Pristing CheckLists from startup ... |
| 10.07.2013 | Entrepreneur: 5 years from now, “OK Glass” will be a favorite phrase in the OR | If you want to get noticed at a conference about healthcare innovation, show up wearing Google Glass.
Software developer Kyle Samani wore his device to CONVERGE on Tuesday while representing his startup, Pristine. Samani and co-founder Patr... |
| 01.07.2013 | Google Glass: More enterprise than consumer? | After wearing Google Glass for a month, Kyle Samani, co-founder of Pristine, says that the unit is useless as a consumer device.
“The social awkwardness doesn’t justify the value of wearing it,” he said. “The smart phone is really good at w... |
| 01.07.2013 | HIT consultant bets that Google Glass in the OR can save lives and money | Doctors often work across several ORs. The Pristine software would notify surgeons in real time about a change in a patient’s status, which could save the doctor from scrubbing in and out to go to another ER.
“Operating rooms can run as hig... |
| - | Google Glass could be a powerful tool for disruptive innovation in healthcare | I joined the Glass Explorer Program and have started using Google Glass with a focus on finding medical uses for this type of wearable computing technology. While I believe that it is analytics capabilities that will allow us to realize the... |
| - | Pristine taps Healthfundr, S3 Ventures in $5.4M fundraise for Google Glass for doctors | Pristine, which harnesses Google Glass as a more manageable, hands-free approach to telemedicine as an educational tool, checklist for surgeons, consult service and medical device reps, has raised $5.4 million.
S3 Ventures led the oversubsc... |
| - | Apple Health: Will the company have the right answers for all the open questions? | When launching a new product, Apple often gets a free pass and a ton of somewhat undeserved credit for having it all figured out. This is especially true with its new healthcare product: Apple Health.
Kyle Samani, the CEO of Pristine, has a... |
| - | Is Google Glass headed for extinction? | Is Google Glass quickly falling into the waste bin of seemingly great but ultimately futile ideas?
That’s the view from PC Magazine UK, which likens Glass, and it’s seeming drift toward irrelevance, to buzzword trends of technology and the ... |
| - | Google Glass startup Augmedix raises $16M | In a sign that Google Glass is perhaps not dead yet, San Francisco-based Augmedix said it has raises $16 million in a Series A round, enabling the company to target physicians with Glass combined with EHRs.
The funding was led by the compan... |
| - | Google Glass: More enterprise than consumer? | After wearing Google Glass for a month, Kyle Samani, co-founder of Pristine, says that the unit is useless as a consumer device.
“The social awkwardness doesn’t justify the value of wearing it,” he said. “The smart phone is really good at w... |
| - | Entrepreneur: 5 years from now, “OK Glass” will be a favorite phrase in the OR | If you want to get noticed at a conference about healthcare innovation, show up wearing Google Glass.
Software developer Kyle Samani wore his device to CONVERGE on Tuesday while representing his startup, Pristine. Samani and co-founder Patr... |
| - | Beyond Google Glass hype. Is this a real-world way to use glass in healthcare? | The applications for Google Glass in healthcare often come in for criticism for the hype surrounding the spectacles. After all, it’s a little early to pronounce it as the future of healthcare technology even as hospitals figure out how they... |
| - | HIT consultant bets that Google Glass in the OR can save lives and money | Google Glass for healthcare may be moving from hashtag to reality faster than you think.
A HIT consultant and a software developer quit their jobs on June 14 with no paycheck in sight. On June 20, the team at Pristine had a $100,000 investm... |
| - | Google Glass startup pivots from surgery to wound care and telemedicine | Kyle Samani of Pristine thought that the OR was the best place to introduce Google Glass to the healthcare system. His presentation at DEMO last fall involved a blood-squirting dummy on an operating table and won the company a God award.
Go... |
| - | Google Glass may be a technology in search of a problem, but what’s wrong with that? | If there’s one diss for a digital health device I’ve heard voiced more frequently than any other it’s this: it’s a solution or technology in search of a problem. It implies a certain level of arrogance by the inventor that a technology will... |
| - | Betting on Google Glass for surgeons pays off big time for Austin startup | Kyle Samani’s Pristine.io is growing at a fast pace. Samani presented at DEMO earlier this month and won a DEMO God award. The company has raised $350,000 so far and is looking for another $100,000. One pilot project of the Glass software f... |
| - | FCC’s next gen Google Glass pix offer reminder of healthcare applications for smart glasses | The FCC set social media on fire with its previews of the next generation of Google Glass. Aside from the upgrades, it also offers a timely reminder that there are still companies pursuing professional applications for the device, particula... |
| - | Google Glass startup expecting third healthcare client in less than 6 months | It’s been more than 10 months since Google released an application provider interface for its Google Glass wearable device, and though Glass effectively remains in beta, healthcare apps are starting to pop up.
Pristine co-founder and CEO Ky... |
| - | Advancing smart glasses as augmented reality tool for surgeons drives Vital Medicals’ capital raise | Health IT company VitalMedicals has developed a way to use smart glasses to save surgeons time in the operating room has raised roughly $1 million to grow its technical team and expand its technical implementations beyond its first two pilo... |
