Tozuda (Techstars Boston '21) is a manufacturing company that develops the most affordable and reliable concussion awareness solutions. Our mission is to bring visibility to an invisible injury - concussion; we believe everyone deserves to play, work, and serve safely.
Tozuda Head Impact Indicators can be attached to all helmet and detects any concussion event within milliseconds.
If it's RED, check your head.™
Tozuda Head Impact Indicators can be attached to all helmet and detects any concussion event within milliseconds.
If it's RED, check your head.™
Location: United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $30K
Founded date: 2014
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| 26.01.2022 | Techstars | techstars.... |
| - | Nextfab | nextfab.co... |
| - | Ben Frankl... | sep.benfra... |
| - | Raiz Capit... | raiz.vc |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 11.06.2018 | - | $30K | - |
Mentions in press and media 6
| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.08.2021 | Ben Franklin Approved $1.8M in 9 Early Stage Companies | |
| 05.03.2020 | Hardware startup Tozuda’s flagship product gets a redesign after national manufacturing award win | Tozuda has continued to make moves as it develops its head impact sensor. The sensor, which is built to be directly attached to athletic helmets, does not detect concussions, but reacts to significant impacts and indicates when an athlete s... |
| 11.06.2018 | Tozuda is Raising $30,000 for a Production Run of its Helmet Sensors | On Tuesday, the company went live with the campaign, which has the dual purpose of helping finance the development of its sensor and help bring awareness to the issue of head injuries in sports and other physical activities. “Our goal is t... |
| 29.05.2018 | Tozuda is raising $30,000 for a production run of its helmet sensors | A $30,000 Kickstarter campaign will let NextFab-based Tozuda fund the production run of its helmet sensor, a cylinder-shaped add-on that turns red when an impact was hard enough to cause a concussion. On Tuesday, the company went live with ... |
| 05.02.2018 | Can These Philly Startups Help Bridge the VC Diversity Gap? | In a hypothetical room filled with 100 venture-backed entrepreneurs, only four are women. That’s not only the real-life experience of women entrepreneurs: that’s what the statistics say of 2017, a year in which 98 percent of venture capital... |
| 18.01.2018 | Meet the hardware startup trying to save athletes’ heads | Jessie Garcia, a first-generation American with Cuban roots, thought of a nickname her grandfather called her when trying to name her startup. It made sense, because “tozuda” (hard-headed, stubborn in Spanish) accurately describes athletes ... |