WearOptimo

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Talk about a winning side… Australian rugby league champion turned entrepreneur Adam Macdougall has joined the WearOptimo team as an investor. The founder of hugely successful meal replacement business The Man Shake has contributed to the $8 million funding secured in our latest capital raise, participating alongside other fresh investors and existing supporters including Aspen Medical. Find out all the details in today’s The Australian Financial Review Street Talk column, written by co-editor Emma Rapaport. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gzHECRjd

WearOptimo’s pioneering use of Nanoimprint Lithography (NIL) for health-tech is spotlighted in AMTIL Australian Manufacturing Technology Inst. Ltd’s feature on the $7 million initial stage of our Advanced Manufacturing Facility (AMF). As founder and CEO Professor Mark Kendall says: “The AMF’s use of NIL will allow us to rapidly advance our Microwearable technology towards the release of on-the-shelf sensors that are scalable for widespread deployment, at a low cost per unit.” As CTO Dr Anthony Brewer further explains, it also advances NIL beyond more common industry usages such as semi-conductors, and optics and displays. “In identifying and pioneering health-tech as a novel application for Nanoimprint Lithography, we have created a facility that is unique in the southern hemisphere,” he tells AMTIL. “Our pilot manufacturing line is the only installation of its kind in Australia, and likely the only one in the world dedicated specifically to health-tech.” Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gHaVtypK

Did you know a significant chunk of hospitalisations in aged care can be directly attributed to poorly managed hydration? That’s because the sensors in the body that signal the need to hydrate deteriorate as we age. This means seniors don’t always hydrate properly, not because they don’t want to, but because their body doesn’t signal them to do so. It’s information that’s important to be aware of as we head into the thick of summer. And founder and CEO Professor Mark Kendall was happy to highlight the subject for journalist Tracey Cheung in the latest issue of Retail Pharmacy Assistants Magazine. Read the full story, including mention of our hydration Microwearable sensor, from page 28, here: https://lnkd.in/gbfsxMgC

Make sure you check out the latest issue of Forbes Australia magazine to spot a familiar face in its pages – founder and CEO Professor Mark Kendall. In the December edition’s Quick Takes feature, which profiles ‘the entrepreneurs we’re watching right now’, journalist Joshua Lai talks with Mark about everything from securing a US patent for our hydration Microwearable to the massive areas of unmet need it can address, including mining, elite sport and the military. The story is also online. Read it in full here: https://lnkd.in/gSExG-eh #hydration #wearabletech #Microwearables #hydrationsensor #healthtech

Check out today’s Queensland Business Weekly section in The Courier-Mail for a guest column by CEO Professor Mark Kendall. Looking to the legacy of the Brisbane 2032 Games, Mark sees an opportunity to shape a uniquely Australian approach to entrepreneurship. As he writes: “We just need to find a way to amplify and encourage opportunity, despite obstacles like tall poppy syndrome and an almost cultural reluctance to trailblaze.” Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gkQRcUFp. Thanks to Chris Herde for the opportunity!

Great insights into the future of Australian tech, as CEO Professor Mark Kendall attends the Tech Council of Australia's National Tech Summit in Melbourne. Among the heavy hitters on the program is Atlassian CEO and co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes, who joined Tesla chair Robyn Denholm for a fireside chat on AI’s transformative impact on skills, the economy and climate. Watch a snippet of their conversation 👇 Other presenters and panellists have included Skip Capital principal Scott Farquhar, Federal Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic MP and Google Director of Engineering Roisin Parkes. As a company at the forefront of global health-tech innovation, it’s a great conversation to be part of. Plus a welcome chance on the side to talk rugby league with Kate Jones, executive director of the Tech Council and a commissioner with the National Rugby League.

Prime-time profiling for WearOptimo this week when the crew from the Seven Network interviewed founder and CEO Professor Mark Kendall for their 6pm news bulletin. Was a terrific opportunity to build awareness of how our Microwearable technology works, our early focus on hydration and also how we go beyond the limits of today’s typical surface-based wearables. Also look out for a mention of investor and strategic partner Mark Webber! #SevenNews #SevenNewsBrisbane #wearabletech #hydration #MarkWebber

Hydration in sport was top of the agenda when WearOptimo met the Kangaroos, Australia’s national men’s rugby league team, this week. Thanks to an invitation from elite performance manager Troy Thomson and head coach Mal Meninga, CEO Professor Mark Kendall and executive officer Dr Jacob Coffey (along with others from WearOptimo) met the players during a training camp for the 2024 Pacific Championships. WearOptimo presented our hydration Microwearable sensor to the players and staff, who were an engaged audience, with exciting potential for collaboration down the track. In the meantime, we’ll be cheering our players on against New Zealand on Sunday! #rugbyleague #Kangaroosrugbyleague #hydration #Microwearables #healthtech