Karmasthal’s aim is to create a one-stop solution to address the elder care market backed by technology. A complete solution where healthcare professionals are assisted by real-time reporting through IoT & predictive technology to create a preventive care solution.

Promotional description of the business: heart disease is the number 1 reason for death in the US. The medical cost for heart failure will be $69B by 2030, and an estimated 26 million people suffer. As the entire world steps into an aging society, this problem will worsen and eventually make our healthcare system not sustainable. Our solution can effectively reduce the mortality rate and save medical costs by empowering patients to manage their health more effectively and help physicians take care of patients more efficiently.

Motivation for starting the business： I am a Leukemia survivor, and I spent lots of time in the hospital to fight my cancer. During a hospital stay at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), I carefully observed clinical workflow and found many opportunities. Meanwhile, I have over 15 years of experience researching and commercializing Artificial Intelligence (AI) products; Qualcomm sponsored my Ph.D. Therefore, I decided to use AI to craft future healthcare and wish people like me could suffer less, eventually, fewer people like me.

Kyoto Materials Co., Ltd. is directed to develop various university researches especially from the field of materials science to a more extensive field, then advancing and marketing it to applicable technology in service.
Now two pillars, Departments of Precise Materials and Environmental Materials, of Kyoto Materials have begun to work and already given an effect. DPM can supply precise mold technique for manufacturing hard materials. On the other hand, extension of life of social capital such as steel structures, bridges and energy facilities, is becoming realized by corrosion control technology of DEM. For instance, corrosion control coatings, wear resistant materials, special surface modification, are our typical high performance materials.
We hope that our further innovation and business development can continue evolving so that the richness of life is given in the global society.

KATSANA is a data company focusing on usage-based insurance & connected cars. Our prediction and gamification engine excels in understanding driver behaviour patterns, scoring drivers based on actual risk on the road, and engage them to become better drivers. We work with motor insurers and auto manufacturers to enable safer roads for all through a unified & API-centric automotive platform. We have so far collected 440 million kms of driving data, and managed to reduce risky behaviors by 62% within 12 months.