See Yourself Health Receives Second Round of Funding from NIH

On September 12, 2022, See Yourself Health LLC received $1.9 million in funding from Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) from the National Institute of Aging (NIA) of the National Institute of Health (Award Number R44AG072990). In 2020, See Yourself Health was awarded Phase I SBIR Project to create a cloud-based product with simple navigation and communication mechanisms. The virtual platform has been successful in demonstrating the feasibility of aging adults from the comfort of their own homes. With this Phase II SBIR, See Yourself Health aims to further improve the usability of the platform and create personalized engagement tools to maximize user experience. Key features that will be implemented are avatar customization, a peer-matching algorithm, and a dashboard for data reporting and analytics capabilities.

“This award further validates the traction we are seeing on our immersive platform,” says Suzanne Mitchell, Founder and CEO. SBIR Phase II is a significant milestone accomplished by See Yourself Health that will help propel the platform further into the space of immersive virtual health management technology. With the award, See Yourself Health is ready to commercialize the space and enhance telehealth programs to bring transformative outcomes in cognitive and physical health.

About See Yourself Health. See Yourself Health was founded in 2018 to transform the landscape of health management chronic disease care and health management through an immersive virtual world that merges social gaming, experiential learning, and population health management tools to increase access to evidence-based diabetes care and education. Its mission is to build the health Metaverse, an engagement-first chronic care management platform emphasizing immersive online learning, measurement-based care coaching, and early peer intervention to accelerate behavior change and optimize chronic disease outcomes. See Yourself Health is an awardee of the 2019 MA Life Science Program for Women Entrepreneurs.

Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R44AG072990. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.