The New Script with Frances Goh & Makenzie Thomas How Kali Healthcare is Reimagining Fetal Monitoring to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes
With Fiona Brownfoot
About Emerson Keenan
Dr Emerson Keenan is co-founder and CEO of Kali Healthcare, a Melbourne startup building an AI-powered wearable for remote fetal heart-rate monitoring, which he founded in 2020 with Professor Marimuthu Palaniswami and obstetrician Associate Professor Fiona Brownfoot. An electrical engineer by training, Keenan completed a PhD on wearable technology for pregnancy monitoring at the University of Melbourne, where he remains an honorary research fellow, and has published more than 35 peer-reviewed papers on pregnancy analytics. Kali Healthcare has closed a $1 million pre-seed round backed by the University of Melbourne and LaunchVic's Alice Anderson Fund. He discussed the company's approach to reimagining fetal monitoring on The New Script podcast with Frances Goh and Makenzie Thomas.
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Key moments from How Kali Healthcare is Reimagining Fetal Monitoring to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes.
- 2:45Fiona and Emerson speak about their backgrounds
- 3:26Origins of Kali Healthcare
- 6:00How Kali Healthcare's electrical sensing wearable patch works
- 7:27How clinicians are making use of the real-time insights
- 10:00What makes Kali Healthcare’s wearable different to existing solutions
- 13:33Breakthroughs they’ve experienced
- 16:00Stepping into the founder role and the "ultimate rollercoaster"
- 20:02Fundraising lessons: why it always takes longer than you think
- 21:09Advice for other healthcare founders
Kali Healthcare on Day One
Kali Healthcare is a Melbourne-based medtech company developing a wearable device and sensor patch for pregnancy monitoring, aiming to make foetal heart-rate monitoring…
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