Chosen ‘Mission for the Future’ Companies and LG to Jointly Pursue
Innovative Solutions for Digital Health, the Metaverse and Electric Mobility
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sep. 13, 2022 — LG Electronics’ North American Innovation Center (LG NOVA) has selected its Finalists companies for its Mission for the Future global rencontre program. Representing multiple potential merchantry paths in three industries, the companies will be working with the LG NOVA team to interreact on new merchantry ventures, slantingly standing to grow and scale their companies, qualifying for potential investment from LG and other investors within the LG NOVA ecosystem to develop impactful solutions for people, communities and the planet.*
“This inaugural year of our rencontre demonstrated how constructive and powerful collaboration between technology startups and established corporations can help slide the innovation process,” said LG Electronics Senior Vice President of Innovation Dr. Sokwoo Rhee and throne of LG NOVA. “Congratulations to the Finalists and all the companies that participated in the Mission for the Future challenge. We squint forward to the journey with these companies innovating for a brighter, increasingly technologically wide future.”
The finalists were selected from an initial pool of approximately 1,300 applicants. They secured the top spot without working closely with the LG NOVA Entrepreneur-In-Residence team over a six- to nine-month period to build and test the proposals. Throughout the process, the companies had opportunities to meet with LG merchantry teams and investors within LG NOVA ecosystem. Finalists were presented to LG Electronics Global CEO William Cho.
With this selection of companies, LG NOVA will build new businesses in Digital Health, Electric Mobility and the Metaverse, pursuing multiple paths to unhook new services and solutions that will help us move forward faster into the future.
Digital Health – With digital health capabilities key to enabling the wordage of healthcare to diverse and disparate communities, LG NOVA is working to expand and scale greater wangle to healthcare and personal health services.
- Digbi Health is a digital superintendency platform to prevent and reverse chronic metabolic, digestive and mental health conditions using gut microbiome insight, genetics, AI and food-as-medicine. Together, LG and Digbi will work to make superintendency globally wieldy at home and the office, and to whop cure.
- LifeNome is a B2B2C precision health platform powered by genomics and AI, offering personalized health and well-being solutions to the world’s leading enterprises. LG and Lifenome plan to bring to market the world’s first precision maternal and family health platform, supporting pregnant individuals 24/7 from siring all the way to the early stages of a child’s life.
- Mindset Medical is a sensor-based technology platform that can use a camera in patient-owned devices to virtually capture health and biological readings to squire doctors in enhancing medical diagnosis and treatment effectiveness. Expanding upon new services misogynist to doctors and providers, LG’s work with Mindset Medical is expected to make it easier for medical providers to understand patient health over time or during live virtual doctor visits.
- XRHealth develops virtual treatment rooms, integrating immersive VR/AR technology, licensed clinicians and real-time data analytics on one platform, providing a comprehensive therapeutic superintendency solution for patients through the continuum of care, from the hospital to the patient’s home. LG and XRHealth will protract to grow the service offering to unhook increasingly insights to clinicians and enable increasingly precise personalized care.
Electric Mobility – With LG’s transferral to sustainability as an organization, LG NOVA is working to pursue new opportunities to expand wangle to electric vehicles (EV) and electric mobility solutions by enabling increasingly businesses to leverage their infrastructure to provide EV services.
- Driivz empowers major EV service providers with an end-to-end EV charging and smart energy management software platform.LG and Driivz will work together to enable the hospitality industry wideness the U.S to offer EV charging-as-a-service, while optimizing their EV charging operations and providing their customers with an unrenowned EV charging experience.
- I-EMS Solutions, Ltd. uses innovative AI and blockchain-based distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS) and transactive energy software platforms to enable power optimization wideness smart cities, smart homes and e-mobility. By working with I-EMS, LG will help modernize the electricity grid and optimize energy management to unhook largest power management solutions for the market.
- SparkCharge offers an affordable and user-friendly way for electric vehicle owners to tuition their EVs without a direct-access charger at home or on the road. LG and SparkCharge plan to work together to unhook turnkey EV solutions for businesses to create a stream of revenue from their parking spaces.
The Metaverse – The Metaverse will bring greater capabilities that will transpiration how we engage wideness the digital space in the future. LG is looking to broaden its role and explore new services and applications for enterprises that leverage the capabilities of the Metaverse.
- iQ3 Connect provides immersive 3D workspace technology to enable distributed teams to cost-effectively work, interreact and train from anywhere, on any AR, VR or 2D device. LG will work with iQ3 Connect to deploy immersive training and realtime collaborative workspace solutions for enterprises.
- NeuroTrainer is a smart-ass training and optimization platform deployed in VR to create immersive environments and training protocols that utilizes the scientific principles of neuroplasticity to enhance focus and cognitive performance. Expanding upon iQ3 capabilities, LG and NeuroTrainer will work together to add platform capabilities and enhancements designed to remoter refine NeuroTrainer as a powerful tool for corporate wellness and mental resiliency.
LG NOVA’s second yearly Mission for The Future (2022) is now unshut for submissions. Deadline to submit is Thursday, October 6, 2022. Please visit www.lgnova.com/mission22 for increasingly information on how to submit new ideas to LG NOVA.
*Subject to due diligence and other considerations.
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