The Company
We are the right team, at the right time
WKD.SMRT was founded by engineers and technologists from MIT and Dartmouth, initially focused on developing a much more intelligent and user-friendly ‘smart home’, which could learn about what you were doing, and how you were feeling: activities of daily living and quality of life.
Conversations with innovators in Pharma catalyzed a refocus on harnessing these technologies to evaluate changes in function in real-life, with rich contextual understanding, as the basis for de-risking and accelerating clinical trials.
The Team
Michael Davies
CEO
Michael’s expertise and experience covers the spectrum of the key issues involved in high-tech businesses, particularly mobile devices and services and wireless networks, and business strategies for the digital economy. He has worked for nearly thirty years in the telecommunications and related industries with a particular focus on innovation in mobile devices, communications services and network infrastructure. His experience spans the design, development and deployment of mechanical, electrical, electronic and high-tech products; manufacturing; software coding; video; supply chain management; research and development; technology; and strategy.
Matt Hodgson
CTO
Matt is an entrepreneur and engineer with an insatiable desire to design and build products that have real impact. His experience includes being the CTO of multiple tech ventures in video systems, and state-of-the-art complex cloud services. His expertise includes video processing, sensor fusion and motion capture and analytics, large-scale secure mission-critical cloud services, and machine learning.
Blade Kotelly
Founder, Advisor
Innovation and corporate training leader who lives in the intersection of innovation + engineering + business + technology + user experience
Danny Sands
CMO
Dr. Danny is a clinical leader for over twenty years working at the intersection of health care, technology, and business. His career began at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he trained in clinical informatics and went on to develop and implement numerous systems to improve clinical care delivery and patient engagement. He has been CMO to a portfolio of innovative companies and continues to see patients as a primary care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
David Rose
Founder, Advisor
David is an entrepreneur, MIT lecturer, author, and expert on digital product innovation, and ambient computing. He is the author of "Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things," and "SUPERSIGHT: What Augmented Reality means for our lives, our work, and the way we imagine the future." He holds patents for photo sharing, interactive TV, ambient information displays, connected medical devices and computer vision algorithms. His work has been featured at the MoMA; covered in The New York Times, WIRED, and The Economist. He has been a guest on The Daily Show and parodied on The Colbert Report.
Mansa Shroff
Chief of Staff and Director of Business Development
Mansa’s specialties focus on development and implementation of global partnerships, early stage capital investments and launching life sciences and digital health startups. She is a strategic and entrepreneurial professional with an ability to think globally and build sustainable and scalable biotech and digital solutions. She has previously worked in public health, gene therapy, infectious diseases, digestive and CNS disorders and digital health at renowned institutions such as USDA, Wisconsin’s Technology Transfer Office, Harvard’s Global Health Institute, Finch Therapeutics (MIT spinoff) and Liberate Health (NHS spinoff).
The Partners
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Biogen
Pharma PartnerAssessment of what data Pharma clients want to measure disease progression, particularly for neurodegenerative diseases
Learnings on what it takes to integrate it into their environment: security, compliance, payoff, value
Understanding how secondary end points and clinical trials integrate into the drug development life cycle
First Pharma client; collaborating since 2019
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Research PartnerAssessment of what a complete data set looks like for a deep phenotypic profile for neurological diseases
Working with 30k patients using motion, gesture, oculo-motor, and cognitive capturing systems
Built architecture supporting multimodal sensor fusion
First research partner; collaborating since August 2020
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PharmStars
AcceleratorSelective 10-week accelerator program in 2022
12 startups focused on digital health tools in Neurology
Deep dive into Pharma’s unique needs
Redefine our next generation product through executive mentorship
Refine our business model and strengthen our product proposition
Let’s Talk
Are you responsible for implementing digital technology to clinical trials in your organization? Have a burning passion to transform how clinical trials are run? Or just wicked smart and curious about what we are making?