InnaMed (YC W17)

Creating the gateway to personalized healthcare.

Interfacing with the healthcare system is notoriously challenging. Scheduling appointments, determining insurance coverage, traveling, waiting, testing, scanning, picking up prescriptions, etc.…the list of manual tasks goes on and on. 

At InnaMed, we have reimagined a major part of this journey: we make monitoring and analyzing blood test data fast and seamless, and we’re also creating a one-stop platform through which you can access and experience digital health services.

Measure, analyze, enhance: from the comfort & privacy of home.

Monitoring and analyzing blood test data is crucial to several healthcare decisions. 

Clinical trials rely on blood monitoring to determine safety, efficacy, and optimal dosing of new therapies. Each patient that is non-adherent to dosing and monitoring adds $25,000+ in clinical trial costs.

In medical practice, patients with complex conditions such as heart failure or organ transplant are usually on several drugs at once. Many therapeutics have a narrow therapeutic range and side effects (kidney or liver toxicity). If not taken at the right doses or frequencies, they can have adverse health consequences. 

Blood monitoring is a key component of getting the right patients on the right therapies, at the right doses.

The impact of therapeutic optimization is undeniable in clinical outcomes. For example, transplant patients who maintain immunosuppressant levels within range are nearly 70% less likely to experience rejection. Similarly, heart failure patients who take guideline medication have over 30% reduced mortality. The precise dosing of medications is important and often requires careful blood monitoring. 

While discovering new therapies is important, utilizing those therapies properly is just as important to safely achieving their maximum potential. That is where InnaMed can make a difference. We let you measure + analyze + enhance – all from the comfort and privacy of home. 

A connected hub for your health needs.

InnaMed’s flagship product, the HomeLab® system, enables push button blood testing in the home. There are three components to the system: 1) a disposable, one-time-use blood collector for virtually painless self-sampling, 2) a disposable, one-time-use cartridge for sample analysis and 3) a counter-top IoT device which reads results, conducts symptom surveys, and handles communication with cloud services. 

A single HomeLab cartridge can perform up to 24 unique tests. Our first cartridge, HomeLab RMX, tests for a panel of metabolic markers commonly used in clinical decision making. This cartridge is useful in monitoring patients in clinical trials or patients with chronic illnesses who are undergoing therapeutic changes. 

InnaMed has several additional cartridges in its development pipeline, targeting conditions such as organ transplant, rare diseases, and autoimmune diseases. Several pipeline cartridges have pharma collaborators funding development and pre-ordering units.

Enabled by biosensor technology.

HomeLab cartridges function using proprietary fluidics and electrochemistry. Our technology can measure proteins and peptides, small molecule drugs, hormones, antibodies, and standard clinical chemistries. Tests can be performed in as quickly as 10 minutes, with detection of femtomolar (10^-15) concentrations. 

InnaMed has a growing portfolio of 9 patents and 5 publications on its technology and has performed studies with patient samples demonstrating strong correlation to clinical labs. This technology can be expanded from blood to urine and even saliva samples in the future.

Precision medicine, powered by the cloud. 

In addition to blood testing, InnaMed’s HomeLab has a suite of connectivity features. Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular and NFC ensure reliable and easy connectivity. Blood test data along with survey and vitals data is packaged into a comprehensive e-report. These e-reports can be synced to EMR or LIMS systems, integrating into existing clinical and research workflows, or viewed on InnaMed’s custom HomeLab web application. 

Data consolidation enables analysis on patient, provider, organization, and disease scales with sufficient resolution to understand time variance. The deidentified data lake generated by HomeLab devices can become a monetizable asset its own. Downstream of data analysis is integration with the healthcare experience. InnaMed plans to integrate available digital health services onto the HomeLab platform, creating a truly one-stop experience.

Unique positioning to revolutionize a legacy industry.

The personalized medicine platform being built by InnaMed holds tremendous value for not just patients and providers but also pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations (CROs).

InnaMed’s initial business model involves selling the HomeLab and HomeLab RMX cartridges to pharmaceutical companies and CROs on a subscription basis to enhance and digitize clinical trials. The virtual clinical trial market is expected to reach $14B in 2027 and is growing at an annual rate of 12.6%. InnaMed is also collaborating with pharmaceutical companies to develop tailor-made cartridges. In many cases, such research collaborations do not require FDA clearance, enabling pre-regulatory revenue.

Simultaneously, InnaMed is pursuing regulatory clearance for the HomeLab and HomeLab RMX cartridge for patient use outside of the clinical trial setting, aiming to aid providers in implementing and optimizing medical guideline recommended therapy in the real world. The company has had multiple presubmission meetings and is working closely with FDA for both clinical and research use cases.

InnaMed is initially targeted towards specific clinical applications totaling $5B+ in market potential. The at-home diagnostics and personalized medicine industry is poised to accelerate, providing InnaMed with significant growth opportunity. The company has several multi-year pharma R&D collaborations and generated over $1.4M in revenue in 2020. With 7 full-time employees, expert executive guidance and a large team of contractors and consultants supporting manufacturing, regulatory and commercial efforts, InnaMed is ready to become a leading telemedicine technology company.

Become an owner of InnaMed – positive social impact with strong potential for financial upside 

Invest now to make healthcare easier for the millions of patients who are unhappy with the status quo. With your investment, we will finish pilot manufacturing of HomeLab, conduct FDA 510(k) clinical studies and achieve regulatory clearance within a year’s time.