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www.HartfordBusiness.com • February 10, 2020 • Hartford Business Journal 11 FOCUS: HEALTH CARE Quality Construction + Butler Manufacturing = Repeat Customers www.borghesibuilding.com © 2011 BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc. All rights reserved. Butler Manufacturing™ is a division of BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc. 2155 East Main Street • Torrington, Connecticut 06790 The Belknap White Group, Hartford, CT | 2012 | 15,300 sq. ft. Northeast Beverage, Orange, CT | 2006 | 97,000 sq. ft. Contact us at 860-482-7613 or visit us on the web. WE PROVIDE CT BUSINESS LEADERS WITH THE INFORMATION THEY NEED TO SUCCESSFULLY RUN THEIR BUSINESS. ARE YOU IN THE KNOW? SUBSCRIBE BY GOING TO HARTFORDBUSINESS.COM CLICK ON "SUBSCRIBE" Med-tech startups will test wares on Greater Hartford patients By Sean Teehan steehan@hartfordbusiness.com B elgian startup founder and CEO Sylvie De Smet want- ed to break her company, FamilyEye, into the U.S. market when she was selected to participate in Upward Lab's startup accelerator program last year. The six-month program in down- town Hartford was open to early stage companies in the age-care and smart- buildings fields. FamilyEye's technol- ogy fits in both categories, providing a system of sensors and cameras that allow caregivers to track elderly residents' movements and activities at home. Using the technology, elderly people can live more independently while still having a lifeline in case of a health emergency, De Smet said. FamilyEye will participate in the accelerator program until April, but a new partnership between Upward and Hartford HealthCare could keep the company here long term. It will allow FamilyEye to test its technology on Hartford Health- Care's at-home care patients. "We will run [our technol- ogy in patients' homes] for a cou- ple of months for the pilot, and get feedback from the clients," De Smet said. "[We'll get] to see how we need to make changes to the products, and what's the dif- ference between the Belgian, European and U.S. markets." FamilyEye, which is considering relocating to Hartford and hiring employees here, is one of three com- panies that will participate in the new Upward Labs-Hartford Health- Care partnership, which will include pilot programs that test accelerator products and services for Upward's next three, six-month cohorts. For Hartford HealthCare, the part- nership enables it to apply cutting- edge technology to its age-care operations, said Barry Stein, Hartford HealthCare's clinical chief of innova- tion. On the flip side, it gives the start- ups a chance to test their technology in real-life healthcare settings, while increasing the likelihood they could maintain a Hartford presence. "The leadership at Hartford Health- Care made a conscious, intentional de- cision for us to have a strategy around innovation that was related to provid- ing solutions for real problems on the ground for our consumers," Stein said. The healthcare system also invested $50,000 in Upward Labs, Stein said. Hartford HealthCare's Cedar Mountain Commons assisted-living facility in Newington will incorporate technology from two other Upward startups: Sensara, a Norway-based company whose hardware and soft- ware monitors assisted-living resi- dents and Well-Beat, an Israeli firm Employees of startups FamilyEye and Well-Beat work on their products at Upward Hartford's Stilts building space. Continued on next page >> PHOTO | CONTRIBUTED