ThinkSono
ThinkSono enables any healthcare professional to perform point-of-care Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) ultrasound scans, via real-time AI-guidance, training and expert feedback.
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) is a condition in which blood clots develop within the deep veins of the leg. This can be potentially fatal if parts of the clots break off, travel through the body and become lodged in the lungs, what is called a pulmonary embolism (PE). While DVT and PE combined are the number one cause of preventable hospital death, the current diagnostic pathway is slow and inefficient. Patients often wait hours or days for test results.
The ThinkSono Guidance technology leverages AI to enable non-ultrasound trained healthcare professionals to collect DVT exam data for a qualified clinician to review. This can improve the clinical pathway significantly, potentially allowing for quicker, accurate and cost-effective DVT detection compared to traditional methods.
Founders
Fouad Al Noor
CEO
Fouad holds a Master’s in Electronic Engineering with Nanotechnology from the University of Southampton, where he wrote his thesis on paper-based medical diagnostics using image processing. Prior to cofounding ThinkSono, he worked as a medical software engineer at SAP in California, and as a research assistant at Imperial College London.
Sven Mischkewitz
CTO
Sven is an award-winning software engineer from Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany. Before joining Entrepreneur First and cofounding ThinkSono, he worked on an interactive annotation tool for the evaluation of brain data. During his studies, he focused on the field of human-computer interaction.
Milestones
Founded at Entrepreneur First
£2.1 million led by Id4 ventures