The next generation of wearables gives clinicians and consumers access to the body's chemistry in real time.
Critical decisions in medicine are made with blood tests, not heart rate alone. We make lactate, a crucial biochemical, available continuously.
Heart rate and pulse oximetry. Physics-based measurements that give useful trends, but only proxies for health.
Continuous glucose monitoring showed that body chemistry can be measured on the body, every minute of the day.
The chemistry of oxygen, added to the signals wearables already capture.
Diet, metabolism, diabetes
Exercise, cardiovascular fitness, critical illness, trauma
Lactate tells us whether our cells and organs are getting enough oxygen. The same sensor platform serves both clinical and consumer applications.
A live view of the baby's oxygen during labor, to guide life-saving intervention.
Lactate is a primary indicator of deterioration in clinical care.
Rising lactate signals increased blood loss and the need for therapy.
Lactate threshold is the gold-standard metric of fitness. Heart rate zones only measure it indirectly.
The fitter your heart and tissues are, the less lactate you produce.
Clinical-grade chemistry can pick up rises in lactate before symptoms arise.
We start where the stakes are highest.
We use our clinical expertise to build products that solve major medical problems. Consumer applications come next, with clinical-grade chemistry already proven in the hospital.
DelivAssure is our first in-hospital product, and the world's first continuous lactate monitoring (CLM) sensor in childbirth. It gives clinicians a live view of the baby's lactate throughout labor, alongside the heart rate they already monitor.
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A single-use CLM sensor built into the fetal scalp electrode, a device clinicians already apply.
A wireless unit worn on the leg, so mothers stay free to move.
A bedside display with a number and a threshold clinicians can act on.
DelivAssure is an investigational device. It is not cleared or approved by the FDA and is not available for sale.
Birth is the most dangerous day of our lives. In labor, clinicians need to know one thing: is the baby getting enough oxygen?
Today they answer it with fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring. Heart rate is an indirect signal, and on its own it fails us. The New York Times has described FHR monitoring as “the worst test in medicine”.
It leads to misdiagnosis in both directions. Babies who need intervention can be missed, leading to brain damage or death. And many mothers go through C-sections they didn't need, with greater risk to their health and higher costs.
DelivAssure measures lactate, the direct answer to the question clinicians are asking.
Measures lactate, the direct signal of whether the baby is getting enough oxygen.
A live reading throughout labor, in place of a single blood sample.
A clear number and threshold, so decisions are made on evidence.
Accurate out of the box, with no blood calibration before use.
Applied the same way as the fetal scalp electrode clinicians already use.
Designed to leave mothers free to move during labor.
Granted Breakthrough Device designation in 2022, one of very few obstetric devices ever to receive it.
The first continuous lactate readings in human labor, published in the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s journal.
Matched the cord blood test at birth to within 0.68 mmol/L in our first-in-labor results, with no blood-test calibration.
Sensors made at our Perth facility, using methods that scale to around 2 million sensors a year within existing infrastructure.
Hundreds of hours of pre-clinical and clinical data behind our proprietary algorithms, protected by patents and trade secrets.
Our approach is built on three interconnected pillars. Together they make our continuous lactate monitoring platform the gatekeeper to a brand-new dataset for the next frontier of AI.
We design factory-calibrated electrochemical sensors on the same principles as continuous glucose monitors, and make them in-house at our facilities in Australia, on a process built to scale. It's a capability that takes significant capital and time to replicate.
Continuous heart rate and lactate data is unique to VitalTrace. Every sensor records lactate alongside heart rate and what happened to the patient. Wearables know what healthy looks like. We'll know what sick looks like.
We create foundational datasets in the clinical episodes that matter most: childbirth, sepsis and cardiovascular health. It's the chemical dataset the next generation of health AI will learn from, to help guide earlier detection and better management.
Dr Arjun KaushikFounder & CEOMedicine, University of Western Australia · Perth Biodesign
Dr Lee HubbleChief Scientific OfficerFormer Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO · Faculty affiliate, UC San Diego
Dr Julian ShapleyChief Operating OfficerCo-founder, Cellnovo · Founder, Glucose Republic
Prof. Jonathan Morris AMChief Medical OfficerProfessor of Obstetrics, University of Sydney · Former Director, Kolling Institute
Dr Amy PollackNon-Executive DirectorFormer Director, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Gates Foundation · Former Medtronic executive
Julian SuttonNon-Executive DirectorCFO and Executive Director, 4DMedical (ASX: 4DX)
John LivingstonBoard ObserverFormer CEO, Integral Diagnostics · Executive Director, 4DMedical
Prof. George SaadeMaternal-fetal medicineChair of OB-GYN, EVMS · Past president, SMFM
Prof. Sean BlackwellMaternal-fetal medicineChair of OB-GYN, UTHealth Houston · Past president, SMFM
Prof. Christoph LeesFetal medicineProfessor of Obstetrics, Imperial College London"This is a quantum leap. We have an obligation to get this to market."Prof. George Saade, past president, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
ProductDelivAssure, the world's first continuous lactate monitoring sensor in childbirth.
ResearchOur multi-center first-in-labor trial, published in the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's journal. The sensor matched the cord blood test at birth to within 0.68 mmol/L, with no blood-test calibration.
NewsMilestones, grants and updates from VitalTrace.
Continuous chemistry, wherever health decisions are made.
Lactate alongside glucose, to guide exercise, diet and longevity.
Rising lactate could prompt people to seek care sooner for infection and cardiovascular ill health.
Real-time multi-analyte sensing, in place of a single daily blood test.
Wearables digitized the body's physics. We're digitizing its chemistry, starting with lactate: the science that will underpin the next generation of health and performance measurement.