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Lactate · ContinuousLive
2.31mmol/L
Simulated readout · Factory-calibrated sensor

We are pioneering continuous lactate monitoring, giving clinicians and consumers a real-time view of whether the body has enough oxygen.

First generation

Physical sensing

Heart rate, pulse oximetry and sleep. Wearables made the body's rhythms part of everyday life.

Second generation

Continuous chemistry

Continuous glucose monitoring showed that body chemistry can be measured on the body, every minute of the day.

What comes next

Continuous lactate

The chemistry of oxygen, added to the signals wearables already capture.

Glucose proved the chemical frontier.
Lactate is next.

C₆H₁₂O₆ · The fuel signal

Glucose

Diet, metabolism, diabetes

  • Continuous glucose monitoring built a category from one continuous molecule.
  • Over-the-counter glucose sensors now reach people without diabetes.
  • A niche Type 1 diabetes tool, now moving into the mass consumer market.
A multi-billion-dollar category
C₃H₆O₃ · The effort and oxygen-debt signal

Lactate

Exercise, cardiovascular fitness, critical illness, trauma

  • Rises when oxygen supply can no longer meet demand.
  • Already ordered in every hospital and used by every elite sports lab.
  • Today it can only be measured intermittently, by blood draw or finger-prick.
VitalTrace is pioneering continuous lactate monitoring.

One molecule, from the hospital to everyday life.

Lactate tells us whether our cells and organs are getting enough oxygen. The same sensor platform serves both.

Hospital applications

Childbirth

A live view of the baby's oxygen during labor.

Sepsis and critical care

Continuous lactate in place of repeated blood draws.

Surgical and cardiovascular care

Tissue oxygen tracked through surgery and recovery.

Consumer applications

Fitness

Lactate threshold, the gold standard behind training zones, measured directly.

Cardiovascular health

A chemical view of how the heart handles workload over time.

Early warning

Clinical-grade chemistry on the body, built toward early warning of bleeding and infection.

Our first product is innovating in childbirth

FDA Breakthrough Device designation

DelivAssure is our first in-hospital product, and the first continuous lactate sensor proven in childbirth. It gives clinicians a live view of the baby's lactate throughout labor, alongside the heart rate they already monitor.

The DelivAssure biosensor and wearable unit
Biosensor

A single-use sensor built into the fetal scalp electrode clinicians already apply.

Wearable

A wireless unit worn on the leg, so mothers stay free to move.

Display

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.

Solving one of the biggest problems in medicine

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 monitoring. Heart rate is an indirect signal, and on its own it fails us.

It leads to misdiagnosis in both directions. Babies who need intervention can be missed, and many mothers go through C-sections they didn't need.

DelivAssure measures lactate, the direct answer to the question clinicians are asking.

Labor monitoring for the 21st century

Direct

Measures lactate, the direct signal of whether the baby is getting enough oxygen.

Continuous

A live reading throughout labor, in place of a single blood sample.

Numerical

A clear number and threshold, so decisions are made on evidence.

Factory-calibrated

Accurate out of the box, with no blood calibration before use.

Familiar

Applied the same way as the fetal scalp electrode clinicians already use.

Wireless

Designed to leave mothers free to move during labor.

The VitalTrace platform

Our approach is built on three interconnected pillars.

Electrochemical sensing

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.

Clinical science

We prove our sensors where measurement is hardest. Our first results in labor are published, and DelivAssure holds FDA Breakthrough Device designation on its path through De Novo.

AI and data

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, and build the chemical dataset the next generation of health AI will learn from.

Brought to you by clinicians, scientists and engineers who have focused on one molecule since 2017.

Leadership
Dr Arjun KaushikDr Arjun KaushikFounder & CEOMedicine, University of Western Australia · Perth Biodesign
Dr Lee HubbleDr Lee HubbleChief Scientific OfficerFormer Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO · Faculty affiliate, UC San Diego
Dr Julian ShapleyDr Julian ShapleyChief Operating OfficerCo-founder, Cellnovo · Founder, Glucose Republic
Prof. Jonathan Morris AMProf. Jonathan Morris AMChief Medical OfficerProfessor of Obstetrics, University of Sydney · Former Director, Kolling Institute
Board
Dr Amy PollackDr Amy PollackNon-Executive DirectorFormer Director, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Gates Foundation · Former Medtronic executive
Julian SuttonJulian SuttonNon-Executive DirectorCFO and Executive Director, 4DMedical (ASX: 4DX)
John LivingstonJohn LivingstonBoard ObserverFormer CEO, Integral Diagnostics · Executive Director, 4DMedical
Clinical advisors
Prof. George SaadeProf. George SaadeMaternal-fetal medicineChair of OB-GYN, EVMS · Past president, SMFM
Prof. Sean BlackwellProf. Sean BlackwellMaternal-fetal medicineChair of OB-GYN, UTHealth Houston · Past president, SMFM
Prof. Christoph LeesProf. Christoph LeesFetal medicineProfessor of Obstetrics, Imperial College London

"This is a quantum leap."Prof. George Saade, past president, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Our team's experience includes
CSIRO
UC San Diego
Imperial College London
Gates Foundation
Medtronic
Eastern Virginia Medical School

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