LifeLens

Name

LifeLens

Website

https://thelifelens.com

Company type

Private

Short description

LifeLens is a Nashville-based private company whose stated mission is to develop a low-cost, smartphone-based diagnostic solution for use in the developing world. No products, customers, pricing, or operational details are disclosed in available sources.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mobile Health Diagnostics

NAICS

Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing (334510)

SIC

Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus (3841), In Vitro & In Vivo Diagnostic Substances (2835)

akta.pro primary industry

Remote Diagnostics & Point-of-Care (Connected Testing, Home Lab Devices) (HLACAPAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Remote Diagnostics & Home Testing Devices (Connected POC/At-Home Diagnostic Readers) (HLAHACAL), Home Diagnostic & Self-Test OTC Kits (HLAIADAO)

Keywords

• Smartphone diagnostics
• Mobile health diagnostics
• Low-cost medical diagnostics
• Point-of-care diagnostics
• Developing world health

Headquarters

HQ city

Nashville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D

Core offering

LifeLens is dedicated to creating a low-cost smartphone-based solution for diagnostics in the developing world. The company appears focused on leveraging smartphone hardware to enable accessible diagnostic testing in low-resource settings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Smartphone-Based Diagnostics Solution

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Cue Health: Cue Health offers a connected, consumer-facing at-home molecular diagnostic platform. Overlaps with LifeLens in the connected/consumer diagnostic category but operates at much larger scale in developed markets.

Direct peers

• Hemex Health: Hemex Health builds low-cost, portable diagnostic devices (e.g., for malaria and sickle cell) intended for use in resource-limited settings. Closely aligned with LifeLens's low-cost diagnostics-for-developing-world thesis.
• Jana Care: Jana Care develops smartphone-based point-of-care diagnostic tests for chronic disease (e.g., kidney disease, diabetes) targeted at emerging markets. Highly comparable to LifeLens given the shared smartphone-based diagnostic model and LMIC focus.
• Fio Corporation: Fio developed the Deki smartphone-connected rapid diagnostic reader used for disease screening in low-resource settings, directly mirroring LifeLens's smartphone-based developing-world diagnostic model.
• Biomeme: Biomeme makes a smartphone-controlled portable PCR system used for infectious disease detection in field settings, including LMIC deployments. Strong overlap with LifeLens's smartphone + diagnostics + developing-world model.
• QuantuMDx: QuantuMDx is developing a portable, battery-powered molecular diagnostics device for infectious disease testing at the point of need, including in low-resource settings. Directly comparable in product and mission.
• Molbio Diagnostics: Molbio (which absorbed Truelab) produces portable, battery-operated molecular diagnostic platforms deployed widely in emerging markets for tuberculosis, COVID-19, and other diseases. Competes directly in the low-cost POC diagnostics category.
• SystemOne: SystemOne connects diagnostic devices (e.g., GeneXpert) in low- and middle-income countries to a cloud platform for real-time disease surveillance. Comparable as an enabling layer for diagnostics in emerging markets.

Emerging players

• GlobalDiagnostiX: GlobalDiagnostiX focuses on low-cost, ruggedized imaging/diagnostic hardware for developing-world healthcare. Closely comparable mission (low-cost diagnostics for the developing world), with narrower product scope.
• DxNow: DxNow has developed smartphone-based diagnostic platforms (e.g., for fertility, infectious disease) at low cost. Comparable as a smartphone-native diagnostic peer in the connected POC space.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/thelifelens
• Facebookfacebook.com/1621312717

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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