Empowered to Serve Business Accelerator™: Alumni

2023
National
Minnesota
2022
National
Bay Area
Hawaii
Mid-South
Minnesota
2021
National
Eastern States
Minnesota
Oregon/SW Washington
2020
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Puerto Rico
2017-19
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Urban Health Accelerator
Urban Storytelling Competition
Where are they now?

Dr. Sandra Saldana
In June 2025, Alva Health announced a non-dilutive $500,000 NSF Phase IIB SBIR award. The Yale University spinout and Cornell alumni-led company is developing an AI/ML enabled wearable device for real time stroke detection. Their mission is to automate stroke symptom recognition and emergency response, enable faster medical intervention for stroke patients and lower healthcare costs for payers. The device will initially be indicated for the detection of recurrent stroke in stroke survivors and Transient Ischemic Attack (mini-stroke) patients, a $3.3 B annual market. In the future, the product will be available for monitoring chronic risk of primary stroke, a $56B annual market.
