Lumme Health, Inc.

Lumme Health, Inc., founded in 2014, operates in the digital health and wellness market, providing a technology platform aimed at facilitating behavioral change. The company was co-founded by Akshaya Shanmugam, who serves as CEO, and Abhinav Parate, the Chief Technology Officer. Shanmugam, an engineering graduate from Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College in Chennai, India, moved to the US for her PhD, where she met Parate. Their combined expertise in health monitoring systems and wearable technology led to the creation of Lumme.

Lumme Health's core offering is a patented behavior-change technology platform that utilizes data from smartwatches (compatible with Apple Watch and Wear OS) to help users with weight management and smoking cessation. The platform operates on a "Detect-Predict-Intervene" model. It employs gesture recognition to passively monitor consumption habits like eating and smoking, eliminating the need for manual logging. The system's machine learning algorithms analyze this data to identify triggers and patterns, predicting when a user is likely to engage in an unhealthy behavior. For instance, the smoking cessation app can reportedly predict a craving six minutes in advance. Following a prediction, the platform delivers timely interventions, such as cognitive behavioral therapy-based messages, to help users avoid the unhealthy action.

The company's product suite includes a quit smoking app, a calorie tracking app, a weight loss app, and a mindful eating app. The smoking cessation program has undergone a clinical trial overseen by the National Cancer Institute at the Yale School of Medicine, which reportedly demonstrated a significantly higher quit rate compared to a control group. This service is positioned for inclusion in corporate employee wellness programs. The business has received non-dilutive funding, including a grant from the National Institutes of Health. Keywords: behavioral change, digital health, smoking cessation, weight management, wearable technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, gesture recognition, passive monitoring, health-tech, cognitive behavioral therapy, mHealth, personalized health, habit formation, predictive analytics, Akshaya Shanmugam, Abhinav Parate, National Cancer Institute, mindful eating, calorie tracker