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“Some people describe it as like magic: You just put on a wearable and that wearable watches your biomarkers during the night. Once the hot flash is coming, your bed will start to cool down, and you can actually sleep through the hot flash,” says Loewen Cavill, co-founder of San Francisco-based Amira Health. She launched the company, which manufactures the Terra bracelet and cooling mattress pad, after learning how night sweats affected her menopausal aunt. After she and classmate Claire Traweek came up with the idea, Emilio Sison ’20 and Felipe Radovitzky ’20, her teammates in DeltaV, an MIT startup accelerator, came on board. Now backed by e14, Supermoon Capital, MIT Sandbox, and others, the startup has raised $4.7 million in funding so far and began manufacturing in early 2024, with shipments going out in July. Today, the team has eight employees, half of whom come from MIT, including CTO Sison and COO Radovitzky.
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