The newly public Light AI has unveiled financials for the first quarter of 2025. The Vancouver company, which is focused on developing artificial intelligence health diagnostic and wellness solutions, says it is currently “in the development stage of its software technology,” primarily covering operating expenses with cash on hand, citing roughly $12M in working capital. […]
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Light AI Expands Wellness Platform to Diagnose COVID-19 and Pink Eye
Vancouver-based healthtech company Light AI is broadening the scope of its upcoming wellness platform, adding the ability to rule out COVID-19 and conjunctivitis (pink eye), alongside its original focus on Strep A. The direct-to-consumer platform, expected to launch in the third quarter of 2025, uses artificial intelligence to help individuals and families quickly detect and […]
Silicon Valley Tech Veteran Joins Vancouver’s Light AI as President and CTO
Vancouver-based healthtech company Light AI has announced the appointment of Anthony Schaller as its new President and Chief Technology Officer, marking a significant milestone in the company’s mission to revolutionize global healthcare access through artificial intelligence. A Silicon Valley veteran with four decades of experience in global technology development, Schaller will lead Light AI’s commercialization […]
Vancouver’s Light AI Partners with MrBeast to Donate Strep A Tests in Africa
Vancouver-based healthcare technology company Light AI has joined forces with MrBeast Industries to launch a Strep A test donation initiative aimed at improving healthcare access in Africa. The partnership is featured in a new Beast Philanthropy video, which premiered on YouTube on February 16, 2025. Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, operates the world’s largest […]
Sick of the Swab? Light AI Tech Enables Your Smartphone to Diagnose Strep Throat
Over half a billion people per year are infected by Streptococcus A worldwide, and it currently kills as many children as malaria does. And there’s another issue: antibiotics are often over-prescribed. This leads to microbial resistance to the drugs, which the World Health Organization identifies as a top-five global health threat. A company based out […]
WHL To Trial AI Powered COVID-19 Diagnostic Test For 2020-21 Season
The Western Hockey League (WHL) is trialing a smartphone-based, artificial intelligence (AI) powered COVID-19 diagnostic test to complement the WHL’s return-to-play health and safety protocols for the 2020-21 season. WHL players will be tested once per week using the current “gold standard” for COVID-19 detection, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) exam, with the trial of […]