Pristine (company)

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Pristine.io
Company type Private (venture funded)
Industry Telepresence, Videoconferencing
Founded2013
Headquarters Austin, Texas, United States
Key people
CEO: Kyle Samani
Number of employees
20+
Website www.pristine.io

Pristine is a VC funded startup that develops software for hands-free smartglasses and smart mobile devices, enabling video collaboration and remote support in industrial and manufacturing environments, field service management and healthcare. [1] Pristine is based in Austin, Texas.

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History

Pristine was founded by Kyle Samani and Patrick Kolencherry May 2013, shortly after Google announced the Google Glass program. It raised initial funding through angel investors [2] and began piloting in a major academic medical center. In the months following, Pristine raised over $5 million in venture capital investment from S3 Ventures, [3] [4] Capital Factory, Healthfundr, and others.

Pristine took second place at HATCH Pitch 2013, [5] a start up pitch competition that was held at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

University of California, Irvine participated in a smartglasses pilot in October 2013, and announced in February the following year that they would roll out the technology to outpatient programs and wound care. [6]

Pristine launched the first Google Glass pilot in an emergency room at Rhode Island Hospital in April 2014. [7] [8] [9] It resulted in a peer-reviewed study published in JAMA Dermatology on the use of smartglasses in a healthcare environment. [10] [11] [12] [13]

Partners

In October 2014, Pristine was announced as an official partner of Google’s "Glass at Work" program. [14]

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