Imagine there was an early intervention tool available to help children with problems as severe as autism to self-regulate themselves before their emotions got out of control? Now think about how such a tool could greatly improve the lives of these children and their families’ day to day lives without exclusively using drugs or other prescribed medications which are all too commonplace in the world today and often have very negative and long lasting effects?
At Karma Kids the founders don’t have to imagine this because they’ve already started building these tools through their heart-rate monitoring devices and their app that which is based on actual therapy exercises that the childhood experts use every day with their kids in therapy sessions! For more information about therapy, learn more from BetterHelp.
Karma Kids, a Brisbane based tech start-up, has just taken the massive step of launching a crowdfunding campaign to raise much needed exposure and funding towards the further refinement and full commercialization of its revolutionary paediatric therapy technologies.
The official launch of the Indiegogo campaign took place on Friday the 27th of May, and the actual project itself has been over a year in the making and the founders are confident that they will hit their set target of AU$60,000 by July 26, 2016.
What is the story behind Karma Kids?
In late 2014, Ross Thompson challenged both his wife, Lindy Thompson (a paediatric occupational therapist who works with children with developmental problems such as Autism), and Lindy’s child psychology clinician partner, Liz Gardiner to come up with a revolutionary concept that could break down geographical barriers inherent in therapy sessions by leveraging off disruptive innovation and technologies that were advancing at a rate never before seen in history.
With a passion for innovation commercialization, and strong understanding of how disruptive companies like Uber, Air BnB and Fitbit were changing the status quo through his studies, Ross was confident that their combined creative intellect would result in something game changing in the child therapy space that he could then commercialize into an actual business venture to take to the world.
After a number of months’ worth of brainstorming and thought leadership, the early intervention concept of picking up on physiological conditions within children while they were getting anxious/stressed and relaying this onto a device with an app that embedded proven psychology/therapy exercises in it came about. The theory was tested over an extended period of time and the link between the physiological condition alterations and associated escalations of anxiety and stress was confirmed.
Extensive research was then conducted on existing technologies, a robust strategic business plan was created, local and foreign specialist service providers/suppliers were negotiated with at length, and it was agreed that the best market launch that would create extensive engagement and start-up funding both in Australia and abroad would be through a crowdfunding platform (which in itself is also a fairly new disruptive technology that enables the public to pledge their support for causes that they believe in for behavioural and physical rewards).
