Pristine (company)

Pristine was founded by Kyle Samani and Patrick Kolencherry in 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]}

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

• Augmented reality
• Hands-free computing
• mHealth
• Telehealth