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Revolutionizing Orthotics with AI, with Aadhav Sundar and Rishi Kanaparti, Stride Labs

January 8, 2025 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Revolutionizing Orthotics with AI, with Aadhav Sundar and Rishi Kanaparti, Stride Labs

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Revolutionizing Orthotics with AI, with Aadhav Sundar and Rishi Kanaparti, Stride Labs (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 833)

In this episode of North Fulton Business Radio, host John Ray interviews Rishi Kanaparti and Aadhav Sundar, the co-founders of Stride Labs. The discussion covers the duo’s innovative use of AI to streamline the production of custom orthotic insoles, significantly improving accuracy and efficiency over traditional methods. With AI-trained models, Stride Labs aims to address the high demand for orthotics and medical braces, reducing production time from hours to seconds. They also share their entrepreneurial journey, balancing school with startup demands, and their vision for expanding their technology across various medical devices. The episode concludes with an invitation for potential investors and clients to learn more about their groundbreaking work.

John Ray is the host of North Fulton Business Radio. The show is recorded and produced by the North Fulton affiliate of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Aadhav Sundar, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Stride Labs

Aadhav Sundar is a co-founder and CEO of Stride Labs, a company that integrates artificial intelligence with biomedical engineering to revolutionize orthotic insole production. Under his leadership, Stride Labs has developed “Orthostride™,” an AI-driven software that automates the design process from 3D scanning to insole creation, reducing engineering costs and times by nearly 100x.

Sundar is pursuing a degree in Biomedical Engineering with a focus on Robotics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has participated in programs such as Startup Exchange and CREATE-X, which have supported Stride Labs with funding and networking opportunities.

Beyond his entrepreneurial endeavors, Sundar maintains an online presence through platforms like YouTube and TikTok, where he shares insights about his work and interests.

Sundar’s innovative approach to orthotic care and commitment to advancing biomedical engineering underscore his potential as a future leader in medical technology.

Rishi Kanaparti, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Stride Labs

Rishi Kanaparti is the co-founder and COO of Stride Labs, a company revolutionizing healthcare through AI and CAD for biomedical engineers. As a junior at Innovation Academy High School, Rishi is also the COO of NextGen Research Institute, helping high school students publish impactful research and connect with professors at top universities.

Recognized by NVIDIA and Google for his innovative contributions, Rishi has been named among the top 10% of mathematicians and top 300 coders in the USA. With three research papers published in prestigious journals, including IEEE, he has presented groundbreaking work at global conferences like the IEEE Symposium in Hangzhou, China.

As a research assistant at Georgia Tech and Emory University, Rishi collaborates with international institutions to develop computational models that predict heart valve complications. He also serves as Director of Research Development at the Emory Blockchain Club, representing the organization at conferences all around the world.

In his free time, Rishi enjoys participating in hackathons, where he develops creative solutions at the intersection of AI and healthcare. He is also active in academic competitions like Science
Olympiad, HOSA, and Biology Olympiad, and he shadows medical procedures to bridge research and real-world applications.

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Stride Labs

Stride Labs is a pioneering biotech company transforming the custom medical brace industry through AI-driven automation.

Stride Labs partners with companies like NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon to develop cutting-edge AI models to automate the biomedical engineering behind custom orthotics design.

They are currently looking to raise $1.2 million in funding to revolutionize the orthotics and prosthetics industry.

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Topics Discussed in this Episode

00:00 Introduction and Welcome to North Fulton Business Radio
02:09 Meet the Entrepreneurs: Aadhav Sundar and Rishi Kanaparti
02:45 The Problem with Current Orthotics
03:11 Stride Labs’ Innovative Solution
03:43 Backgrounds and Journey of the Founders
06:36 Balancing School and Entrepreneurship
08:20 How Stride Labs Improves Orthotics
13:44 Future Plans and Market Expansion
17:35 Call for Investment and Contact Information
18:36 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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About North Fulton Business Radio and host John Ray

With over 800 shows and having featured over 1,200 guests, North Fulton Business Radio is the longest-running podcast in the North Fulton area, covering business in our community like no one else. We are the undisputed “Voice of Business” in North Fulton!

The show welcomes a wide variety of business, non-profit, and community leaders to get the word out about the important work they’re doing to serve their market, their community, and their profession. There’s no discrimination based on company size, and there’s never any “pay to play.” North Fulton Business Radio supports and celebrates business by sharing positive business stories that traditional media ignore. Some media leans left. Some media leans right. We lean business.

John Ray, Business RadioX - North Fulton, and Owner, Ray Business Advisors — **John Ray, Business RadioX – North Fulton, and Owner, Ray Business Advisors**

John Ray is the host of North Fulton Business Radio. The show is recorded and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, and many others.

The studio address is 275 South Main Street, Alpharetta, GA 30009.

John Ray also operates his own business advisory practice. John’s services include advising solopreneurs and small professional services firms on their value, their positioning and business development, and their pricing. His clients are professionals who are selling their expertise, such as consultants, coaches, attorneys, CPAs, accountants and bookkeepers, marketing professionals, and other professional services practitioners.

John is the national bestselling author of The Generosity Mindset: A Journey to Business Success by Raising Your Confidence, Value, and Prices.

Global Center for Medical Innovation and T3 Labs

November 2, 2015 by angishields

Health Connect South

Global Center for Medical Innovation and T3 Labs

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Global Center for Medical Innovation and T3 Labs

This week we hosted experts from the Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI) and T3 Labs. These two non-profit organizations are dedicated to providing an ecosystem and an environment that start-up healthcare technology companies can use to develop prototypes for new devices, as well as early stage production for them as they build toward commercialization.

Executive Director for GCMI, Tif Wilson, and Executive Director for T3 Labs, Andrew Stevenson, came by to talk about how their organizations are working to expand and improve the ecosystem for emerging healthcare technology cmopanies.

The Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI) is the Southeast’s first and only comprehensive medical device innovation center, dedicated to accelerating development, building businesses and improving health. GCMI opened its doors in April 2012 and to date has worked with over 40 different startups, clinician innovators, university tech transfer offices and academic researchers to design, engineer, prototype, and facilitate commercialization of a broad range of innovative medical devices.

GCMI’s core team of designers and engineers collaborate closely with startups, clinicians, researchers, new product development teams and medtech entrepreneurs to accelerate time to market while reducing costs. The independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization has a robust and ever-growing network of experts, including intellectual property, regulatory, quality systems and investors, to help bring ideas from concept to market. In addition, through a close collaboration with our development partner, T3 Labs, medical device entrepreneurs and new product development teams have all of the critical resources they need to efficiently bring new products from an idea through GLP preclinical studies, all in Midtown Atlanta.

With 15 years of experience, T3’s mission remains – to provide high-value pre-clinical GLP (Good Lab Practices) compliant testing and training services to medical device, biologics, and pharmaceutical developers and manufacturers. We work with industry and academic sponsors to improve patient care by more effectively and efficiently developing and commercializing their devices and products. Contact them at (404) 251-0600.

T3 Labs is an independently-operated, privately-held, AAALAC accredited, GLP-compliant non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. In 2012, T3 became a wholly-owned subsidiary of a joint-operating company formed by Saint Joseph’s Health System and Emory Healthcare. Emory is recognized internationally as a leading academic medical center. By serving our industry and academic collaborators, T3 Labs is committed to supporting Emory/Saint Joseph’s tripartite mission: enabling discovery and innovation – via Testing; facilitating healthcare provider education – via Training; and enhancing patient-care – via medical product Translation.

Special Guests:

Tif Wilson, Executive Director of Global Center for Medical Innovation

MBA, Management & Strategy, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business
Previous VP, Business Development & Strategy, ACell, Inc
2012 HBA Women in Healthcare Leadership Award Nominee

Andrew Stevenson, Executive Director of T3 Labs

MBA, International Business, University of Delaware, Lerner College of Business and Economics
Previous Research Scientist, University of Pennsylvania, Departments of Pharmacology & Radiology
Former Senior Scientist, Bristol-Meyers, Squibb
Previous Project Leader/Director, Abbott

Alzheimer’s Research

January 28, 2015 by angishields

Health Connect South

Alzheimer's Research

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Alzheimer’s Research

This week we sat down with experts in neurologic diseases and alzheimer’s research. According to the CDC,

In 2013, as many as 5 million Americans were living with Alzheimer’s disease.¹
The symptoms of the disease first appear after age 60 and the risk increases with age.
Younger people may get Alzheimer’s disease, but it is less common.
The number of people with the disease doubles every 5 years beyond age 65.
By 2050, this number is projected to rise to 14 million, a nearly three-fold increase.¹

This devastating disease currently has no cure. In our ongoing mission to get the word out about important research and health solutions available in our community we focused this week on studies and solutions that will likely have a marked impact on patient outcomes.

We were joined by Dr. Marshall Nash, a neurologist whose practice is focused on investigating a variety of diseases of the brain, including alzheimer’s disease, stroke, Parkinson’s disease and others. He shared his personal story of how as a teenager he learned a family member was developing dementia and at the time there was essentially nothing that could be done for them. He talked about how the experience potentially influenced his decision to focus on neurology as his clinical field in medical school. His practice has transitioned from a neurology practice to one focused on research. We discussed the Tommorrow Study, in which they are looking to find older adults from 65-83 who are in essentially good health that they can evaluate for potential to develop dementia/alzheimer’s as well as effectiveness of medications to slow/prevent progression if it does occur.

We also spoke with a gentleman in studio whose wife has been a participant in a study with Dr. Nash’s practice, and who has since learned that he also carries genetic markers that place him at risk for alzheimer’s/dementia. He shared his perspective on how being a part of Dr. Nash’s research helped him and his wife. He gave advice to folks in the community to talk about changes in mental function/memory with their physicians and his view on the value of knowing if you or a loved one is at risk for developing alzheimer’s/dementia.

Jim Schwoebel, co-founder of Neurolaunch came by to talk about their organization that serves as an incubator/accelerator for start-ups focused on addressing neurologic diseases. Neurolaunch helps device companies, emerging pharma, and researchers commercialize their ideas to help get them to the community more quickly. Jim talked about how long it can take to go from idea/research to a product or medication to reach the community in need these solutions serve. He introduced us to Alex Turjman, CEO of Cognition Medical.

Cognition Medical is a company developing a device to be used in treating acute strokes. We know that during the acute phase of stroke, the area of damage can be extended in some patients when blood flow is re-established quickly (called reperfusion injury). Their device helps modulate the rate that blood flow is resumed to the injured area of the brain, preventing the reperfusion injury from occurring. Alex shared how interfacing with Neurolaunch has helped them make progress on the development of their device, bringing them closer to making the device available to patients in need.

Special Guests:

Dr. Marshall Nash, MD, of Neurostudies.net

Jim Schwoebel, Co-founder of Neurolaunch

Alex Turjman, CEO of Cognition Medical

Bob B., Significant Other of an Alzheimer’s patient