Stress is not bad for you – it is also bad for your employer. Participation in absenteism, reduced performance, turnover, medical costs and accidents, non -profit American Institute of Stress estimates that stress at work costs American firms firms firms Over $ 300 billion a 12 months.
One of the ways to measure stress is monitoring cortisol levels. Even influential they know from “Cortisol face” becoming a popular Tiktok topic. But to approach things scientifically, the hormone needs to be measured all day, because the most significant is variability.
“At the end of the day we should have the lowest level,” he says Nurse CEO Maria Hahn. Newly presented equipment of her company, Cortisensewhich measures cortisol in Saliva, recently won the CES Innovation Award 2025 in the digital health category.
Providing patients with a device as a substitute of going to the clinic is not only more convenient; It also lets you track cortisol levels immediately after waking up, Hahn said TechCrunch.
Developed with the support of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Cortisense integrates with the Nutrix digital health platform, Gsensewhich incorporates a digital health platform, continuous glucose monitoring, dietary management powered by artificial intelligence and telemedicine.
It also connects with Initial focus of a nurse: diabetes. While he turned on the hardware road map towards Cortisense, the company’s eye is still in chronic diseases. “Cortisol is a hormone that controls many other hormones, so it plays an important role in mental health, but also metabolic health,” said the entrepreneur based in Switzerland.
This vision helped Nutrix to get support from the Swiss Innovation Agency, Innosuisse, in addition to private investments. The startup has raised $ 4 million so far, including unannounced $ 2.5 million in the round with the Find Fund Fund Simpact and Japan Deep Tech Fund Oist-Lifetime Ventures. Mayo Clinic also entered on deck, after meeting the team at CES 2024.
The startup strives to boost a large round of series A to finance its expansion, but its seed round has already began the American premiere of Cortisense. With the support of Mayo Clinic plans to open offices in the Silicon Valley.
Nutrix is not latest in market expansion; The Gsense platform is integrated with the public insurance system in Chile, a country where she received support from the public start-up Chile. In 2024, the Swiss startup for health technologies also began operating in Mexico and Peru.
Nutrix novelty is, nonetheless Check-in Above the model directed to the corporation, not consumers. While less common in the United States, in countries equivalent to Chile, Mexico and Peru, health research is a part of the obligation of employers to strive for employees’ well -being, understanding that non-public health data remain private.
Because the US is now at the top of the Nutrix road map, Hahn will have to get used to the explanation “The company will only receive aggregated data.” And although the utilitarian jump around the economic costs of stress at work could seem tasteless to some, it can also serve employers that mental health is actually health.
Cortisol is: “Extremely important also in the health of women, especially in perimenopause and menopause, but it is also a space that was very abandoned from the point of view of research and research,” said Hahn. Now I plan to make use of some Nutrix funds for further research of those ties. “As a woman, it is also very important,” she said.