Lilypad: The First Home Wheelchair Scale

What?

I co-founded a company that set out to make it easier for wheelchair users to manage their health. Our first product, the Lilypad Scale for manual wheelchairs, has over 70 paying customers as of August 2015 and multiple 5-star reviews on Amazon.com.

Why?

For wheelchair users, every pound they gain is a pound they have to lift when they want to get out of bed, into the shower, or onto the toilet by themselves. So managing weight is key to independence as well as health.

How?

My role has included driving our two successful funding rounds, negotiating supplier and retailer agreements, and managing an interdisciplinary team. I delivered presentations that secured us a spot in the competitive MassChallenge Accelerator Program in 2013 and won 1st prize ($20,000) in the Babson Entrepreneurial Thought and Action Competition in 2014. I also did all the electrical and embedded design for the Lilypad Scale and led product design of the Lilypad Scale.