Tellme's original business was operating hair salons. Over years of observing changes in their clientele, and as a service for customers who could no longer visit the salon due to illness or aging, the company developed a technology to assess the risk of glycation (a measure of aging) through hair analysis. This technology is currently being promoted as a diabetes screening technology. After being featured at the World Expo, it gained significant attention from overseas countries and institutions for its ability to assess risk without the need for blood sampling. In Japan, the technology is also seen as contributing to behavioral change among the segment of the population indifferent to their own health (kenko mukanshinsō) within local municipalities. Tellme is now pursuing the commercialization of this service as a means of optimizing social security costs.
Our mission is to safeguard the health of people worldwide. We are an Osaka University-spun-off healthcare startup in the healthcare/preventive medicine field, developing and providing the “Blood Vessel Beauty” scope—which observes capillary blood flow from the fingertip without blood sampling—along with the capillary image analysis software ‘CAS’ and the cloud-based evaluation system “CAS-Rating.” We research the relationship between capillary data and health/disease risks, aiming to implement new health indicators and preventive medical services in society.
Using a robot hand equipped with a Pre-Touch Sensor, Thinker has achieved success in robot manipulation, which has been considered the “last bastion of robotics.” Thinker is seeking partners both domestically and internationally who can work together to bring their proprietary Pre-Touch Sensor for robotic hands to broader applications and help shape the future of robotics.
Drug development for neurodegenerative diseases.
It is well established that drivers’ spatial cognitive abilities are closely linked to traffic accident risk. Our company is committed to advancing driver safety and extending driver retirement age by leveraging proprietary technologies that enable the quantitative assessment and targeted training of spatial cognition ability.