Steven Dean

Edwin is a digital health concierge that helps patients manage their health issues.

Vagus Labs is developing the first set of non-invasive, passive therapeutic devices capable of inducing resonance in the cardiovascular system to increase baroreflex sensitivity.

G51 Studio is a product innovation consultancy that focuses on designing solutions around behavior change for some of the most innovative consumer health and wellness brands around the world.

Prehype is a network of entrepreneurs that incubates and builds new businesses. One of our primary activities is to help large corporates build independent startups that deliver strategic value for them. We do that by pulling out insights, domain expertise, and some type of competitive advantage from large established businesses and turning them into adjacent startup opportunities run by entrepreneurs. Our thesis is that there are interesting problems hidden inside large companies that they are incapable of either recognizing or pursuing.

We build new products and ventures with entrepreneurs, startups, and corporate partners. We’re entrepreneurs that build new ventures. In our experience, the hardest part of building a product is not software development, it’s defining, testing, iterating, and redefining what your product is, what your value proposition is, who your customer is, and how they get value from your product. These are the things that we participate in as part of your product development team. As a result, our product, design, and software development processes work in tandem with customer feedback and experiments that iterate on the feature set that will deliver value to users. Ultimately, our focus is on outcomes, not features. Our goal is to produce great outcomes for our partners and participate in them, or fail quickly so that we and our partners don’t spin our wheels on ventures that won’t succeed.

I lead the New York Quantified Self meetups, a monthly Show&Tell for people who take advantage of various personal informatics to gain more knowledge about themselves, others and the world around them.

Now Bark Bright, part of Bark. Chompers Club is a monthly subscription for your dog’s dental health. Over 90% of dogs get periodontal disease in their lives. Many experience painful inflammation that disrupts their natural chewing behavior, and eventually have teeth pulled. Dental toys and treats are ineffective at preventing or treating periodontal disease, and few dog owners brush their dog’s teeth daily, as recommended by vets. Chompers Club's solution is both easy and effective, and is designed to help build a habit of daily dental care for your dog. Chompers combines a specially formulated enzymatic toothpaste that is proven to work with a series of toys designed to remove plaque and tartar. And a system that encourages habit formation to help dog owners stick to the habit of good doggy oral health.

Blueprint Health is a startup accelerator based in New York City that helps entrepreneurs improve the health and wellness industry.

I teach a course called "DIY Health" where students design systems of self-care that rely on methods of behavior change, habit formation and the quantified self.