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Adicep: Innovating Torso Support Systems for Improved Mobility

Adicep is an angel-funded medical devices startup founded by MIT and Harvard-educated engineers, developing innovative torso support solutions. With a team led by Nicholas Howard and cutting-edge technology, Adicep aims to address the shortcomings of existing solutions for individuals with insufficient quad strength, general weakness, excess load, or paralysis. Their core solution involves a spring system with computer-controlled clutches to store and recycle energy lost during flexion, offering energy savings and reducing knee stress. The company's products include the Adicep Stance Master, Running Aid, Support Platform, Prosthetic Adjuvant, and Walking Aid. Targeting markets such as existing orthotics candidates, stroke victims, the obese, military, and amputees in the US, Adicep plans to license to distributors, orthotists, and retail outlets for custom fittings and direct-to-consumer sales.

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Adicep: Innovating Torso Support Systems for Improved Mobility

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  1. Introducing Adicep

  2. Our Mission • Developing and bringing to market innovations in metabolically efficient torso support, from simple braces to load carrying aids, to advanced walking systems – wherever quadriceps are insufficient, we will be there to offer needed support

  3. What is Adicep? • Angel funded medical devices startup • Comprised of MIT and Harvard educated engineers and leaders • Possess exclusive unlimited use of patent pending technology passed in from predecessor research project, Powered Prosthetics, Inc.

  4. Team Adicep • CEO: Nicholas Howard • MIT ’99 BS Management Science • 4 years as General Manager and IT developer of a recruiting firm introducing the use of Information management for competitive advantage • SVP engineering: John Rokosz • 20 years of experience: managed development organizations: hardware, software engineering services, compliance, ASIC, product verification

  5. Team Adicep • Chief technical advisor: Philip Carvey • 7 startup affiliations, most recently as founder, CTO, and VP engineering at Avici • Engineers: • Matthew Carvey • MIT ’05 BS Mechanical Engineering • Andrew Carvey • MIT ’03 BS Mechanical Engineering • (candidate) MIT ’06 MS Mechanical Engineering

  6. The Problem • Insufficient quad strength • General weakness (polio, muscle damage, age) • Excess load (obesity, armor) • Paralysis (including partial) • Existing solutions’ shortcomings • Limited terrain (difficulty on stair/slopes) • Extra work or massive power requirements • High cost to performance • Awkward gait

  7. The Opportunity • The underserved market • the elderly • stroke victims • the obese • excess load carriers • full body armor with A/C • new parents • backpackers

  8. Our core solution • Simply put: • a spring in series with a computer controlled clutch; • both in parallel with another computer controlled clutch • Allows storage of energy • usually lost during flexion • recycled during flexion • Energy savings exceed cost of carrying device • Braking • Dissipates excess energy under heavy load (walking downhill) • Decreases knee stress Conceptual model of Adicep joint

  9. Our Products • Phase 1: • ASM: Adicep Stance Master (“stance-control” uses) • ARA: Adicep Running Aid (non-medical uses) • Phase 2: • ASP: Adicep Support Platform (military/“human mule” applications) • APA: Adicep Prosthetic Adjuvant • Phase 3: • AWA: Adicep Walking Aid (bipedal solutions for paraplegics and beyond)

  10. Target Market (US numbers only) • Phase 1: • Existing orthotics candidates, particularly those who typically decide to forego them; 2M-4M • Stroke victims; 3M-6M • The obese; approching 10M • Phase 2: • Military; 100k-200k • Amputees; 1M-2M

  11. Bringing it to the customer • Licensing to existing orthotics distributors (Kingsley Manufacturing, Zimmer, etc.) • Direct to orthotists for custom fitting just the joint • Retail (non-medical – Brookstone, Sharper-Image, etc.) • Direct to consumer – head-to-head against the scooters

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