Impact Biosystems
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Impact Biosystems is a Boston-based sports-recovery technology company founded in 2019 by MIT professor Ian Hunter, serial entrepreneur Sonny Vu, and MIT alumni Bridget Hunter-Jones and Craig Cheney. The company builds adaptive hardware and software for personalized muscle recovery, centered on a proprietary electromagnetic actuator that measures the condition of muscle tissue and responds in real time to stimulate recovery. In April 2021 it closed a $4.5 million seed round co-led by Will Ventures and NextView Ventures. No documented failure, shutdown, or exit has been reported for the company.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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- Company founded
Impact Biosystems was founded in Boston by MIT professor Ian Hunter (chief inventor), serial entrepreneur Sonny Vu, and MIT alumni Bridget Hunter-Jones (CEO) and Craig Cheney (CTO), to build personalized muscle-recovery technology.
- Seed round
In April 2021 the company closed a $4.5 million seed round co-led by Will Ventures and NextView Ventures to fund its electromagnetic-actuator recovery platform.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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