The Textpert Story
(2015 - 2021)
The company built 3 tech products, embedded novel AI in 2 of them, monetized 2, and exited 1. The company chronology is below:
• Development of Resilience Doc Beta completed and released for market testing
• Resilience Doc begins signing up paid monthly subscribers
• Resilience Doc is approved for CPT code reimbursement
• A.I. avatar “meets” with 3500 users
• Resilience Doc research paper accepted into APA's Psychological Assessment journal
• Resilience Doc tech embedded into UCLA CBAM addiction clinical trial
• Textpert’s iPhone app is acquired by Jewish Big Brother Big Sister of LA (JBBBS); updated and rebranded as "Teen Talk"
• Speech at “eHealth Conference“
• Speech at Health Academy's “Datapalooza”
• Speech at CHITA (UMD & UM Conference on Health IT and Analytics)
• California Psychological Association publishes Textpert paper: "The Power of Artificial Intelligence to Revolutionize Healthcare"
• Featured in APA's "Good Practice"
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• 750-person Resilience Doc validation study conducted
• Resilience Doc neural network achieves 90% specificity & sensitivity and 80% accuracy on blind validated models
• Medical Advisory Board established (2018–2020):
Dr. George Allen, MD
Psychiatry
Dr. Aaron Blaisdell
Psychology
Dr. Nanthia Suthana
Neuroscience
• In partnership with JBBBS and TeenLine (Cedar Sinai), Textpert released "Teen Talk" iPhone app
• Partnership with American Psychological Association for the “Innovation at APA” series
• Speech at Health 2.0
• Honorable Mention for most disruptive tech at Exponential Medicine
• "T.E.V.I.", Textpert's 1st generation Large Language Model (LLM) for subjective challenges, begins having unscripted conversations
• Wins Microsoft Bizspark grant
• Accepted into the UCLA MBA Anderson Venture Accelerator
• Wins 1st place and cash grant at Anderson Venture Demo Day
• Partnered with JBBBS + TeenLine (Cedar Sinai) on teen outreach app development
• Advisory Board established (2016–2020):
Ted Hong
Marketing
Richard Buckingham
Technology
Terry Kramer
Strategy
Dr. Yingnian Wu
Machine Learning
Jasper Simons
Strategy
• Initiated semi annual intern program at UCLA & USC
• Accepted into StartupUCLA and receives funding grant
• iPhone app for advice (eponymously named “Textpert”) reached 100k downloads
• Textpert founded and releases an iPhone app for advice (later sold to JBBBS)
• Friends & family seed funding raised