Plax, an emotional data-based AI mental care startup, recently signed a business agreement with the Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center (hereinafter referred to as the Gyeonggi Innovation Center) and Ainomis on ‘Discovering innovative businesses using AI psychological analysis.’
The three companies were selected for ‘Development of a non-verbal AI psychological analysis and digital therapeutic platform for the elderly’, which corresponds to biohealth among the BIG 3 new industrial fields of the small and medium-sized technology innovation development project, and formed a consortium to perform the task more efficiently and entered into an agreement. concluded.
The Small and Medium Business Technology Innovation Development Project is the representative technology development (R&D) project of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups that supports small and medium-sized businesses to grow their technological level and corporate size through technology development. It supports eight tasks in promising future fields such as semiconductors and bio. .
Through this agreement, the consortium plans to cooperate with each other, including ▲ business discovery and mutual exchange between related technologies using AI psychological analysis technology, ▲ establishment of a platform and technology development for digital therapeutics, and ▲ expansion of pilot services using the platform.
Flax is a company that developed ‘KidsDiary’, an AI psychological analysis video diary service and character counseling app service for infants and toddlers. In an age where the number of people is rapidly increasing by 10 million, we plan to expand our business to the elderly who suffer from geriatric depression such as social isolation, fear of dying alone, and suicidal thoughts.
The Gyeonggi Innovation Center is planning a pilot service targeting elderly residential welfare facilities in Gyeonggi-do, and AInomis plans to advance non-verbal psychological analysis and build a digital treatment platform.
Sunil Yoon, CEO of Flex, said, “We aim to verify the effectiveness of digital treatments along with early diagnosis of depression in the elderly, who have similar cognitive abilities to infants and have low resilience,” and added, “To help establish a healthy mind in all age groups, from infants to adults. “I will do my best,” he said.
Kim Si-won, CEO of AInomis, said, “We will utilize our core technology, ‘No-coding AI (a consulting system capable of developing AI based on owned data)’, and added, “We will develop a solution that can diagnose depression early through analysis of various emotional data of the elderly. “I plan to focus,” he said.
Meanwhile, Flex was selected for the Gyeonggi Innovation Center’s 2021 ‘KB Unicorn’ program and received specialized support such as commercialization support and mentoring, and is a Gyeonggi Innovation Center incubation company selected as a resident company of the Pangyo Startup Zone in 2022.