We have some exciting news to share! If you’ve been following our blog for a while now, you’re probably familiar with a product known as the SAF-T vest. The SAF-T vest is a personal airbag system designed to prevent fractures and other traumatic injuries in the event of a fall. Falls cost consumers billions of dollars a year in healthcare costs, and this innovative product hopes to help mitigate some of those injuries and costs by acting as a personal airbag system that rapidly inflates when micro-sensors detect a fall. You can learn more about the vest in some of the previous blogs we’ve written:
Personal Airbag System Could Help Prevent Fractures
SAF-T Vest Earns US Patent
Personal Airbag System Featured On KSTP-TV
Now that you’re caught up, it’s on to the big news! The SAF-T Vest was recently selected to participate in MassChallenge, one of the largest and most respected accelerator programs in the world. The four-month accelerator program is highly competitive and admitted 229 startups out of more than 3,000 applications from around the world. Out of the 229 startups selected, the SAF-T vest is the only applicant from Minnesota that was accepted, and they hope to make us even prouder than we already are!
MassChallenge 2021
MassChallenge is a self-described global network for innovators who are looking to solve massive challenges. Since 2009, MassChallenge alumni have raised $8.6 billion in funding, generated $3.6 billion in revenue and created more than 186,000 jobs. They’ve also helped to address some of the greatest world challenges, and hopefully fall prevention can soon be checked off the list!
You can learn more about the 2021 MassChallenge cohort by clicking here, and be sure to stay tuned to the website and our blog for continued updates about the SAF-T vest. All of these startups can already consider themselves winners, but the accelerator program will present its US showcase and awards on October 28, so let’s see how much innovation can happen over the next four months!
Congrats again to the team at SAF-T vest and Davenport Systems! You can learn more about Davenport Safety Systems and their goal with the SAF-T vest by heading over to their website. Good luck to all the startups that were selected! We can’t wait to see how you change the world!