Embrace is a

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organization which provided low-cost incubators to prevent neonatal deaths in rural areas in developing countries. The organization was developed in 2008 during the multidisciplinary Entrepreneurial Design For Extreme Affordability course at

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by group members

Jane Chen Jane Marie Chen is the co-founder of Embrace, a social enterprise startup that produces a low-cost infant warmer, that gives premature and low-birth-weight infants a better chance at survival. She served as the first CEO of Embrace, the non-prof ...

, Linus Liang,

Rahul Panicker Rahul Alex Panicker is a technology leader and entrepreneur, formerly Chief Innovation Officer at the Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and best known as the President and Co-founder of Embrace Innovations and Embrace, a social ...

Razmig Hovaghimian Razmig Hovaghimian is an American entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO of the international online streaming video site Viki, and senior executive officer of global content, board observer and Entrepreneur in residence at Japanese ecommerce co ...

, and Naganand Murty. In 2015 Embrace became part of Thrive Networks (also called East Meets West) which is a non-governmental organization founded in 1988 by

Le Ly Hayslip Le Ly Hayslip (; born Phùng Thị Lệ Lý; December 19, 1949) is a Vietnamese Americans, Vietnamese-American writer, memoirist and humanitarian. Through her foundations, she has worked to rebuild cultural bridges between Vietnam and America fol ...

Incubator

The Embrace infant warmer is a low-cost solution that maintains premature and low-birth-weight babies’ body temperature, that would give premature infants a better chance at survival. A baby born two weeks premature lacks the ability to regulate its own body temperature and needs to be transferred to an incubator within an hour. The Embrace Warmer claims to increase that time to 4 hours. The Embrace development team won the fellowship at the Echoing Green competition in 2008 for this concept. Embrace also won the 2007-2008

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Social E-Challenge competition grand prize. At a ceremony at BAFTA in London on December 3, 2013

, Linus Liang, Naganand Murty and

won an innovation award from the Economist.

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* *ABC feature video on Embrac
ABC's new Global Health Series 20/20 "Be the Change: Save a Life"
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