Pristine is a VC funded startup that develops software for hands-free

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and smart mobile devices, enabling video collaboration and remote support in industrial and manufacturing environments, field service management and healthcare. Pristine is based in

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History

Pristine was founded by Kyle Samani and Patrick Kolencherry May 2013, shortly after Google announced the

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program. It raised initial funding through angel investors and began piloting in a major academic medical center. In the months following, Pristine raised over $5 million in venture capital investment from S3 Ventures, Capital Factory, Healthfundr, and others. Pristine took second place at HATCH Pitch 2013, a start up pitch competition that was held at the

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. At the 2013 DEMO conference, Pristine CEO Kyle Samani demonstrated on stage how an emergency room surgeon would use Google Glass to request support from another physician.

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participated in a smartglasses pilot in October 2013, and announced in February the following year that they would roll out the technology to outpatient programs and

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. Pristine launched the first Google Glass pilot in an emergency room at Rhode Island Hospital in April 2014. It resulted in a peer-reviewed study published in '' JAMA Dermatology'' on the use of smartglasses in a healthcare environment.

Partners

Pristine is one of the ten official partners of

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’s Glass at Work program. The company also has formal partnerships with Vuzix, as well as

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Products

Pristine develops software for

to enable hands free video collaboration, and supports mobile-to-mobile capabilities on web browsers, Android and

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platforms. Built on

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, Redis, AngularJS, the technology supports secure two-way audio and video, messaging, annotations, and high resolution snapshots.

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