Migraine Buddy claims 90% accuracy in predicting attacks, raises over $1M in funding

Healint, a Singapore startup with a mobile app promising to predict migraines with an accuracy of 90 percent, has raised over US$1 million in seed funding from Wavemaker Pacific, Gree Ventures, and Shin Ryoku. Wavemaker co-invested in the startup alongside National Research Foundation, a Singapore government agency.

The app uses passive sensor readings from mobile phones, external data sources, and user input to help patients better understand their condition. The startup claims a migraine onset prediction of close to 90 percent, and it’s now figuring out how to implement a weather radar to help users prevent attacks.

“We studied the reported events of our active users. We applied our own algorithm based on different sensor readings from the phone, our own sleep algorithm (which has accuracy of 93 percent confirmed by users), and external weather API data to predict the next onset of migraine for a particular user in the next 12 hours,” Veronica Chew, co-founder and CMO of Healint, tells Tech in Asia.

Much of the accuracy comes from knowledge about known migraine triggers. Healint believes that lack of sleep and certain weather changes can lead to migraines, though it qualifies that more empirical evidence must be gathered to ascertain the causes. Migraines are a type of headache.

The startup has 23,000 monthly active users. It registered a 13 percent week-on-week growth in registered users since January, hitting 85,000 most recently.

Migraine Buddy is available on Android and iOS.