HelpWear is striving to better at-home healthcare by developing affordable and accessible products for patients all around the world. HelpWear is currently developing its first product, the HeartWatch, allowing for 24/7 at home heart monitoring with an embedded emergency contact system for furthered
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Overview
HelpWear is a Toronto-based medical device company building HeartWatch, a non-adhesive wearable ambulatory ECG monitor for extended cardiac monitoring. The company’s public materials emphasize comfort, longer wear time, and clinically actionable ECG data for arrhythmia detection. Official/current leadership sources list Scott Klein as CEO and Derek Exner as co-founder/CMO, while legacy sources identify André Bertram and Frank Nguyen as the original founders.
Primary product
HeartWatch™ ambulatory ECG monitor
Founded
2015
Headquarters
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Team size
10-20 employees
Industry
Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Sub-industry
Wearable cardiac monitoring / ambulatory ECG
Offices
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Business model
medical device development
diagnostic monitoring hardware
clinical monitoring service
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$275K
Latest round
Seed Round · Apr 2022
People & investors
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder / Chief Medical Officer
Chairman & President
VP of Engineering
Founders
Co-founder / former Chief Technical Officer
Work & culture
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; appears to be a medical-device / clinical monitoring sales model.
Differentiators
- —non-adhesive dry-electrode design
- —extended wear up to 180 days
- —shower-friendly bicep-worn form factor
- —medical-grade ECG accuracy
- —avoids invasive implant procedures
Technology
dry-electrode ECG sensing
non-adhesive metallic electrodes
bicep-worn wearable form factor
HIPAA-compliant monitoring
up to 180-day continuous wear
Customers
patients with cardiac arrhythmias
cryptogenic stroke patients
syncope patients
physicians and cardiologists
health systems / clinics
payors
Competitors
Holter monitors
mobile cardiac telemetry (MCT) monitors
implantable loop recorders
AliveCor
iRhythm
Withings
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately US$6.5M–US$8M annual revenue / ARR (third-party estimates).
Estimated monthly visits
289
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
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