Level Ex creates mobile, AR and VR medical video games and simulations that use state-of-the-art video-game technology and cognitive neuroscience to train physicians. Its games are free on the App Store and Google Play, offer CME credits, and are played by roughly 500,000 healthcare professionals. The company is leveraged by top 20 pharmaceutical and medical device companies and medical societies. Level Ex received a grant from the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) that provides 12 months of funding to develop an initial virtual human simulation framework for NASA. The work will simulate anatomical and physiological changes in microgravity, demonstrate how devices and procedures perform differently in space, and create high-fidelity spacecraft environment simulations. Level Ex plans to expand the framework into modular spaceflight medical scenarios to train astronauts and reduce reliance on real-time ground communications during deep-space missions. Level Ex, led by founder and CEO Sam Glassenberg and based in Chicago, develops mobile applications and game-based simulations that let clinicians practice procedures on virtual patients in a risk-free environment. The company offers apps such as Airway for anesthesiologists and Gastro Ex for gastroenterologists, with clinicians scored on accuracy, speed and damage and able to earn CME credits. Its apps are available free on iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Level Ex reports more than 200,000 registered U.S. health-care professionals using its products. The company is expanding its suite of mobile apps and adding virtual reality and augmented reality experiences across new specialties, including pulmonology and cardiology. The article does not disclose revenue or other financial metrics. Level Ex creates professional video games for physicians, offering mobile apps and VR/AR experiences that present scenarios to diagnose and perform procedures on life-like virtual patients to advance clinical decision-making. Its mobile apps include Airway Ex and Gastro Ex, which offer CME credits and are available free on iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The company has secured partnerships with Baxter, Takeda Pharmaceuticals and leading medical societies. Level Ex plans to expand its suite of mobile, VR and AR experiences into new specialties including gastroenterology and cardiology. It will also scale up its game development, medical and marketing teams and open a Boston office to serve pharmaceutical and medical device partners on the east coast. The company is led by founder and CEO Sam Glassenberg and is based in Chicago; it raised $11M in a Series A financing in March 2017. Level Ex develops mobile apps that simulate realistic 3D surgical cases, including life-like fluids, bleeding, device range of motion, dynamic vital signs, and disease tissue properties. Its first application, Airway EX, is in beta and available free on iOS (with an Android launch planned in early October) and offers AMA PRA Category 1 CME credits for completed virtual procedures. The company assembles award-winning game developers and expert surgeons from leading academic hospitals to model cases from actual surgeries and vet them for educational use. Founder Sam Glassenberg, formerly CEO of Funtactix, created a prototype that attracted more than 100,000 users prior to the company’s app releases. Level Ex targets anesthesiologists, otolaryngologists, critical care, emergency medicine, and pulmonology, and plans 2017 rollouts in gastroenterology, cardiology, and orthopedic surgery. The company has raised funding and operates with a 20-person team in Chicago.

Total raised

$13M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Oct 2017