Health Tech: Iulian Circo On How Hyfe’s Technology Can Make An Important Impact On Our Overall Wellness

Be realistic about the impact you want to have. Delivering impact at any scale is super hard. If you want to achieve real impact, you must move past the “50 cents will feed a whole family” narratives.

In recent years, Big Tech has gotten a bad rep. But of course many tech companies are doing important work making monumental positive changes to society, health, and the environment. To highlight these, we started a new interview series about “Technology Making An Important Positive Social Impact”. We are interviewing leaders of tech companies who are creating or have created a tech product that is helping to make a positive change in people’s lives or the environment. As a part of this series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Iulian Circo.

Iulian Circo is cofounder and head of operations of Hyfe, Inc., the global leader in AI-powered cough detection and classification. Hyfe maintains the largest cough dataset in the world enabling the building of powerful models to track, manage and diagnose respiratory illnesses. Hyfe is one of a few companies focused on acoustic epidemiology, which is the study of bodily sounds…