Mindwave Ventures

Mindwave (Mindwave Ventures Limited) designs and develops digital applications for healthcare . Mindwave works with NHS organisations, charities and universities to help them develop innovative digital products to deliver healthcare and carry out health research. Mindwave's patient portal is currently deployed in over eight organisations. The compa... ny has grown to around 95 staff based in the UK and Pondicherry (South India). Mindwave's designers based in the UK are steeped in user centred design. Design and development follows Government Digital Service (GDS) guidelines and Agile principles. Born out of the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), Mindwave was founded in 2014; the brain-child of Kumar Jacob MBE, who trained as an accountant and then operated in different guises across a broad range of sectors, including charity, education, health and technology. Having worked with creative teams that brought out hugely popular video games such as Burnout , Singstar, WipeOut at Criterion and Sony, whilst also serving as a non-exec director at SLaM and as the chair at the Maudsley Charity, Kumar could see a disparity between the way that the public sector and the technology sector were solving problems.Read More