Inventor sleeps easy as his venture hits Kickstarter
MEDICAL device inventor and entrepreneur Richard Mills has launched his venture SleepCogni with a Kickstarter campaign.
Sheffield entrepreneur Mr Mills is looking for a £70,000 investment, and has already received 39 pledges totalling £6,004, having launched his campaign earlier this week.
Aimed at self-confessed insomniacs, SleepCogni is a bedside sleep device, backed by Sheffield Hallam University and founder of the London Sleep Centre, Dr Irshaad Ebrahim.
The non-invasive device monitors heart rate, mental alertness, skin temperature and movement and produces a programme to help induce sleep.
Mr Mills is the inventor of the Swellaway product, which uses electronics in a neoprene sleeve treating both human and animal injuries by cooling, heating and compressing.
It was backed by Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney, and received hundreds of pounds in investment after Mr Mills made the audacious move of contacting the football player himself.
“I became convinced it wasn’t just the hour before bed that explained why I couldn’t fall asleep, it was the whole modern lifestyle,” said SleepCogni inventor Richard Mills. “the stress and over-stimulus in daily life is contributing to the inability to fall asleep and stay asleep. SleepCogni has proved successful in clinical trials and endorsed by those who have seen it in action.”
“I have been waiting for someone to come to me with something tangible that patients could use themselves to treat their insomnia,” said Dr Irshaad Ebrahim of the London Sleep Centre.
“SleepCogni is an integrated piece of scientifically validated research based treatment for insomnia. With devices like SleepCogni I see a trend to provide the patient with the tools to treat their own insomnia rather than relying on seeing professionals and leaving only the more serious insomnia to be treated one-to-one.”
