Vela Health
Vela Health is a pre-launch consumer wellness platform that helps people with chronic skin conditions like psoriasis, eczema, and acne identify their personal symptom triggers. The platform combines a 60-second daily check-in with optional blood work uploads and wearable data to surface patterns linking lifestyle factors to flares, with every insight grounded in published scientific research. Users receive educational explanations of why flares happen, ranked recommendations based on their specific patterns, and a bring-to-appointment report for clinician discussions.
- Healthcare Technology
- Digital Health
- Data & Analytics
- Software Only
- Artificial Intelligence
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
People managing chronic conditions often track symptoms and lifestyle factors separately from their lab results, missing the connections between daily habits and symptom flares. Traditional health tracking tools rarely integrate blood work with day-to-day logs, leaving users and clinicians without a clear picture of what drives their symptoms.
Solution
Vela Health provides a consumer wellness platform that combines a rapid daily check-in with lab result uploads to reveal patterns linking lifestyle factors to symptom flares. Users log meals, sleep, sunlight, stress, and symptoms in under 60 seconds, then connect those entries to uploaded blood work such as inflammation markers or vitamin levels. The platform surfaces educational insights—for example, noting that low Vitamin D and higher stress weeks often correlate with itch for people tracking skin issues—based on published scientific research rather than personal data. These pattern insights are designed to be discussed with a clinician, supporting more informed conversations about treatment adjustments.
Target Audience
Primary users are consumers—including those with chronic conditions like skin disorders such as psoriasis, eczema, and acne—who want to understand how lifestyle factors and lab results relate to their symptoms, as well as clinicians who benefit from more informed patient self-tracking data.
Features
- 60-second daily check-in interface for logging meals, sunlight, sleep, stress, and symptoms on a phone
- Blood work upload capability that stores lab values like CRP, Vitamin D, and ferritin in private, encrypted object storage
- Pattern analysis engine that correlates lifestyle logs with lab values to identify flare triggers, including a "lag correlation engine" in the paid tier that surfaces personal triggers
- Educational guidance grounded in published scientific and medical research, not user-specific AI training
- Explicit privacy architecture: no sale of personal information, no AI training on protected health information (PHI), and no sharing of user conversations for advertising
- Secure infrastructure with HTTPS/TLS, bcrypt-hashed passwords, signed JWTs, rate-limited endpoints, and least-privilege team access
- Evidence search and Vela Chat (Pro tier) grounded in user logs; unlimited history, trend view, and a bring-to-appointment one-pager report