Embrace

“They are addressing the issue of global infant mortality through an innovative Infant warmer that costs less than 1% than a traditional incubator. The Infant Warmer is the first in a line of affordable products that Embrace will innovate for low income communities.

They are not alone in this fight to decrease infant mortality. In 1990, world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit pledged to reduce the deaths of children under 5 years of age by two thirds by 2015. The Embrace Infant Warmer is an innovation that will help families save their children, and Governments work towards the United Nations Millennium Development goals.

The design looks like a miniature sleeping bag but in reality saves lives of vulnerable infants. It is a new, low cost solution to help keep low birth weight babies’ body temperature warm so they can survive and thrive in developing countries.

It can be used in clinics or in community-based settings. Our customers will be private clinics, NGOs and governments, who are also our distribution and education partners. We plan to pilot the product and business concepts in India, and then roll out in the rest of the developing world.

Jane Chen is the Co-Founder, CEO. Her background includes a blend of business and social sector experience. She previously worked with non profit organisations on health care issues in developing countries. She spent several years as the Programme Director of a startup HIV/AIDS nonprofit in China, and worked for the Clinton Foundation’s HIV/AIDS Initiative in Tanzania.

She also worked at Monitor Group as a management consultant, advising Fortune 500 companies in Asia Pacific (across fast moving consumer goods, telecommunications and pharmaceutical industries) in strategy development, marketing, and acquisitions. Jane holds an MBA from Stanford University and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College.

Embrace is a non-profit organisation seeking to help vulnerable babies survive and thrive! At the time of writing, Embrace needs to raise $1.5 million over the next four years to take this product worldwide. They are a self-sustaining non profit organisation. Your donation will help sustain the organisation until revenue equals expenditures. Future profits will be re-invested into the company.”