
Iulian Circo
Co-Founder at Hyfe
Iulian Circo is the Co-Founder of Hyfe, the worlds best acoustic AI cough detector. He is a serial entrepreneur and recovering humanitarian operating at the frontiers of technology and impact.
Hyfe is the world’s most sophisticated acoustic AI, used daily by researchers, medical professionals as well as thousands of regular people all over the world.
Iulian has taken to scale and founded global impact ventures in health and fintech among others. These included dozens of humanitarian missions as well as building & running country operations for global organizations in places such as Somalia or Mozambique.
Iulian is also actively involved with several impact-minded ventures, either as co-founder, adviser, investor or board member.
- MedTech
- Entrepreneur
- 📍Vienna, Austria
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As Founder and CEO of Pain Care Labs Pain Relief, Dr. Amy Baxter’s mission is to eliminate unnecessary pain. She invented and patented VibraCool® Vibrating Cryotherapy to treat tendinitis and decrease opioid use, and her Buzzy® device has been used to control needle pain for over 32 million needle procedures. She has been named a Healthcare GameChanger, Healthcare Transformer, Wall Street Journal “Idea Person”, Most Innovative CEO of the Year by GA Bio, a Top 10 Disruptors in Medical Tech, and “Top Women in Tech to Watch” by Inc. She is currently developing a wearable VibraCool Low Back pain reliever to accompany VibraCool Knee Pain and VibraCool Elbow Tendinitis Relief, and exploring regenerative implications of thermal and vibratory energy. After graduating from Yale University and Emory School of Medicine, she completed pediatrics residency and child abuse and emergency pediatrics fellowships. Prior to becoming a full-time CEO, double-boarded pediatric emergency physician Dr. Baxter founded and directed PEMA Emergency Research, Scottish Rite, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Federally funded for her work in needle pain management, she has published multiple first author papers and textbook chapters and lectures nationally and internationally on sedation, procedural pain management, and the incidence, cause and consequences of needle phobia. To develop her neuromodulation pain reduction platform, Dr. Baxter was awarded a 1.1MM Fast-Track SBIR by the NIH. She wrote the patents for cooling and vibration utilization to decrease pain, and prepared and filed the FDA 510K submission for medical devices, securing the FDA expansion of the utilization to include muscle pain and cosmetic injection pain control. A founding Board Member of the Society for Pediatric Sedation, additional experience includes the Standish board for hospital pain relief, Trustee of the Robert A. Heinlein Butler Library, Editorial Boards of Medscape and Elsevier Pediatrics, and Board Member of the International Women’s Forum Georgia Chapter. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Baxter reviews for multiple scholarly journals, conferences, and national and international grant boards. Speaking venues include Exponential Medicine, Bloomberg, Converge, AARP Life at 50+, TEDx and TEDMED. Dr. Baxter is known for creating and validating the BARF nausea scale for children with cancer. She is also known for turning down Mark Cuban, Robert, and Mr. Wonderful on Shark Tank.

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Iulian Circo
Co-Founder at Hyfe
- MedTech
- Entrepreneur
- 📍Vienna, Austria
Iulian Circo is the Co-Founder of Hyfe, the worlds best acoustic AI cough detector. He is a serial entrepreneur and recovering humanitarian operating at the frontiers of technology and impact.
Hyfe is the world’s most sophisticated acoustic AI, used daily by researchers, medical professionals as well as thousands of regular people all over the world.
Iulian has taken to scale and founded global impact ventures in health and fintech among others. These included dozens of humanitarian missions as well as building & running country operations for global organizations in places such as Somalia or Mozambique.
Iulian is also actively involved with several impact-minded ventures, either as co-founder, adviser, investor or board member.
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LET'S TALK ABOUT MEDTECH & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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Big trends that will change healthcare and how to exploit them
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How to drive innovation in Healthcare
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Insurgent growth tactics for medtech startups
- Business models that combine profitability with positive impact
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Iulian Circo
Co-Founder at Hyfe
- 📍Vienna, Austria
- MedTech
- Entrepreneur
Iulian Circo is the Co-Founder of Hyfe, the worlds best acoustic AI cough detector. He is a serial entrepreneur and recovering humanitarian operating at the frontiers of technology and impact.
Hyfe is the world’s most sophisticated acoustic AI, used daily by researchers, medical professionals as well as thousands of regular people all over the world.
Iulian has taken to scale and founded global impact ventures in health and fintech among others. These included dozens of humanitarian missions as well as building & running country operations for global organizations in places such as Somalia or Mozambique.
Iulian is also actively involved with several impact-minded ventures, either as co-founder, adviser, investor or board member.
read more
LET'S TALK ABOUT MEDTECH & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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Big trends that will change healthcare and how to exploit them
-
How to drive innovation in Healthcare
-
Insurgent growth tactics for medtech startups
- Business models that combine profitability with positive impact
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Iulian Circo is a recovering humanitarian turned entrepreneur. Over the last two decades he has been part of action-packed operations in some of the world’s most challenging environments that included humanitarian missions in post-conflict and peace-keeping settings such as Somalia or DR Congo. He has also run country operations for large global non-profits in places such as Swaziland or Mozambique. Over the last decade, he has founded and took to scale a number of impact-driven enterprises, including his current project, Proof of Impact – a venture-backed global marketplace for impact capital. Iulian is also involved with a number of other exciting ventures, either as co-founder, adviser, investor or board member.
Proof of Impact came to be out of the combination of my impact background and Fleur’s (the other co-founder) insights from a life spent in capital markets and impact investing. We met in 2017 in Cape Town and both of us got excited by the idea of making impact tradeable.
Timeline
Mar 2020 - Present
Hyfe
Co – Founder
Sep 2016 - Present
Startup Advisor
Multiple Organizations
Oct 2017 - Dec 2020
Proof Of Impact
Co – Founder
Sep 2014 - Oct 2017
Triggerise
CEO & Founder
Mar 2008 - Nov 2014
Population Services International
Country Representative Mozambique & Swaziland
2000 - Mar 2008
IOM
Head of Office Somalia
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