Jorgen Ellis is the CEO and co-founder of Strolll, a startup that has created augmented reality software for neurorehabilitation with a current focus on Parkinsons patients.
Founded in 2019, by Ellis with Thomas Finn, and Rupert Barksfield, Strolll’s commercially available AR glasses blend digital content with the physical world to assist treatments.
Strolll has received $6.7m in grant funding, including from the NHS, along with $3.6m from VCs. The Staffordshire-based startup says it is working with several NHS trusts.
At the age of 18 Ellis founded a separate company in New Zealand that partnered with IKEA to assemble the Swedish firm’s flatpack furniture, before exiting the business a few years later.
In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Ellis discusses the misunderstandings between AR and VR, the challenges of navigating medical device regulation, and why there are no shortcuts in health tech....