Our Story

Billion Labs Inc. strives to reach the billions of people in the world through health monitoring solutions built on top of the sensors and computational capability of smartphones, transforming smartphones into the next billion medical devices. The technology at Billion Labs is supported by scientific research pioneered at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), a world leading institution on biomedical engineering research, where our founder/CEO Dr. Edward Wang directs the Digital Health Technologies Laboratory as a faculty member in the School of Engineering and Design. Billion Labs’ mission is to bring cutting-edge digital health tools  through rigorous regulatory requirements to provide health monitoring solutions where traditional clinical tools cannot by augmenting remote/telehealth services with the ability to monitor vitals without expensive medical equipment. 

Professor Edward Wang started his journey developing smartphone based health monitoring in 2013, as a budding researcher and PhD student at the University of Washington. At UW, Edward worked on a number of technologies, including a smartphone-based hemoglobin monitoring solution. 

In 2022, Edward and Colin formed Billion Labs Inc. The team continues to grow in sunny La Jolla, based out of the Entrepreneurship Center located in the Design and Innovation Building in UC San Diego.