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Industry
  
Sport industry

Products
  
Sports equipment

Founded
  
2013

Key people
  
Dave Marver (CEO)

Website
  
www.vicis.co

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Headquarters
  
Seattle, Washington, United States

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VICIS is an American sports equipment company that is engineering a new American football helmet, the ZERO1, designed to mitigate linear and rotational impact forces often seen during contact in the sport of football. The helmet is scheduled for release in 2017.

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Technology

The VICIS ZERO1 is designed to reduce the impact forces incurred during contact sports. It is engineered to reduce the linear and rotational acceleration football players experience as the result of impact. ZERO1 employs several principles in physics, starting with Newton's second law.

Founders

  • Per Reinhall, PhD, Chief Technology Officer, is professor and chair of mechanical engineering at University of Washington. Earned his masters and PhD from the California Institute of Technology with expertise in impact dynamics and materials.
  • Dave Marver, Chief Executive Officer, is an entrepreneur and former public company CEO. He held several VP positions with Medtronic over a 14-year career and later served as CEO of Cardiac Science, focusing on safety-related technologies. Dave has a BA from Duke University and an MBA from UCLA.
  • Samuel Browd, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer, is a neurosurgeon and director of Seattle Children’s sports concussion program. He serves as an unaffiliated neurologic consultant to the NFL and an independent neurologic consultant to the Seattle Seahawks.

    • Background and backers

    VICIS is the commercialization partner of the University of Washington, which was named a winner of Head Health Challenge II, a collaboration between the NFL, GE and Under Armour, in 2014 and 2015. The Head Health Challenge is a search for solutions that prevent, measure and detect brain injury. The University of Washington team also received grant funding from the Coulter Foundation. In addition, VICIS has received an investment from The Peregrine Group, the W-Fund, a Seattle-based venture capital fund, and Seattle-based Alliance of Angels and Trilogy Equity Partners. Other company investors include neurosurgeons, spine surgeons, and current and former NFL players and coaches. The industrial design of ZERO1 is by Seattle-based design firm Artefact.

    VICIS in the Media

    VICIS and the ZERO1 have been featured in a range of media outlets including CNN, Inc., Wired, and the Wall Street Journal.

    References

    VICIS Wikipedia
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