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37 AIQS News 82 Formació AIQS Formación AIQS AIQS Training It’s estimated that over 76 Million working people in EU & US suffer from severe stress. Especially chronic stress, often amplified within the work setting, leads to physical as well as to emotional & mental health diseases. Chronic Stress is linked to premature aging, early death, chronic diseases, anxiety, depression & poor quality of life. In order to offer a solution, a startup founded by 2 former Google employees aiming to create a world free of stress related diseases, have designed iBreve. A digital health solution that helps people to improve their stress resilience by analyzing breathing patterns with machine learning. Initially iBreve focuses on women’s health and well-being. Jacob Wahl, cofounder of Ibreve, explains us in this interesting interview how does their technology works. “‘Hardware is hard!’ But on the other side it is also very rewarding! In the end you have something beautiful and precious in your hand - something as precious as your health” When did you create the iBreve project and what motivated you to do it? iBreve started during a trip around the world, when visiting India. My co-founder and I were fascinated how people integrated breathing exercises in their everyday routine, for example during work breaks. Although multiple clinical studies show how beneficial diaphragmatic breathing is, we noticed that we miss this awareness in our Western countries. We wondered, how can we bring this back home? And thus the idea for iBreve was born! We started to develop a well-being coach that motivates you touse your breathing to reduce stress, feel better and would also help you to measure your progress. By now iBreve also has application in the medical field, for example for patients suffering from chronic diseases like asthma, epilepsy and anxiety. We are a company since September 2017. How many people were involved in the foundation of the Company? We are two co-founders. We both worked for Google in Dublin and Boston, which helped us a lot to acquire the necessary skills to start a technology company. Did you receive any kind of support or help from any institution to create iBreve? We are not a classical spin off, but we received support from many institutions throughout INTERVIEW TO JACOB WAHL, COFOUNDER OF iBreve