Deep Care receives CES Innovation Award 2026 for AI-supported resilience coach

International award for new digital health solution

Ludwigsburg, 5 November 2025 - HealthTech startup Deep Care has been awarded the CES Innovation Award 2026 (Honoree) in the Digital Health category. The jury of the world's leading innovation trade fair honoured the new „Isa Resilience Coach“, a sensor-based assistance system that recognises stress signals in everyday working life and takes early countermeasures. The compact device uses locally operating AI to analyse breathing rate, gaze behaviour and micro-movements, among other things, and delivers personalised impulses in real time - fully compliant with data protection regulations, without a camera or cloud connection. For example, Isa recognises how long users are concentrating on a task and helps them to find a healthy balance between focus and recovery - long enough to get into the flow, but not so long that productivity decreases.

Technology basis: tried and tested in occupational health management

The technology is based on the previous version of Isa, which is already being used by over 250 companies and health insurance companies across Europe. In addition to musculoskeletal and metabolic prevention functions, the new Resilience Coach now extends the system to recognise cognitive and mental stress. The algorithms for evaluation were developed by Deep Care, while the underlying methods are partly based on research contributions from the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD).

Wearable logic for healthier working habits

„Our vision is clear: every person who regularly works at a desk should have access to smart health support,“ says Dr Milad Geravand, CEO & co-founder of Deep Care. „We spend eight hours a day sitting down, usually for our entire working lives. Many people already use wearables such as Whoop or Oura to optimise leisure habits such as sleep, training or recovery. However, our working habits in particular, even though they make up the majority of our everyday lives, usually go unnoticed. This is exactly where Isa comes in.“ The aim is to actively promote health and performance not only in leisure time, but also at work.

More reach through a combination of B2B and consumer focus

Up to now, the focus has been on occupational health management. However, despite a high response, budgets in this area are limited. „If we take our goal of achieving a real social impact seriously, we cannot rely solely on employers or health insurance companies,“ says Geravand. Deep Care therefore wants to increasingly address end consumers directly in future, without turning away from established multipliers. On the contrary: increasing demand from employees can lead to Isa not only remaining part of voluntary initiatives, but also becoming a firmly established health benefit in companies, with greater reach and significantly higher budget utilisation.

CES as a starting signal for international expansion

The CES award is not just recognition for Deep Care, but also a strategic milestone: it marks the start of the company's positioning as a strong lifestyle health brand and its imminent market entry in the USA. The company has been accepted into the renowned German Accelerator Programme, has already founded its own US company, Deep Care Inc., and is holding initial talks with US partners from the corporate health and insurance sectors and potential lighthouse customers. Initial pilot projects are in preparation. The Isa Resilience Coach is scheduled to go on sale in early 2026.

Deep Care

Deep Care is a German health tech start-up based in Ludwigsburg that specialises in AI-supported prevention in the workplace. Since its foundation in 2020, the company has been developing technologies that promote movement, ergonomics and mental health in everyday working life - scientifically sound, intuitive to use and fully compliant with data protection regulations. With the aim of putting artificial intelligence at the service of human health, Deep Care is one of the German pioneers in the field of digital health and makes prevention tangible where it has the greatest impact: in everyday life.

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