Metro Atlanta High Schoolers Tap the City’s Startup Ecosystem to Build a Cerebral Palsy Therapy Device
ATLANTA, October 13 (Hypepotamus) - Four Atlanta high schoolers are building a wearable MedTech device to help children with cerebral palsy and give physical therapists more data to guide their care.
Their startup, NeuroCore, is developing a sensor-equipped brace designed to track movement during physical therapy. Created by Rohaan Charania, Ishaan Kejriwal, and brothers Rohan Anand and Rishab Anand, NeuroCore has leaned into the local entrepreneurial support system to bring their MedTech product to life. Its next step? Finding more pilot opportunities to put the technology to work.
A Personal Reason to Build
For the Anand brothers, the idea grew out of watching a close family member live with cerebral palsy. Rishab sees NeuroCore as a company that can “make a change in our community.”
The team’s focus is core control, and helping children learn to engage the muscles involved in movement and stability while giving therapists a clearer picture of how they are moving.
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“The brace is pretty simple. We take sensors and we strap them onto the patient's hip and lower back,” said Kejriwal, the team’s lead hardware and software developer. “Then using our algorithms that we've created that are AI-powered, we're able to track their movement and get a normal baseline of what stability looks like.”
According to the company, the wearable device collects movement data for therapists to review. The intended result is feedback for both sides of a therapy session: a cue for the child and measurements for the clinician.
Charania described the goal as helping therapists make better decisions. The team hopes that practicing core control with that feedback can ultimately support greater independence for children with cerebral palsy.
From High School to Startup Demo Day
The founders are juniors and seniors at Westminster and Johns Creek High School.
The Anand brothers first explored entrepreneurship through TiE Atlanta’s high school startup programs. After teaming up with Charania and Kejriwal, the four participated in Georgia State University’s Main Street Foundry program and spent the summer participating in Georgia Tech’s CREATE-X program, which put them in a cohort with college students and professors also building companies.
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For Charania, the program brought structure to the work. It helped the team “set consistent goals throughout the summer,” leading up to a demo day where they presented their product.
Gaining National Recognition
NeuroCore was one of five winning teams in the AI for a Better World Challenge, developed collaboratively with MIT Solve as part of Day of AI’s America’s Youth AI Festival. The team also placed second in the University of Iowa Jacobson Institute’s spring 2026 Innovator Competition, earning $1,000 in seed funding.
Now, the founders are looking for more pilot opportunities. Those partnerships would give the team a chance to learn how the brace fits into physical therapy sessions and what therapists need from the data it collects.
“We’re super passionate about this problem,” Rishab told Hypepotamus. “We really wanna impact the next generation of the youth who suffer with cerebral palsy.”
"In the next year we hope to see a far more solidified prototype of our hip brace, preliminary usage from lower risk patients (Ex. Athletes), and further partnerships with established physical therapy clinics," Charania added. "Getting patients to start using our brace is our primary goal, especially the lower risk patients who can help us learn how to improve our brace. This will allow us to make improvements for the high risk patients (Ex. Cerebral Palsy) we ultimately want to serve."
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