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Openwater

Openwater (openwater.health): 2 changes recorded in its website history since January 2024. Homepage last checked 6 November 2026.

Recorded changes

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  1. HeadlineBetween and
    BeforeOur past, present & future is now 100% Open Source
    AfterFighting Disease with Technology

    Observed on the company’s website; business claims are not independently verified.

  2. HeadlineBetween and
    BeforeA single device that may treat cancer, mental disease, stroke + enable non-invasive BCI.
    AfterOur past, present & future is now 100% Open Source

    Observed on the company’s website; business claims are not independently verified.

First recorded website

Observed 1 January 2024

Our earliest capture with readable facts. This is our first observation, not when the company introduced these things. These website claims are not independently verified.

How it described itself

A single device that may treat cancer, mental disease, stroke + enable non-invasive BCI.

Openwater is world’s first open-source, open-patent, open-clinical-data, and open-safety-sharing company, centered on the new idea of the Silicon Hospital.

All facts above belong to this capture. Unlisted fields mean we have no readable observation, not that they were absent.

How it describes itself

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  1. July 2026 – November 2026 · 2 captures · latest observed messagingThe Silicon Hospital.

    Openwater builds open-source, smartphone-cost medical devices using light and ultrasound to diagnose and treat disease. In clinical trials now.

    This wording observed 6 November 2026.

    Inspect 2 captures in this group
    • 15 July 2026 · The Silicon Hospital. archived page
    • 6 November 2026 · The Silicon Hospital. current websiteHistorical capture not publicly available
  2. Seen January 2026 · 1 captureOpenwater | open source medical devices research

    Openwater was founded in 2016 to explore an idea: What if advancements in fields as diverse as consumer electronics, semiconductor device physics, and artificial intelligence could come together for a

    This wording observed 8 January 2026.

  3. January 2025 – July 2025 · 2 capturesFighting Disease with Technology

    Openwater was founded in 2016 to explore an idea: What if advancements in fields as diverse as consumer electronics, semiconductor device physics, and artificial intelligence could come together for a

    This wording observed 11 July 2025.

    Inspect 2 captures in this group
  4. Seen July 2024 · 1 captureOur past, present & future is now 100% Open Source

    Openwater was founded in 2016 to explore an idea: What if advancements in fields as diverse as consumer electronics, semiconductor device physics, and artificial intelligence could come together for a

    This wording observed 17 July 2024.

  5. Seen January 2024 · 1 captureA single device that may treat cancer, mental disease, stroke + enable non-invasive BCI.

    Openwater is world’s first open-source, open-patent, open-clinical-data, and open-safety-sharing company, centered on the new idea of the Silicon Hospital.

    This wording observed 1 January 2024.

Summary of the record · AI-written

Written by an AI model on 7 November 2026 from the dated observations above; this is not the date the changes happened; each point links to the changes it rests on.

Openwater revises homepage messaging

Openwater has adjusted its homepage headline text, moving from an open source emphasis to a broader statement about fighting disease with technology.

  • Between January 2024 and July 2024, Openwater changed its homepage headline from “A single device that may treat cancer, mental disease, stroke + enable non-invasive BCI.” to “Our past, present & future is now 100% Open Source”. [1]
  • Between July 2024 and January 2025, Openwater changed its homepage headline from “Our past, present & future is now 100% Open Source” to “Fighting Disease with Technology”. [2]
  • Reading: These homepage headline changes between January 2024 and January 2025 suggest evolving messaging about Openwater’s technology and disease-related work. [1][2]

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Other funded startups with the most similar descriptions of what they do. This does not mean they compete directly.

Cite this record

StartupHistory, “Openwater” company record, https://startuphistory.org/c/openwater.health

Machine-readable: /c/openwater.health.json. How changes are found: method.