Pulse Charter Connect’s AI-powered platform aims to simplify aerial organ transport for pilots, charter providers, and hospitals. [Courtesy: Pulse Charter Connect]
Key Takeaways:
Pilot-turned-founder Laura Epstein launched Pulse Charter Connect to address critical inefficiencies in organ air transportation logistics, a major factor in over 28,000 donated organs being wasted annually.
The company's AI-powered platform digitizes and streamlines communication between hospital transplant coordinators, vetted transportation vendors, and pilots, using a matching algorithm to ensure the most efficient and timely transport of organs and surgical teams.
Within its first year, Pulse Charter Connect successfully helped fly 65 organs across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, demonstrating its effectiveness in improving transplant outcomes and aiming for nationwide expansion with recent seed funding.
Pilot-turned-founder Laura Epstein is tackling one of the most pressing challenges in aerial logistics.
According to the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS), there are more than 100,000 people in the U.S. waiting for an organ transplant. But each year only about 45,000 transplants are performed, and more than 28,000 donated organs are wasted.
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Jack is a staff writer covering advanced air mobility, including everything from drones to unmanned aircraft systems to space travel—and a whole lot more. He spent close to two years reporting on drone delivery for FreightWaves, covering the biggest news and developments in the space and connecting with industry executives and experts. Jack is also a basketball aficionado, a frequent traveler and a lover of all things logistics.
