Edamam structures and organizes food and nutrition data and sells it to businesses in the food, health and wellness sectors, helping build applications for food logging, personalized meal recommendations, and nutrition data lookup. The company sells subscriptions to the data via API or as licensed datasets.

Clients include Nestle, Amazon, Food Network, New York Times, Microsoft, Barilla, Virta Health, FoodSmart, and many more. Edamam also has close to 100,000 developers signed up to its APIs.

Edamam has built the largest and deepest dataset of food and nutrition data in the world with over 5 million recipes and 1 million foods, analyzed and tagged for 150+ nutrients, 40+ diets including all allergens, and 200+ chronic conditions, as well as cuisine, meal type, dish type, CO2 impact, glycemic index, etc.

Perx Health is a digital care company building high-engagement digital care programs for high-risk chronic conditions patients. Our proprietary behavioral science delivers results for all types of patients regardless of their level of health literacy, socioeconomic status and/or complex co-morbidity. Perx is proven to improve clinical health outcomes in peer-reviewed research and generate 6x ROI of healthcare savings for our large enterprise customers.

Edamam offers breadth, depth and accuracy of food and nutrition data that are not available and are expensive to build internally. Because of the breadth and depth, Edamam can offer significant granularity in creating meal personalization, which is hard to achieve with the few meals tagged for a few diets or nutrients normally found internally.

Edamam stands out from the competition in three areas:

• Breadth of data -- over 5 million recipes and 1 million foods
• Depth of Data -- each food and meal are analyzed and tagged for 170 nutrients, all allergens, 40+ diets and 200+ chronic conditions, as well as meal type, dish, type, cuisine, immunity response, glycemic index, etc.
• Accuracy -- Edamam's accuaracy matches that of an experienced human nutritionist

Some Edamam competitors have breadth, but no depth and accuracy, others offer accuracy but at a very high price point and no breadth.

Perx’s core value proposition is the ability to attract, engage and serve healthcare’s high-risk, highest-cost patient groups through our unique approach. Our completely customizable and modular solution can map into internal tools and has features and outcomes beyond any homegrown tool:

• Engaging Experience: a variety of extrinsic and intrinsic motivators (gamification, extrinsic rewards, community support and challenges) to engage individuals in a personalized way. Participants in our programs use Perx 3-4 times a day, with daily engagement (72% of monthly activity) equal to mobile consumer applications Facebook and Twitter (66% and 46% respectively).
• Comprehensive and configurable condition support: catering to all conditions and comorbidities with treatment plan management across medication schedules, exercise plans, appointment scheduling, measurement taking and health tasks. Our platform’s flexible modules can be configured to match the needs of our commercial partners.
• Clinically validated health outcomes: the University of Technology Sydney demonstrated in peer-reviewed research that Perx sustained long-term treatment adherence of 96% over six months, and in a randomized control trial with the University of Sydney, Perx patients demonstrated improved clinical bio-markers (HbA1c and cholesterol) versus standard care over 12 months.
• Real-time verified data capture: validation of treatment management in real-time using clinical trial standard methods such as mobile direct observation of therapy (mDOT), collection of patient-reported experience and outcome measures (PROMs), and any condition specific surveys to validate and improve health outcomes. These real-world evidence capabilities are built into the platform to track program adoption, veteran satisfaction and report relevant health outcomes.

Perx’s digital CDMPs are designed to attract, engage and serve healthcare’s high-risk, highest-cost patient groups with a flexible, single solution, personalizing the experience through systematic ‘precision’ behavioral change while integrating with clinical care. We offer high-risk patients a materially different value proposition than our competitors:

• Gamified treatment interventions focus on gamification only, inadvertently treating high-risk individuals as a homogeneous population. Perx uses a range of behavioral strategies to personalise the experience, drive higher engagement, and enroll a more diverse cohort of patients.
• Digital CDMPs aim to control primary risk factors (blood pressure, glucose control or cholesterol) by modifying key risk behaviors (smoking, weight management, exercise, alcohol consumption). Unsuitable for high-risk patients, these programs focus on treating single conditions, are reliant on education and health coaching, and operate independently from clinical care teams.
• Wellness solutions focus on disease prevention by providing general health, wellbeing and lifestyle interventions (exercise, nutrition, mental wellbeing and health check-ups). While attractive to health-conscious populations, these solutions fail to engage low socioeconomic, health illiterate patients managing complex comorbidities.
• Patient access solutions pursue the mass-market and focus on patient acquisition (regardless of condition or health-risk). Solutions are monetised by selling data or providing patient access for marketing purposes, with little-to-no independently published research demonstrating behaviour change or outcomes.