Korea South, 26th May 2025, – Seoul, South Korea — Hong Kong-based startup ANIWARE is making waves in the pet healthcare space by bringing its flagship AIoT biosignal analytics and interpretation platform, CardioBird, to South Korea. Under the newly launched ANIWARE Korea, the company is partnering with the country’s leading veterinarians to include CardioBird’s fast and accurate ECG test in the regular health check and pre-anaesthetic check to give every pet patient better care and protection.
Founded by Joe Mak, a former NIH biomedical researcher and Silicon Valley executive, ANIWARE developed the world’s first veterinary AI biosignal analytics and interpretation platform. His motivation came from the personal experience of losing his cat who died from heart problems and discovering that there was a huge veterinary professional shortage plus existing veterinary tools — mostly adapted from human medicine — were inefficient and ill-suited for animals.
“Animals move, get anxious, and behave differently during examinations,” said Mak. “You can’t just reuse human medicine models and human tech. Veterinary diagnostics need tools and processes built for animals, from the ground up.”
From Silicon Valley to Seoul: Reinventing Animal Diagnostics and Monitoring
CardioBird takes in the 30s data from the connected palm-sized, wireless ECG device, transmits data to a secure cloud, and returns to users the specialist-level ECG report in 5 to 10 min, which is the fastest in the world right now. The report includes arrhythmia detection, waveform interpretation, cause analysis, potential risks, and recommended next steps — effectively giving primary care veterinarians access to specialist-grade insight.
“Our goal is adoption — we want every pet in Korea getting the best ECG assessment in every routine checkups like human medicine. Clinics simply pay an affordable monthly subscription,” Mak explained.
Asia-First, Depth Before Scale
ANIWARE currently serves over 1,000 veterinary clinics across Hong Kong, Korea, China, Taiwan and South East Asia. The company is actively establishing its Korean subsidiary and recruiting local talent to accelerate growth.
“In all of Asia, there are only a handful of veterinary specialists,” Mak said. “Yet heart disease is one of the leading causes of death and the top cause of anaesthetic related death. We’re bridging the gap with accessible, AI-powered tools.”
Ease of use is key: no training is required. Even first-time users can perform a full diagnostic in less than a minute.
Breaking the Silence using Data Evidence and Innovations
CardioBird’s AI-ECG service collects over 7,000 ECG scans per month and has built a database of 400,000+ annotated animal ECGs — likely the largest in the world.
“We stand by vets, always — we’re partnering with them, breaking the silence using data science,” Mak emphasized.
CardioBird’s AI system continuously improves and evolves through this dataset, allowing it to augment veterinary judgment with evidence-backed insights as well as bringing new innovations addressing the key problems in the industry. Powered by its unique biosignal database and AI systems, CardioBird is in the process of launching another revolutionizing service within the same unified AI biosignal platform this summer !
More to Come, for Korea !
With a 10% market adoption rate so far, ANIWARE is expanding its hospital network and local operations, focusing on Seoul for initial deployment. Given the validated performance of the CardioBird system with top veterinary schools and leading veterinary hospitals, local adoption is expected to accelerate rapidly.
In a region where pets are family and health tech is advancing fast, ANIWARE Korea represents a powerful convergence of compassion, science, and innovation — and a new standard for veterinary care in the AI age.
Website: https://www.cardiobird.com/
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Organization: Aniware Korea Co., Ltd.
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Person: Son Youngsam
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https://www.cardiobird.com/
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youngsam.son@aniware.ltd
Country:Korea South
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