A Portland startup was globally recognized for developing DoCurious, a platform meant to get people off phones and completing real life goal-oriented challenges.
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland startup was one of 13 companies that just won a big award for developing a new platform to get people off their phones by using positive psychology.
DoCurious competed against more than 140 companies around the world in the Global Health Initiative competition. The goal of the competition was to find companies with ideas and projects that could make a large impact on huge numbers of people in a short period of time. DoCurious was the only non-medical company to win.
While the new platform dares people to get out and try something new doing what it calls “goal-oriented activities,” people will ironically need a screen to get started.
Dr. Douglas Perednia is the founder and CEO.
“We dare you to do one thing you’ve never done before. We don’t care …