Valentina Agudelo identified a troubling gap in breast cancer survival rates between Latin America and the developed world, with women in her native Colombia and the rest of the continent dying at higher rates due to late detection. So she founded Salva Health and began developing the company’s first product, Julietta, a small device that measures tissue density with electrodes that attach to each breast and provides results within minutes to a phone, tablet or computer. She pitched the device onstage at Startup Battlefield.
