Accelera, a Biddeford, Maine-based medical device company, completed pre-orders and began shipping its new Proprio wearable balance device in the first quarter of 2025, with projections to reach 600 units sold in April alone.
Micky Loening, Accelera CEO
“The funding that we’re gonna get is gonna go not to fund salaries, but to fund the next generation technology, which is basically like driver assist, so you get sensors that vibrate back or adjust the vibration to keep you from” losing balance, CEO Micky Loening said. “We can tell already when people are becoming unsteady, and then it provides feedback to the user.”
Accelera makes wearable devices that use randomized vibration patterns, a principle called stochastic resonance, to support proprioception — the body’s sense of position and movement. Accelera The company is headquartered in Biddeford, Maine, with manufacturing in North Carolina. It was founded in 2017, employs a team of seven and holds an exclusive license for technology originally developed at Harvard’s Wyss Institute. Falls are the leading cause of injury and death among adults over 50.
Accelera has raised a total of $1.58 million, according to Crunchbase, through two Maine state economic development agencies, the Wyss Foundation, and its contract manufacturer. Investors include Maine Venture Fund and Maine Technology Institute.
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