Bringing video games to healthcare: How Akili Interactive’s Matt Omernick fused passions to improve lives

Bringing video games to healthcare: How Akili Interactive’s Matt Omernick fused passions to improve lives

If there is an archetype of a typical healthcare entrepreneur, Matt Omernick is not it. An artist and computer animator by trade, Matt spent 15 years in the games and entertainment industry before a chance social encounter would inspire the founding of Akili Interactive, a prescription digital medicine company that builds clinically-validated cognitive therapeutics that look and feel like video games.