2020–2021
The Question
The question: why isn't there a home scale wheelchair users can actually use?
Our story
Built with the community, from the very first question.
Fold began with a basic gap in everyday healthcare—and grew through years of listening, prototyping, testing, and learning alongside the people the old system left out.
Our story
Built over years.Ready for home.
2021–2022
Research & First Prototypes
Four prototypes, hundreds of conversations, one problem worth solving.
2023 – Early 2025
Funded & Backed
Founders Institute, StartUpNV, and our first investors got us started. New backing and a C2SHIP spot kept us moving.
2020–2021
The Question
The question: why isn't there a home scale wheelchair users can actually use?
2021–2022
Research & First Prototypes
Four prototypes, hundreds of conversations, one problem worth solving.
2023 – Early 2025
Funded & Backed
Founders Institute, StartUpNV, and our first investors got us started. New backing and a C2SHIP spot kept us moving.
Feb 2024
A Clinical Partner Steps In
Rancho Research Institute, one of the top U.S. spinal-cord research centers, joined to help validate the scale.
Mid-2024
Proven With Real Users
300+ real weigh-ins. A waitlist that kept growing.
Fall 2024
The Veteran Community Joins In
Paralyzed Veterans of America and a regional hospital signed on with letters of intent.
2024–2025
Building With the Community
Fold met its community at the Abilities Expo, and kept coming back.
Summer 2025 – Winter 2025–26
Protecting the Work, Scaling Up
Patents expanded. Tooling came online. First production prototypes arrived.
Mar 2026
First Production Run
Production began.
Summer 2026
Launch
Reservations are open. The first beta units ship in August 2026. Be part of the first run.
Our story
Built over years.Ready for home.
Stories and experiences
The challenge is shared. Every experience is personal.
Community voices on inaccessible weight tracking—and early reactions from people who immediately understood what Fold could change.
Wheelchair community reaction
“This is exactly what we need.”
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Advocate reaction
“Why aren’t these in every doctor’s office?”
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Care-team reaction
“We need to have this in every hospital and school—anywhere they need to know a weight and have no other way of knowing.”
Watch the clipThis collection will grow with stories from around the web and, over time, firsthand experiences from people using Fold.
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