Mothers Day 2013 may have passed but one San Antonio-based company is finding a way to celebrate Moms and their newborns every single day of the year. Biovideo Productions produces movies of a baby’s first day of life. Filming, editing and production is completed generally less than 48 hours after the baby is born so that parents can view and share the video directly from the hospital.
Biovideo delivers more than 1,500 custom videos each month thanks to the ability to manage and control operations through an online interactive enterprise system which allows the start-up to monitor production status every step of the way, from anywhere in the world. Parents can pre-register on the BioVideo website and upload prenatal images. Once mom arrives at the hospital, she registers in real time on a digital tablet provided by the Biovideo videographer. When the new parents are ready to leave the hospital, they can preview the video, and both the video and still photos can be accessed by mom or dad on a personalized web page and shared via email or social media. What’s even better is that Biovideo provides videos free to both parents and hospitals, thanks to corporate sponsors that want to connect with new moms and dads.
Biovideo is the brainchild of Carlos Villaseñor. He was a frustrated first-time dad who struggled to capture the first few days of first daughter’s life 8 years ago. “I was a nervous wreck, worrying about charging the camera, changing memory cards, and trying to preserve every priceless moment on film.” When he got around to editing the movie, he realized that he wasn’t in the film, as he had been behind the camera instead of beside his wife Sylvia during many heartwarming moments. “I made up my mind then and there that I’d never have to choose between holding my wife’s hand and holding the camera. No Dad should have to make that choice.”
He founded Biovideo in Monterrey the next year, and today the company serves more than 90% of private hospitals in Monterrey, Mexico City and Guadalajara. Villaseñor decided to move his family to San Antonio and join the community at Geekdom to expand the Biovideo.
“Our business depends on high-speed Internet and wireless. In Mexico, high-speed Internet access is both limited and very expensive, and our operations are much less agile because of it. It also limits a whole host of revenue generation opportunities – such as the ability to sell picture or video downloads, or consumer merchandise. We’ve produced more than 100,000 movies since Mariana’s birth, and thanks to the technology advances in the U.S., we are now poised to expand rapidly throughout Texas and the rest of the country.”
Healthtech is gaining momentum as an additional valuable service for patients and families in medical centers all across the U.S. and especially in Texas. Innovation that enables mobile apps that detect disease, powers robot-controlled surgeries and accelerates new developments in biomedicine continues to flourish in places where technology intersects with ideas. And while many of us may have a hard time getting the science behind these incredible advances through our heads, we can all agree that Healthtech’s capture and presentation of our most precious moments has long lasting impact on our hearts.
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