Hinge Health completes cross-border acquisition of wrnch

On September 17, 2021, Hinge Health, Inc., announced its cross-border acquisition of wrnch, Inc., as a result of which Hinge Health now has the largest computer vision team in digital health.

Hinge Health develops digital healthcare solutions for employees to recover from musculoskeletal disorders at the workplace. wrnch Inc., based in Montreal, Quebec, is an artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision software engineering company, has developed the leading computer vision platform for measuring human motion. wrnch's three dimensional motion-tracking technology enables the same precise tracking of full-body movement used by elite athletes and the motion picture industry.

Gowling WLG was Canadian counsel to Hinge Health in this transaction with a team that included Ian Palm, Stefan Nasswetter and Georgi Paskalev (corporate/M&A), Olivier Lamoureux and Anabel Damaso (employment), Paul Carenza and Anita Yuk (tax) and Philippe Matziorinis (IP).