Tribal Breakthroughs Inspiring Active People
Tags: Startup, Blockchain, Blockchain Startup, Entrepreneurship, Data

By Angie Gallagher

Early in our adoption phase, a power couple from Texas contacted BurstIQ to join our community. They remain one of our most dedicated partners today, and their unmatched motivation pushes their rapid success.

Their Story

Travis and Tracey James are a husband and wife team who launched their business in 2017. A few years before, Travis’s mother contracted breast cancer. His mother passed away two years after being diagnosed due to the cancer metastasizing and spreading to her spinal fluid.

In his mother’s case, every single day mattered. Half of those with her diagnosis die in 90 days but, if a person survives that, they have a great chance to live for a full year. Unfortunately, no one endures the past two years. Fortunately, Travis’ brother is a spine surgeon, and he caught it very early, allowing her to live longer. He treasured every extra minute he had with her.

This difficult journey made Travis aware of the critical need to connect health data so patients, like his mom, can get immediate, personalized care to extend their lifetime. Separately, as an engineering consultant, Travis worked on a database with 30,000 cancer patients at Montgomery Cancer Center to create an app called “Factotem.” What is remarkable about this project is his experience with connecting large amounts of data.

Tracey’s healthcare expertise in management and product development brought her and Travis together. At the time, Travis was the CTO for a Circle Love, a social caregiving app for cancer patients. Their shared passion for helping cancer patients built an inseparable bond.

During this time, Tracey was also operating a CISCO program called CHILL “Cisco Hyper Innovation Living Lab,” where she organized hackathons utilized to inspire corporate participants to invest in startups. This experience provided a foundation for launching Tribe, where she serves as Tribe’s Co-Founder and COO diligently operating business development, design strategy, and innovation processes.

Tribe is on a mission to give the power of an individual’s data back to the individual and create true inoperability for health care data.

One division of Tribe is “Tribe Global Services,” which supports startups. ‘Tribe’ applies their concept of accessing decentralizing data for a specific demographic area to combine resources in an ecosystem to advocate for things that matter in that demographic.

Tribe Health Solutions

Travis James, CEO of Tribe Health Solutions

After working on these two apps and later launching Tribe Health, they worked on a PHR, which evolved into an application for people who are competitive in sports. Travis is an earnest basketball player, and Tribe’s focus provides professional, former pro- and semi-professional athletes to manage their health, medical, and fitness records to optimize performance and lifestyle.

They are working with the NFL and NBA, and the driver for wider adoption defines the behavior of everyone else. Travis and Tracey will demo Tribe Health at the Google IP Conference in May.

Love Lives On

One last thing about Travis, while his mother was enduring her illness, every day, he would find an inspiring quote and add it to a powerful photo and text it to her each morning. Now, he habitually sends this to people in his circle. It is incredible to wake up with positive power words to greet your new day. A man compelled to inspire the world, Travis is working on an app to spread these inspiring words.

Vehement to raise the bar on health and wellness, both Tracey and Travis are incredibly knowledgeable about startups, database management, and the strength behind connectivity. The BurstIQ platform positions both companies on a mission to thrive and serve the people of the world.