Recovery after critical illness needs a better path.
Digital programs and tools for life after the ICU.
Every year, millions survive the ICU. Recovery is left to chance.
The Intensive Care Unit is where hospitals treat the most critically ill. What happens after is largely unaddressed.
As many as 65% of ICU survivors develop what clinicians call Post-Intensive Care Syndrome: physical weakness, cognitive changes, sleep disruption, anxiety, depression. It can follow any critical illness: sepsis, respiratory failure, major surgery, trauma. Most people are never told to expect it.
Recovery deserves the same attention as survival. That's why we're building Liby.
We believe technology can reduce suffering after critical illness when it is built carefully and grounded in real recovery needs. Recovery often unfolds over months, not appointments. Digital tools extend support beyond the clinic, into the daily life where recovery actually happens. Today, that work includes both programs people can access now and tools we are developing with collaborators.
Three ways we're supporting recovery after critical illness.
Learn with Liby
Everything you wish someone had told you after the ICU. The patient course is live now.
Peer Support Groups
The support that should have existed all along. Small virtual groups for ICU caregivers, led by a licensed clinician.
Liby Labs
Where we collaborate with researchers, clinicians, and engineers to develop recovery tools for life after the ICU.
A structured recovery course for life after the ICU.
Life after the ICU can feel abrupt. You're on your own, things feel different, and no one prepared you for it. You're not imagining it.
Learn with Liby is a self-paced online course built on research into recovery after critical illness, survivor and caregiver experiences, and practical tools for daily life after the ICU.
Lessons are evidence-based and interactive, designed for people who may be experiencing fatigue, brain fog, or emotional overwhelm.
Patient course
Live now
Currently available in the United States.
Care partner course
Coming soon
A course for families and care partners.
For the people holding everything together.
When someone you love comes home from the ICU, your life changes too.
Recovery after the ICU happens in relationships. The person who came home from the hospital and the person beside them are both changed by the experience. Our groups exist because supporting one means supporting both.
- 01 Virtual sessions
- 02 Weekly over 8 weeks
- 03 Facilitated by a licensed clinical social worker
- 04 Supervised by our physician co-founders
Where recovery tools move from development toward real-world use.
Liby Labs is our collaborative R&D space. We develop tools for recovery after critical illness and work with researchers, clinicians, health systems, and technical collaborators to evaluate, refine, and learn where they may be most useful.
Some collaborations focus on tools already in development. Others begin with a clinical, research, or implementation question that helps shape what we build next.
How collaborators work with Liby Labs
- 01 Evaluate tools already in development
- 02 Explore pilot or implementation opportunities
- 03 Partner on clinical or research questions
- 04 Contribute technical or product expertise
Liby started with a question none of us could let go of.
What happens after someone survives the ICU? We've lived this problem, studied it, and treated it.
We are early and building with intention.
We're focused on validating our programs, learning from early users, and building the evidence base for what comes next. We welcome conversations with investors who want to follow our progress and understand the long-term opportunity in recovery after critical illness.
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