About VBuddies Cognitive
Personalised Cognitive Intelligence Through Natural Memory Conversations
VBuddies Cognitive is a Cambridge-based, patent-pending health technology company developing AI-powered personalised cognitive assessment through natural memoir creation and repeated biographical memory conversations.
VBuddies Cognitive is currently designed for non-diagnostic wellness support, memory engagement and cognitive tracking. Future clinical use is subject to clinical validation and regulatory clearance.
Our Mission
Our mission is simple: to make cognitive wellbeing more personal, continuous and human — supporting earlier visibility of change while helping preserve the stories, identity and dignity behind every person.
Why US
Current cognitive assessments provide valuable clinical snapshots, but they are often episodic and clinic-based. VBuddies Cognitive addresses this gap by enabling people to take part in regular memory conversations in home or care settings at scale.
Through natural memoir-style conversations, VBuddies captures speech, autobiographical content and recall patterns. These repeated conversations are transformed into structured memory timelines, personalised cognitive baselines, repeated assessment data and reviewable change signals.
Why this matters: autobiographical recall engages memory, language, executive function and temporal reasoning — domains commonly affected in dementia.
The Team
VBuddies Cognitive is led by a team with deep roots in entrepreneurship, healthcare AI, compliance, and cognitive health.
Lijia Zhang
Co-Founder & CEO
Dr Jon Fearon-Jones
Co-Founder & Director
Wider Expertise
VBuddies is supported by expertise across AI engineering, clinical conversational AI, software architecture, regulatory compliance, cognitive ageing and early dementia assessment. Following the pre-seed round, we will expand our technical, clinical governance and regulatory operations capacity.
Intellectual Property
VBuddies Cognitive is protected by a developing IP portfolio combining patent-pending technology, registered brand protection and proprietary know-how.
The company is backed by active UK patent priority application GB2609962.2, relating to systems and methods for linking biographical memory conversations to repeated cognitive assessment outputs.
VBuddies is a registered trade mark in the UK.
Additional defensibility comes from the proprietary cognitive intelligence layer, personalised baseline modelling, longitudinal data asset and sector-specific workflow design for care, healthcare, insurance and longevity markets.
Regulatory Status
VBuddies Cognitive is currently designed for wellness support, memory engagement and cognitive tracking. It does not currently provide diagnosis, treatment recommendations or clinical decision support.
Future clinical detection, clinical monitoring and healthcare integration capabilities are subject to clinical validation trials, certified quality system implementation and appropriate regulatory clearance.
Non-diagnostic wellness support; clinical use pending validation and clearance.