Meet the Founder

That's Kate

ExpHand Prosthetics founder Kate Walker started the business during her final year at Loughborough University where she studied Product Design Engineering.

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"I met a little girl called Zoey 2 years ago and knew I wanted to design an arm that would fit her as she grew and that she'd feel comfortable wearing too."

Kate Walker

Awards

• Experian Entrepreneur of the Year 2019

• BDO Award 2019

• Brenda Dean Award 2019

• Peoples Choice Award, Ingenuity19 2019

• Sainsburys Management Fellows Award 2019

• EIT Healthcare Entrepreneurship Competition Winner 2019

• Enterprising Student of the Year 2019, Loughborough University 

• Highly Commended, Venture Crawl Pitching Competition 2019

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Making this possible with

Where it all began

Back in 2017 we met a little girl called Zoey who was born with below elbow limb loss. She'd never been offered a prosthetic and we wanted to change that.

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We did some research and found that like Zoey, 90% of people across the world don't have access to the prosthetics they need. This is mostly due to lack of doctors, lack of access and expensive products.

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Also, kids grow out of prosthetics really quickly, which makes it even harder to make sure they've got the prosthetics they need. 

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So we set out to design a prosthetic specifically for kids, and we came up with the ExpHand.