Timeshifter selected as one of Fast Company's 2021 World Changing Ideas

Timeshifter is recognized by Fast Company for its accomplishments in translating sleep and circadian neuroscience into real-world tools with the potential to improve the lives of billions of people.

NEW YORK, NY (May 4, 2021) — Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today from a pool of more than 4,000 entries, honoring the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to pursuing innovation for the good of society and the planet.

Timeshifter, the creator of the world’s first technology platform for circadian time, received an honorable mention. Timeshifter enables people to proactively “shift” their circadian clock quickly or “shift” the timing of an activity to the optimal circadian time. This gives Timeshifter the unique and patent pending ability to solve several universal and multi-billion-dollar problems.

Timeshifter has already solved jet lag with an app it launched in 2018 — now the most-downloaded and highest-rated jet lag app in the world. Later in 2021, Timeshifter will launch a new app to help shift workers optimize their sleep, alertness, health, and quality of life. At least 20% of the global labor force are shift workers, changing to a new schedule soon after they adapted to the previous one, or never adapting at all. Timeshifter has also begun strategic work in the field of peak performance and chronotherapeutics that aims to treat illnesses according to circadian rhythms.

Our circadian clock controls almost every biological system in our bodies — from our sleep-wake cycle and mood and performance patterns to our metabolic, immune, and reproductive systems, and even many of our genes: By including Timeshifter as an honoree, Fast Company highlights the growing consensus that circadian science is the new frontier in human performance and personalized medicine.

“This acknowledgement will not only help Timeshifter continue our momentum, but also puts an important spotlight on the entire circadian field. Many are not yet aware of the universal and profound implications our circadian rhythm has on our performance, safety, and health, but this will change quickly - as we have seen with sleep over the last ten years, which is now a half-a-trillion-dollar economy.

— Mickey Beyer- Clausen, Co-founder & CEO of Timeshifter

“As we learn more about circadian rhythms, their importance in maintaining our health and wellbeing is becoming increasingly clear. Not long into the future, measuring and accounting for the differences in our individual circadian rhythms will become commonplace in all aspects of our lives, from when to sleep and exercise, and what and when to eat, to the interpretation of blood tests or when to take medications.

— Dr. Steven Lockley, Chief Scientist at Timeshifter and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School

“There is no question our society and planet are facing deeply troubling times. So, it’s important to recognize organizations that are using their ingenuity, impact, design, scalability, and passion to solve these problems. Our journalists, under the leadership of senior editor Morgan Clendaniel, have discovered some of the most groundbreaking projects.

— Stephanie Mehta, editor-in-chief of Fast Company