Coala Life, a medical device company from Sweden, announced in its December 2019 newsletter its new U.S. operations. St. Louis has played a key role in Coala's U.S. expansion after first introducing the startup to the St. Louis market during the 2019 GlobalSTL Health Innovation Summit. Coala has hired its first St. Louis employee and added two St. Louis physicians to its U.S. Advisory Board of Directors.