Success Stories: Health
Picterus – Picterus Jaundice Home
Building on their mobile app financed under the SME Instrument, Picterus now aims to equip parents with a fast, affordable, and reliable digital platform for detecting and managing neonatal jaundice (NNJ) in newborns at home…
Vigor Medical – C-LANT
Vigor Medical developed C-LANT, a disruptive medical device for chest trauma management. C-LANT can be used as a port to immediately treat all types of thoracic traumas, reducing thoracic and abdominal drainage time by 20x …
Genetika+ – RxMine
Major depressive order affects over 300 million people worldwide, growing 37% each decade. Patients do not usually receive adequate care due to its heterogeneity, which affects each individual with highly different treatment responses…
InVivo Bionics – PRESSURO
Around 900 million people suffer from urinary dysfunction worldwide. Finding proper solutions, treatments and diagnoses is still a real challenge for our healthcare systems. To solve this issue, InVivo Bionics has developed PRESSURO…
Neurosoft Bioelectronics – SOFT ECoG
With more than 50 million cases worldwide, epilepsy is one of the most common brain disorders. Even though some treatments exist to alleviate this reality, anti-epileptic drugs fail in 30% of the patients, and cases sent to neurosurgeons…
KOVE medical – KOVE
Fetoscopies are minimally invasive surgical procedures performed to treat fetuses during pregnancy from life-threatening congenital diseases (including spina bifida, twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome and congenital diaphragmatic hernia)…
Eodyne & Partners – PHRASE
Approximately 13.7 million stroke cases happen worldwide each year. This worrying figure usually involves long and high-cost recovery periods (over five years). Moreover, at that stage, patients do not always find the right and effective support for rehabilitation…
PlasFree – ClearPlasma
If we talk about preventable mortality, haemorrhage stands out as one of the most common causes, reaching around 40% of deaths worldwide. The current approach of transfusing blood, plasma and platelets during early interventions can lead to increased probabilities of bleeding risks…
Xeltis – HeartRestore
People who suffer from coronary artery disease use to need Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery, which commonly involves harvesting patients’ veins from the legs as grafts. This procedure may cause chronic pain and future complications, as more…
Swiss Vault Systems – BASEPORT
The mapping of the human genome is a reality that represents a continuous advance in the healthcare field. However, a single human genome takes up 100 GB of storage space. This is a problem for biotechnology firms, which need to invest…
Aspivix – Aspivix
The tenaculum used in some gynaecologist practices such as Intrauterine Contraceptive Device (IUD) insertions and curettage results in a painful and traumatic experience for 84% of women. Sometimes, it can even lead to lesions…
Pregnolia – Pregnolia
Any birth before 37 weeks of gestation is considered premature. Premature births represent an unsolved problem that affects 14.94 million babies globally. It is the leading cause of infant…
Positrigo – NeuroLF
Dementia is one of the most common problems of our ageing society. This condition, which 60-80% of cases correspond to Alzheimer’s disease (AD), affects around 50 million people worldwide. It also involves nearly trillion-dollar…
Picterus – Picterus
Jaundice is a common condition produced by high levels of bilirubin. Every year, it causes permanent brain damage and even the death of 114.000 newborns worldwide. A proper diagnosis and baby monitoring result crucial to treat and prevent jaundice…
Bioithas – ScleroTest
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system. MS affects about 2.5 million people worldwide, and it is one of the most common neurological disorders in young adults. Also, MS produces a high economic impact in Europe. Thus, this disease represents…
Pauvazal – Geolocflex
In the field of the IoT industry (Internet of Things), the growth of devices integrated with connected technology has been exponential thanks to the digital boom we are living in. Among the challenges this entails, is to improve the quality of life of people, particularly…
SamanTree Medical SA – HistologTM Scanner
Breast cancer is one of the most common causes of death in women globally. Among the usual treatments, there are mastectomy (removal of the breast and lymph nodes) and lumpectomy or conservative surgery of the breast (removal of cancer tissue and surrounding areas)…
Brooklyn Fitboxing – Applying tech to boxing
Brooklyn Fitboxing is a company that has developed a series of training methods derived from boxing and other martial arts, combining them with a technological integration of hardware and software that allows training and competing in real time. It is comparable to…
Moirai Biodesign – KlotoDx
Sepsis is a common disease caused mainly by bacteria that affect approximately 30 million people each year worldwide. If it is not diagnosed in time and treated properly, it can be lethal in 30% of cases. Another issue is that if it is not detected in the first 24…
Pauvazal & GVO Optics
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it is estimated that approximately 1.3 billion people live with some form of visual impairment. In addition, it points out that 80% of the causes are preventable or curable. In this context, GVO Optics has a firm…