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Epiheart raised €0.6 million in funding for novel cardiac therapies
Feb 22, 2021
Finnish medtech startup, Health Incubator Helsinki company Epiheart has raised a €0.6 million seed funding for the advancement of their first cardiac therapy that aims to provide added value for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgeries....
Maculaser raised €1.2 million in funding to combat blindness
Feb 15, 2021
Finnish medtech startup, Health Incubator Helsinki company Maculaser has raised a €1.2 million funding round for their patented laser treatment technology that aims to halt the progression of blinding retinal diseases. Maculaser, a Finnish startup...
First ever Estonian-Finnish showcase of potential future health tech unicorns
Feb 3, 2021
The first of its kind Estonian-Finnish Health Economy Demo Day brought together over 80 investors, startups and ecosystem partners to listen to pitches from 9 promising health technology startups. Organized by Health Founders accelerator in Estonia...
Health Incubator Helsinki open for applications in February
Jan 26, 2021
Do you have an amazing idea in the health sector?Health Incubator Helsinki, Finland's first long-term business development environment for research-based health sector startups, is welcoming new applications from 1 February until 15 March 2021. After...
BrainCare has a vision for remote, long-term neurological monitoring with an emphasis on epilepsy
Jan 12, 2021
Diary Apps have become more common in treating illnesses. Katrina Wendel-Mitoraj, PhD, wanted to develop an easy-to-use diary app for epilepsy patients. Her spin-off company from Tampere University of Technology, BrainCare Oy, was launched in 2013 to...
Sartar Therapeutics wants to revolutionize sarcoma therapy
Dec 10, 2020
Today, the focus of cancer therapy is continuously moving towards more personalized medicine. However, very few efficacious therapies are available for sarcomas. For example, advanced soft-tissue sarcomas are rare and often lethal cancers, posing...
VULCAM fights off sports injuries with advanced 2D video technology
Dec 8, 2020
Musculoskeletal injuries occur often in all sports – too often. Many of the injuries could be prevented with technology and new solutions. VULCAM is a new, exciting tool for preventing and evaluating injuries, as well as for injury rehabilitation,...
VEIL.AI takes data anonymization and synthetization to the next level
Dec 2, 2020
There are vast amounts of health data that can not be properly used because it is sensitive, containing information of identifiable private citizens. However, if these privacy issues could be solved, this would open up brand new horizons for...
SCellex targets single cell resolution to boost cancer research
Nov 24, 2020
Better understanding of cancer provides scientific keys to combating the disease itself. Helsinki startup SCellex is developing a novel spatial gene sequencing technology that links microscope image to the sequence data – a “genetic microscope,” of...
Healthzilla launches a personalized digital lifestyle intervention
Nov 19, 2020
The alarmingly rising costs of lifestyle diseases are currently burdening healthcare systems around the globe. People’s everyday lives can be incredibly taxing – but what can you do? Helsinki startup Healthzilla wants to tackle this formidable...
