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Business incubator boosts success in the health tech sector
Health Incubator Helsinki helps early-stage startups to develop their business idea and obtain valuable contacts and funding. Maculaser and EpiHeart’s experiences of the incubator are very good. Two startups participating in the incubator program...
Epiheart raised €0.6 million in funding for novel cardiac therapies
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
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
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...
Health Incubator Helsinki open for applications in February
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....
BrainCare has a vision for remote, long-term neurological monitoring with an emphasis on epilepsy
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...
Sartar Therapeutics wants to revolutionize sarcoma therapy
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
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
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
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,”...
