Written by Sara Härmälä on June 3, 2019
Upgraded member startups Navigil, Nightingale Health and Top Data Science presented their innovations for solving the problem of rapidly ageing population at the “Innovate with Finland – Advanced Digital Health Ecosystem” event on May 29th in Tokyo. Navigil offers white label and OEM personal safety and tracking services and devices for…Read More
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Written by Elena Prokofyeva on May 31, 2019
One goal of Upgraded is to help startups navigate through different ecosystem organisations and find the relevant collaborators. We continue our initiative to map the main health innovation ecosystems in Finland for the benefit of our community but also the international organisations interested in the Finnish market. Last year…Read More
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Written by Sara Härmälä on May 27, 2019
Emooter, a science-based tool for measuring and improving engagement, satisfaction and well-being at work, was selected as a runner up at the Ramboll Bright Ideas Challenge week. Altogether nine carefully selected international startups took part in the challenge week at Ramboll’s new headquarters at the Ramboll Village: Chaos Architects, 8-bit-sheep,…Read More
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Written by Sara Härmälä on May 23, 2019
With less than 3 weeks to the biggest health event of the year, the program for the dedicated Finland Pavilion showcasing the Finnish health innovations at the HIMSS & Health 2.0 event was published this week. The program includes several keynotes from the leading experts in the industry, and the…Read More
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Written by Elena Prokofyeva on May 13, 2019
HIMSS Europe and Health 2.0 are bringing to Helsinki a three-day event (11-13.6) to gather the digital health ecosystem in Finland and beyond. Apart from the event program, there will be multiple side-events organized in Helsinki…Read More
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Written by Sara Härmälä on May 6, 2019
Out of altogether 68 high-level applicants, 20 companies have been chosen to Future Health and Wellbeing Growth track in Kasvu Open 2019. The companies are very versatile representing different kinds of innovations in care and wellbeing solutions, drug development, occupational welfare and diagnostics. All of these 20 growth-minded companies’ share…Read More
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Written by Sara Härmälä on May 3, 2019
The startups to join the Veikkaus Innovation Challenge Week on 20–24 May have been chosen. Altogether 17 startups were interviewed, and seven of them were chosen for the esports themed innovation week. The startups chosen for the innovation week to be organized at Veikkaus’ head office are the Belgian Zender, German…Read More
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Written by Sara Härmälä on April 26, 2019
Meru Health is happy to announce a $4.2M in Series Seed financing from Freestyle Capital, Bonit Capital, Y Combinator, Lifeline Ventures and IT-Farm. This financing will support us with additional clinical validation and preparation for larger scale rollout to health systems and large employers in several states across the U.S.
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Written by Sara Härmälä on April 9, 2019
A CEO full of ideas who also has many other titles
How many hats can fit on one head? Helena Jäntti, CEO Heart2Save, has four. In addition to being CEO Helena works as an Emergency Doctor, teaches future doctors to-be and counsels with dissertations and doctoral theses….Read More
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Written by Sara Härmälä on April 8, 2019
Osgenic, a Helsinki, Finland-based startup that develops virtual tools for surgery training, raised $1 million seed round. The round was led by a syndicate of surgeons and gaming and digital health entrepreneurs from Finland, Germany and Austria with participation from icebreaker.vc and Nordic XR Startups.
“I could not imagine a…Read More
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