Written by Sara Härmälä on May 21, 2019
Impact companies are companies with products and services which decreases climate change, creates a better environment, reduces food waste, expands renewable energy, secures clean water, improve waste management or solves social issues and other global challenges. Upgraded member Huoleti was listed to top 50 Nordic Impact Companies by The…Read More
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Written by Raisamiina Rimpelä on May 16, 2019
The new act of secondary use of health and social data enables more possibilities for developing new innovative solutions in health and wellbeing services.
The act states that it is now possible to use customer and register data created in health services to other uses than originally intended. The secondary uses…Read More
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Written by Sara Härmälä on May 15, 2019
The ESTRO 38 meeting in Milan saw over 100 companies exhibiting at the trade show. Mahmudul Hasan, CEO of Helsinki-based MVision, founded the company to solve a problem — namely, the complex, time-consuming nature of contouring images for radiotherapy planning.
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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 24, 2019
Upgraded Life Festival has been around for six years. When we started, it was something new and exciting. We created the festival because we wanted to bring together all the relevant stakeholders in health to discuss, connect and push forward innovation and imaginative new solutions.
The festival has been a…Read More
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Written by Sara Härmälä on April 17, 2019
Kaiku Health is looking for design professionals to join their product team in Helsinki. You will take part in building our next generation digital patient monitoring and guidance platform that improves the outcomes of cancer treatments.
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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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Written by Sara Härmälä on April 4, 2019
The annual value of health technology product exports rose to a new record of EUR 2.3 billion in 2018 according to Healthtech Finlands latest report (published on April 4th 2019). Compared to 2017 the exports grew 3,4% and is therefore one of the fastest growing high-tech export sectors in…Read More
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