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12th January 2023

Dutch health-tech startup Lapsi Health raises USD 3.7M in oversubscribed Seed Round to continue their development and enter the US market

Investors in this latest round for the 2022-founded startup are a mix of old and new backers: The Seed Series is led by Sahir Ali of Modi Ventures, a Texas-based family office that has recently stepped into the Venture Capital world with investments in the space of Artificial intelligence and Tech Bio. Modi Ventures is followed by some of the Pre-Seed investors of the company (Vendash, Bolwork) as well as some new investors (Israeli-Ukrainian software development company BeKey).

Lapsi Health CEO, Dr. Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriades & Med-Tech World Summit CEO Dr. Dylan Attard moments after Jhonatan was crowned as Healthcare Leader of the year at the Malta Med-Tech World Summit 2022

Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriades, CEO at Lapsi Health (named Health-tech Leader of the Year 2022 by Med-Tech World 2022), said: “During the year we released 4 generations of prototypes and two native applications. We have been able to validate our technology and showcase it in several venues worldwide and to several medical leaders. This helped us to secure the next step in the funding for our company, now with the goal of bringing our technology to the market during 2023”.

The company has welcomed in their Advisory Board, several World healthcare leaders such as Craig Lipset, Rafael Grossman, Aline Noizet, Suzanne Terheggen, Carlos Sendon and Amir Lahav in the beginning of the year. In the last quarter of 2022, the company welcomed a new member of the Advisory Board, Junaid Bajwa, MD,Chief Medical Scientist at Microsoft. “With his vast med-tech experience, we will be able to develop and iterate even faster,” said Jhonatan Bringas.

“As a patient, all of my encounters with my primary care provider and my pulmonologist involve listening to my lungs. Lapsi Health brings that capability with confidence for remote care as well as remote clinical trials. The technology will improve patient experience and outcomes while supporting the new normal for healthcare and clinical research,” said Advisory Board Member and co-Chair of the DTRA, Craig Lipset.

“Data driven decisions are the next step to improving healthcare, patient empowerment, clinical intelligence and to make clinical research more democratized. These are the ideals that inspired us to create Lapsi Health.” said Chief Medical Officer and co-Founder Diana van Stijn – a leading expert in digital therapeutics and paediatrics.

About Lapsi Health

Lapsi Health Founders (from left to right): Seamus Holohan (COO), Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriades (CEO), Diana van Stijn (Chief Medical Officer) and Rodrigo Alvez (CTO)

In the last 10 months, the company has grown from 4 to more than 10 employees (including their Head of Engineering, Toni Leinonen, founder of Haltian and former lead within the team that developed the Oura Ring) and 8 advisors. They were accepted by the Health IncubatorHelsinki and therefore expanded their borders by opening an operative office in Helsinki, Finland, at the Terkko Health Hub. The company won the ultra competitive Eureka Eurostars in June and was accepted in September by the prestigious TechLeap program (the accelerator program for the bestdeep-tech Dutchcompanies and has HRH Prince Constantijn van Oranje Nassau, brother of the King of the Netherlands, as it’s envoy). The next step will be market access and certifications, according to their Founding Team.

 

For more information about Lapsi Health, visit: www.lapsihealth.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lapsihealth