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MED-TECH
START UP PITCH

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to pitch in front of our world
class judges?

MED-TECH
START UP PITCH

Want to be one of the lucky 10
to pitch in front of our world
class judges?

Do you have what
it takes to win?

Pitch your idea in front of 30+ VCs

About med-tech start-up pitch

With our unique take on a start-up pitch we want to not only offer the best start-up a well deserved prize but we also want to offer exposure to all participants to a wide array of investors. Our process is quite rigorous and unfortunately, not all that do apply will have the opportunity to pitch. We will soon be announcing the criteria for the competition taking place in 2022. In the meantime have a look at last year’s winners and participants.

Deadline 30th September.


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We want to give start-ups the global stage to express themselves and showcase their product. Through our start-up pitch we want to give an opportunity for our start-ups to meet up with the relevant stakeholders. We pride ourselves in having diversity both within the start-ups that decided to submit their application to pitch as well as the judging panel. We believe in providing an equal opportunity, no matter who you are, where you come from and if this is your first start-up or your 30th.


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STARTUP VILLAGE PARTICIPANTS WILL RECEIVE

BOOTH

A free 1x1m booth at Med-Tech Summit

NETWORKING

Premium events at Med-Tech Summit

PITCH

A live pitch competition for 10 finalists

PR

Exposure on AIBC’s print & digital media

CONSULTANCY

Consultancy & mentorship from industry veterans

LEADS

Connections to potential customers & investors

2022 start-up profile


Akeno Health Ltd

Connecting electronic health records with real-time health vitals to predict microbiome diversity to reverse metabolic diseases


Bolo

With the aid of emotion detection technology, we are creating an app that enables users to receive real-time therapy. There are two sets of users: a. Venter b. Listener Venters can use a chat feature to send voice messages to listeners. The voice notes are labeled according to the emotional levels of their voice, i.e. sad, afraid, happy etc. We believe this is important because we often misunderstand others and fail to say the right words. With the correctly detected emotion, the helpline service becomes more efficient. The venter has the option to stay anonymous. The listeners are selected based on an automated emotional intelligence assessment. The test will use the ''Befriending Model'' which has been proven to be scientific and successful to tackle depression. The listeners will guide the venters with intensive training. The various mental health exercises are based on the venter’s mental state after consulting with reputed psychologists and psychiatrists.


Breathment

Breathment offers the first ever digital rehabilitation for patients suffering from chronic respiratory diseases to close the care gap after hospital discharge by combining the AI-based therapy app "Breathment" with telecalls to reduce the medical and financial burden of chronic respiratory diseases for insurance companies. Breathment therapy app combines different functionalities for health professionals and patients such as patient onboarding & management, individual exercise programming and data-driven performance and wellbeing tracking. At the same time, patients get access to a mobile and web-app to track exercise plans, create daily to-do's and fill surveys. Using artificial intelligence, Breathment guides the patients during their physical and breathing exercises while monitoring them through the camera of their electronic device and providing feedback in real time whether they are performing the exercise correctly or not.


Cognitant

Cognitant Group operates www.healthinote.com, a platform that delivers personalised and trustworthy digital health information to help people understand and manage their health and treatment. This is a B2B business that has contracts with over ten global life science companies, the NHS and international healthcare payers and providers.


CureCurve Medical AI

Driven by the vision to detect chronic diseases at an early stage and reduce serious illness, CureCurve offers people with chronic heart disease an instant, free and reliable heart health check via smartwatch, as well as long-term personalised digital therapy. By using AI, we are able to detect asymptomatic cases at an early stage and understand correlations in such trajectories through pattern recognition so enabling us to intervene in emergencies.


Digiburn

Digiburn is a burnout risk check-up and a transformational, life-proven 12 weeks self-help journey.


ECG Excellence

ECG Excellence develops software based solutions for 12 lead ECG data interpretation which supports physicians in earlier, better and cheaper detection and monitoring of conduction related heart disease and our solutions reduce healthcare costs through improved personalized diagnostics and increased therapy effectiveness.


Five Lives

Dementia is a huge public health problem affecting around 55 million people in the world, currently the seventh leading cause of death driving societal costs of US$1.3 trillion annually. No drugs are available to reverse or prevent dementia in Europe, but lifestyle-based interventions do reduce risk by 30-50% (Livingston 2020). Hence, the opportunity to detect at-risk individuals and support them in lifestyle adjustments to prevent or delay dementia is substantial. Five Lives is aimed at Europeans aged 50-75 year-olds, particularly those with concerns about their brain health who cannot access specialist support, since they do not yet meet clinical criteria. Our objective is to empower them to take control of their personal health journey by adopting a healthier lifestyle. To do so, we have built an engaging direct to consumer digital therapeutics solution for the prevention, early detection and treatment of Central Nervous System conditions, starting with dementia.


Fundacion Invisible

What does a Foundation that works for and with patients do? A foundation that is born from patients to make the patient visible, make their function and participation visible. Collaborate on projects and create projects based on them. The patient from start to finish. From research, innovation, to implementation. From studies initiated by patients, making easy-to-use platforms such as Uhda available to teams, researchers. Going through the process of co-creating solutions, working on the Journey Map of the patient, the professional, the center... And taking it to the field in an accessible way through personalized videos. Turning data into health communication with technology. Demonstrating the relevance of the data and the relevance of the patient.It is about approaching the detected needs, measuring and using them. The process finish with the real impact on the patient, through SROI tools.


Hear Glue Ear

Hear Glue Ear is tech and an app which aims for children with the most common type of hearing loss across the world to access hearing and reach their full potential.


Implandata Ophthalmic Products

Implandata is transforming glaucoma care by introducing its breakthrough EYEMATE system for remote disease monitoring and management. Glaucoma is a chronic age related and incurable eye disease and a leading cause of irreversible loss of eyesight in the world. At glaucoma patients, increased intraocular pressure is causing permanent damages to the optic nerve, which gradually leads to progressive loss of eyesight. By 2040 120 million patients will suffer glaucoma. Despite a wealth of treatment option a considerable number of patients is losing eyesight and eventually go blind, as today disease status and therapy effectiveness can be only controlled at infrequent (3-4 per year) office visits. In between office visits therapy effectiveness and adherence is completely unknown. The EYEMATE system allows disease monitoring at home under normal life conditions. Eye doctors can remotely monitor and manage the disease, as the information is provided by a digital telemedicine solution.


IppocraTech

IppocraTech is an Italian startup that has developed an AI technology to measure simultaneously the five vital signs that the World Health Organization has defined as necessary to assess a person's health status.


Mama Health

Empowering patient communities to speak up, through the stories of their members. We collect, organize and mine the individual journeys of patient community members so they can share their real-world needs with decision-makers in the healthcare system.


MEGI

We make Megi. Megi is a virtual heart nurse, a clinically proven AI system that in a human/like interaction, guides every individual patient through daily life with their disease and treatment plan. She first learned about high blood pressure. Megi ensures patients measure their BP according to their individual clinical plan, supports them with difficulties and symptoms, helps them to adhere to prescribed therapy, helps them adopt healthy habits, such as nutrition and activity. We collect and analyze all patient data, and we know exactly, when the capacity of the patient stops, and they require real clinical support. And we can provide that. Megi is built on the shoulders of one of the largest cardiovascular centers in the CEE region, Magdalena Clinic, owned by founders family. Magdalena serves as a laboratory for continuous development and experimentation.


Miracle srl

Miracle srl is an IT innovative start-up company that integrates intelligent components to monitor health status and measure vital parameters through Artificial Intelligence techniques. The tools such as the electrocardiogram, that monitor the vital parameters and the health status of an individual, are invasive, require qualified personnel and don’t allow daily monitoring of health status. Consequently, it is necessary to develop novel tools that alleviate the aforementioned issues by simplifying monitoring, avoiding "unnecessary" visits and promoting a culture of prevention. The objective of the proposed solution is to detect the non-contact vital parameters of an individual, such as heart rate, respiratory rate and blood oxygen saturation. In detail, we propose a cloud-based service that relies on remote photoplethysmography techniques to detect physiological parameters without the use of contact sensors. Moreover, through the contributions of the intelligent system, the proposed solution returns an index concerning the individual's degree of cardiovascular risk.


Move and Enjoy

We develop software for human computer interaction. We make people move and enjoy it.


myScribe

We provide a modern web application that makes the life of every ward physician easier. With our solution, physicians can document all clinically relevant information in simple steps. Rounds lists are created from this data, allowing physicians to quickly see patients and easily plan their day. At discharge, our AI creates a grammatically complete physician letter based on the most important points. All in all, in our alpha version, we save physicians over 50% of the time they used to spend on documentation, and no more overtime has to be worked, which is good for the work-life balance.


Nuralogix.ai

“ We're NuraLogix ™, an award-winning Affective-AI company and the creators of Anura™, the world’s first contactless wellness and vital sign monitoring solution. Our technology provides instant vital sign measurements and health risk assessments using data gathered from a simple 30-second video selfie. Through years of research and development, we have reached medical grade accuracy and are backed by peer review publications and many global clinical collaborations.


Save Pharmaceutical

Over $8B worth of unused medications are thrown away each year in the US alone. This is mainly due to supply chain inefficiencies that our software aims to reduce in size, saving money and lives.


Shift2ai

We are IT company which provide IT services to our clients all over the world. Our expertise from developing products for our customers we implemented in our idea to build our product Hipokratija. Hipokratija is a review healthcare platform with large database of healthcare institutions and reviews (categorized by specializations) where you can find relevant information for your health problem and recommendation for healthcare institution and doctor. The main challenge which we are aiming to solve is centralization of transparent and relevant information about healthcare problems, institutions and doctors into a large database platform where you can find a free and easy result for your health problem. Platform will be free for users but healthcare institutions will pay monthly subscription. For healthcare institution, Hipokratija will be a marketing and sales channel to large base of users.


SimCPR Medical

We developed the first wristband with CPR-feedback to optimize chest compression treatment for a cardiac arrest. Our SimCPR® Pro is a medical device (EU-MDR) and also has a low cost trainer/simulator with free training-app. In this way every low-cost CPR-manikin is turned into a. more advanced CPR-training solution.


Simpleprax

Simpleprax digitizes paper processes in medical facilities. This includes medical history forms, administrative documents, surgery documentation, consent forms, protocols, and payment and billing transactions. Patient forms can be filled out and signed before the appointment in a GDPR-compliant, legally secure and audit-proof manner via the Simpleprax web platform. Patient data is collected in a structured form, making it analyzable and usable for the medical facility. On top of that, time is saved in every-day processes.


Smille

Our mission is to build an odor communication ecosystem that is useful and available to people worldwide. To achieve this mission, the company is taking a full-stack approach by building hardware, software, and pursuing state-of-art research with selected partners on Deep-tech, Omics, and HCI.


Softcare Studios

Softcare Studios is a digital health startup developing virtual reality experiences for pain/stress management and therapy education of patients (pediatrics and adults) undergoing critical medical procedures. Our products are present in 15+ healthcare facilities, undergoing clinical validation, and distributed in form of bundles to hospitals, medical specialists, Pharma, and Medtech companies. Our leading product is TOMMI, a VR gaming experience designed as a non-invasive and drug-free digital tool to reduce pain perception and clinical anxiety in hospitalized pediatric patients (7-13 years old). The application consists of 4 gaming activities tailored to supporting children in different critical moments of the therapy experience, with a special focus on pediatric oncology, dentistry, and painful medical procedures such as vascular access routines. Preliminary results of ongoing clinical studies showed a 40% reduction in pain perception and a significant drop in necessary sedation rate during invasive medical procedures in young patients using TOMMI.


Tailoraid

By using a scalable pipeline we created a Machine learning model that can be used to predict side effects in patients before they get prescribed a medication based on data from their EHR. We are specialising in reducing inequalities in healthcare and therefore targeting medication disproportionately affecting women and minorities. Of all reported side effects, 70% are reported by women and 2/3 of drugs removed from market are due to unacceptable side effects in women. On a societal scale, every year in Europe 192 000 people die due to side effects costing the EU 79 billion euros every year. Predicting these side effects from happening is prevention and treatment at it's finest placing patients at the centre.


Tooly

Tooly creates intuitive robots to provide quantified health for you and your family.


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MEET THE HOST & JUDGES

You can see all the judges here. They have been meticulously chosen from a crowd of experts, industry veterans, and business leaders from the sector! Want to get involved as one on the judges? Kindly contact [email protected]

MAXINE BRISTOW
Health & Fitness Coach. Distributor of MUHDO Health.

TREVOR SAMMUT
Senior Technology Architect at Malta Digital Innovation Authority

JULIA PRAKAPOVICH
General Partner at Interface Fund

SHAMIK J PAREKH
Early Stage Healthtech Investor at Octopus Ventures

GIOVANNI LAURICELLA
Managing Partner at Lifeblood Capital & Talent

MARTYN EELES
General Partner at VC

MARION ZAMMIT
Chief Officer Investment Promotion at Malta Enterprise

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