for health companies and research teams
Open calls, business opportunityes, market entry programs, challenges, pitching opportunities, and more, related to health and life science for Helsinki Metropolitan’s health startups, companies, organisations and research teams – we gather and publish them all here.
Would you like to share an opportunity?
Send the information to taru.virtanen@healthcapitalhelsinki.fi
for health startups and companies
Open calls, business opportunities, market entry programs, challenges, pitching opportunities, and more, related to health and life science for Helsinki Metropolitan’s health startups, companies, organisations and research teams – we gather and publish them all here.
Would you like to share an opportunity?
Send the information to taru.virtanen@healthcapitalhelsinki.fi
HealthBIO Seminar and Get together, 15 September
The 15th HealthBIO event will be arranged on-site at Presidentti auditorium, BioCity, and Get-together at Visitor and Innovation Centre Joki, Turku.
The program includes an overview of the newest trends and successful companies will share their latest insights on the development of the life-science business environment. The program also introduces the most significant projects in the life-science field: CancerIO and InFlames. CancerIO is coordinated by the University of Helsinki and focuses on immuno-oncology, while InFlames is a joint flagship project of the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University and focuses on immunology.
HealthBIO 2021 Partnering Event, 16 September
The HealthBIO 2021 Partnering Day and Pitching Competition will be arranged on at SparkUp in ElektroCity, Turku.
Apply for the pitching competition by sending a short abstract of your 5 min presentation to tero.piispanen@turkubusinessregion.com by 15 August 2021.
Mini-Piloting is one of the piloting programmes within the EU-funded FinEst Twins project. The programme aims to improve the urban ecosystem by catalysing innovation from current research to create successful start-up companies.
Mini-Piloting is looking for research-based ideas and concepts that can be developed into profitable businesses or otherwise contribute to urban development. Health & Well-being is one of the topics in the piloting programme.
The call for tenders opens 18 June, 2021 and closes 18 August, 2021. During the autumn 2021 and spring 2022, the selected proposals will be developed into functional prototypes and piloted in cooperation with cities.
The aim of the competition is to encourage students to take a more positive stand towards biobusiness and entrepreneurship. Finnish Bioindustries invites all the students in Finnish universities and universities of applied sciences (bachelor, master, doctoral, graduate school students) to participate in the competition.
Apply by 20 August! The Pitching Competition Final takes place 1 October 2021.
Are you a start-up that can utilise digital solutions to predict and/or prevent the rise of obesity?
Novo Nordisk is inviting startups developing digital solutions that enable individuals and/or societies to predict and/or prevent the rise of obesity to join The Prevention Accelerator. Apply by 31 August!
Why participate?
Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs submit your solutions to the 13th Healthcare Innovation World Cup® - from wearable technologies to digital biomarkers. The aim of the competition is to promote innovations, to make them visible to the world, and to connect innovators with decision-makers in the healthcare industry, potential partners, investors and customers. Contestants can win prizes worth over 500.000 USD, incl. pitching slots in the finals at MEDICA in November 2021.
Join the competition now and take the opportunity to scale up your business at the 8th MEDICA Connected Healthcare Forum, the hotspot for digital heath innovations.
The participation is free of charge.
HELSEED is a student startup programme encouraging students to entrepreneurial path. Programme also aims to support and provide information to startup teams at different stages. Helsinki University Funds will make €10,000 – €50,000 seed investments to most promising startups. The programme is organised by the University of Helsinki and Helsinki Think Company.
The programme is ideal for teams that have an interesting idea, but have not yet established a company, as well as for teams who have already founded a company.
In the programme, students work on their business ideas or existing startups to develop business plan. Helsinki Think Company team support the process, by organising HELSEED workshops that provide information and tools from refining an original idea and selecting a business model to developing a business plan and negotiating with investors. Participants can choose a suitable workshop or attend all of the workshops.
Teams wishing to aim at obtaining a seed investment must submit their business plan by 31 October 2021.
Photonics Solutions at Pilot Scale for Accelerated Medical Device Development
MedPhab, Europe’s first pilot line for photonics-based medical devices, is launching an Open Call for the external companies developing medical products. The objective of the Open Call is to provide technology development services for the companies that are adopting advanced photonics technologies in the medical diagnostics solutions.
The Call is open from March 2021 to December 2022, and applicants will be able to apply anytime. The cut-off dates for the pre-screening stage are 15 July 2021, 31 January 2022, and 15 July 2022.
Flexible, experienced mentoring free of charge
Life Science Mentors is a network of volunteers-based life science industry experts. The network is provided by Finnish Bioindustries. LS-Mentors was established to support the Finnish life science sector by helping companies reach their commercial and technological milestones. The platform matches individuals, start-ups and SMEs together with relevant skilled professionals in business related matters within pharma, healthtech, biotech industries and more. The aim is to facilitate access to flexible, experienced and free of charge mentoring.
Startups Against Coronavirus – Where startups help companies solve business-critical problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 is a severe threat to companies, incl. governments and institutions like hospitals. Startups are outliers in solving difficult problems, fast.
Company: Post a problem
Share problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic, so startups know what to focus on!
Startup: Post a solution
Share your solutions to problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic. So companies can solve critical challenges fast!
Team Finland helps companies by offering advice and building activities that connect Finnish companies to market opportunities. Explore the updating opportunities from different markets on Team Finland Market Opportunities website.
To be able to provide best possible support in helping startups grow and get international, Health Capital Helsinki is joining forces with international ecosystems. The latest addition to our network is HealthTech Nordic, a community that helps us interact with Swedish, Danish, Norwegian colleagues. We encourage you to register as a Health Tech Nordic’s member to have an opportunity to e.g. join their great training programs. The services are completely free.
