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 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
Application deadline extended to 30 June!
Calling all Nordic HealthTech and MedTech innovators! Are you seeking new market opportunities in Singapore and Southeast Asia? This September, NIH-SG and partners from the Embassy of Finland, Business Sweden, Innovation Norway, Business Iceland and the Embassy of Denmark in Singapore will continue to build more opportunities for Nordic tech companies operating under the Health theme.
If you have a health solution in the areas of Chronic Disease Prevention & Management (Diabetes, Cancer, Mental Health), Ageing, Prevention & Early Intervention, or Rehabilitation, join the Nordic Health Virtual Market Entry Programme to co-create, collaborate and find new business opportunities with local partners in Singapore.
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.
Read more and/or attend an info webinar on 3 June!
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.
Join an exclusive acceleration program funded by the European Commission as part of the response plan to defeat COVID-19 with data-driven technology!
The program will grant EU companies with 100K€ in equity-free funding to validate their data solutions in one of the clinical partners from Italy, Spain or Sweden. If the company brings in a Healthcare Provider that can validate the solution, the financial support will go up to 150K€. The focus will be on clinical challenges related to diagnosis, prognosis or follow-up of COVID-19 patients, or on a new open challenge.
The selected solutions will join the 10-months acceleration program to boost a quick market uptake. The plan of action will include technical support, ethical validation, and business coaching. In addition, participants deploy the COVID-X Sandbox, a one-stop platform to exploit COVID-19 data sources, incorporating general information on data silos, as well as the integration, visualization, and exploratory analysis for easy understanding.
The Open Call#2, running now, will select 15+ top-ranked solutions. The deadline for applications is 22.07.2021 at 17:00 CEST.
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.
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.
