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
The competition will focus on pre-seed to seed stage startups from the Nordics and Baltics. Startups will be judged by a panel of international investors and experts. There will be three stages to the competition: the application period, public Top30 voting, and the final Top15 live pitching at the Arctic15 online event on 1 June.
The winner will get €5 000 worth ArcticStartup services, but naturally an investment opportunity from an angel syndicate is the ultimate goal!
Apply by 17 May!
The event is on 26 May (11am–12.30pm Finnish time) but please note that the registration deadline for the pitching is 18 May.
Business Finland and German ZIM programme are looking for inspiring market-oriented joint projects between small and medium-sized enterprises in Finland and Germany. This time also research institutes in Finland can participate in the call. This is done by co-innovation funding tool: If one or more research organizations are involved in the co-innovation project, there must also be at least three companies, which have applied for Business Finland funding for their R&D project.
Come hear more about the German-Finnish ZIM innovation call, organized as a part of Business Finland's Smart Life Finland program, and use the opportunity to pitch your company or project idea for a joint innovation project or to generate new business contacts.
Nordic AMPlify's 2021 Program offers Nordic digital health and medtech companies the opportunity to significantly shorten their time to market by partnering with 5 U.S. health systems with over 100 hospitals and 5 leading early stage VCs.
Join the free virtual Launch Workshop on 25 May (sign up by 21 May) to hear an insider’s perspective on current opportunities in U.S. healthcare and cover essential topics on market entry. The workshop will prepare and qualify you to apply for the virtual learning program and a week-long U.S. Discovery Tour in North Carolina. All companies receive investor and clinical feedback, business mentoring, access to pilots and co-development, and the potential to grow in a pro-Nordic healthcare environment.
SPARK Finland calls for projects targeting on new solutions in health tech and life science space. Eligible applicants are from Helsinki, Tampere, Turku, Kuopio and Joensuu regions – faculty, scientists, clinicians, students – from SPARK's affiliated institutions.
Selection criteria:
Information sessions: 28 April and 5 May
Application period: 30 April - 31 May
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.
Bayer G4A partners with startups and healthcare technology companies that are developing innovative solutions in healthcare. You can now apply for our 2021 partnerships!
This year, G4A is looking for digital health solutions in the fields of cardiometabolic and renal diseases, women’s health care and mental health. Join the community of innovative digital health companies that strive to change the experience of health.
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.
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.
