For health innovators
Open calls, business opportunities, market entry programmes, pitching competitions within to health and life sciences for Helsinki Metropolitan’s health innovators – find them all here.
Do you know of an opportunity that could be shared here?
Please send the information to taru.virtanen@healthcapitalhelsinki.fi
For health innovators
Open calls, business opportunities, market entry programmes, pitching competitions within to health and life sciences for Helsinki Metropolitan’s health innovators – find them all here.
Do you know of an opportunity that could be shared here?
Please send the information to taru.virtanen@healthcapitalhelsinki.fi
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The Healthcare Innovation World Cup® is looking for start-ups, scale-ups, and SMEs developing the next generation of smart health devices, medical wearables, digital biomarkers, electroceuticals, intelligent patches, and more. Healthtech and MedTech innovators worldwide are invited to take part free of charge.
If you are a technology-driven innovator submit your solution! 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. 12 pitching slots for the Top12 Health Techpreneurs 2023 in the finals at MEDICA.
The pitch and the award ceremony on the main stage of MEDICA fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, take place on 13 November 2023.
Business Finland will organise a trade mission to Munich and Erlangen in Germany on 7-9 November, 2023. The visit will give Finnish Healthtech and Digital Health companies an opportunity to meet and discuss with potential customers and business partners as well as to explore related business opportunities and gain valuable information in order to accelerate the market entry to Germany.
The visit is tailored for Finnish HealthTech and Digital Health companies providing solutions mainly, but not limited to, in following fields:
Y science, the official side event of Slush for science-based innovations, invites all startups and pre-startups located in Finland and Switzerland to apply for Health and Pharma pitching competition on 30 November in Messukeskus, Helsinki!
The winning team will be granted 5,000 EUR to take their exciting idea further, as well as:
Calling all Nordic and Baltic Deep Tech startups! Deep Tech Demo at NORDEEP Summit, 11-12 October in Espoo, Finland, is the best opportunity to showcase your product and vision to the world, attract investors and get valuable feedback from industry leaders.
This can be the platform you need to bring your startup ideas to the next level!
Business Finland has secured a spot for a Finland Pavilion at HLTH 2023, the preeminent event for the US healthcare industry in Las Vegas on 8-11 October. It is the new meeting place for key stakeholders and investors – leading the dialogue and development for the future of healthcare – and companies.
This event is a great opportunity for Finnish healthcare companies to expand their network, explore growth opportunities, and meet strategics, leading investors, and healthcare organisations.
Read more about the Finnish Pavilion and Business Finland's special discounted registration rate
Interested? Contact Charlie Schick at charlie.schick@businessfinland.fi
Business Finland is organising a matchmaking event in Vienna, Austria on 12 October 2023. Finnish companies have an opportunity to present their offering, meet and discuss with potential customers and business partners as well as explore related business opportunities and gain valuable insights to accelerate market entry to Austria.
The day is tailored for Finnish HealthTech and Digital Health companies providing innovative solutions that relieve the burden on medical staff, especially within documentation and reporting automatisation, AI solutions, AI/ML and data driven digital healthcare solutions, decision support, improvements in the self-management and empowerment of patients. The product/solution needs to be market-ready and have a medical device approval.
European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) has published 12 calls for proposals under the 2023 EU4Health Work Programme
The topics include healthcare access, mental health, NCDs, cancer, Substances of Human Origin and medical devices.
More information available here.
Info session recording
The deadline for applications is on 17 October 2023.
The Call for the 2024 Millennium Technology Prize nominations is open from 1 April to 31 October 2023.
The purpose of the one-million-euro Millennium Technology Prize is to promote the use of research-based technologies in solving global challenges and to find ways to improve life on the planet. The Prize is awarded for groundbreaking technological innovations that are accessible and are bringing benefit to people around the world.
Nominations are invited from individuals and organizations globally in all fields of technology, excluding military technology.
Voima Ventures, a Helsinki and Stockholm-based early-stage investor specialising in science-based startups, has launched a new science challenge, Velocity. Targeted at pre-seed and seed-stage science-based startups in the Nordic and Baltic regions, this initiative aims to accelerate innovation and support groundbreaking projects in the fields of green transformation, life sciences, health technologies, and disruptive industry technologies.
Velocity represents a significant opportunity for startups with university or research lab backgrounds to receive mentoring, feedback, and evaluation from science and growth company experts, as well as co-investors from Voima Ventures. 30 companies will be select to participate in an online session where they will receive expert guidance on commercialising their ideas and expand their investor networks.
From this pool, the top 8 teams will advance to a final round, where they will compete for a €1 million investment and a mentorship with Voima Ventures.
A tailor made bootcamp week on 29 January - 2 February, 2024, for Nordic healthtech companies looking to enter the UK
Looking towards the UK market and want to gain six months’ worth of market research, networking, and market development support in just one week?
Propel@YH Nordic Boot Camp is a week-long accelerator programme for Nordic-based companies who want to bring their products to the UK healthcare market. The bootcamp has been developed with Nordic HealthTech firms in mind, and will provide five days of intensive support, a crash course on the UK healthcare market, new knowledge and engagement with UK healthcare experts.
Nordic Innovation covers 50% of the participation fee for eligible Nordic companies.
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.
