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
Are you an established company that has successfully entered at least one market? Are you ready to find your first customers or partners in Europe? Apply to Euro Scalers, a growth-driven virtual accelerator program for Finnish scale-ups and be ready to get closer to your internationalisation goals.
The cost-free, 10-week program consists of workshops and top-level team coaching.
Apply to become one of the finalists who will pitch their idea on the stage of Y Science on December 1st! Y Science, an official side event of Slush, brings together the curious scientific community and the business world to inspire concrete action and contribution to the society in the field of life sciences.
Y Science Pitching Competition is searching for:
The winner will be granted 5,000 euros to take their exciting idea further.
Terkko Health X is an ambitious pre-accelerator for health tech and life science teams with the aim to support Finland-based entrepreneurship.
Researcher, entrepreneur, innovator, or basic degree student – Terkko Health X 2021 invites you to apply to our ambitious program that is arranged for the third time this year. With solutions ranging from diagnostic tools to health data and beyond, the program is open for all early-stage teams of 2 or more members that are willing to develop startups. In Terkko Health X you will learn to show clear proof of concept and the path to profitability, develop a clinical validation plan and start rolling it out while actively engaging with corporate partners. Interested? Apply now!
Application period: 6.9.–3.10.
Online Program: 16.10.–26.11.
Nordic Mentor Network for Entrepreneurship (NOME) invites startups working in biotech, medtech, diagnostics, healthcare, digital health, and industrial biotech based in the Nordics to participate in the Startup Competition!
Startup Competition, held on November 23 in Copenhagen, offers your company a great opportunity to not just network with the leading experts in the field of life sciences but also to get a direct pass to participate in the NOME Mentoring Program. In addition, five companies will be selected to pitch at the NOME Annual Meeting. The winner will receive the NOME prize of 50 000 DKK.
Would you like to increase your knowledge of requirements and practices in the health tech field to operate there successfully and safely?
Health tech accelerator (Terveysteknologiakiihdyttämö) is a comprehensive training program about quality, innovation, product development and management in the health tech field. The program is for organisations and experts from all these areas.
The topics to be covered include, for example:
The program, organised by Clinipower Finland Oy, begins on October 27. The training consists of independent online learning and remote contact teaching, held mostly in Finnish.
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.
Are you a healthtech company planning to venture into the international market and grow your network? Healthtech From Finland 2022 is a marketing and sales training for healthtech companies aiming for growth, organised by Pro Growth Consulting Oy and Healthtech Finland ry.
The training will start in November 2021 and end in June 2022. The topics covered during the 12 remote sessions will include, for example, principles of growth, understanding the market, pitching, marketing communication and SEO.
Some slots available, register now!
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.
