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The list of Europe’s 40 fastest growing digital health and medtech entrepreneurs has been made public today. The 40 companies will present their tech innovation to over 200 international investor and corporate partners at the 9th edition of the Tech Tour Healthtech Summit, taking place in Lausanne on the 25-27 of June, 2018.

 

Healthtech Summit past presenting companies have generated over €3.4 billion in deal value since the first edition in 2008, with 916 companies reviewed by selection committee members and 220 companies presenting over the last 8 editions. Past presenting companies include CeQur, EOS Imaging, Endosense, mindmaze, Occlutech, Sapiens, and Sophia Genetics. Now in its 9th year, the 2018 edition of the Summit saw over 160 applications from top-level applicants.

 

Diana Saraceni, Founder and Managing Partner at Panakès Partners led the process of selecting companies. The committee consisted of 33 experts from leading venture capital and health organisations including Boston Scientific, Draper Esprit, Earlybird Venture Capital, Gilde Healthcare Partners, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Medtronic, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Omnes Capital, Peppermint Venture Partners, Philips, Salus Partners, Silicon Valley Bank, Sofinnova Partners, and UCB.

 

This year we saw an unprecedented number of good companies applying for a presentation spot in both the Digital Healthcare and Medical Device stream. Each jury member was asked to push forward the companies they were most supportive of in general, refraining of course from any conflict of interest. As a result, we had a very passionate and insightful discussion on each company, leading to the best possible result for the selection. The discussions showed that the jury had a strong preference for projects with a high level of ambition and strong supporting evidence to medical claims.” – Diana Saraceni, Founder & General Partner at Panakès Partners.

 

The final 40 include 19 medtech companies and 21 digital health companies which come from Switzerland (20%), France (18%), the UK (15%), Germany (13%), Israel (8%), Italy (8%), Spain (5%), Ireland (5%), Portugal (5%), Belgium (3%), and Denmark (3%). The full list of companies and their descriptions can be viewed online and below.

 

Marco Mohwinckel, Chief Commercial Officer at COMPASS Pathways, Pharma & Healthtech Advisor and President of the Tech Tour 2018 Healthtech Summit commented, “I'm very grateful to Diana and the Selection Committee for the effort they put into selecting the companies. It was a very tough job, given the breadth and calibre of applications received this year. All entrepreneurs deserve a huge amount of respect. I look forward to seeing the selected companies at the Summit and encourage all entrepreneurs to join us in the future.

 

Notes for Editors

Media representatives can register for the Healthtech Summit free of charge up to the 25 June 2018 – via email or the media registration on the HTS event website. You can find the highly industry focused and interactive programme here.

 

Presenting Digital Health Companies

Company

Country

Sector

Amicomed Inc.

Italy

Lifestyle/Wellness

Baby2Body

UK

Lifestyle/Wellness

HealthBeacon

Ireland

Lifestyle/Wellness

Healthera Ltd

UK

Lifestyle/Wellness

Lantum

UK

Lifestyle/Wellness

Liva Healthcare

Denmark

Lifestyle/Wellness

Oviva AG

Switzerland

Lifestyle/Wellness

docdok.health AG

Switzerland

Connected Devices & Physician/Patient Communication

Liip

Spain

Connected Devices & Physician/Patient Communication

Oxitone Medical

Israel

Connected Devices & Physician/Patient Communication

Pacifica Labs Inc.

UK

Connected Devices & Physician/Patient Communication

Px HealthCare

UK

Connected Devices & Physician/Patient Communication

Qured

UK

Connected Devices & Physician/Patient Communication

SWORD Health

Portugal

Connected Devices & Physician/Patient Communication

Genomcore - Made of Genes

Spain

Genomics & Diagnostics

GratXray

Switzerland

Genomics & Diagnostics

Lunaphore Technologies

Switzerland

Genomics & Diagnostics

MyAir llc

Italy

Genomics & Diagnostics

Nanolive

Switzerland

Genomics & Diagnostics

Novigenix

Switzerland

Genomics & Diagnostics

SeqOne

France

Genomics & Diagnostics

 

Presenting Medtech Companies

Company

Country

Sector

CroiValve

Ireland

Cardiovascular

EBA Med

Switzerland

Cardiovascular

NewPace

Israel

Cardiovascular

Protembis

Germany

Cardiovascular

Sensome

France

Cardiovascular

VeinSound

France

Cardiovascular

Epihunter

Belgium

CNS & Ophthalmology

Gondola Medical Technologies

Switzerland

CNS & Ophthalmology

InfiniteVision Optics

France

CNS & Ophthalmology

Newronika

Italy

CNS & Ophthalmology

Newsenselab

Germany

CNS & Ophthalmology

ROWIAK

Germany

CNS & Ophthalmology

AblaCare

France

Women's Health & Others

Emperra

Germany

Women's Health & Others

Fineheart

France

Women's Health & Others

inne by Feral

Germany

Women's Health & Others

MobileODT

Israel

Women's Health & Others

Perceive3D

Portugal

Women's Health & Others

Womed

France

Women's Health & Others

 

About Tech Tour

Founded in 1998, Tech Tour is a community with strong positions in the venture capital market. We promote innovative companies and their projects through our online community platform and in person at 25 networking events that we organise each year. We have 20-years of experience across Europe and the Middle East and present a unique cross-border platform for growing and emerging innovative tech companies on their way to investment and funding – from the idea to the success story. For more information please see: www.techtour.com

 

Contact: Stephanie de Verteuil | stephanie@techtour.com | www.techtour.com