Ventures

Aetherus tackles COPD, a debilitating lung disease, with their portable, non-invasive (pNIV) device. This device offers instant relief from breathlessness, improving patients' daily lives without adding to treatment regimens or causing side effects. By empowering patients to manage breathlessness anytime, anywhere, the pNIV device enhances COPD management and quality of life. This not only benefits patients but also alleviates the burden on healthcare systems, families, employers, and society at large.

PEP Health addresses the complexity of monitoring healthcare quality by offering a platform that tackles key challenges in quality assessment. By combining multiple sources of patient feedback, including social media, PEP provides near real-time assessments of quality for hospitals and departments. This approach reduces costs, improves timeliness, and enhances trustworthiness compared to traditional methods. With potential customers ranging from healthcare providers to patient organizations, PEP's underlying algorithm has been validated across industries, including higher education.

Hemeo addresses the challenge of treating ICU patients with coagulation issues by developing a decision support system. This system uses patient data and real-time monitoring to accurately assess bleeding and thrombosis risks. By modeling the coagulation system with a smart algorithm, it provides personalized recommendations to clinicians, helping them make more informed therapy decisions. With ICU patients at high risk for venous thromboembolism and bleeding incidents, this solution aims to improve patient outcomes and reduce uncertainty in treatment.

Pasithea improves treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition affecting millions worldwide. Traditional treatments like continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) face high refusal and dropout rates. Pasithea offers a non-invasive solution based on triggered kinesthetic stimulation. By detecting early signs of apnea or hypopnea and inducing a controlled response, Pasithea activates muscle control centers to prevent oxygen desaturation and associated cardiovascular risks, aiming to improve patient compliance and outcomes.

Lamina offers a solution for the regeneration of cartilage, addressing a prevalent issue affecting millions worldwide. Traditional treatments focus on symptom management or procedures like joint replacement, with limited success. Lamina's ARTiREG, enhances cell therapy with a special framework to hold Mesenchymal stem cells which repair for the body and help fix damaged cartilage. This patented approach promotes fast recovery, potentially transforming outcomes for individuals with cartilage damage.

The Venous Stent is a new type of stent designed to help with conditions like deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS). Unlike older stents, this one can adjust in length and has multiple parts, making it more flexible and better for the veins. It helps improve blood flow and healing in the veins, potentially reducing the need for long-term medication.

Porous GmbH has developed an ultrasound technology that accurately diagnoses cortical bone health, addressing the limitations of traditional methods. Osteoporosis affects millions globally, leading to frequent and costly fractures. Current diagnostics often miss early-stage bone deterioration, but Porous GmbH’s patented algorithms allow ultrasound to measure bone quality at a microscopic level for a safer and more precise method for early detection of osteoporosis, also reducing healthcare costs.

TherageniX introduces an approach to improve bone implants by augmenting autologous bone grafts with regenerative gene therapies. Traditional bone repair methods face challenges like rejection, infection, and limited regenerative capacity. TherageniX's solution aims to enhance the regenerative bone grafts, improving functional outcomes and reducing donor trauma. This method bypasses regulatory and manufacturing hurdles, offering a promising advancement in bone grafting procedures.