In 2021, we Upgraded, our members and partners celebrated many great milestones of important collaboration, awards, and funding. In this last Newsletter of this year, we want to show our sincere appreciation for all of your support during the year. Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
This December Special Edition newsletter consists of 2 main parts:
The first part, December News and Announcements!
The second part, 2021 Recap and Special Gifts from our Event Partners! Stay tuned till the end!
December News and Announcements
Feature Members - StepOut & Phonolyser!
Congratulations to both of our Members Stepout and Phonolyser on receiving great success lately!
Our member StepOut successfully raised their first angel round of 158k euros led by Mr. Reima Linnanvirta (Chairman of Finnish Business Angels Network).
Bahman Doaeian, CEO & Founder of Phonolyser has been featured on multiple forefront channels (MEDICA, Handelsblatt, Health Incubator Helsinki, etc.) and benefited from valuable connections & exclusive 1-1 business introductions. They also did great at Slush 2021, entering TOP20 companies of Slush100!
Recruitment Opportunity - Velbi is hiring
Velbi are looking for a CTO to build a product that will eradicate burnout and improve workplace wellbeing for millions of people. Application link
City of Helsinki is providing testbed activities for companies focusing on improving people’s wellbeing, physical activity, and exercise. Innovation Agent Roope Töllikkö companies and other RDI operators in the field to contact him with a low threshold. Check out the article for more information.
Founders get the opportunity to present their technology to leading #MedTech investors and corporate decision-makers.
📧 Apply until January 31, 2022, for an active pitching slot ➡ pitchday@htgf.de and kindly include a non-confidential executive summary or presentation of your start-up or project.
Events
Life-on-Chip Conference 2022 | Hybrid edition
Life science event on innovation in/cross-overs between biotech, micro- & nanotechnology, AI, design thinking, robotics, novel manufacturing tech & big data.
Location: Leuven, Belgium and online The event is on 9-10.2.2022
Vitalis presents a large exhibition, activities, networking, and a comprehensive conference program of more than 400 lectures Onsite. In Cooperation with Upgraded, Vitalis offer a beneficial Early Bird -30% discount (~160Eur each ticket) for all Upgraded members. Upgraded members will receive a separate email with the discount code.
The offer includes the full Vitalis 2022 Conference and the Conference Program of 2021.
The Early Bird offer applies for registrations until 2021-12-31
Companies will also have a chance to submit their presentation proposal to be published at the event. These proposals need to be experience-based presentations and future-orientated education sessions in digitalization and eHealth for health, social care, and digital assistive technology. It will be possible to register new proposals until 31 December.
It is possible to make changes to the presentation after submission. However, the advisory board will start the evaluation process after Christmas so make sure you have a ready version by then!
This prestigious award focuses on IoT, wearables & DeepTech for the Industrial, City/Home, Transport, Agriculture, Lifestyle & Sports industries. The submission deadline is approaching on 26 January 2022, 23:59 PST.
Start-ups, scale-ups and innovative SMEs are invited to join onboard free of charge. Submissions coming from, as well as nominated by Upgraded – IWC partner, will get the fast-track to the semi-finals with opportunities to win +12 pitching slots at the Hanover Fair – the world’s leading trade-fair in industrial innovation, further at WT | Wearable Technologies Conference, MEDICA, etc., exclusive 1-1 introductions with key industry leaders, 10k Euro in cash and many more.