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December Issue
Upgraded News
 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!


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). 

Check out the Press Release here!

Congratulations to Tarnjit & Sanni! Check them out at LinkedIn.

Tarnjit Saini, CEO & Co-Founder at StepOut
Sanni Ishfaq, COO & Co-Founder at StepOut

Our member Phonolyser had great success at MEDICA Düsseldorf with finals of the 13th Healthcare Innovation World Cup® and 10th MEDICA Start-up COMPETITION. They are the proud winner of the World’s top1 Medical Start-up 2021.

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!

Community News

Articles in English:
Medical device development is a challenge for regulation - Sic! (fimea.fi)

Opportunities

  • 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

Special Gifts from our Event Partners!

Vitalis 2022 – the leading Nordic eHealth Event and meeting place

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

Focus tracks for the Programme 2022 

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.

More detailed instruction here!

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!
THE 13 th IOT/WT INNOVATION WORLD CUP®

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.

14th Healthcare Innovation World Cup®
11th MEDICA Start-up COMPETITION

Let us know if you are applying so that we can make a personal introduction ;)

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2021 Recap - A year full of great success from our community members!

Upgraded members Medified, Phonolyser and Stepout are prequalified for the Slush 100 pitching contest
with  Phonolyser and Medified are in top 20 of Slush 100 Pitching Competition 2021 🥳🎉
Tarnjit from StepOut is nominated as entrepreneur of the year 2021 by Nordic Women in Tech Awards

Finnish Buddy Healthcare Ltd Oy has received a total of 2 million EUR of growth capital to be used for internationalization.
Buddy Healthcare has been granted ISO 13485:2016 certification for its Quality Management System (QMS), read more here.

Another great news from Nightingale: Nightingale Health secured funding of EUR 8.8 million
the only NMR-based blood analysis lab to deliver blood analysis results directly to individuals. Read more here.
Nightingale announces a long-term collaboration with BioBank Japan

New Members and Partners of 2021

Thank you for believing in us and being a part of Upgraded Community! We are grateful for your trust and support. Welcome again!
Our Members
Maculaser     
Vireum 
Cerenion  
PatientSky
Robu     
Onbone    
Medified Solutions
AUVC Tech
Phonolyser
VREACH    
Velbi     
Formulaattori
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Freshcode
The Embassy of the Netherlands in Finland
Talenom
Health Capital Helsinki
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment
NewCo
Health Incubator Helsinki
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