2021 Pitchers

The Award for the most Innovative Project goes to:
Hy2Care

Hy2Care, a Dutch start-up represented by Leo Smit, CEO, is the winner of this year’s edition of the Pitch Sessions, from the Surgery Related Tools category.

“We greatly enjoyed participating in the MedFIT Digital 2021 edition. The crowd of healthcare professionals that the event provided formed a good basis for some interesting discussions on potential future co-developments.”
Leo Smit, CEO, Hy2Care

Hy2Care develops its new Injectable Hydrogel for cartilage repair. This unique gel has proven to enable in situ regeneration of high-quality cartilage tissue in pre-clinical studies. Currently the first human clinicals are being prepared. Today, many people that undergo a cartilage repair surgery will suffer a return from pain and disabilities after several years. It is the aim of Hy2Care to provide for a long-term repair of cartilage defects and thus prevent the onset of post-traumatic osteo arthritis. The unique composition of Hy2Care’s hydrogel creates a natural scaffold for the patient’s own cells to reside in and deposit new cartilage matrix, enabling the body to heal itself.

Discover below the start-up projects & technologies that were presented during MedFIT Digital 2021:

Tuesday, December 7^th | 2.30 – 4.00 pm CET

Infervision
Robust | User-friendly | Secure

Juisci
Scientific Knowledge | Continuing medical education | Machine Learning

NOVIGA
Sleep apnea diagnosis | Digital health | Artificial intelligence

HEALTHCARE IT

Boarding Ring
Motion Sickness | Medical Device | Balance

Worldish
Digital medical interpreter | Communication assistant | Equal healthcare

DiappyMed
Diabetes | Artificial Intelligence | Mobile app

Wednesday, December 8^th | 10.30 – 11.30 am CET

SURGERY RELATED TOOLS

VesselSens
Digital Monitoring via medical sensors | Outpatient health care and Point-of-care diagnostic | Patient empowerment

Tada Medical
Patented technology | Breakaway connector | Catheter dislodgement

Vas MedTech
Mobile | Hysteroscopy | Point-of-care

Yes-Tech.
Medical Device | Precision Medicine | Cancer Diagnosis

Corporis Medical
Wound-healing potential | Tissue Perfusion | Minimally Invasive Surgery

Wednesday, December 8^th | 1.30 – 2.30 pm CET

SURGERY RELATED TOOLS

Hy2Care
Cartilage-repair | Hydrogel | Arthroscopy

University of Cape Town
Intravenous anaesthetic | Infusion pump | Customised PK models

VIEWaves
Human cancer therapy | Enhanced tumor surgery | Near infrared (ou NIR) fluorescence-guided surgery

manikinMate
Medical simulators | Training and demonstration | Surgery and rheumatology

Lattice Medical
Breast Cancer | Breast Implant | 3D printing

Thursday, December 9^th | 10.30 am – 12.00 pm CET

MONITORING

Implandata Ophthalmic Products
Remote patient management| Eye care | Glaucoma

Samdoc Medical Technologies
Human | Reliability | Determination

DIAGNOSTICS

GaDia
Rapid diagnostic tests | Sepsis | Healthcare-acquired infections

Loop Diagnostics
IVD medical device | Infectious diseases | Point-of-care

Diagante
Infection | In vitro diagnostic medical device | Solid samples

EpiQMax
Epigenetics | Personalised Health | Digital Health

David Aubert, MEDTEG Business Developer, Ghent University
Sascha Berger, Partner, TVM Capital
Frank Bulens, Partner, Imec.xpand
Anke Cassing, Principal, High-Tech Gründerfonds
Eric Garnier, Member of the Board of Directors and Head of National Business Angels Networks, Angels Santé
Ulf Hengstmann, Digital Lead Medical Affairs & Pharmacovigilance, Bayer
Mike Karim, CEO, Oxford Endovascular
Cécile Réal, CEO, Endodiag
Rogier Receveur, Senior Program Manager Innovation and New Business Generation, Medtronic Bakken Research Center, Medtronic
Simon Turner, Owner, Nomis Life Sciences
Beatriz Volckaert, Senior-Associate – Venture Investments, Philips Ventures