Mar 1, 2021
iDenta, Aalto University, SPARK Finland alumni, Koite Health, BioDesign, A round, Lumoral
Antibiotic resistance and bacteria caused diseases are a major threat to modern medicine and contribute to high health care costs and deaths. Koite Health – a SPARK alumni and BioDesign…
Feb 19, 2021
SPARKees, Novo Nordisk Foundation, Pioneer Innovator Grants, Tero Järvinen, Heli Skottman, Dario Grego, Esa Räsänen, Tampere University
In 2020 Finnish SPARKees were successful in raising awareness in many forums. Awareness transformed also to raised funding. Researchers at Tampere University received in 2020 four Pioneer Innovator Grants from…
Feb 15, 2021
HUS, University of Helsinki, funding round, EpiHeart, Invesdor, Helsinki University Hospital
Finnish medical technology startup, a SPARK Finland alumni Epiheart Oy, has raised more than 600.000 euro in a crowdfunding seed round for development of their Cardiac Micrograft Therapy™ – a new method to treat…
Feb 10, 2021
Maculaser, Aalto University, Innovestor Ventures, Jaakko Ollila, funding round
Finnish medical technology startup, a SPARK Finland alumni Maculaser, has raised a €1.2 million funding round for their patented laser treatment technology that aims to halt the progression of blinding…
Jan 12, 2021
SPARK Finland, Batch 2021, peer support, international evaluation panel, networks, high quality projects
In 2021 SPARK Finland continues with a new batch of cool projects and aims to support even stronger emergence of the new international success cases in health tech and life…
Jan 8, 2021
Funding, Surgify Medical, Innovestor Ventures, Peter Lindell, Leena Niemistö
A Finnish neurosurgical device company, Surgify Medical – a SPARK alumni – has closed a new 1,4 million euro funding round from private investors. For this round investors were a…
Jan 4, 2021
StemSight, Biofit, Most Innovative Start-up
StemSight, a Finnish SPARKee that is becoming a start-up, is the winner of 2020 edition of the Start-up Slams, from the Ophthalmology and Cell Therapy category. “We are honoured to…
Jan 3, 2021
Maculaser, Aalto University, Innovation of the Year
SPARKees continue their way of being acknowledged for their new cool solutions. Couple of weeks ago Maculaser received the Innovation of the Year Award by Aalto University’s School of Science…
Dec 21, 2020
SPARK Finland, education, SPARK BIH, SPARK FLI, SPARK Poland, SPARK Tel Aviv, Webinar
For the first time, European SPARKs will organize a joint webinar series during spring 2021. The series will cover topics from design thinking to challenges in selling complex high-tech products…
Nov 10, 2020
SPARK Finland, education
During spring 2021 SPARK Finland organizes the traditional course and lecture series on Health Tech and Life Science R&D. This course (5 ECTS) is organized at Tampere University by SPARK…