Sep 14, 2021
Sartar Therapeutics, Business Finland, SPARK Finland alumni, Funding, StemSight, Voima Ventures, Avohoidon tutkimussäätiö
There has been a trend of Finnish SPARK alumni to be highly successful in raising new funding for advancing their cases. Two of the latest successes were witnessed when StemSight…
Aug 25, 2021
New SPARKees, international evaluation panel, Fall season, Batch Fall 2021
SPARK Finland has started once again the fall season and this time with 9 new SPARKees. You can find new teams – Batch Fall 2021 – at PROJECTS section. In…
Aug 20, 2021
education
This autumn the joint European webinars will start with two innovator café’s on September 8th at 16.00 CET with Dr. Chris Rehse and on September 29th at 17.00 CET with…
Apr 6, 2021
SPARK Finland, SPARK Global, Labiotech.eu, 25 best biotech incubators in Europe, SPARK Europe
Labiotech.eu is the leading digital media covering the European Biotech industry. According to their latest news SPARK Finland has been selected into TOP 25 biotech incubators hatching startup stars in…
Mar 31, 2021
SPARK Finland, education, HUBS, Innovation Challenges
Updated May 11th, 2021! Spark Finland and HUBS will team up in the Tampere Area in autumn 2021 when companies in the fields of medicine, biomedical engineering, logopedics, psychology, medical…
Mar 19, 2021
University of Helsinki, SEBI, Aalto University, XFold Imaging, SPARK Finland alumni, seed round, Butterfly Ventures
In January 2021 Xfold Imaging – a SPARK Finland alumni company – closed 400.000 euro seed round lead by Butterfly Ventures. Funding will be targeted on securing their IP and…
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…