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…
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…