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As witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous health and medical experts came up with efficient and innovative methods to support frontline workers in their work taking care of vulnerable patients. Talent can indeed shine amid a crisis and Maddyness has selected some incredible startups helping to advance healthcare and improve people's lives in the UK.
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Audrey Langevin
01.09.2020
Headspace is a worldwide pioneer in mental health, wellbeing and mindfulness and has 65M subscribers across 190 countries. Maddyness spoke with Renate Nyborg, General Manager of Headspace Europe to dig into the future of healthtech and to know more about the company's approach.
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Renate Nyborg
05.08.2020
“In tough times, telehealth is just what the doctor ordered”. Thus read a headline The Times ran with in 2012, in reference to growing waiting times in the NHS, and the demand for digitalisation to alleviate some of the strain.
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Simon Lovick
23.07.2020
The medtech company is providing virtual wards, built around the use of connected medical wearables in the home, to allow NGH clinicians to remotely monitor the vital signs of recovering COVID-19 patients and those living with chronic illness.
09.07.2020
Kheiron specialises in cutting edge deep learning solutions for healthcare and was successful in securing Government funding to accelerate the development of Mia, a breast screening AI solution. A tool that will increase the automation of NHS breast screening services when they start back up again post COVID. Maddyness spoke with Dr. Peter Kecskemethy CEO and co-founder of Kheiron to understand how the company is coping during the COVID-19 pandemic and what the future holds.
08.07.2020
Sparrho curates, aggregates, and summarises the latest in scientific research, with over 60M pieces collected to date. Maddyness spoke with Dr Vivian Chan, CEO and co-founder to understand how they have coped during lockdown and to understand what the future holds.
06.07.2020
Healx is an AI-powered, patient-inspired technology company, accelerating the discovery and development of rare disease treatments at scale. There are 7,000 known rare diseases that affect 350 million people across the globe but only 5% of those conditions have approved treatments. Healx’s mission is to identify and progress novel therapies for the 95% of rare diseases without approved treatment.
17.06.2020
Hospitals can use Navenio’s AI-led ‘Intelligent Workforce Solution’ to assign tasks to healthcare teams based on their location. This helps prioritise workload in real-time on the basis of ‘right person, right time, right place’.
25.05.2020
Nosy is a radically innovative line of wearable technology designed to improve your breathing health by removing the mouth coverage which allows users to protect themselves from air pollution without comprising their lifestyle.
21.05.2020
Global leader in nutrition, health, and sustainable living, DSM Venturing - part of Royal DSM - have invested £8.7M in Oxford-based Phynova to progress its blood-glucose technology to commercial success. Additionally, Rob Beudeker, Investment Director at DSM Venturing, will be joining Phynova’s Board.
14.05.2020
Mental health company COMPASS Pathways has received a £64.1M ($80M) Series B investment from existing investors ATAI Life Sciences and new investors McQuade Center for Strategic Research and Development LLC, Founders Fund, Able Partners, Camden Partners Nexus, Perceptive Advisors, Skyviews Life Science, and Soleus Capital.
29.04.2020
The UK’s healthtech sector has rallied its world-class talent and skills to help in the fight against coronavirus, as startups work side by side with big tech firms to provide new services and technology. From tracking cases to supporting front-line staff, loaning vital equipment and resources, providing online patient care, and gathering and analysing data, large and small tech companies across the country are rising to the challenge to help the government and the NHS.
24.04.2020
Digital mental health platform SilverCloud Health has received £12.7M from MemorialCare Innovation Fund, LRV Health, OSF Ventures and Unity Point Health Ventures. SilverCloud’s services are used by more than 300 organisations globally, including over 70% of NHS mental health services.
21.04.2020
Headquartered in Oxford, Perspectum, a medical software company that provides seamless technology for identifying and monitoring multiple diseases, received a $36M investment from Blue Venture Fund, HealthQuest Capital, Oxford Science Innovation, Puhua Capital, and the University of Oxford.
17.04.2020
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