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The Berner Group new corporate partner of 5-HT

We are happy to welcome the Berner Group Team to our 5-HT family of corporate partners. The Berner Group is a family-owned European commercial enterprise. Their vision is: “We keep the world together and moving.” This means that the company is the central B2B trading partner for all materials in the maintenance, repair, and production segments for their customers in the building, mobility, and industry sectors.

Cloudbased Apps for higher Efficiency in Operations

Factory digitization in just a few hours is no problem for Berlin-based 5thIndustry GmbH, as the chemical startup has been developing software apps to digitize industrial production since its founding in 2019. 

Pfizer new corporate partner of 5-HT

We are happy to welcome the Pfizer Team to our 5-HT family of corporate partners. Pfizer is a leading research-based biopharmaceutical company. Applying science and global resources to deliver innovative therapies that extend and significantly improve lives.

Creating sustainable bio-products from spent coffee grounds

Founded in 2013, Cambridgeshire, UK-based startup Bio-Bean Ltd recycles used coffee grounds on an industrial scale to create Inficaf: a sustainable raw material for innovative product design and development. By turning this into thousands of tons of sustainable bioproducts each year, the sustainability startup is the world's largest recycler of used coffee grounds. 

Virtual-Reality-Therapie with CUREO®

Often, traditional therapy methods do not show the desired progress in rehabilitation. In some cases, they even have the opposite effect, as they tire and demotivate patients. To make therapies more attractive, the med-tech startup CUREosity, founded in 2018, developed CUREO, a clinic-ready VR therapy system that revolutionizes traditional therapy with gamification. 

Avoiding deficiency symptoms with knowledge of biomarkers

The health startup myActiveLab (Nutrimya GmbH), founded in Hamburg in 2021, provides a solution with its app. So-called biomakers create the basis for this: These can be laboratory values, for example, but also markers such as body fat or resting pulse. Through the myActiveLab app, anyone can understand their relevant biomakers, continuously track them, and thus adjust their individual lifestyle accordingly, thereby improving well-being and health.

Phamovo turns pharmaceutical waste into revenue

In the UK there is £300 Million of Medical Waste each year. Of this, around £140 Million is accounted for by expired medicines. This loss of revenue is most felt by Wholesalers across the country. Addressing this issue, our London-based ecosystem startup Pharmovo Ltd has developed an online platform that allows pharmaceutical companies to both distribute near to expiry pharmaceuticals and buy wholesale items at a significant discount to market prices.

Driving future-proof patient care thanks to "Insuring Digital Health"

To everyone's delight, this year our "Insuring Digital Health" event was once again able to take place in Presence on Thursday, September 15, 2022. In order to enable health startups and health insurance companies to network quickly and purposefully and to establish a long-term partnership, this fall the fourth edition of the event was again held with Health in Innovation, an EIT Health company. 

Personalized breast cancer support with the Brea app

Almost 50 % of people who have already used a DiGA or health app said they stopped using it because, although it was made for their disease, it was too general and did not meet their specific needs. Our Berlin-based ecosystem startup Brea Health was founded in 2021 and counteracts this issue with its Brea app.

Intelligent Agents automate knowledge work

In order to better manage the daily data tsunami as a result, the Berlin-based healthcare startup AGENTS.inc is building artificial intelligence technology to equip companies with AI agents that work at superhuman speeds, automate knowledge tasks, and save valuable resources for companies on a massive scale.

Thermal protection systems - designed for the extreme

How can product designers and engineers create resource- and energy-efficient products while protecting them from extreme conditions? Blueshift's team of thermal specialists offers suitable solutions to solve their customers' difficult thermal problems. 

Merck and 5-HT Digital Hub intensify their partnership

The partnership between 5-HT and the Merck Group based in Darmstadt has already started in 2019 with the intention to foster digital innovation and to combine our efforts to boost entrepreneurial, innovative thinking and acting in the chemical and health sectors.  

A remote monitoring solution for home and outpatient pediatric care

Worldwide, 17-23% of children are chronically ill and require continuous medication. In disease areas such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy, arthritis, type 1 diabetes, asthma - not to mention rare diseases - there is little real-world clinical data from caring parents who need to give these medications to their children on a regular basis. 5-HT X-Linker "Digital Health for Pharma" alumni Symba Health is addressing this very problem by collecting this critical data with parents and children.

Group therapy for like-minded people with peers

Sustaining our own mental health is a lifelong journey. Founded in 2022 by Julia Maria Rüttgers, Philippe Driessen and Sophie Schürmann, the Aachen-based startup peers. uses the power of humanity to provide mutual mental support. Here, the users are accompanied by real psychologists. 

Take a selfie, know your healthie!™

NuraLogix is one of Canada’s fastest rising tech companies whose sole vision is to bring their patented science-backed health wellness analytics software products to the market.