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Uma - Ready for anything to come

Pregnancy is always something very special and, above all, individual. Unfortunately, countless women struggle with confusing and contradictory information during the course of their pregnancy. Our network startup uma is now proactively countering this with the app of the same name.

AI-Enabled Cognitive Assessment by Stimulated Brain Activity

Vistim Labs is a data science company using cleared medical devices to provide the world's first cognitive evaluation by brain analysis. “In detecting the first signs of neurological disorders, we accelerate patient access to care,” explains CEO James Hamet.

Improving Brain Health with OptiChronix

Founded in 2020 and located in Schönenbuch, Switzerland, the American-Swiss Digital Health company OptiChroni improves brain health with paired digital health apps. Therefore, our ecosystem startup provides a late life dementia risk predictor, continuous screening for cognitive change and focusses on modifiable factors in ones lifestyle and current health status.

How Lifespin revolutionizes the diagnosis of diseases with metabolic information and artificial intelligence

All living organisms have a metabolism. Because diseases always affect it, they are detected directly here. Health startup Lifespin, based in Regensburg, Germany, is taking advantage of this by developing a software-as-a-service solution for general health assessment and faster disease diagnosis.

Empowering neurological patients through acceleration in research

There's one phone call that Neeraj Kothari, co-founder and co-CEO of Cogniant, will likely remember for the rest of his life. In the phone call, the strange voice informed him that it had found his grandfather, who had Alzheimer's disease.

Speech based biomarkers as innovation drivers in medical processes

What does speech say about us and how can automated speech analysis help in diagnostics and early detection of various diseases? The health startup ki:elements has developed an answer.

Trialflow enables faster planning and completion of clinical trials

Clinical trials need to be faster, smarter and more efficient so that millions of people can receive urgently needed treatments more quickly. Münster-based startup Trialflow, founded in 2020, ensures this by creating the basis for clinical trials to be planned and conducted more efficiently with its digital platform.

FLUICS - sustainable sample tracking for research labs

Have you ever heard of FLUICS? - FLUICS is a new word that unites two components that are present in every life sciences research lab: FLUIDS and MECHANICS. More importantly FLUICS is one of our network startups which participated in the 5-HT X-Linker: Lab of the future earlier this year.

The patient platform of mama health is listening instead of asking questions

Alternatives in disease treatment are more important than ever. In particular, diseases such as those caused by the newly developed coronavirus (COVID-19) have made this clear in the past. The health startup mama health, founded in 2022 in Berlin, Germany, sees opportunities in particular in the exchange of experiences of patients suffering from the same disease to produce better treatment options such as for Long COVID.

The future of the European Green Deal: Impact of the crisis and the EU chemicals strategy on the chemical industry

With the European Green Deal, the EU Commission aims to achieve climate neutrality for Europe by 2050 and a sustainability-oriented restructuring of the economic system. As a result, national economies are faced with the challenge of transforming their economic systems in the direction of a green economy. The chemical industry in particular has a key role to play in this transformation.  

It's time for effective farming

Mavuno is a satellite data powered mobile app for farmers in Africa. It displays crop status as heat maps and therefore helps farmers take targeted action and increase their harvest yields. “Our mission is to empower African farmers,” so Johannes Röhrenbach, CSO and Co-founder of our network startup Mavuno.

Improving brain health with VR

Virtuleap is a health and education VR startup based in Lisbon, Portugal. “We aim to elevate the cognitive assessment and training industry with the help of emerging technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence,” so CEO and co-founder Amir Bozorgzadeh.

Artificial redefines lab automation

For the Lab 4.0, innovative automation concepts and digitalization are crucial, because this is the only way to increase efficiency in the future, master the complexity of laboratory processes and optimize workflows. Artificial Deutschland GmbH, a life-science startup based in Augsburg, Germany, is precisely advancing this vision.

Heraeus Precious Metals new corporate partner of 5-HT

Heraeus Precious Metals joins the steadily growing 5-HT family of corporate partners. Warm welcome to the whole team in our network!

Win-win for students and startups at the 5-HT Digital Qualifier

What do you get when students spend a semester working intensively on concrete, practice-relevant challenges from companies? For the 6th time, students have worked on practice-relevant challenges from start-ups as part of the Digital Qualifier. On 15 June, the students of the Master's programme in Business Information Systems presented their research results on real challenges of companies and start-ups to Prof. Dr. Martin Selchert at the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen and discussed them afterwards.