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Identify product trends and make well-informed decisions with MIR Insight

In a world where data drives decision-making, the chemical industry is no exception. Accurately forecasting demand for chemical products can mean the difference between profit and loss, as well as having a significant impact on the environment. Meet the startup MIR Insight AS, that has developed a product trend engine and wants to make sure that every decision maker has the best tools/information to make informed decisions. In this interview, we spoke to co-founder and CCO Lisa Z. Mobech to learn more about their solution and how it can benefit the chemical industry and the material sector.

Practice instead of theory - Gleea Educational Software makes emergency medical personnel fit for the critical situation

In today's world, where fast and effective education of emergency medical professionals is becoming increasingly important, innovative approaches are in demand. The startup Gleea Educational Software offers such an innovation with its app "Einfach Retten". The digital solution is designed to support practice-oriented and accessible emergency medicine education and training. We spoke with CEO Stefanie Graumann to learn more about Gleea's mission, products and plans for the future.

Summarizing research results digitally and graphically with VaVisual Abstract

In today's world, we have access to more information than ever before. While this can be a good thing, it also creates a problem: information overload. With so much data available, it can be difficult to sort through it all and find what's important. This is particularly true in the fields of medicine and science, where researchers are inundated with new publications and data every day. VaVisual Abstract is a startup that aims to address this problem. By creating a new format for scientific communication - the interactive Visual Abstract (iVA) - they are revolutionizing the way researchers find and read scientific publications. In this interview, we speak with CEO Saribek Karapetyan to learn more about their unique solution, the benefits of partnering with them, and their plans for the future.

Offsetting carbon footprint with BELOW2

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time and as individuals and businesses, we all have a responsibility to take action. But how can we ensure that our efforts to reduce our carbon footprint are making a real impact? That's where BELOW2 comes in. This innovative startup created a scalable, fully transparent, and trustworthy form of carbon offsets. In this interview, we speak with CEO/CTO Oliver T. Hellriegel to learn more about BELOW2's mission and how they are making a difference in the fight against climate change.

Evidence-based, digital aftercare for mentally ill patients

mentalis, a healthcare startup founded in 2018 and based in Nuremberg, Germany, offers evidence-based digital aftercare that combines algorithm-driven app therapy and immediate psychological tele-support. This can reduce high rehospitalization rates in the area of F-diagnoses, avoid more complex follow-up treatments, and reduce individual suffering and costs to society.

Rapid and fully automated screening, sorting and dispensing of small biological entities

Bionomous is the world’s first provider of AI-powered solutions for screening, sorting and dispensing of small biological entities. It combines innovative micro-engineering design and artificial intelligence to automatically inspect and sort miniature biological entities. The technology was originally developed to handle the eggs of zebrafish (Danio rerio), but it can handle any round entity ranging from 0.6 to 1.5 mm. It has been used to sort xenopus oocytes and embryos, killifish eggs, and even seeds.

Revolutionizing the Chemical Industry: An Interview with NTRDE

In the chemical industry, it can be difficult to keep up with the rapid changes in the markets and the increasing demands for efficiency and sustainability. NTRDE aims to overcome these challenges and help companies in the chemical industry to make data-based decisions and secure their business models in the long term. In the following interview, the NTRDE team explains how the solution works and what benefits it offers.

VITAS automates phone calls using telephone assistants

Founded in 2021, the tech startup VITAS has developed a platform that allows all types of businesses to create their own artificial intelligence-based phone assistants. These take calls on their own and collect all the important information mentioned, which means no more missed calls and the ability to devote time to work without interruption. 

Successful R&D partnerships with PosterLab

The startup PosterLab, founded in 2021, shows companies how to properly use partnerships as a strategic growth option. For this purpose, the Mainz/Saarbrücken-based startup offers a unique SaaS platform that enables faster knowledge transfer of early research results between research participants: smart, simple, secure. 

Pronary taps the hidden potential of production data

The Darmstadt-based chemical startup Pronary has been developing comprehensive analysis software for data-based process optimization since their founding in 2022. This software enables companies to apply Data Science without programming.

Fluxergy makes laboratory testing more accessible

To democratize the world of laboratory testing by making tests more accessible and affordable: That is the vision of Fluxergy, a US-based healthcare startup founded in 2011. With the aim of consolidating this project in Europe, Fluxergy Europe GmbH was founded last year in 2021.  

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. 

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.

Pharmovo 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.

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. 

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.

With AI software for efficient bioprocess development

The development of a new drug goes through many stages. It usually takes more than 13 years from the idea to the first approval. Helsinki, Finland-based startup AnalysisMode (Fibo Labs Ltd) aims to reduce these lengthy processes to enable more capacity, lower costs and accessible medical treatments.

Less bureaucracy in everyday care through the digitization of healthcare

People in need of care and their relatives know how bureaucratic, tedious and lengthy the application process for care is in Germany. With its DeinePflege.de platform, the health startup DeinePflege supports those affected on the path to the best care for them - uncomplicated, fast and accessible.