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A CO₂- Management Software for the Chemical Industry

According to the World Research Institute, the chemical industry accounts for around 5.8% of global carbon emissions. However, the chemical industry is also the very beginning of almost every value chain, which is why more sustainable solutions are needed. Founded in 2021, cleantech startup AllocNow is driving this process by helping chemical companies make their CO₂-management an integral part of their business model.

Fewer herbicides and richer crops through geospatial data and AI

Since Orbica was founded in February 2017, the startup has gained an excellent international reputation as a provider of innovative and value-adding solutions.

Thinking health holistically with Kianava

Founded in 2020, the startup Kianava offers a telemedicine platform for holistic medical coaching to improve the health of people with chronic diseases. Based in Berlin, a team of doctors and therapists apply scientifically validated approaches to help patients in the best possible way. 

Wound management documentation - simple, mobile & voice-controlled

The legally required wound documentation is the basis of professional wound management. Chronic wounds must be documented regularly in order to monitor the healing process and intervene if necessary. Currently, however, the process is still complex and time-consuming, as it is largely done with paper, pen and camera.

How digitization can improve stoma therapy

As a nurse on a surgical station, Jan-Hendrik Träger has experienced for himself the problems that often arise in the therapy of stoma patients. Together with Patrick Roth and Ingmar Fröhlich, he therefore founded the startup ICE Tech (StomAware) in Kaiserslautern, which is part of the 5-HT network and aims to improve the care of stoma patients with a combination of software and hardware.

Better understanding of fatigue - with the Fimo App

Fatigue is a physical, mental and emotional state of exhaustion that occurs independently of periods of stress. Because even rest and sleep phases do not lead to recovery, fatigue makes it difficult for those affected to cope with everyday life and reduces their quality of life. To better understand this disease including influencing factors, Alexander Krawinkel, Managing Director, founded the health tech startup Fimo Health together with two colleagues in 2019.

Leave the isolation behind - come back to your life: Virtual reality for seniors

As mobility and flexibility become more limited in old age, the radius of action shrinks and daily impressions become fewer. Granny Vision wants to bring a breath of fresh air into old heads with Virtual Reality (VR). The founding team Carolina and Daniel Bendlin have realised that seniors can participate more in life in general and in the everyday life of their families with the help of Extended Reality. Even if they live in a retirement home.

A platform for scientific process automation

Steve McCoy, Head of Sales at LabVoice participated in February 2022 in the 5-HT X-linker “Lab of the future” and presented their virtual assistant for laboratory workflows. Co-Founder and CEO of LabVoice, Fred Bost, claims to “enable a self-service, democratized approach to building tailored virtual assistants” with the LabVoice platform. Find out more about LabVoice in the following interview.

Breaking the taboo surrounding cancer with the YES!APP

The non-profit yeswecan!cer gGmbH, founded by cancer patients in 2018, aims to connect cancer patients with the YES!APP. This digital alternative to traditional self-help groups pursues the goal of de-tabooing cancer in general, talking openly about the disease in society, and thus ultimately leaving no one alone.  

Digitizing chemical lab work with artificial intelligence

Marko Gacesa, CPO of US-startup Alchemy, participated in February 2022 in the 5-HT X-linker “Lab of the future” and presented their platform that accelerates product development and improves service delivery with software and AI powering the digital lab of the future. He claims to offer the “Ultimate Chemistry Acceleration Platform”. Let’s get to know more.

Digital process tracking in real time

Pixel Robotics' digital process tracking can provide relief both here and in many other industrial sectors, especially logistics. Since its founding in 2017, the Munich-based startup has been offering its customers an innovative solution to recognize and document objects and work processes using artificial intelligence (AI) cameras.

LabForward builds the laboratory of the future

Founded in 2015, Berlin-based startup LabForward's LabOperator platform provides an open IoT platform for integrating all types of devices and software via standard APIs. Together with their workflow solution, processes can be monitored and streamlined, data can be selected on the go, and information can be processed within their established lab ecosystem.

eCovery - the digital physiotherapist for your pocket

Fitness trackers, online diet programmes, sports apps - more and more people are monitoring and motivating themselves digitally. Digitalisation is also making its way into physiotherapy. Conventional physiotherapy is usually not enough to enable patients to fully recover. This approach is also being pursued by the Leipzig-based start-up eCovery. Because the irregular or often missing training of patients at home is one of the biggest disruptive factors of a successful recovery.

Tightening the screws on process monitoring: Continuously possible with Sensorise' digitized micrometers

Micrometers are not a novelty in process monitoring - but the previous standard weakened the screws by requiring drilling into them and only allowed recurring measurements. The startup Sensorise, on the other hand, enables the digitization of machine elements, which allows continuous monitoring - and thus also approaches process optimization. In an interview with 5-HT, CEO and founder Cord Winkelmann talks about the advantages of continuous screw monitoring.

Intelligent and sustainable trade with the help of packaging

"With our Packwise solution, you create a transparency that didn't exist before, and thus a planning security for companies - at any time, it is comprehensible where and in what condition materials are" says Packwise founder Gesche Weger in an interview with 5-HT.

Sample by sample a fast and reliable cancer diagnosis

Every second person in Germany will be confronted with a cancer diagnosis in the course of their life. The Munich-based startup Inveox develops systems for digitizing, automating and networking pathology labs. 

"We bring standardized diagnostics to the smallest practice"

To make the right diagnosis, to examine a patient's condition or to follow the course of therapy: Tests are important tools for doctors, psychotherapists or occupational therapists. Today, such assessments are usually carried out with pen and paper. The founders of insight.out believe that a digital solution is finally needed for this.

Predict the unpredictable with AccuPredict

Today's machine systems are becoming increasingly expensive alongside greater automation. When these break down, it's not only disruptive, but equally time-consuming and costly. Singapore-based startup AccuPredict Services Pte Ltd saw a need for action here and, since its founding in 2021, has developed an intelligent and pioneering operating strategy to predict machine failures and avoid them accordingly. 

Helping patients in everyday therapy with the digital home pharmacy

For patients, it is often challenging to follow the agreements made with doctors and implement the necessary adjustments to their habits accordingly. With the innovative app from our network startup Ligari, founded in 2016, this problem now belongs to the past. Because thanks to this app, patients can easily and conveniently map their medications and therapy processes in a digital home pharmacy.

Rethinking flow simulations with cloudfluid

cloudfluid, a high-tech startup founded in 2021, has developed a completely new way to approach computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and offers it to its customers as a customized software-as-a-service solution.

How to avoid gas disasters and fatal consequences

Especially companies in the chemical industry produce, store and process large quantities of hazardous gases and need a reliable system for detecting gas leaks in order to avoid fatal consequences. The solution of our network startup Grandperspective is called scanfeld™ and enables chemical companies to monitor entire chemical parks in order to detect and localize gas leaks of any kind at an early stage.

Faster drug development through genomic data

The development of new drugs is complex, expensive and risky. The Berlin-based company biotx.ai has developed a self-learning software platform that can recognize multi-causal relationships and complex patterns in biomedical data and use them to develop new diagnostic tests and therapies. 

Making processes in medical practices simpler through digitization

Munich-based startup Simpleprax is helping to prevent a media discontinuity in the collection of patient data. Medical history forms, forms and administrative documents no longer have to be printed out, but are filled out directly by the patient digitally and imported into the respective practice management software. This replaces manual processes in the doctor's offi

Back to life - digital health coach improves quality of life for rheumatism patients

1.5 million people in Germany suffer from inflammatory rheumatic diseases, according to the German Society for Rheumatology (DGRh). And unfortunately, the rheumatism of these 1.5 million people is not curable. So how can we help these people? This is the question Christine Peine and Felix Lang asked themselves when they founded the startup Midaia.