Winter 2015/2016 - The Innovation Highway Newsletter | Page 8
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DECEMBER 2015 – JANUARY 2016
The Innovation Highway Features The
2015 GEW Medical Finalists
Each year, Global Entrepreneurship Week recognizes some of the most promising new
startups from around the world through its Startup Open competition. This year, founders
(and founder teams) from 38 countries submitted more than 600 startups for consideration.
View the complete list of “GEW 50” startups as finalists identified by the prestigious panel
of judges.
AventaMed, Cork, Ireland
Over 2 million tympanostomy tube (ear tube)
procedures are carried out globally each year.
It is the most common reason children
undergo surgery and general anesthesia with
the majority being less than 7 years old. The
procedure creates anxiety for children and
their families due to the risks associated with
general anesthesia. AventaMed has come up
with a solution to allow the procedures to be
carried out in the doctor’s office, without
general anesthesia.
FasTouch, Amirim, Israel
The FasTouch fixation system is intended for
fixation of prosthetic material to soft tissues in
various minimally invasive and open surgical
procedures such as hernia repairs. FasTouch
delivers uniquely designed suture-like
fasteners that mimics traditional sutures by
providing a closed and locked fixation loop
around the mesh and the tissue. It provides
superior fixation strength while minimizing
the amount of implanted foreign body.
Horus, Rapallo, Italy
Horus aims to help visually-impaired and
blind users to regain their independence. It is a
wearable device fitting every kind of glasses.
As a personal assistant, it helps the user to
have a better understanding of the world
around him or her. [email protected].
Be Assured, Halmstad, Sweden
Be Assured provides pharmaceutical and
medical information in a simple and powerful
digital format, thus enabling nurses, doctors
and caregivers to administer the right
medicine at the right time.
BioBots Inc., Philadelphia, PA
BioBots is bringing biology into the 21st
century by building high resolution, easy-touse 3D bio printers and
biomaterial cartridges that
are accessible to both
researchers at the frontier
of regenerative medicine
and ordinary people, or bio
hackers.
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