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Icaria Medical's CardioSense: Cardiovascular pre-diagnosis in less than 60 seconds

  • Spain
  • 5 min read
  • Nov 04, 2019
  • By Amalia González

The company's CPO and co-founder, Anna Nicolau. Source: Twitter

Icaria Medical is seeking clinical validation and funding for its AI-based monitor, which measures blood pressure continuously and non-invasively

Icaria Medical was founded in July 2018 as a spin-off of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and in possession of the university's two CardioSense patents. In order to gain medical-product certification, the company needs to pass a first clinical study and a regulatory clinical study, a process that requires three years and three investment rounds of €500,000 (currently underway), €2m and €6–8m, respectively.
The co-founders include Vincent Ribas, an AI PhD holder and a researcher with six patents in medical technologies. He has more than 20 years of experience as an ent...

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