Portugal's health & medtech startups: Taking innovation and disruption to heart

Portugal

6 min read

Mar 21, 2019

By J Yin

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Backed by local and foreign money, Portugal’s healthcare and medical technology startups are hungry to go global

Frustrated at difficulties in getting a house call for an ill child. Overwhelmed by the intensive rehabilitation that a brother, recovering from a serious car crash, had to undergo.
Driven by these personal circumstances, a group of Portuguese engineers, economists, coders and biomedical scientists harnessed their expertise to come up with Knok, SWORD Health and PeekMed, three of Portugal’s most promising healthcare startups today.
At the end of last year PeekMed, the world's first 3D orthopedic software, received the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval as a medical device,...

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