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Asia Africa Investment & Consulting
Founded in 2013, Asia Africa Investment & Consulting (AAIC) is a Japanese VC that invests in developing nations in Africa. Based in Singapore, the Japanese investment team are also involved in consultancy work. To date, AAIC has invested in eight companies. Investments during 2020 include two Egyptian startups: mobile teleradiology medtech Rology’s $860,000 seed funding in September and mental health medtech platform Shezlong’s Series A round in June.
Founded in 2013, Asia Africa Investment & Consulting (AAIC) is a Japanese VC that invests in developing nations in Africa. Based in Singapore, the Japanese investment team are also involved in consultancy work. To date, AAIC has invested in eight companies. Investments during 2020 include two Egyptian startups: mobile teleradiology medtech Rology’s $860,000 seed funding in September and mental health medtech platform Shezlong’s Series A round in June.
PICC Capital Equity Investment Company
PICC Capital Equity Investment Company was founded in 2009 as a subsidiary of Chinese listed insurer PICC.In 2018, it set up a RMB 300m fund targeting health and elderly-care sectors. In 2020, the VC set up another fund to invest in cutting-edge technologies like biotech, integrated circuit, etc.
PICC Capital Equity Investment Company was founded in 2009 as a subsidiary of Chinese listed insurer PICC.In 2018, it set up a RMB 300m fund targeting health and elderly-care sectors. In 2020, the VC set up another fund to invest in cutting-edge technologies like biotech, integrated circuit, etc.
The Hague-based social impact investor invests in the areas of environment, economic inclusion, health and well-being and follows the socio-economic principles of the United Nation’s Global Social Development Goals. The VC was established in 2019 and to date has invested in four companies. Its most recent investments have been in agritech sustainability monitoring platform Satelligence’s $2.3m seed round and AI-powered sustainable recruiting platform Equalture’s €1m seed round.
The Hague-based social impact investor invests in the areas of environment, economic inclusion, health and well-being and follows the socio-economic principles of the United Nation’s Global Social Development Goals. The VC was established in 2019 and to date has invested in four companies. Its most recent investments have been in agritech sustainability monitoring platform Satelligence’s $2.3m seed round and AI-powered sustainable recruiting platform Equalture’s €1m seed round.
Founder, CEO of HeartGenetics
Ana Teresa Freitas is the founder and CEO of Lisbon-based HeartGenetics, since 2013. Prior to this, she lectured for 29 years at Lisbon University's Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), where she taught computational biology but she continues her 32-year career in Lisbon's engineering institute, INESC-ID, as a senior researcher in computational biology and health IT. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and a master's in Electronics Engineering. She has attended the Advanced Management Program on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Católica Lisbon – BES, School of Business and Economics.
Ana Teresa Freitas is the founder and CEO of Lisbon-based HeartGenetics, since 2013. Prior to this, she lectured for 29 years at Lisbon University's Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), where she taught computational biology but she continues her 32-year career in Lisbon's engineering institute, INESC-ID, as a senior researcher in computational biology and health IT. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and a master's in Electronics Engineering. She has attended the Advanced Management Program on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Católica Lisbon – BES, School of Business and Economics.
Co-founder and CEO of Line Health
Coding since he was 15, Diogo Ortega worked as a freelance software developer while reading a business degree at the University of London. He had previously studied Audiovisual and Multimedia Technologies at the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon.Ortega worked for six years at TAP Air Portugal until 2014 when he co-founded Line Health as CEO. He was the CEO. The healthtech was dissolved in 2018 and he eventually moved to the US to work for WW (formerly Weight Watchers) as a product manager. Currently based in San Francisco, he is working as a product manager at Google.
Coding since he was 15, Diogo Ortega worked as a freelance software developer while reading a business degree at the University of London. He had previously studied Audiovisual and Multimedia Technologies at the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon.Ortega worked for six years at TAP Air Portugal until 2014 when he co-founded Line Health as CEO. He was the CEO. The healthtech was dissolved in 2018 and he eventually moved to the US to work for WW (formerly Weight Watchers) as a product manager. Currently based in San Francisco, he is working as a product manager at Google.
Co-founder, CTO of Rheaply
Peter Tucker is the CTO and co-founder of Chicago-based pioneering circular economy B2B asset reuse platform Rheaply, where he has worked full-time since 2016. Before that, he worked at online mortgage lender Guaranteed Rate as Senior Software Engineer for almost four years and, before that, as a software developer at Rosenthal Collins Group and Flippex. Tucker also briefly worked as a business analyst and spent five years as a software developer at University of Iowa Health Care. He holds a Bachelor’s in Management Information Systems from the University of Northern Iowa.
Peter Tucker is the CTO and co-founder of Chicago-based pioneering circular economy B2B asset reuse platform Rheaply, where he has worked full-time since 2016. Before that, he worked at online mortgage lender Guaranteed Rate as Senior Software Engineer for almost four years and, before that, as a software developer at Rosenthal Collins Group and Flippex. Tucker also briefly worked as a business analyst and spent five years as a software developer at University of Iowa Health Care. He holds a Bachelor’s in Management Information Systems from the University of Northern Iowa.
Co-founder of Findster, Founder and CEO of SWORD Health
Having seen his parents struggle to provide his brother with intensive physical rehabilitation, Virgílio Bento (b. 1984) understood the many pain points faced by the patients and their families. Bento graduated from the University of Aveiro with a master’s in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, and went on to pursue a PhD in Electrical Engineering. There, he developed SWORD Phoenix which would go on to be the technology behind SWORD Health, a startup Bento founded and of which he is currently CEO. Bento is also a co-founder of Findster Technologies, a dual pet tracker and fitness tech.
Having seen his parents struggle to provide his brother with intensive physical rehabilitation, Virgílio Bento (b. 1984) understood the many pain points faced by the patients and their families. Bento graduated from the University of Aveiro with a master’s in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, and went on to pursue a PhD in Electrical Engineering. There, he developed SWORD Phoenix which would go on to be the technology behind SWORD Health, a startup Bento founded and of which he is currently CEO. Bento is also a co-founder of Findster Technologies, a dual pet tracker and fitness tech.
Founded in 2011, Ankur Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Mumbai. The VC invests in Indian-based startups in diverse sectors like agritech, food, health and education. It has 15 startups in its investment portfolio and has managed one exit to date, Carmel Organics.Recent investments include seed funding for seafood supply chain platform Captain Fresh and agriproduce marketplace Vegrow, as well as participation in the $20m Series C round of predictive farming platform Cropin.
Founded in 2011, Ankur Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Mumbai. The VC invests in Indian-based startups in diverse sectors like agritech, food, health and education. It has 15 startups in its investment portfolio and has managed one exit to date, Carmel Organics.Recent investments include seed funding for seafood supply chain platform Captain Fresh and agriproduce marketplace Vegrow, as well as participation in the $20m Series C round of predictive farming platform Cropin.
COO and co-founder of iLoF
Mehak Mumtaz grew up in Pakistan and decided to study biochemistry when she saw her brother suffering from an unknown learning disability. Her parents, both medical doctors, could not get an accurate diagnosis for their son. In her search to understand the molecular mechanisms behind diseases, she applied to study at the University of Oxford. In 2008, she was granted the Reach Oxford Scholarship and graduated with a master’s in biochemistry in 2012. In 2015, the St Hilda’s alumna worked as an undergraduate tutor at Oxford while completing a PhD in pathology, specializing in oncology and cancer biology.In 2018, she worked on a rare cancer project as EIT Health Business Innovation fellow for a year. She left academia and joined a three-month bioentrepreneur bootcamp in Munich and a one-month Lev8 Woman Program at her alma mater’s Oxford Foundry. She joined EY-Parthenon in London as a strategy consultant in April 2019.In 2019, Mumtaz also met the iLoF co-founding team at the EIT Health Wild Card venture-building program. iLoF is a medtech startup that focuses on personalized medicine through the use of AI and photonics to create optical fingerprints in a cloud-based library to gather and manages disease biomarkers and biological profiles.She joined iLoF as COO and co-founder in December 2019 and left her full-time consultancy role at EY in March 2020.
Mehak Mumtaz grew up in Pakistan and decided to study biochemistry when she saw her brother suffering from an unknown learning disability. Her parents, both medical doctors, could not get an accurate diagnosis for their son. In her search to understand the molecular mechanisms behind diseases, she applied to study at the University of Oxford. In 2008, she was granted the Reach Oxford Scholarship and graduated with a master’s in biochemistry in 2012. In 2015, the St Hilda’s alumna worked as an undergraduate tutor at Oxford while completing a PhD in pathology, specializing in oncology and cancer biology.In 2018, she worked on a rare cancer project as EIT Health Business Innovation fellow for a year. She left academia and joined a three-month bioentrepreneur bootcamp in Munich and a one-month Lev8 Woman Program at her alma mater’s Oxford Foundry. She joined EY-Parthenon in London as a strategy consultant in April 2019.In 2019, Mumtaz also met the iLoF co-founding team at the EIT Health Wild Card venture-building program. iLoF is a medtech startup that focuses on personalized medicine through the use of AI and photonics to create optical fingerprints in a cloud-based library to gather and manages disease biomarkers and biological profiles.She joined iLoF as COO and co-founder in December 2019 and left her full-time consultancy role at EY in March 2020.
Co-founder of Inibudi
Irma Hidayana, one of the initiators of Indonesia Cicak anti-corruption movement, is reading a doctorate at the Teachers’ College in Columbia University. She graduated from Gadjah Mada University and has a master’s in Public Health from Montclair State University. Irma started her career as an intern consultant at UNICEF and has been a consultant for the baby food industry and IYCF in UNICEF since 2014. She has worked as an ICT consultant to expand maternal and neonatal survival projects in six Indonesian provinces since 2012. Irma was also a co-founder of the Indonesian Breastfeeding Counsellor Association IKMI.
Irma Hidayana, one of the initiators of Indonesia Cicak anti-corruption movement, is reading a doctorate at the Teachers’ College in Columbia University. She graduated from Gadjah Mada University and has a master’s in Public Health from Montclair State University. Irma started her career as an intern consultant at UNICEF and has been a consultant for the baby food industry and IYCF in UNICEF since 2014. She has worked as an ICT consultant to expand maternal and neonatal survival projects in six Indonesian provinces since 2012. Irma was also a co-founder of the Indonesian Breastfeeding Counsellor Association IKMI.
CTO and co-founder of Zensei
Carlos Hernando is a Spanish computer engineer with significant experience as a CTO and as a leader of technology teams in startups.He’s also an active startup mentor through the Tetuan Valley Network. Currently, Hernando is CTO and co-founder of Zensei, a virtual clinic app aimed at preventing and assisting users in their management of respiratory problems.Prior to Zensei, Hernando held CTO roles in startups in the health and travel sectors, such as Doctor24 and Smartvel, noted for his contribution as technical leader, for his customer-centric approach and for the scalability of the technology he develops
Carlos Hernando is a Spanish computer engineer with significant experience as a CTO and as a leader of technology teams in startups.He’s also an active startup mentor through the Tetuan Valley Network. Currently, Hernando is CTO and co-founder of Zensei, a virtual clinic app aimed at preventing and assisting users in their management of respiratory problems.Prior to Zensei, Hernando held CTO roles in startups in the health and travel sectors, such as Doctor24 and Smartvel, noted for his contribution as technical leader, for his customer-centric approach and for the scalability of the technology he develops
Founder and CEO of Alodokter
A graduate with a master’s in Management and Business Strategy from the ESSEC Business School Paris, Nathanael Faibis had worked for two years as a project manager in France, Kenya and Morocco for a pharmaceutical market research company Sanisphere. In 2012, he worked for Lazada in Vietnam and Indonesia before becoming the head of production and user experience of Lazada Southeast Asia. However, he left Lazada in March 2013 to rejoin Sanisphere in Jakarta as the country head and global head of data management. Finally in April 2014, he decided to set up an Indonesian health portal Alodokter.
A graduate with a master’s in Management and Business Strategy from the ESSEC Business School Paris, Nathanael Faibis had worked for two years as a project manager in France, Kenya and Morocco for a pharmaceutical market research company Sanisphere. In 2012, he worked for Lazada in Vietnam and Indonesia before becoming the head of production and user experience of Lazada Southeast Asia. However, he left Lazada in March 2013 to rejoin Sanisphere in Jakarta as the country head and global head of data management. Finally in April 2014, he decided to set up an Indonesian health portal Alodokter.
Co-founder of SWORD Health
David Dieteren Ribeiro had aspired to become a professional underwater welder, but as fate would have it, he was exposed to the world of electronics and would go on to pursue an education in the field, culminating in a master’s in Electronics and Telecommunications from the University of Aveiro. Dieteren has since used his knowledge to co-found two companies, Findster Technologies, a dual pet tracker and fitness tech, and SWORD Health, the first remote physiotherapy tech. Dieteren currently lives in the Netherlands where he works as Process Control Engineer for Sitech Services.
David Dieteren Ribeiro had aspired to become a professional underwater welder, but as fate would have it, he was exposed to the world of electronics and would go on to pursue an education in the field, culminating in a master’s in Electronics and Telecommunications from the University of Aveiro. Dieteren has since used his knowledge to co-found two companies, Findster Technologies, a dual pet tracker and fitness tech, and SWORD Health, the first remote physiotherapy tech. Dieteren currently lives in the Netherlands where he works as Process Control Engineer for Sitech Services.
Lanai Partners is an angel investors group based in Barcelona.The network of investors was formed in 2016 by a group of Spanish business angels and backed by strong partners and entrepreneurs, such as Airbnb (Europe, Middle East and Africa) managing director Jeroen Merchiers, Viko Group president Rubén Ferreiro, Housell CEO Guillermo Llibre and SocialCar founder and CEO Mar Alarcón.Lanai Partners mainly invests in early-stage funding rounds with a maximum capital of €200,000 per startup and focusing on the SaaS, marketplace and digital health sectors.
Lanai Partners is an angel investors group based in Barcelona.The network of investors was formed in 2016 by a group of Spanish business angels and backed by strong partners and entrepreneurs, such as Airbnb (Europe, Middle East and Africa) managing director Jeroen Merchiers, Viko Group president Rubén Ferreiro, Housell CEO Guillermo Llibre and SocialCar founder and CEO Mar Alarcón.Lanai Partners mainly invests in early-stage funding rounds with a maximum capital of €200,000 per startup and focusing on the SaaS, marketplace and digital health sectors.
Founded in 2010, TA Ventures is a VC headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine. Since 2010 the firm invests in companies based in the United States and Europe developing cutting-edge technology startups in the field of digital health, mobility, SaaS and fintech. The fund typically invests in Seed stage with an average ticket size between $250,000 to $500,000 and Series A rounds up to $1mn. The team is based in Ukraine, supporting portfolio startups in building cost-effective R&D Centers in Ukraine.
Founded in 2010, TA Ventures is a VC headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine. Since 2010 the firm invests in companies based in the United States and Europe developing cutting-edge technology startups in the field of digital health, mobility, SaaS and fintech. The fund typically invests in Seed stage with an average ticket size between $250,000 to $500,000 and Series A rounds up to $1mn. The team is based in Ukraine, supporting portfolio startups in building cost-effective R&D Centers in Ukraine.
Virtuleap's VR games provide a mental workout, boosting brain health
Used by the AARP and Veteran's Health Administration in the US, Virtuleap’s games with AI-enabled assessment work to improve cognition and to counter degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's
Benergy: A new app to track gut health with smart data
The Benergy app allows results to be shared with doctors to facilitate diagnosis and includes swap tests
AlphaBeats: a 10-minute music playlist to de-stress your brain using biofeedback
With the exclusive rights to Philips’s neurofeedback technology, Alphabeats has developed an app to offer and enhance relaxation using a person’s favorite music
Portugal's health & medtech startups: Taking innovation and disruption to heart
Backed by local and foreign money, Portugal’s healthcare and medical technology startups are hungry to go global
BioMind: AI medical diagnostics with over 90% accuracy for 100 diseases
BioMind helps doctors save lives by providing more accurate diagnosis of life-threatening diseases like Covid-19 and brain tumors
SWORD Health nabs Portugal's second biggest Series A round within one year
SWORD Health's AI-based physiotherapy solution has just clinched $9m from Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund, ringing in a total of $17m in Series A funding
Fourier Intelligence: Quality rehabilitation robots at affordable prices
The startup has also launched an open-source platform to boost rehabilitation robotics and exoskeleton R&D and collaboration
Medigo, a long-awaited solution for Indonesia healthcare to go digital
Winning seed funding from Venturra Capital, Medigo seeks to help Indonesian hospitals make the transition into digital administration. We spoke to co-founders Harya Bimo and Faizal Rahman to find out more
Mental health services platform Ibunda wants to keep expanding its reach
Since its founding in 2015, the Indonesian startup Ibunda has provided psychological consultations to over 200,000 clients
Waterdrop: Using crowdfunding and social media to disrupt health insurance
Insurtech startup Waterdrop helps families in China who cannot afford medical treatment to raise money via online mutual aid and crowdfunding, while selling insurance plans too
MenteLista: Empowering small children to learn English with 10 minutes daily practice
Designed for infants and children, ranging in age from just 6 months to 7 years old, this platform could revolutionize language study during the critical learning period
Atomian: The powerful cognitive software that thinks, works like the human brain
Combining natural language processing with big data, Atomian enables easy, quick and real-time access to information in databases and documents
Biel Glasses: A pioneering solution for low vision sufferers
Biel Glasses offers a life-changing technology for people with low vision, a condition that is seven times more common than blindness
CoolFarm: Why did Microsoft Portugal's Startup of the Year go bust?
The indoor-gardening tech startup went from winning awards to closing down with debts of close to €1m four years after its founding
The Watertree Project: Eliminating single-use plastic water bottles in Malaysia
With high-profile Malaysian corporate clients under its belt, the startup is in no hurry to raise funds, preferring to focus on raising public awareness and winning mindshare
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