The Ready2Scale project announces the 15 startups accepted into its acceleration program. Designed to foster cross-border collaboration and bridge gaps between regional ecosystems, the program offers a unique opportunity for startups from Widening countries in the digital and deep-tech sectors to scale their innovations on a European level.
The program provides comprehensive support and resources, including equity-free grants of up to €60 000, a 6-month acceleration program with up to five market discovery missions, networking events, specialized one-to-one expert advice, and access to over 100 mentors. The project also emphasizes educating early-stage investors about the potential of deep-tech businesses through a dedicated investment training module.
The following startups have been selected for the first cohort:
- Scatterin AB, a Stockholm-based spinoff company from research at KTH, offers easy-to-use data analysis software -Scatterin SaaS- to make world’s most powerful microscopes, neutron and synchrotron X-ray facilities, industrially efficient and accessible.
- Handwave: Pioneering Biometrics-as-a-Service company, allows customers to authenticate or make purchases with a simple palm scan. Their own technology provides a convenient user experience ensuring the highest security standards.
- Aisthesis Medical is a pioneering medtech startup transforming acute care with VIOSync, our AI-powered clinical decision-support system designed to anticipate sepsis and prevent multi-organ failure, enhancing patient outcomes and streamlining healthcare workflows.
- DTs HUB d.o.o. presents FroomCare AI Physiotherapist, an innovative digital solution addressing musculoskeletal issues by providing immediate, personalized treatment plans.
- Feyenally revolutionizes eye care with their mobile app, enabling instant and accurate eye exams via smartphone. Using advanced AI, it offers accessible, cost-effective diagnostics, transforming vision health for everyone, everywhere.
- PlanetAI Space is Technology to discover and measure the attribution and impact of greenhouse gases in our planet’s ecosystems by using state-of-the-art satellite technology, astrophysics, machine learning and computational chemistry.
- Akira Science AB is a Swedish DeepTech startup that develops next-gen implants to revolutionize breast reconstruction after cancer. The core of the AkiMed™ Implants is a degradable, biocompatible, and 3D printable material designed to promote natural tissue healing.
- BrachyDOSE is the cutting edge solution made to prevent up to 100% of injuries caused by radiation in radiotherapy procedures for cervical, breast, prostate and other cancer cases.
- Catalyco produces high purity, high surface area zinc oxides for industrial applications in a circular way.
- ColorSensing helps food manufacturers and retailers reduce food waste and increase their profitability with a digital, cost-effective smart label that recovers information about food quality and safety at any time and place just by taking a picture.
- Sepsiscan develops a medical device for sepsis patient perfusion evaluation to minimize the patient mortality.
- WaltR’s APU Emission Tracker tool helps airports enforce APU usage regulations, reduce their environmental footprint by monitoring greenhouse gas emissions, air quality, and noise, and promote the adoption of alternative power sources such as Pre-Conditioned Air (PCA) and 400 Hz ground power.
- KnowCarbon compiles data from product-specific Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs), academic reports, and commercial sources, combined with machine learning to create vertical-specific databases and uses AI to quickly calculate the carbon footprint of products, currently applied in the horticultural sector with Interflora across 20+ countries.
- The DotLumen glasses offer a groundbreaking solution for visually impaired individuals by utilizing advanced AI to replicate the navigational capabilities of guide dogs through a pedestrian autonomous navigation system, guiding users via haptic feedback technology to avoid obstacles and navigate various environments independently.
- ExSeed is pioneering the extraction of sunflower protein isolate from sunflower presscake with a proprietary and patentable technology, addressing the need for a readily available, nutritious, non-allergenic, and functional plant-based protein.
Thank you to everyone who applied. Ready2Scale is currently accepting applications for the second round until the end of November.
The Ready2Scale project is a collaborative effort by Tehnopol (Estonia), Civitta (Estonia), Poznan Science and Technology Park (Poland), and the European Business Angels Network (Belgium).