The Kick-Off event marked the beginning of the Startup Creasphere Fall Program and greeted startups located all around the world. Both Roche and NEOM selected startups in the health field to work together during this winter for their three-month innovation program. Their pilots will be presented to the public in the upcoming EXPO 11 in February.

The Kick-Off event marked the beginning of the Startup Creasphere Fall Program and greeted startups located all around the world. Both Roche and NEOM selected startups in the health field to work together during this winter for their three-month innovation program. Their pilots will be presented to the public in the upcoming EXPO 11 in February.

Engaging Corporate Pitches at the Kick-Off

The Kick-Off welcomed Startup Creasphere’s health collaborators Roche and NEOM, who introduced their mission and goal for this upcoming batch of startups.

On the Roche side, Matthias Zach, Startup Innovation Lead at Roche, gave a comprehensive overview of Roche’s mission and highlighted key achievements in both Diagnostics and Pharma.

Throughout these years, we have seen by co-creating new digital business models with startups we can address the most important challenges in health. We will continue to work with innovative health tech companies welcoming them to be part of the Roche ecosystem accelerating their success and contributing to improving patients’ lives. – Jochen Hurlebaus, Head of Digital Health Innovation, Roche

From the NEOM team, we welcomed Rahmah Alqatari, Innovation Professional, and Ragad Bakhshwain, Partnership Professional, who explained NEOM’s future development, current challenges and main focus for this upcoming Startup Creasphere program.

At NEOM we are addressing the most pressing global challenges in health. To solve these health challenges we need global solutions and Startup Creasphere is instrumental in providing international reach and access to the world’s top-tier talent. – Jordan Sellman, Head of Health Partnerships & Innovation

Fall Program Batch Focus Topics & Startups

The startups selected by Roche and NEOM are set to explore and advance the following critical focus areas.

Startups Selected for the 2023 Fall Program

Eyr (Norway) aims to make health accessible for everyone, giving people better access to health and insight into their own health data. It provides video consultations with doctors and other telehealth services to employees in businesses through insurance agreements as well as direct sales to patients.

PocDoc (UK) is a digital health platform that allows anyone to test themselves for a range of major diseases or conditions via a fingerpick of blood, receive a full health assessment that puts those results in context and then be offered solutions to address any health-related issues that arise.

Sync.MD (US) provides patients with superior mobile technology to collect, store, and share their personal health information. Sync.MD utilises enhanced, patented security methods and encryption protocols to ensure data is protected.

PeriVision (Switzerland) combines AI algorithms, virtual reality and cloud computing to build the next generation systems to test visual function. PeriVision improves hosted and stored on Microsoft

Verto (Canada) has developed a Digital Twin Platform for health that uses smart integrations to stitch data from multiple health data sources to create a truly interoperable technology to bring every patient to their best possible health outcome.

About Startup Creasphere

Established in 2018 by Roche and Plug and Play in Munich, Startup Creasphere is one of the largest hubs for digital health innovation worldwide. With locations in Munich, Singapore and Silicon Valley, Startup Creasphere has a unique pilot-driven approach with a focus on co-creation between startups, corporates and further players in the health ecosystem.

About Roche

Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised health.

For further information visit: roche.com

About NEOM

NEOM is an accelerator of human progress and a vision of what a New Future might look like. It is a region in northwest Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea being built from the ground up as a living laboratory – a place where entrepreneurship will chart the course for this New Future. It will be a destination and a home for people who dream big and want to be part of building a new model for exceptional livability, creating thriving businesses and reinventing environmental conservation.

NEOM will include hyperconnected, cognitive cities, ports and enterprise zones, research centers, sports and entertainment venues and tourist destinations. As a hub for innovation, entrepreneurs, business leaders and companies will come to research, incubate and commercialize new technologies and enterprises in groundbreaking ways. Residents of NEOM will embody an international ethos and embrace a culture of exploration, risk-taking and diversity.

For further information email media@neom.com or visit neom.com and neom.com/en-us/newsroom.