22 start-ups join the first Future4care class
Future4care, Europe's leading e-health start-up gas pedal, today announced the names of the 22 start-ups selected to join the first class of its gas pedal. Launched in the summer of 2021 by four major international groups - Capgemini, Generali, Orange and Sanofi, Future4care aims to accelerate progress in digital health and build tomorrow's e-health solutions with a multidisciplinary community.
From September 22nd to October 24th, Future4care organized its first call for projects around two key digital health themes: personalized medicine and remote patient management.
Following this call for projects, for which 154 start-ups applied, 41 applications were shortlisted and reviewed by a jury of experts including Anaïs Barut (Damae), Xavier Godron (DNAscript), Jamie Walters (Calywia), Jean-Baptiste Hennequin (Fonds physique pour la médecine), Samuel Ohayon (MedXlab, CTS), Jacky Vollet (Association française des diabétiques), Chahra Louafi (BPI autonomous patient fund), Antoine Leprêtre (HEC Paris incubator), Pierre Abadie (physician) and members of Future4care's 4 founding companies: François Devif (Capgemini), Jean-Vianney Massin (Generali) Jérôme Berger (Orange) and Arnaud Robert (Sanofi).
The jury selected 22 start-ups for the first promotion (details and information at the end of the press release).
By joining Future4care, these start-ups will have access to an acceleration program that includes :
application spaces called "labs" and an online platform for working and exchanging outside the walls, while retaining a quality experience,
the opportunity to join a 6400 m2 campus in Paris, with catering, brainstorming and training facilities,
a unique network of healthcare, scientific, academic and industrial professionals, enabling start-ups to optimize their time and benefit from personalized meetings,
access to the expertise of the founding members (Capgemini, Generali, Orange and Sanofi) and a hundred or so profiles from all walks of life, via 360 degrees of personalized and individualized support (business, legal, data, ethics, regulatory, etc.), both online and face-to-face.
Future4care also recently announced the arrival of Olivier Guérin, Head of Geriatrics at Nice University Hospital, as Vice-Chairman of Future4care, as well as a number of structuring partnerships that place the gas pedal at the heart of a growing ecosystem, including partnerships with Hello Tomorrow and Galen Growth.
See below for details of the 22 start-ups selected:
ArcaScience Al
CEO: Romain Clément.
The first solution to combine a biomedical data fusion tool with a specialized, tailor-made AI development framework, multiplying data profitability by a factor of 4.
Baracoda
Co-founders: Jean-Marc Druesne (CEO) and Gauthier de Rouzé (CTO)
Baracoda offers BBalance, a bath mat equipped with patented pressure measurement technology for daily monitoring of the body's state of health. It comes with a personalized coaching program.
Blazar
Founder: Dora Carrasco Sabino
Blazar predicts response to onco-immunotherapy by deploying statistical and deep learning methods on clinical data, improving outcomes for patients.
Bliss Digital Therapeutics
https://www.bliss-solution.com/
President: Mélanie Péron
Bliss Digital Therapics offers VR goggles/headsets to reduce pain in patients with chronic diseases and/or during medical interventions.
Bodyo
Founder: Patrice Coutard
Bodyo creates innovative telehealth devices that improve the health and well-being of individuals by preventing the onset of chronic diseases through engaging prevention programs accessible to all via self-monitoring and telemedicine stations.
Casis
https://www.casis.fr/fr/casis-cardiac-simulation-imaging-software/
Founder: Jean-Joseph Christophe
Casis offers cardiovascular imaging software to improve and reinforce clinical diagnosis. The use of deep learning algorithms, based on the QIR suite, to help healthcare professionals interpret and understand cardiovascular MRI and CT scans. The interface, in various languages, also includes a small training module.
Health For People
Co-founders: Marc-Antoine Sergeant (Chairman), Julien Thomas (Managing Director) and Nicolas Jacob (Development Director)
Health For People's e-health platform was developed with a single goal in mind: giving everyone (patients or healthcare professionals) the means to get involved in their own health and take an active role in their care. Health For People offers decision-support and assisted care management tools for healthcare professionals, enabling them to tailor treatments delivered to patients.
Hoppen
Founders: Sébastien Duré and Matthieu Mailédant
Hoppen is a project for a phygital platform to accompany patients during their hospitalization, with personalized services tailored to each patient at every stage of their journey. The initial observation was that nursing staff spends only 30% of their time with the patient, the rest in the corridors + 7 km in the corridor. The result of the experiment was that they spent 55% of their time with the card. Their solution is to digitize all actions that take place in the room: meals / room cleaning / care and life in the building.
I-Virtual
https://www.caducy.com/fr/i-virtual/
CEO : Gaël Constancin
I-Virtual is a start-up specializing in image and data processing for everyday health and well-being, transforming any camera into a medical device. Caducy is the first European system for non-contact measurement of vital parameters using a camera.
Juisci
Co-founders: Robin Roumengas (CEO) and David Luu (CMO)
Edtech/continuing medical education combining AI (proprietary algorithms) and deeptech with a SAAS solution. Its aim is to democratize medical education.
It will also become a platform for peer-to-peer exchange. Enabling HCPs to receive instant, live and reliable information in summary, visual and personalized format.
Kapcode
Founders: Dr Stéphane Schück, Nathalie Texier and Adel Mebarki.
Kapcode has developed E-Detect, the first tool to take into account the patient's voice in real time, using artificial intelligence and natural language processing methods.
Knok
Co-founders: José Bastos (CEO) and Joao Magalhaes (CTO)
Knok is a global leader in integrated care video platform software. Knok works with leading hospitals, healthcare organizations and insurance companies to improve all aspects of patient care by providing an easy-to-use platform for doctors and patients.
MaPatho
Founders: Axelle Ayad N'Ciri and Pierre-Emmanuel Obeniche
MaPatho makes it possible to find a trusted specialist and quality information, which can sometimes be a real obstacle course. MaPatho is a 4P platform designed to improve patients' daily lives.
Medicus
CEO: Baher Al Hakim
Medicus is an innovative solution that helps patients understand their health by explaining their medical reports and health data in a personalized, easy-to-understand and visual way.
Meditect
Co-founders: Arnaud Pourredon (CEO), Romain Renard (COO) and Adrian Gonzalez (VP Engineering).
Meditect strengthens access to quality medicines in Africa, by federating healthcare players around the legal drug circuit and developing tools adapted to each player.
Medvir
Founder: Dr Loïc Etienne
Medvir has developed a solution that uses symptom analysis in primary care to identify the need to go to the emergency room (hearing weak signals).
PK Vitality
https://www.pkvitality.com/fr/
Co-founders: Luc Priérart (CEO) and Minh Lê (MD)
PK Vitality is developing K'Watch, the first Continuous Glucose Monitor in the form of a connected watch, enabling simple, pain-free monitoring of blood glucose levels, with no stigma for diabetics.
Remedee
Co-founders: Jacques Husser (Chairman), David Crouzier (CEO, CSO), Gilles Litman (CBO) and Michael Foerster (CTO)
Thanks to the first endorphin stimulator combined with a digital service platform (wristband with sensors), Remedee is a device for analyzing health data for patients suffering from chronic pain (endometriosis in particular), and then stimulating the secretion of endorphins to treat these same patients, according to the data collected.
Rofim
Chairman and founder: Dr David Bensoussan
Rofim is a collaborative diagnostics and telemedicine platform enabling tele-expertise, RCP, tele-consultation and secure communication.
Rofim is built around three complementary areas of expertise: medical, technical and strategic.
SentinHealth
Founders: Stéphanie de Marco (Managing Director), Thibault Parmentier (Deputy Managing Director)
SentinHealth is the first reimbursable solution for patients with severe heart failure and loss of autonomy, who need daily or lifelong monitoring. Based on a subcutaneous implant, SentinHealth enables daily monitoring of heart/lung/temperature and position parameters at home, as well as alerting healthcare professionals and triggering action if necessary.
Teale
Co-founders: Julia Néel Biz, Geoffroy Verzat, Nicolas Merlaud and Gilles Rasigade
Teale is a digital platform that enables employees to take care of their mental health on a daily basis, in a preventive and personalized way.
Wefight
Co-founders: Benoît Brouard (CEO) and Pierre Nectoux (CTO)
Wefight develops Vik, the virtual companion for cancer and chronic disease patients. Available in 12 countries, Vik accompanies +350,000 patients throughout their treatment.
Further information is available on the Future4care website and on its Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.
About Future4care
Future4care is the European gas pedal for digital healthcare start-ups, born of an alliance between Sanofi, Capgemini, Generali and Orange. Its aim is to accelerate the time-to-market for innovative, real-world e-health solutions. Future4care is an ecosystem on a unique scale:
a 6400m2 space in the Biopark in the heart of Paris, in the 13th district, to support start-ups in their acceleration phase;
an online open innovation platform
an Institute, a true knowledge center offering programs and conferences related to digital health;
a benchmark label.
