Successful Demo Day ends SmiLes’ 6th Health2B accelerator

On November 26^th, the eight participants of this years’ Health2B – SmiLes’ business program for very early startups – graduated after successfully having completed a 10-week digital training program. During the Demo Day their company pitches were praised by a panel consisting of investors in an ‘Investor Pitch Forum’.

The 6^th round of the Health2B life science business accelerator was run with a digital set-up, allowing participants to attend from any location and device.

Seven of the eight participating companies or projects have female founders.

During the 10-week program, the entrepreneurs attended 130 coaching sessions and worked on verifying their business idea with access to mentors, industry experts and personalized coaching from the SmiLe community.

Having mastered the digital experience – amongst other things, the teams were able to create connections with each other and the mentors, as well as share valuable peer knowledge and support each other online – the start-ups have shown an impressive progress in such a short time.

During the Demo Day, they impressed the panel of investors with their pitches and received engaging feedback on their presentations. The panel consisted of venture capital companies Almi Invest and SynCapital as well as angel investors.

In order to further reward the companies for the great progress, this year SmiLe decided to surprise three of the graduates with a SmiLe Core Values Award (core value – company): Impact Award – Phystec, Professional Award – Acorai, Friendly & inclusive – Pharmista

Each of these companies was rewarded with 20 000 SEK as well as an additional three months of support at SmiLe Incubator.

“I want to congratulate our eight Health2B graduates on successfully completing this years’ program. I am impressed by how well the start-ups were able to master our new, completely digital program set-up and interact with each other and the mentors online. The fact that the investor panel praised their Demo Day pitches and the phenomenal progress they have made in only 10 weeks tells us that our program really works”, says Ebba Fåhraeus, CEO of SmiLe.

 

The following companies participated in the 6^th Health2B business accelerator:

Pharmista – Reusable pregnancy test, Alicia Mattson, Sweden

Noui – Wearable bladder scan, Kyoko Jansson, Sweden

Phystec – Digital physiotherapy, Joakim Sjollin, Sweden

Diasense – Blood sugar monitor, Marziyeh Advand, Sweden

Friska – Metabolic Syndrome treatment, Camilla Ahlgren, Sweden

TrackPaw – Rodent monitoring in R&D, Liza Tchpanova, Sweden

Acorai – Intracardiac pressure monitoring, Filip Peters, Sweden

MinthBio – Narcolepsy treatment, Marie Krone, Sweden

 

For more information: Ebba Fåhraeus, +46 (0)734000433, ebba@smileincubator.life

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