Aiming to accelerate the international scaling of Nordic startups

HealthTech Nordic represents a fast-growing community of 250+ high potential Nordic startups, offering a variety of empowering healthtech solutions. The new solutions allow for a paradigm shift, providing new and better ways of giving and receiving healthcare.

HealthTech Nordic accelerates the growth of startups and unite pioneers in the field of healthtech. We’re here to connect the dots between innovative solutions, healthcare and a global market. Together, we advance ideas and unite resources to address worldwide healthcare needs while we drive regional development and job creation.

We’re aiming to help 100 startups within healthtech to grow and to create 700 new jobs in the Öresund-Kattegatt-Skagerack region by contributing to the startups’ growth and help them go international. 20 startups are expected to become international fast-growers and 5 international companies are expected to establish in the region. The project provides a strategy and know-how on employment growth based on inter-regional assets and global needs.

The project is partially financed by Interreg Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak, European Regional Development Fund.

Home of healthech

Our region features world-class Nordic healthcare and research institutions, highly skilled hardware and software expertise, a thriving gaming industry and a strong startup scene.

HealthTech Nordic creates an agile hub for tomorrow’s solutions by linking our wide industry network, successful business development, and ever-evolving new test and development arena. It’s happening right here, right now, in our own backyard.

Defining healthtech

Any solution that may contribute to the paradigm shift in healthcare through digitalization in a wide sense is healthtech. It’s about providing affordable tools to people all over the world for wider prevention, earlier diagnosis, and better treatment. From artificial intelligence to information technology, we include any digitalization/connected health solution in our definition of healthtech.

If you want to know more about us, our region or our startups – please contact us.

Partners

Innovation Skåne

Innovation Skåne supports innovators, entrepreneurs, or anyone with great ideas that contribute to better healthcare, solve global challenges, create new jobs and make the world a better place. We provide senior business advisors with relevant experience from starting and growing companies, and an extensive network from the industry and public healthcare.

innovationskane.com

Cobis

Cobis is the ideal place to be for biotech and life science companies, offering a professional environment complete with lab facilities, offices and service areas to help bring your business to the next level. We are centrally located in one of the world’s leading biotech regions, and just minutes from the center of Copenhagen. We have something to offer you regardless of whether you represent a startup, an established life science company, or even if you simply have a good idea and need help to get started.

cobis.dk

Health Tech Hub Copenhagen

Health Tech Hub Copenhagen is a community of leading healthtech startups determined to solve global health issues with digital solutions. By providing access to the entire ecosystem in one place, the hub is the point of contact for all stakeholders in healthtech. The first goal: break the adoption bottlenecks and open the way for clever healthtech solutions to reach the people they are meant to serve. The big ambition: improve health and reduce health-related costs for one billion people worldwide.

healthtechhub.org

Invest in Skåne

Invest in Skåne offer free professional advice and services designed for international companies considering South Sweden for future investment. We also assist south Swedish companies in developing their international business. With a close connection to the healthcare system and knowledge of the local ecosystem, we are committed to help foreign investors find the best healthtech opportunities.

investinskane.com

Norway Health Tech

Norway Health Tech is a health technology cluster who accelerates and supports innovative technology in healthcare. Our mission is to improve quality in treatment and care by developing and industrializing world class health solutions though our members and eco-system. We are a non-profit member organization with over 200 members, and the full value chain of healthcare is represented in our network.

norwayhealthtech.com

Sahlgrenska Science Park

Sahlgrenska Science Park is working to strengthen the life science industry with a focus on western Sweden. We offer expertise and experience on a commercial basis, together with a large network in the business community and other life science stake holders. With sustainable health and with the human being in focus, we increase the prospects for business, academia and healthcare to cooperate.

sahlgrenskasciencepark.se

Smile Incubator

Smile is a business incubator based at Medicon Village in Lund. We support startup companies with business development and regulatory expertise, and help them commercializing their ideas. Health2B is our highly-appreciated e-health accelerator. We offer an infrastructure, unique of its kind in Sweden, with well-equipped laboratories in the middle of a large community of life science companies.

smileincubator.life