Health Tech Forward Event 2024

Merck KGaA operates in three main segments: life sciences, performance materials, and healthcare. The life sciences segment (44% of 2023 sales) primarily provides laboratory consumables and services to researchers in academia and applied fields, including the biopharmaceutical industry. In the healthcare segment (38%), Merck develops, manufactures, and sells branded pharmaceuticals with significant therapeutic concentrations in oncology, multiple sclerosis, and fertility. In its electronics segment (17%), the company offers specialty materials to manufacture a variety of products, such as semiconductors, flat-screen televisions, automobiles, and cosmetics. In 1995, the E. Merck KG family publicly sold part of the company, resulting in the current 30% public ownership of the firm.

Inovo Venture Partners backs early-stage, post-traction startups from Poland and the CEE region with up to €3M of initial investment, and helps them build global brands while driving growth of the local startup ecosystem. We take great pride in being close to top founders who think big. We are the fund of choice for the most ambitious Polish & CEE founders - just ask any of our portfolio companies whether they’d recommend working with us... or see a short testimonial below: “If I’d start a new startup, I would ask Inovo to be my first VC investor again.” - Stefan Batory, Booksy. In the second fund of €54M, we've been fortunate enough to support the following ventures: Spacelift, Infermedica, Tidio, AI Clearing, Zowie, Jutro Medical, Intiaro, Packhelp, Preply, Eyerim, Allset, SunRoof, Archbee, AhoyConnect, uPacjenta, and Symmetrical. Among our investments from the first fund, you will find Booksy, Brand24 (IPOed), Restaumatic, ECC Games (IPOed), Sotrender, and others. Let’s talk!

Promoter of digital transformation in Catalonia's health and social welfare sector. The TIC Salut Social Foundation offers personalized digital assistance, eHealth services, digital medical imaging, social and health integration, and artificial intelligence. The foundation also provides training and resources for professionals, and develops digital assets for citizens with funding from the Next Generation fund.

The company primarily operates in the Educational and Training Services (B2C) industry. Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

The August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) is a R&D Consortium based in Barcelona linked to the Clínic Hospital of Barcelona. It's a CERCA center The fundamental mission of IDIBAPS is to combine clinical research of proven quality with high-level basic research. It can thereby achieve a more effective transfer of scientific advances in the prevention and treatment of the most common health problems. Many of the IDIBAPS scientific staff comes from its constituent institutions: Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, the University of Barcelona School of Medicine, the CSIC’s Barcelona Biomedical Research Institute and ICREA Foundation. The current number of researchers working in IDIBAPS is approximately 480, most of them having complementary basic and clinical profiles. IDIBAPS performs its research mainly in five areas: • Biological aggression and response mechanisms • Respiratory, cardiovascular and renal pathobiology and bioengineering • Liver, digestive system and metabolism • Clinical and experimental neuroscience • Oncology and haematology Currently IDIBAPS has more than 500 competitive projects, amongst which 84 are from EU calls and 22 from other international funding agencies. IDIBAPS is the leading Spanish research institute raising H2020 funds. Researchers at IDIBAPS have created several companies in the last 10 years and participate in 48 patent families. All the facts and figures indicate that IDIBAPS is the leading biomedical research institute in Spain.

Johnson & Johnson is the world's largest and most diverse healthcare firm. It has two divisions: pharmaceutical and medical devices. These now represent all of the company's sales following the divestment of the consumer business, Kenvue, in 2023. The drug division focuses on the following therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neurology, pulmonary, cardiology, and metabolic diseases. Geographically, just over half of total revenue is generated in the United States.

Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services. Its products and solutions include cloud computing, compute, networking, storage and content delivery, databases, analytics, application services, deployment and management, mobile services, applications, AWS marketplace software, startups, enterprises, partners, government and education, websites and web applications, big data and HPC, gaming, and digital media as well as backup, storage, and archive. The company also provides AWS management console, documentation, SDKs and tools, downloads, platforms, Java, JavaScript, mobile, PHP, Ruby, Python, Windows, .NET, resources, forums, tutorials and articles, whitepapers, training and certification, and AWS user groups for developers. In addition, it offers compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services; and mobile services, websites, and backup and recovery services. Amazon Web Services serves the government, education, and non-profit sectors in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, and internationally. Amazon Web Services was founded in 2006 and is based in Seattle, Washington. It has data center locations in the United States, Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, and Australia. It operates as a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc.

UNIQA Ventures is the Venture Capital arm of UNIQA Insurance Group AG as well as a pioneer in Corporate-backed Venture Capital in Central &Eastern Europe. Based in Vienna, Austria, the firm is investing in outstanding business models driven by strong teams and a clear vision to shape the future of key industries. Our Investment areas are: The Future of Health, Mobility, Intelligent Home and Fintech/InsurTech as well as enabling technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, ML/AI.

Provider of clinical research for drug development and sponsorship services in study phases. The company offers risk, data and project management, regulatory affairs, medical writing, medical monitoring and pharmacovigilance.

Developer of a digital healthcare platform designed to offer stepped care for mental health, secure symptom tracking, and prediction. The company offers three tiers of products that support mild cases with mental well-being and early symptom management, perspectives that deliver stand-alone cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for clinical cases, and mindset that delivers digital-first CBT with clinician supervision where there is elevated clinical risk, providing patients with high-quality care that is scalable at an affordable price point.