Top 25 of investors in Healthcare IT, Software & Technology

The M&A market for Healthcare IST companies is booming. Our supporting partner Aeternus made a Top 25 of investors in Healthcare IT, Software & Technology. The Top 3 investors in Health IST companies are Main Capital, Healthy Capital and CbusineZ. In this analysis you will find also:

  • the Top 25 Care IST Investors;
  • a selection of the most important M&A transactions in the sector in 2019, 2020 and 2021;
  • Aeternus’ view on the valuation of Care IST companies;
  • A case study on the implementation of Steward Ownership by BuurtzorgT as an alternative to Private Equity.

Read more about this analysis and business cases of Dutch companies in Healthcare IT, Software & Technology.

Effective health interventions with real-life data

Research into the effectiveness of medical interventions is often complex and expensive. In some situations it is possible to use existing data to demonstrate the effectiveness of a particular intervention, such as in the Electronic Patient Record (EPD) or claims data from insurers.

 

In this podcast, we discuss the use of this kind of “real life evidence” based on an earlier project conducted by Radboudumc together with VGZ. This study focused on the effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation and used claims data from VGZ. In the podcast we discuss the possibilities that this kind of data offers, but also the boundaries we have to keep in mind to safeguard privacy. And how do we ensure that the proceeds of such research benefit everyone.

We talk this time with:

  • Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Professor of Law at iHub & iCIS Institute for Computing and Information Sciences;
  • Niels van Gorp, data strategist and ethicus at VGZ;
  • Thijs Eijsvogels, associate professor at exercise physiology Radboudumc.

 

Listen to the podcast (Spotify).

 

Nederland moet Valorisatie-hotspot van Europa worden

Kennisinstellingen komen met nieuw plan om impact te vergroten

 

Nederland moet de Valorisatie-hotspot van Europa worden. Deze ambitie hebben de Nederlandse universiteiten, universitair medisch centra en TNO. Samen lanceren de kennisinstellingen op 1 november een plan om het nationaal valorisatie-ecosysteem te versterken. Het doel: in 2030 een valorisatiesysteem dat tot de absolute wereldtop behoort. VSNU-voorzitter Pieter Duisenberg: “De samenleving, het bedrijfsleven, studenten en wetenschappers willen steeds vaker wetenschappelijke kennis in de praktijk brengen. Het huidige ecosysteem voor deze valorisatie is te klein om die vraag aan te kunnen. Daarom zetten we samen de volgende stap zodat investeringen in kennis en innovatie nog meer opleveren voor Nederland.”

 

Kennis en innovatie als antwoord op de maatschappelijke uitdagingen

De maatschappelijke uitdagingen waar Nederland, Europa en de wereld voor staan kunnen niet opgelost worden zonder wetenschappelijke kennis en innovatie. Een sterk nationaal valorisatie-ecosysteem versnelt het in de praktijk brengen van de oplossingen die de wetenschap biedt. Iedere euro die de overheid investeert in kennis en innovatie levert vier euro op. Dat gaat niet vanzelf. Een sterk valorisatie-ecosysteem waarin kennisinstellingen en het bedrijfsleven intensief samenwerken, zorgt dat wetenschappelijke kennis daadwerkelijk en snel gebruikt kan worden voor onze toekomst.

 

Naar een valorisatie-ecosysteem met een stevig fundament

Met de juiste keuzes kan Nederland in de tweede helft van het decennium niet alleen tot de Europese top behoren, maar zelfs dé valorisatie-hotspot van Europa worden. Margriet Schneider, voorzitter NFU: “In 2030 moet Nederland een nationaal valorisatie-ecosysteem hebben dat zich kan meten met de wereldtop. Doordat Nederland een relatief klein land is met een centrale ligging, wetenschap van wereldklasse en een uitstekende infrastructuur, hebben wij een enorme potentie. Die potentie willen we verzilveren.” De Nederlandse kennisinstellingen stellen de volgende drie doelen voor om in 2030 de valorisatie-hotspot van Europa te worden:

 

1.    Een landelijk Knowledge Transfer (KT) systeem van wereldklasse. De Knowledge Transfer Offices (KTO’s), die wetenschappers ondersteunen bij valorisatie gaan internationale best practices in kaart brengen en in Nederland invoeren. In het landelijke KT-systeem werken kennisinstellingen samen aan expertise, opleiding en training en maken zij een heldere taakverdeling om maatschappelijk uitdagingen rond bijvoorbeeld veiligheid, zorg en duurzaamheid effectief aan te pakken.

 

2.    Samenwerking binnen het ecosysteem versterken. Intensievere samenwerking tussen kennisinstellingen, investeerders en bedrijven om startups te ondersteunen, met uniforme richtlijnen over intellectueel eigendom.

 

3.    Samen gericht uitbreiden van de KTO-capaciteit. Versterken van de ondernemende cultuur binnen de wetenschap en, met alle kennisinstellingen gezamenlijk, het screenen, scouten en ondersteunen van spin-outs op basis van valoriseerbare kennis.

 

Uiteindelijk zorgen deze acties niet alleen voor een beter valorisatie-ecosysteem. Het verbetert het vestigingsklimaat van Nederland, maakt ons land aantrekkelijker voor ondernemend en onderzoekend talent én bestaande investeringen zoals het Nationaal Groeifonds krijgen een grotere impact.

 

Hoe nu verder

In het vandaag gepresenteerde plan stellen VSNU, NFU en TO2 een 7-jarige regeling voor. In deze periode kan de bestaande basis verder worden uitgebouwd. Allereerst zal worden nagegaan welke concrete versterkingen, kwaliteitsimpulsen en interventies nodig zijn. Tegelijkertijd worden kennisinstellingen, regio’s en partners gevraagd hun valorisatieambities concreet te maken. De komende jaren zullen de VSNU, NFU en TO2 volgens het plan jaarlijks de activiteiten en resultaten van het valorisatie-ecosysteem monitoren en daarover rapporteren. Maandag 1 november wordt het plan aangeboden aan Focco Vijselaar, directeur-generaal Bedrijfsleven en Innovatie van het ministerie van Economische Zaken en Klimaat.

 

 
 

Five new supporting partners Briskr

Taking the next steps in Health and High Tech with 5 new supporting partners to the Briskr network!

 

Briskr, together with Oost NL is expanding its network with 5 supporting partners who support , both in cash and in-kind, new entrepreneurs with practical knowledge as well as finance opportunities. We gladly welcome Aeternus BV (company valuation), BDO Nederland (accountancy), EP&C Patent Attorneys (intellectual property), Poelmann van den Broek advocaten (corporate lawyers) and the Rabobank (financial services). By actively seeking cooperation with commercial companies in supporting new entrepreneurs, we can deliver real life knowledge, create a supporting network and enhance the focus on real results.

 

Soon also the contract with the healthcare accelerator Jlabs will be formally signed, and we will continue reaching out to potential supporting partners who can add value to the community of Briskr.

 

We festively kicked off the new supporting partnerships by signing the agreements at Novio Tech Campus together with Martijn Kriens, Program Manager Briskr, and an smb event on networking in health & high tech afterwards. Finally we thank dr. Monique Esselbrugge for joining the event and look forward to continue collaborating with the municipality in growing health & high tech in Gemeente Nijmegen. Enjoy the aftermovie!

 

Nimma Hacks:

Decide the future of the Nijmegen Health & Hightech sector with your innovative ideas. The second edition of Nimma Hacks takes place on Saturday December 11th. Nimma Hacks is a 24-hour long hackathon. During this hackathon, teams with different backgrounds and education levels get to grips with a problem from the local Health & Hightech sector.   Nijmegen is known for being an Old City with a Young Vibe, but did you know that it also is the Health & Hightech hotspot of the Netherlands? Keeping healthcare affordable and accessible, providing sufficient and affordable food for everyone: these are just two major challenges of the future, which companies and research institutions in Nijmegen are working on together. Day in, day out with thousands of people from all over the world. We want to contribute to this with this hackathon!   Nimma Hacks starts on Saturday at 10:00AM and it stops at 10:00AM the following morning. An online communication platform is used for this edition. On this platform, teams will have access to their own meeting room and channels for the transfer of information and documentation. It is up to the teams if they want to sit together in a room or at a distance from each other.   During the hackathon, the teams are digitally assisted by various experts from the field. The organization will provide fun energizers during the day and night!   Everyone can participate in teams of 3,4 or 5 people. At the end of the hackathon, teams will deliver an implementation plan that is hands-on and could be implemented immediately.   A good plan deserves to be realized and that is why the partaking parties reserved at least 10.000 euros to actually realize the idea! An independent jury ultimately decides who will win. In addition to the implementation budget the teams can win a balloon flight over the Novio Tech Campus and a whole year of free entrepreneurship at Start-Up Nijmegen (worth 2940.- euros).   If the corona measures allow it, the award ceremony will take place live at a (to be determined) location in Nijmegen on Friday, October 15 2021.   Nimma Hacks is an initiative of the City of Nijmegen and is made possible by Ampleon, Byondis, CITC, Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen, Novio Tech Campus, NXP, RadboudUMC, Radboud University, The Economic Board, Tourism Veluwe Arnhem Nijmegen and Start Up Nijmegen.   Became curious? Let what happens in Health & Hightech Nijmegen surprise you and participate! You can register from today via the website: www.intonijmegen.com/nimmahacks.   The number of teams is limited so we advise you to register quickly!

Join the Market Readiness Program of OostNL

Do you know who your early adopters are? Do you know if your solution is the best solution for the problem they are experiencing? These are the questions we work with in the Market Readiness Programme which starts November 26, with the aim of finding your early adopters within a specific customer segment, to whom you can sell your product at the same price and through the same sales channel.

 

What we do
The Market Readiness Program is a part-time, ten-week programme in which you test all your customer assumptions. It is a process of learning how to have effective customer conversations in order to learn to think from their perspective. You will have weekly customer meetings to focus on your early adopters within a specific customer segment so you can successfully prepare for a market entry. If after 6 weeks you have identified a customer problem worth solving, then in the remaining weeks you will work on your product and business model and gathering commitment from your first customer.

 

What you can expect
Every week for ten weeks a practical workshop will take place. Besides these meetings, much is expected of you. Each week, you will work independently on activities aimed at customer meetings, while being coached by a business developer. During the programme, you will have very intensive discussions with potential customers in order to test and optimise your solution. You will follow the programme together with a maximum of eleven other entrepreneurs. By regularly sharing your progress and providing each other with feedback, you will learn from each other’s mistakes and successes. These are intensive and instructive weeks!

 

Who?
Ambitious East Netherlands startups that are about to enter the market or have just entered the market and have the ambition to grow consistently.

 

More information and sign up (in Dutch)

Join corporate innovators in the MTB Paris Scale-up Summit

Call for Expression of Interest
Looking for innovative start-ups in EER labelled regions
Join corporate innovators in the MTB Paris Scale-up Summit
1 – 15 December 2021

 

The European Entrepreneurial Regions (EER)1 project partnership aims to foster the development and implementation of concrete collaborative action plans that will support the development of practical collaboration between regions to help entrepreneurs scale across the Single Market. More details about the project here.

 

Engaging start-ups and SMEs in corporate open innovation challenges has been a priority for EER regions, as part of their efforts to scale-up the regional entrepreneurial ecosystems.

 

The MTB Scaleup Summits are highly curated, invitation only, matching activities hosted by the most prestigious Stock Exchanges, where corporates, investors, and scaleups operating in specific industry verticals can do business and spot technology trends.
More details on the 2021 Paris Scaleup Summit are at this link, including the agenda and other opportunities from the MTB ecosystem.
Corporate topics include Industry 4.0, New Energy, Mobility, Circular Economy, Waste Management, Construction Tech, Digital Marketing, Retail etc.

1The EER regions are granted a label from the European Committee of the Regions and European Commission for showing outstanding entrepreneurial policies (more info)

SocialTech Startup Network Series by Yes!Delft!

It’s almost time! YES!Delft is organizing the SocialTech Startup Network Series together with the Municipality of The Hague and Innovation Quarter. After this program you will be investor-ready for the Innovation Quarter fund IQCapital and you will have access to a large network of potential partners in social care.

 

Domain: SocialTech

Technological innovation in the social domain is not straightforward, but it is becoming increasingly relevant for a healthy and resilient society. That is why YES!Delft decided to step in, build a dedicated ecosystem and offer support to startups that develop promising products or services. Think of solutions for mental resilience and a healthy lifestyle, youth care, care for the elderly, care for the disabled but also the purchase of care by the municipality.

 

Program: Startup Network Series

The network series are a part-time program of 6 weeks in which you map out the market, make connections with funds, experts and key stakeholders. On top of that, you have the chance to win a pilot with the municipality of The Hague. The minimum requirement is that a startup has at least 2 committed founders.

Does your startup offer a solution to the above mentioned challenges? Then this is your chance to discover your market opportunities in the social domain!

Want to know more about this program? Mail to YES!Delft startup scout: cailin@yesdelft.nl.

AI for Life: Episode 8

MI-robot: viewing tumors

 

How can technology help us to view cancerous tumors faster and better, thus saving lives? In this podcast episode of AI for Life, we are introduced to the MI robot. Radboudumc, Soteria Medical and Tesla Dynamic Coils are working together in this project to develop a robot that can take more targeted biopsies, using an MRI guided needle and antenna. We will discuss how to detect and identify tumors, and what the robot will mean for patient and professional. This new podcast is with:

 

Tom Scheenen from Radboudumc;
Gerrit Tigelaar of the company Soteria Medical;
And Thomas Meurs of the company Tesla Dynamic Coils.

Listen to the podcast (in Dutch)

Connecting 16 CVN ecosystems successfully

Last week we successfully connected 16 ecosystems within CVN, resulting in more than 30 1-to-1 sessions between corporates and SME’s/startups around the theme ‘Health(care) and Life Science. Many of them will also have a follow-up meeting.

 

The three CVN regional ecosystem partners (LIOF, BOM and OostNL) together with TNO, IMEC iStart, Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus, NLC Health and RWTH provided unique access to the innovations and technologies/services of 42 SMEs/startups in their portfolios that were relevant to the specific and latent challenges of 6 CVN corporates (Achmea, ASML, FUJIFILM, Medtronic, Philips and Unilever). The SMEs/startups can on their part benefit from the facilities, know-how, competencies and ecosystem of the corporates to boost their innovations. More than 50% of the SME’s/startups were invited to have a 1-to-1 conversation with the corporates and over 20% of them had a conversation with more than one corporate. The regional ecosystem partners are committed to further support “their” startups/SMEs with collaborations with the corporates.

 

To facilitate the information flow between the startups/SMEs and the corporates to prepare for the meeting, we used an innovative collaboration platform: Klever. Klever provides startups/SMEs a better way to tell their story and convey your proposition to the corporates and provides corporates a good insight into the capabilities of the startups/SMEs. The platform also enables corporates to involve relevant decision-makers internally and externally to optimize their decisions. (youtube about the event and Klever: click here; opening slides are on the CVN member page).

 

This event is not an isolated activity. As CVN, we are investigating how we can increase our ability to connect our members and partners’ ecosystems and foster collaboration, thereby creating more value for our members. How can we make better use of the wisdom of the CVN cloud, e.g., by using data-driven solutions such as the Klever platform?

 

What are the next steps? We are planning to have interviews with both the CVN members involved in the event of July 14th as well as several other CVN members that have expressed their interest in a similar event around the theme energy transition. Based on this input, we will prepare a plan that will be presented to the CVN members in a meeting in September (date to be set). More than ten years ago, we started as a platform for sharing good/bad practices. The next step has been to become an association of Corporate Venturing professionals (e.g. by creating the Corporate Venturing & Entrepreneurship Community and conducting research). We think that the next step in our CVN journey is collaboration and co-creating between ecosystems.