Choose To Challenge

During the whole month of March, and in concrete today, you will find several discourses about empowering women and celebrating their social, economic, cultural, and political achievements. At HEMEX, we believe celebrating women is great, but we’re want to step forward and choose to challenge ourselves by smashing stereotypes and challenging gender bias. 

Macu4 to Revolutionize the Passive-arm Prosthetics Market

Every other Thursday, HEMEX showcases smart ideas and solutions from innovation-driven start-ups that aim to improve our future healthcare services. This morning, we had the pleasure of hosting a very special HEMEX Investment Showcase, where project lead, Dr. Myriam Lingg, brilliantly presented macu4’s innovative idea to revolutionize the passive-arm prosthetics market.

InQbator: New startup incubator & accelerator powered by BLKB, HEMEX & Launchpad

BLKB, HEMEX and Launchpad aim to support young entrepreneurs in their business activities through the start-up incubator program, inQbator. The program is open to start-ups from all industries. The main aim of inQbator is to promote innovation in the region.

Kill them with kindness!

February is undeniably the month of love, kindness, and compassion. However, sometimes the society in which we live can be seen as this hostile, unfriendly, and a cruel place. Especially in the last year, we have lived through an unprecedented situation, and all of us had to adapt to a new normality. Scientific evidence shows the positive effects of doing random acts of kindness for others as well as receiving them, so why don’t we get started?

Bringing Innovation to Dialysis Care and foster Home Dialysis

Our portfolio company Opterion Health AG seeks to enhance the quality of life for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and their loved ones, and to increase survival rates of ESRD patients. They launched their new website at the beginning of the year and have very exciting plans for 2021!

No more trauma on Intrauterine Contraceptive Devices

On HEMEX’s Investment Showcase today we tackled the pain, bleeding, and tissue tear that women worldwide experience when undergoing common gynaecological procedures. Our portfolio company ASPIVIX is developing the next-generation suction-based cervical device that will improve these traumatic experiences.

Online W. A. De Vigier Foundation TOP 60 Selection Day

This unique event has aired online throughout the whole day today. 60 start-ups have pitched their ideas at this impressive 2021 Selection Day. Some things don’t change even in the middle of a pandemic, and like every year, at HEMEX, we were very impressed with the projects presented. We are proud to claim that the swiss start-up ecosystem has a lot to offer to the world!

HEMEX announces new partnership with SMART-TRIAL

HEMEX is delighted to announce our exciting new partnership with SMART-TRIAL. Collecting and managing clinical data has been revolutionized for the MedTech industry and we are pleased that eCRF, eConsent, and more can now be done with confidence. This partnership enables us to provide healthcare start-ups with a complete range of packages to ensure conducting clinical trials, PMCF studies, and monitoring is made easy and affordable.