Patronus raises €11 million to turn senior emergency smartwatches from ‘bedside decoration’ into daily-worn devices
Patronus raises €11 million to turn senior emergency smartwatches from ‘bedside decoration’ into daily-worn devices

3TS Capital Partners led the round with Grazia Equity and existing investors. 25,000 users, 85% daily wear rate, 500,000+ emergency calls handled. The company is building an AI companion for the watch to address loneliness in the hours when no family m…

Claim Clarity on the role of specialized AI in advancing workers’ compensation decision precision
Claim Clarity on the role of specialized AI in advancing workers’ compensation decision precision

Claim Clarity suggests that workers’ compensation represents a significant yet often less visible segment of the broader healthcare ecosystem. Founder and CEO Jamie LaPaglia says, “Its scale and impact continue to expand, but it’s sometimes approached …

What’s the Best Medical Alert System of 2026? Comparing 7 major brands
What’s the Best Medical Alert System of 2026? Comparing 7 major brands

Medical alert systems have become an essential safety tool for older adults who want to maintain their independence while ensuring help is available at the press of a button. These devices connect users to trained emergency operators 24/7, providing pe…

Coral raises $12.5M to automate healthcare’s administrative back office
Coral raises $12.5M to automate healthcare’s administrative back office

The New York startup has built AI that reads handwritten fax forms, processes prior authorisations, and completes patient intakes in under five minutes, all without asking providers to change how they work. It has reached multiple millions in revenue i…

ONWARD Medical raises €40.6M to advance its spinal cord stimulation implant
ONWARD Medical raises €40.6M to advance its spinal cord stimulation implant

The Eindhoven neurotechnology company is using the proceeds to fund its Empower BP pivotal trial, which tests whether its implantable ARC-IM® system can treat blood pressure instability after spinal cord injury, while expanding commercial rollout of it…

Stockholm’s BioLamina secures €20M EIB loan to scale the protein matrices that make cell therapies possible
Stockholm’s BioLamina secures €20M EIB loan to scale the protein matrices that make cell therapies possible

The European Investment Bank is lending €20 million to BioLamina, the Swedish biotech that supplies the laminin-based cell culture matrices used by stem cell therapy developers worldwide. The funding will support expanded production of laminin technolo…

Cambridge biotech STORM Therapeutics raises $56M
Cambridge biotech STORM Therapeutics raises $56M

STC-15 is the world’s first RNA-modifying enzyme inhibitor to reach human trials. Phase 1 showed durable tumour regression across multiple sarcoma subtypes. The $56M Series C is backed entirely by existing investors including Pfizer Ventures and M Vent…

Amazon launches AI Bio platform to accelerate early-stage drug discovery
Amazon launches AI Bio platform to accelerate early-stage drug discovery

Amazon Web Services (AWS)  announced this Tuesday the launch of its AI bio tool, Amazon Bio Discovery, to accelerate the early-stage process of drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry. The application aims to help scientists design and test novel…

AliveCor brings its pocket-sized 12-lead ECG to Europe after detecting more than 4,000 heart attacks in the US
AliveCor brings its pocket-sized 12-lead ECG to Europe after detecting more than 4,000 heart attacks in the US

The Kardia 12L, which uses five electrodes and a single cable to replace bulky 10-lead ECG carts, has received CE Mark. It launches first in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK, with its AI system detecting 35 cardiac conditions including acute m…

Science Corp is preparing to place its first brain sensor in a human, betting biology will beat electrodes
Science Corp is preparing to place its first brain sensor in a human, betting biology will beat electrodes

Science Corporation, the BCI company founded by ex-Neuralink president Max Hodak, is preparing to place a pea-sized, 520-electrode sensor on a human brain’s surface during already-scheduled surgery. Yale neurosurgery chair Murat Günel will lead the pro…