Swisstech Pitch 2022 @CIC — スイス発のピッチイベント image
Swisstech Pitch 2022 @CIC — スイス発のピッチイベント image

Swisstech Pitch 2022 @CIC — スイス発のピッチイベント

BioJapan2022に合わせて来日するスイスのライフサイエンス・ヘルスケア分野のスタートアップ・ピッチイベント!

Swisstech Pitch 2022 @CIC — スイス発のピッチイベント image

スイスはノバルティスやロシュなど世界的な大手製薬企業が本社を置く国でもあり、それぞれの研究所と大学・研究機関が連携することにより、強固なライフサイエンス分野のエコシステムが形成されています。

今回は、そのスイスから9社のスタートアップが来日しピッチを行います。

本イベントは、2025年大阪・関西万博に向けたスイス政府の広報文化外交プログラム「Vitality.Swiss」の一環として開催されます。

Swisstech Pitch 2022 @CIC — スイス発のピッチイベント image

【開催概要】

開催日時 :2022年10月11日(火) 18:00~20:00 (JST)(17:30受付開始〜19:30受付終了)
開催場所:CIC Tokyo(東京都港区虎ノ門 1-17-1 虎ノ門ヒルズビジネスタワー15階)& Online
参加費:無料
言語:英語(日英同時通訳あり)
主催者:スイス大使館、Swisstech、Vitality Swiss、CIC Tokyo
※入館方法は参加者の方に別途ご連絡いたします。
※感染症拡大状況により開催形態が変更になることがあります。

【タイムテーブル】

18:00 Opening remarks
18:05 Startup Pitch (4min Pitch, 3min Q&A)

  1. Resistell
  2. BigOmics
  3. Arkaïya
  4. Pipra
  5. Synplechem
  6. Netsensing Technology
  7. Kralys
  8. Cytosurge
  9. MachineMD

19:25 — Closing remarks
19:30 — Networking

【登壇スタートアップ】

(1)Resistell

Resistell Ltd is a clinical stage Swiss start-up developing the first class nanomotion technology platform consisting of hardware, software and a big data machine learning system for Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing (AST), as well as a wide spectrum of clinical and research applications in life science. Resistell’s first product, Phenotech R&D, was launched in April 2022 and is available for sales for research applications. The second product, Phenotech AST, is currently in clinical validation for bloodstream infections and sepsis where it has achieved excellent accuracy with clinical gold standard methods while providing results within 4 hours only.

(2)BigOmics

BigOmics Analytics is a Swiss data analytics startup that was founded in 2018 as a spin-off of the Institute of Oncology Research in Bellinzona. The company was started to address the current omics data analysis bottleneck that is slowing down the rate of discovery in the biological and medical sciences. As such, we create smart online tools to make advanced omics analysis accessible to users without bioinformatics skills. In the long term, we consider this an essential step in fulfilling the promises of personalised medicine.
We launched our first product, Omics Playground, a cloud-based self-service platform for visual data analytics of omics data. So far, we have raised CHF 2.7M in funding. Our platform is currently being used by three biotech and pharma clients, as well as five academic institutions across the world.

(3)Arkaïya

Arkaiya™ unique gatekeeping Archaea companion diagnostic and accompanying therapeutic agent are the much needed and ‘underlying-problem-addressing’ solution made available to doctors and parents for the treatment of their distressed infants and young children, suffering from colic, asthma, allergies and associated acute and chronic inflammatory and autoimmune conditions, commonly caused by the early absence or shortage of gatekeeping Archaea M. smithii in the child’s gut microbiome, due to premature or Caesarean birth, formula (non-breast) feeding or early exposure to antibiotics.
Arkaiya™ combined diagnostic and therapeutic solution promises to dramatically improve the early and later ‘microbiome-balanced and optimized‘ lives of infants suffering from these troubling and potentially chronic problems, substantially reducing life-long allergy and GI-related doctor and hospital visits and morbidity and healthcare costs.

(4)Pipra

Delirium is one of the largest issues in healthcare and is massively unaddressed, affecting 59 million people per year. It represents a significantly higher cost than diabetes (60% higher cost in the U.S.). Post-Operative Delirium (POD) is the most common post-surgical complication affecting 20% of patients over 60 with long-term consequences for patients and enormous costs to hospitals and insurers. 38% of patients with POD continue to experience cognitive decline 9 months post-surgery. Our first product is a CE-certified, A.I-driven clinical decision support software that helps doctors identify high-risk patients prior to surgery. Highlighting high-risk patients allows for effective, cost-reducing measures to be implemented shown to decrease the incidence by 53%. We recently launched our product on the market in Switzerland have secured 3 paid pilots with well-known and respected hospitals. We are strongly supported by several key opinion leaders on our advisory board (i.e. from Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Cornell).

(5)Synplechem

Synple Chem, an ETH spin-off, has developed an automated reagent cartridge-based syntheszier for the safe and efficient assembly of new molecules.
The synthesizer works in analogy to a well-known coffee capsule system, carrying out chemical synthesis at the touch of a button. Using our device, researchers can synthesize new molecules in a manner that is much faster, cheaper, safer, and more efficient than traditional manual methods. By offering a broad range of cartridges capable of effecting the most frequently used chemical reactions in the pharmaceutical industry, Synple Chem’s technology platform has the potential to speed up drug discovery and bring new medicines to the patient faster.

(6)Netsensing Technology

Founded in 2019 in Switzerland, Netsensing Technology is developing a low-cost device to enable the mass detection of sleep apnea, that drastically reduces time and cost of detection, easy to use without wires and tubes, fully reimbursable, AASM and telemedicine compliant. More, it will be placed at pharmacies for immediate access by patients. Technically, Netsensing will use, AASM compliant sensors and software, all integrate in a lowcost wearable and stretchable device that looks like a corset.

(7)Kralys

Kralys is a Swiss medtech startup founded in 2017 in Montreux. It offers solutions for practitioners, therapists and labs in Switzerland and has just started its internationalization plan, notably Japan and France. Kralys’ mission is to ensure that everyone has access to the best digital health solutions, everywhere. Designed with healthcare professionals for healthcare professionals. The company has so far developed three distinct solutions with some of the most prestigious laboratories and professionals in Switzerland:
· Katarina for doctors: An all-in-one software suite to manage the medical practice and clinic from A to Z.
· Laboratory Order Entry: A digital platform that connects the laboratory with its customers and enables the ordering and tracking of complex laboratory analyses, supporting pre-analytical procedures and label customization.
· Lab. Connector: A wireless controller that translates and transmits all your medical data, to all your devices, in the cloud.

(8)Cytosurge

Cytosurge expanded its business from a pure nanotech solution provider to a service provider for CRISPR cell line engineering in spring 2022. Our world’s smallest syringe injects femto- to nanoliter amounts of CRISPR reagents directly into the nucleus of individual cells and allows expansion of monoclonal cell lines accordingly. Compared to standard methods, we avoid single cell selection from millions of cells and are therefore able to provide a significantly faster service speed at unprecedented quality, even for complex cell edits. Hence, by applying disruptive and fully digitalized manufacturing services based on our unique technology, we go beyond conventional technological boundaries in gene editing. We are looking for investments to further scale up our cell line business and to further automate our cell culturing and expansion processes.

(9)MachineMD

machineMD is a Swiss medical device company, founded in 2019, that develops innovative solutions to radically improve early detection of brain disorders such as stroke, multiple sclerosis and brain tumours. The company was founded in Prof. Mathias Abegg’s Eye Movement Laboratory in the University Hospital of Bern. Together they combine Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence to empower neurologists and ophthalmologists with reliable diagnostic data.
NEOS is the neurophthalmoscope for standardized and automated examinations of neurological disorders via the visual pathway. Medical examination time is reduced from 45 to 10 minutes, bringing the quality of a highly trained tertiary care specialist to where it is most needed, in secondary and primary care.
The device is intended to provide objective, reproducible and quantifiable measurements of eye and pupil movements induced by visual stimuli. Eight neuro-ophthalmic examinations are performed, including pupillary function and visual field measurements.
NEOS is currently for Research Use Only and is not yet available in any market.

【コメンテーター】

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加々美 綾乃

専門は分子生物学・遺伝学。博士号取得後、文部科学省に入省しライフサイエンス分野の研究開発政策や日本医療研究開発機構(AMED)の設立、初等中等教育のICT化などに携わる。2017年にマサチューセッツ工科大学に留学し、スタートアップ・エコシステムの研究に取り組む。2019年に帰国し、科学技術・イノベーション政策全般や核融合研究開発の担当を経て、2021年7月より現職。ライフサイエンス分野のスタートアップ企業支援プログラム等を担当。

【CIC Tokyoについて】

CIC Tokyo

CIC Tokyoは、2020年10月1日に虎ノ門ヒルズビジネスタワーの15階と16階(合計約6,000平米)にオープンした、国内最大級のイノベーションセンターであり、スタートアップ(起業間もない、急成長を目指す企業)を中心に250社以上の企業や団体が入居できる広大なワークスペースと、ビジネスの成長とグローバル展開を加速するためのコミュニティやサービスを提供します。
CIC Tokyoに入居するスタートアップ企業は、自由な雰囲気の中、オフィススペースや多彩な共用スペースが利用可能です。加えて、イノベーションコミュニティへの様々な形での参画が可能となり、エコシステム内のキープレイヤーと新たな関係性を構築することができます。また、CIC Tokyoをゲートウェイとして、グローバル拠点へのアクセスが容易になります。CIC Tokyoでは2020年10月のオープン以降2021年7月末までにスタートアップやオープンイノベーションに関係のある130件を超える様々なイベントを開催しており、多くの方が集う場所になっています。