HealthTech startup ecosystem
European healthtech startups are transforming care delivery, diagnostics, and drug discovery. Strong public health systems create natural testing grounds, while regulatory clarity through CE marking and the MDR framework gives European companies a path to scale. We track 215 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
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Joyvié Health
Develops patent-pending faecal management briefs that contain stool in a disposable pouch immediately after excretion, cutting stool-to-skin contact and care-change time. Founded after the founder lost his father to pancreatic cancer. Targets care homes, hospitals and domiciliary care.
Juicefast
Juicefast (Juicefast d.o.o., registered in Brezice, Slovenia) is a cold-pressed juice and functional food e-commerce brand offering fasting and detox programs such as Weight Loss Fast, Digestion Fast, and Skin Glow Fast, alongside complete nutrition boxes, functional juices, kombucha, and plant-based snacks. It also sells structured multi-day fasting and weight-loss meal plans tailored by gender, and ships across Croatia and other European markets with cold-chain delivery.
Justin Lynch
Partner and co-founder of Fountain Healthcare Partners, where he leads medical-device investments. He brings operating and finance experience to the firm's medtech portfolio, supporting companies through clinical development, regulatory milestones and exits.
Jutro Medical
Jutro Medical is a Warsaw-based, AI-first primary care operator that integrates online and offline care. Founded in 2020, it has grown from a single tech-enabled clinic into an integrated operator running around 20 clinics across Poland and serving roughly 120,000 patients. The company embeds AI agents directly into clinical workflows to handle patient intake and documentation, freeing doctors for clinical decisions.
Kabinet
Kabinet.bg is a Bulgarian telehealth platform offering free individual, family and group psychotherapy and emotional-support consultations by phone, video and email, run as a project of the Bulgarian Society for Psychoanalysis and Group Analysis. Consultants on the platform are psychotherapists, social workers and psychotherapists-in-training working under supervision, and the free service is funded through donations and partners. Kabinet is a portfolio company of Bulgarian investor Innovation Capital.
Kaia Health
Kaia Health is a Munich-based digital therapeutics company that develops prescribable smartphone apps for chronic conditions, including Kaia Rueckenschmerzen for back pain and a COPD programme, delivering physiotherapy exercises, relaxation techniques and education. Kaia Rueckenschmerzen is registered as a Class IIa medical device and is reimbursable in Germany through the DiGA prescription pathway, where patients activate the therapy with an access code from their statutory or private health insurer. The company is legally registered as kaia health software GmbH, headquartered in Munich.
Karma Ventures
Founded in 2016 by Kristjan Laanemaa, Margus Uudam, and Tommi Uhari, Karma Ventures is one of Estonia's most prominent deep-tech venture capital firms. Its €70M Fund I and €100M Fund II back late-seed and Series A European deep-tech software startups, with tickets up to €5M. The firm is particularly active in AI, cybersecurity, health tech, and enterprise software across Europe. Notable portfolio companies include Starship Technologies, Tuum (formerly Modularbank), Sonarworks, Infermedica, and CybExer Technologies, establishing Karma as the go-to Tallinn-based partner for hard-tech European founders.
Kasia Pieniądz
Angel investor and board member at COBIN Angels, Kasia is based in Switzerland and helps connect Swiss and Polish startup ecosystems. She is vice-president of the Swiss-Polish Blockchain Association and brings specialization in health economics. Her portfolio and advisory focus include Bitfold and early-stage teams using blockchain in healthcare data management and security.
Kencko
Kencko is a Portuguese-founded direct-to-consumer brand selling instant fruit-and-vegetable smoothie mixes designed to be ready in 30 seconds without shopping, chopping or cleanup. The company cites Harvard-linked nutrition research behind its products and reports more than a million members and tens of thousands of customer reviews.
Kilo Health
Kilo Health is a Vilnius-based digital health company founded in 2013 that builds, acquires, and scales a portfolio of 30+ health and wellness apps spanning weight management, fitness, mental health, chronic disease management, and personal care. The company serves over 7 million paying customers globally and employs 500+ people across Lithuania, Germany, and Latvia. Kilo Health operates as a health-app studio, applying performance marketing expertise and data-driven product iteration to grow individual apps rapidly. It is one of the largest and most profitable digital health companies in the Baltics, demonstrating Lithuania's strength in consumer app businesses.
Kry
Kry is a Stockholm-based digital healthcare company founded in 2014 that connects patients with doctors, nurses and psychologists through video and app-based consultations, and also runs physical clinics in some markets. Known as Livi outside the Nordics, it operates in Sweden, Norway, France, Germany and the United Kingdom and became one of Europe's most funded digital health companies.
LAUNCHub Ventures
Founded in 2012 by Lyuben Belov and partners, LAUNCHub Ventures is Sofia's largest dedicated early-stage VC, currently deploying its third fund which closed oversubscribed at €74M in late 2021 (first close €44M). The fund invests at pre-seed and seed stages with ticket sizes of €300K–€3M, backing founders across South-Eastern and Central-Eastern Europe. Sector focus spans fintech, proptech, future of work, devtools, health tech, and enterprise software; portfolio includes Quantive (strategy platform), OfficeRnD (flex-space SaaS), FintechOS, and Giraffe360. Seventy-five percent of portfolio companies have raised follow-on rounds, with aggregate follow-on capital exceeding €400M.
LetsGetChecked
LetsGetChecked is a Dublin-founded at-home diagnostics and virtual care company that ships regulated lab tests directly to consumers, processes samples through its own CLIA-certified laboratories, and wraps the results in physician review, prescribing, and follow-up care where appropriate. Founded in 2015 by Peter Foley, the company rode the pandemic-era shift toward home testing to a USD 1 billion Series D in 2021 and has since positioned itself as a full virtual-care platform covering sexual health, men's and women's health, wellness, colorectal screening, and medication adherence, selling both direct-to-consumer and as a corporate health benefit. It is one of the few European health-tech unicorns to successfully run end-to-end clinical infrastructure — labs, logistics, telehealth, and pharmacy — in the US market, and together with Kerecis and Sidekick Health it rounds out the directory's picture of how Irish and Icelandic health companies are building internationally regulated care businesses.
life - The Biomedical Convention 2026
One-day life sciences convention in Heidelberg featuring biotech keynotes, startup pitch competitions, and investor panels. Organized by BioRN, the Rhine-Neckar biotech cluster, and attended by pharma executives, academic researchers, and VCs. Strong entry point for early-stage biotech and medtech founders seeking funding and strategic partnerships.
life - The Biomedical Convention 2027
life - The Biomedical Convention 2027 takes place 3 February at the Heidelberg Congress Center, organised by the bioRN life science cluster. The one-day convention is part of the annual bioRN conference programme, bringing together the Heidelberg biomedical and life sciences community for exhibitions and networking.
Lifeline Ventures
Lifeline Ventures was founded in 2009 in Helsinki by Petteri Koponen and Timo Ahopelto and has grown into Finland's largest VC focused on unlisted growth companies, raising its €400 million Fund VI in 2025. The firm invests at the angel and seed stage with tickets of €100,000–€2 million, backing sector-agnostic founders from day one across Europe. Lifeline has seeded most of Finland's best-known unicorns, including Supercell (acquired by Tencent for $8.6B), Wolt (acquired by DoorDash for $8.1B), Oura, ICEYE, and Aiven. With over 115 portfolio companies and more than a dozen exits, it is the benchmark early-stage firm in the Finnish ecosystem.
Lightrock
Lightrock is an impact-focused growth equity platform backed by LGT Group, the private banking and asset management group owned by the Princely House of Liechtenstein. Founded in 2019 as a spin-out from LGT's direct private equity activities, Lightrock deploys growth equity tickets of €10–50M into companies demonstrating measurable positive impact across climate, health, and financial inclusion. The firm operates from London with offices in Basel, New Delhi, São Paulo, and other cities, giving it an unusually broad emerging-market reach alongside its European portfolio. Notable portfolio companies include Bima, Karma Kitchen, and Proxona. Lightrock occupies a distinctive position in European impact investing: it combines the balance sheet credibility of a century-old royal banking group with a focused mandate, operational on-the-ground presence, and a willingness to invest in geographies and sectors that conventional growth equity skips. For Swiss and European founders building in healthcare access, climate solutions, or financial inclusion, Lightrock is one of the few growth-stage investors that evaluates impact metrics alongside financial ones.
Lindus Health
Lindus Health is a UK-founded clinical-trials company that brands itself as the anti-CRO, offering an end-to-end, technology-enabled alternative to traditional contract research organisations. It combines a proprietary AI-assisted trial operating system (Citrus) with in-house medical and clinical staff to handle protocol design, patient recruitment, data collection, biostatistics, and regulatory compliance. The platform draws on electronic health records to identify and enroll patients faster, and the company contracts on milestone-based commercial terms. Founded in 2021, it runs trials across therapeutic areas and operates across the US, UK, and Europe.
London Tech Week 2026
Government-backed UK flagship tech week at Olympia with 45,000+ attendees, 5,000+ startups, and 300+ investors across AI, quantum, fintech, and health tech. Main-stage passes typically GBP 600-1,500 with free fringe events. Founder tracks, UK policy programming, and EQL:HER make it a key entry point for founders targeting UK enterprise buyers.
London Tech Week 2027
London Tech Week 2027 runs 7-11 June, with the Expo and Content Stages at Olympia London on 7-9 June and a fringe event programme across London through 11 June. The event is designed to bring together tech innovators, investors and enterprise leaders, and organisers say the 2027 edition will reach a new scale with expanded exhibition space.
