Learn more about the 16 startups in the Catalonia Health Innovation Ecosystem pavilion at 4YFN 2025
For the second year in a row, the main stakeholders in the health innovation ecosystem in Catalonia (organizations, business organizations and associations) will have a joint pavilion at 4YFN 2025 from March 3 to 6 during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. This space is where 16 startups from the sector will pitch their innovative solutions and services.
This is the eleventh 4YFN event, and it remains committed to the healthcare sector, boosting its visibility. The official program will once again include a specific agenda on digital health, and the exhibition space will also have an area specifically for this arena in Hall 8.0, adjoining Mobile World Congress 2025.
In this area, the Catalan health innovation ecosystem will once again have a huge shared pavilion, called the Catalonia Health Innovation Ecosystem Pavilion. Biocat, in collaboration with TIC Salut Social Foundation, will be heading up this space, with the Government of Catalonia, Barcelona City Council, ACCIÓ, Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (AQuAS), Catalan Health Service (CatSalut), Catalan Union of Hospitals (UCH), Consortium of Health and Social of Catalonia (CSC), Catalan Association of Health Entities (ACES), Associació Catalana de Recursos Assistencials (ACRA) and Taula d’Entitats del Tercer Sector Social de Catalunya (M4Social).
Barcelona Health Hub, Catalonia.Health and Tech Barcelona, reinforcing representation of the whole health innovation ecosystem in Catalonia, a strategic alliance that makes the sector a global benchmark in innovation.
The pavilion will have 16 digital health startups, 4 more than last year, which will pitch their innovative services and solutions in various sessions. And here they are:
- Aimentia: a digital health startup that specializes in using artificial intelligence for mental health. They aim to improve access to and quality of psychological and psychiatric treatments using technological solutions that give professionals more precise, personalized diagnostic tools.
- BrainFocus: this digital health firm is developing software solutions to help neurologists better treat patients with drug resistant epilepsy (DRE), a condition that affects 15 million people worldwide.
- DevsHealth: a deeptech company helping improve drug development for infectious diseases in order to accelerate development of anti-infectives, making the process faster, cheaper and safer.
- Doctomatic: a digital health firm that uses artificial intelligence to transform photos from medical devices like pulse oximeters, blood pressure monitors and digital thermometers into useful data that healthcare professionals can view in a dashboard. If any of the values are outside the normal range, the system sends an alert so doctors can act quickly.
- Heecap: a company that is developing a medical device to improve respiratory capacity for patients on mechanical ventilation in intensive care units.
- IOMED: a digital company that facilitates access and secure transfer of health data between users and data subjects within the legal framework of the European Union. Their platform is based on artificial intelligence and provides data spaces for secure, compliant processing and secondary use of clinical data.
- Llamalítica: a digital health firm that uses a generative artificial intelligence platform to improve management of medical data, simplifying administrative tasks and saving both doctors and patients time.
- Loop Diagnostics: a medical technology startup that is developing quick, precise diagnostic tools for bacterial blood infections, focusing mainly on early detection of sepsis.
- MiWEndo Solutions: a medical technology company that is working to improve early detection of colorectal cancer, one of the main causes of death worldwide.
- Point Pressure: a medtech company that is developing a portable device to improve lower limb movement for people with pathologies or injuries involving the central nervous system.
- Sycai Medical: an innovative company that has developed software for early diagnosis of abdominal cancer, focusing mainly on pancreatic, liver and kidney cancer.
- Tailor Surgery: a medtech company that designs and markets digital surgery solutions for orthopedics, including personalized surgical guides printed in 3D, as well as custom titanium prostheses and implants.
- Tensor Medical: a digital health firm that is developing radiology imaging biomarkers with artificial intelligence to diagnose and monitor neurodegenerative diseases.
- The Smart Lollipop: a medical device that uses smart candy to diagnose diseases from a saliva sample. The lollipop collects the sample and cleans it for diagnostic testing or to follow up on pathologies.
- XPND TECHNOLOGY: a company that has created SISON, an innovative, unique remote-control device that goes in the mouth and can be used to control a wide variety of devices handsfree over Bluetooth.
- WIVI Vision: a digital health firm that has developed a solution that can assess and train each patient’s visual skills, completely reworked to focus on visual wellbeing.
These companies were the finalists of an open public call with more than 30 startups from the BioRegion of Catalonia.
Like last year, this time there will also be many panel discussions and sessions with healthcare professionals in this joint pavilion.
Catalonia as a success case in Europe in the digitization of the Health System
As part of the official Digital Health program of 4YFN 2025, Biocat and the TIC Salut Social Foundation will organize a session entitled "Navigating the Challenges of Healthcare Digitalization in Europe", which will take place on Monday, March 3, at the Earth Stage of the 4YFN.
This Fireside Chat will address the main challenges facing European healthcare systems in the digitization process, with special emphasis on the lessons learned in Catalonia in the digitization of its health system. In addition, experiences and perspectives on the most common problems in the field of digital health will be explored, as well as possible solutions to overcome these difficulties.
The session will be attended by Thomas Hagemeijer, founder of HGM Advisory, who will moderate the session; Jordi Piera, director of the Digital Health Strategy at the Catalan Health Service and Elina Drakvik, senior leader of Sitra's international programs.
This event will be a unique opportunity to reflect on the future of digital health in Europe and learn first hand the strategies that are transforming the sector.