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🚀 Oska Health Raises €11M to Scale AI-Powered Chronic Care 🚀 Capricorn Partners & SwissHealth Ventures led this round with participation from Revent, LBBW Venture Capital GmbH, BMH Beteiligungs-Management Hessen, GoHub Ventures, Aurum Impact and Calm/Storm. 💡 Chronic diseases aren’t managed in isolated doctor visits — they’re decided in everyday life. oska health supports multimorbid patients (e.g. CKD, diabetes, hypertension) by combining certified health coaches with AI-enabled care delivery. The platform helps translate physicians’ recommendations into daily habits — reducing avoidable complications and hospitalizations 📉 📊 The structural challenge: • ~50% of chronically ill patients don’t take medication as prescribed • ~80% struggle to sustain lifestyle changes • ~70% of healthcare expenditure in Germany is linked to chronic disease Already partnering with 20+ statutory health insurers in Germany, Oska Health shows how continuous, tech-enabled care can be medically meaningful and economically sustainable. Proud to support Niklas Best, Dr. Malte Waldeck and Claudia Ehmke and the entire team as they scale AI-powered chronic care across Europe 🌍 Katrin Geyskens Filip Pintelon Dick Sietses Antoine D'Hollander Simon Wouters Noé Wachsmuth Ine Jordens Markus Rommel Otto Birnbaum Maximilian Naumow

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I fell in love with computers at age 8. Late 90s, grey buttons ... pure magic 🥹🥰 I fell in love with computers, not because of games, but because a friend showed me his own website, built in Microsoft FrontPage. That moment sparked a curiosity that never really stopped. In the next 2 decades: - I built my first company - I grew multiple teams with people way smarter than me - I sold my software company for €17m+ - And then I 🤯 started all over again. Because building is the entire point. 🎙️ I recently had the chance to talk about my journey with Christoph Hahn on a German-language podcast / videocast produced by the WKO (Austrian Federal Economic Chamber). We talk about: - why building on your own is hard, but deeply rewarding - what truly excites people and creates passionate teams - how curiosity + luck + obsession with computers shaped my path - how your perspective changes over time (and what still worries me today) - why spotting opportunities matters more than avoiding problems ...and yes – why we believe we can challenge 40+ year old legacy workflows, including Microsoft Word. ...why we believe that outstanding products like Canva, Slack, Notion and Figma are real-life proof that de-facto standards can be improved drastically and that documents are the next category where this needs to happen. At fynk, we don't want to just "slightly improve" how documents are handled. We're questioning assumptions that nobody thought could be challenged. Because I'll never stop believing this: Great products can beat the status quo IF you’re brave enough to solve a problem others accept as impossible. Maybe the current AI wave aligned perfectly with our timing and that helped. Or maybe it didn't? But the mindset stays the same: build, learn, pivot, and keep going. If you're building, thinking about building, or wondering whether it's worth it, this one is interesting for you. Link to episode in the post below👇 #founderjourney #buildinginpublic #entrepreneurship #productthinking #saas #ai #documentsdoneright #fynk

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At SCARLETRED, we believe in building a world and creating technology where opportunity is defined by individual talent and ambition — never by gender, race, or skin color. 🌍 Reflecting on International Women’s Day, we celebrate and appreciate the women in our team who help advance digital dermatology, AI, and clinical research at every day.

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🧬🧠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗜𝗗𝗗𝗘𝗡 𝗕𝗢𝗧𝗧𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗖𝗞 𝗜𝗡 𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗘: 𝗥𝗘𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗖𝗢𝗚𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗔𝗗 Dr. Elena runs a successful longevity clinic in Berlin. Revenue is strong. Patient satisfaction is excellent. But her team was spending 35% of their working hours on coordination—not clinical care. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 "𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗮𝗱": The invisible mental effort required to track, coordinate, and document complex operations. As longevity medicine shifts toward #PrecisionDiagnostics (Epigenetics, multi-year optimisation), this burden doesn't just grow—it compounds. 💻❌𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘅 𝗼𝗳 "𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵" Adding more platforms—portals, AI note-takers, CRMs—often increases overhead. More logins. More notifications. More fragmentation. The real question isn't "what software do I need?" but: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀? 👉 Think = The EcoMind™ 5-Pillar Framework 1️⃣ AI Audit Assessment – We diagnose exactly where cognitive load concentrates in your biological age programs and membership structures. 2️⃣ The Concierge – Automates intake, adherence support, and renewals. Your team stops mentally tracking 40+ different patient timelines. 3️⃣ Workflow Automator – Handles lab scheduling, supplement protocols, and outcome tracking automatically across facilities. 4️⃣ Social Acceleration – Generates domain-expert content on biohacking and ageing science to builda community without pulling doctors away from patients. 5️⃣ Emotional Intelligence – Monitors engagement patterns and adjusts communication tone. Patients feel supported without manual emotional labor. 📈 Real Impact: The Berlin Scenario Case Study   For A Berlin clinic managing 60 patients and spending 40% of staff time on coordination, EcoMind™ is projected to enable scaling to 180 patients with the same team, cutting admin time to 15%, raising protocol adherence from 70% to 82%, and reaching a projected 91% renewal rate. ⚖️ The Competitive Shift: Information is no longer the differentiator. The market is shifting from "Who explains it best?" to "Who executes multi-year programs flawlessly?" 🧠 Execution requires mental capacity for deep clinical thinking. That capacity is only freed when you transfer operational overhead to AI. Stop scaling burnout. Start scaling impact. 🚀 👉 Discover Your in-depth EcoMind™ AI Audit : Contact: → https://lnkd.in/euJrMtKy #LongevityClinic #Longevity #HealthTech #DigitalHealth #HealthcareLeadership #ClinicManagement #PatientExperience #OperationalExcellence #PrecisionMedicine

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After leaving the consulting industry last year, I now work for bevuta IT GmbH - the company behind RSQnow, the backbone of the official emergency call app system nora used by the German federal states. Over the past 12 months, it has become more and more clear to me what ‘inclusivity’ and ‘accessibility’ CAN mean and how long the road ahead still is. At RSQnow, we look at accessibility in the context of emergency communication and disaster management. We focus heavily on digital accessibility. Of course, there are many other aspects and perspectives to consider. To shed light on the topic of accessible emergency communication, I would like to highlight the sometimes hidden gaps in many emergency communication systems and how they can be closed. Why? Perhaps you don't think about it because you are someone who can make phone calls without any problems. But: Not everyone can speak or hear clearly, especially under stress.  Not everyone can process quick, complex questions. Just to name a few. This presents challenges and hurdles for many people in emergency situations, for example, people who are deaf or hard of hearing, people with low literacy skills, or traumatised people. There are heartbreaking stories that show how this can lead to tragic deaths. While there is no perfect solution for everyone in every situation, there ARE technical solutions that can prevent such incidents. We at RSQnow believe in the purpose and value of an app-based emergency communication infrastructure. Not to replace phone calls, text messages, or other future technologies. But to add features that a phone call simply cannot offer. You can find some of these in the slides below. That's why our slogan is: ‘Bridging gaps. Saving lives.’ So, what’s your opinion? Is an app-based solution unnecessary?  Or do you see other obstacles or features that are important to think about when it comes to accessible emergency communication?

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The “indication-first” expansion that Tempus and Viz.ai are pursuing highlights how vertical expertise is becoming a crucial lever in the platform wars.

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💥 Thrilled to partner with Optimeleon AI! adesso ventures is co-leading the €1.5M pre-seed round in Optimeleon together with caesar. and a strong group of business angels. Manual A/B testing and endless variant design have made CRO tedious and slow. Optimeleon changes the game: its AI-powered platform creates conversion-optimized webpage variants on the fly, intelligently directs traffic, and delivers double-digit conversion lifts in just weeks. Why we invested 👥 Outstanding Team: Nicolas, Maximilian, and Abhiraj bring exceptional entrepreneurial experience, having successfully founded and sold multiple companies in the marketing space. Their deep domain expertise and proven track record make them the ideal team to tackle this challenge. 🔍 Clear Market Demand: Existing conversion optimization tools require extensive manual work and often deliver disappointing results. With Optimeleon, marketing teams get AI tools that automatically generate page variants, serve them to the right user segments, and rapidly drive conversion lifts without heavy testing overhead. 🚀 Strong Early Traction: Although still at an early stage, Optimeleon has already convinced major scale-ups and enterprise customers of their solution. Customers typically achieve double-digit conversion lifts within just a few weeks of implementation. We look forward to supporting Nico, Max, Abhiraj, and the entire Optimeleon team as they help businesses unlock their full conversion potential and drive sustainable growth through smarter optimization.

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How (and when) will AI completely change the healthcare sector? Not today, but sooner than we expect — let me explain ⬇️ In our recent webinar Mark Sterckel along with Michael Baur and Sophia Weerth, PhD from Roland Berger shared their insights. 🔵 The pharma industry still has room to catch up. Although regulatory frameworks make us cautious, the potential is significant. → The US is moving faster than Europe here 🔵 AI is like a tsunami: you either ride the wave or risk getting swept under. → Those who start NOW shifting their attention to the new possibilities unlocked by AI will gain an unfair advantage AI is everywhere, improving personal and professional lives. But how do we transition from using AI as a tool to improve individual performance to using it as a system to unleash new opportunities at an industry scale? Healthcare leaders need to explore the possibilities, learn quickly, and implement effectively company-wide. - - - We’re organizing our next hands-on AI session in June! If you'd like to stay updated, let’s connect → Mattia Marco Caruson

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It's time to put the spotlight on another amazing company in the 2025 cohort of Norrsken Evolve. 🔦 This time it's Berlin-based aiomics with super star founders Dr. Sven Jungmann, Nikita Tarasov, and Kirill Schitomirski. 🤩 The Problem Healthcare professionals spend 3+ hours every day on documentation instead of patient care, with 28% of German clinicians ready to abandon their careers because of this. Kind of sucks right? 😬 The Solution Aiomics is the AI co-pilot for healthcare providers that captures and structures every piece of patient information, checks it for quality, and guides them through compliance, documentation, and communication so they can spend less time buried in files, and more time where it matters: treating patients! 🏥 Bonus: They just announced their €2.2M pre-seed round which was led by Vorwerk Ventures, and with participation from us, Calm/Storm, and fantastic angels. 💥

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𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗔 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗚𝗔 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 – 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 Dr. Pfleger Arzneimittel GmbH 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺! INKA is a reimbursable digital health application designed to support people undergoing treatment for incontinence. It marks Dr. Pfleger’s huge step into the digital therapeutics space and moving toward creating value beyond traditional medication. Achieving DiGA listing requires clinical evidence, regulatory rigor, and persistence. It is thus a remarkable accomplishment by everyone involved. Link to DiGA: https://lnkd.in/djQD3M7d Learn more about the project: https://lnkd.in/dZA-f9iN

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"Towards a sovereign and AI-ready Tech stack in healthcare." I’m looking forward to delivering a keynote at next week’s HIP Summit in Munich, organized by vitagroup, in front of many German and international healthcare and hospital executives. My keynote will be similar to the one I delivered at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona in October 2025 during the Innovation Days organized by the great Jorge Juan Fernández García and his team. What to expect from my keynote: 1️⃣ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 Hospital IT is being unbundled... Just as traditional banks have been unbundled by digital-native players such as PayPal (payments), Revolut (banking), and Robinhood (investing). We are currently seeing two distinct approaches emerge: ▪️The closed, monolithic model, symbolized by Epic (and now by Charité) ▪️The open, modular model, represented by Karolinska and the openEHR community (including Vitagroup) These two paradigms reflect fundamentally different strategic directions for the future of hospital IT. 2️⃣ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐱 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 A structured review of each layer of the #healthcare technology stack: ▪️The infrastructure layer ▪️The interoperable data layer ▪️The new AI-native operating system ▪️The care operations layer (non-clinical AI) ▪️The clinical AI layer ▪️And leading and governing the transformation 3️⃣ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 I will present the #hospital / healthcare Tech stack framework that I am currently using in a working group with leading German hospitals. This framework helps: ▪️Map AI use cases systematically ▪️Structure strategic discussions ▪️Guide key decisions about the future technology stack I hope to see many of you in Munich next week! Special thanks to Nils Hellrung for the invite. #ai

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In my latest Footbloc Blog, I look at why decentralized AI is accelerating in healthcare 🏥🤖 Key insights: • AI can learn collaboratively without sharing raw patient data 🔐 • Centralized systems clash with strict healthcare privacy laws ⚖️ • Hospitals want collaboration without losing control 🤝 #DecentralizedAI #HealthcareInnovation #BlockchainUseCases #FederatedLearning #DigitalHealth 🚀

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I had the pleasure of joining the E-Health Pioneers Podcast by The Medical Network GmbH (Episode drops in the next weeks). Thank you Andrea Buzzi and Oliver Struckmeier for the invitation on your platform where you bring founders, innovators and healthcare leaders into dialogue. Healthcare is entering a phase of real transformation. AI is the practical lever to address urgent challenges. Progress demands boldness: redesigning systems, not just optimizing them. Technology is never the purpose itself. It is a tool for what truly matters: real relief for healthcare professionals and better outcomes for patients. I have always believed in the power of networks and collective action. Especially in healthcare, too many players still act in silos instead of truly connecting. This must change. Let’s reshape the healthcare system together. At Forte Central Europe and Flying Health, we are building the bridge between medical expertise and applied AI, with the clear mission to make healthcare work better here and now. 

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This really resonates. I’d add one nuance though: the First Opinion Problem didn’t start with LLMs — it started years ago. WebMD was arguably the original “first opinion.” It was treated as authoritative, even gold standard, despite having no access to a patient’s history, context, or risk profile. What’s changed now isn’t the behavior — it’s the confidence. LLMs, symptom checkers, and products branding themselves with “MD” or clinical language feel intelligent and personal. That legitimacy amplifies their influence. People don’t just look things up anymore — they believe they’ve been reasoned with. The subtle danger isn’t accuracy per se, it’s authority without context. Unlike clinicians, these tools don’t know the patient’s baseline, comorbidities, health anxiety, or lived history — yet they still set urgency, shape expectations, and anchor the encounter before a human ever enters the room. So the “first opinion” now feels smarter, calmer, and more confident than ever — which makes it even more powerful, even when it’s incomplete. The governance gap you’re pointing to is real: we’re still regulating decision-support inside the clinic while ignoring sense-making before the clinic. Really important framing. Thank you for sharing!

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Walk into a bookstore’s self-help section , rows of productivity systems : Getting Things Done, Bullet Journal, Zettelkasten. Each promises transformation—if you commit weeks. The market thrives , hundreds of new titles annually. But something new is emerging. We’re discovering we can redesign workflows instantly with AI prompts instead of studying methodologies for weeks. Three recent experiments hint at what’s coming. First, Paper2Agent transforms research papers into working code agents in 30 minutes to 3 hours. Ask it to implement AlphaGenome’s genomic analysis from a published paper & it processes the code, builds the environment, runs the tutorials. Previously: read the paper (2 days), understand the methodology (1 day), code the implementation (3 days). Now: point AI at the repository, get a working agent by lunch. Second, when I discovered Google’s Agent Development Kit research on tool design patterns, I asked AI to redesign my automation tools following those principles. The result : a 41% reduction in AI operation costs, implemented while I was answering emails in another browser tab. Third, over the weekend I read Jesse Vincent’s architect/implementer workflow via Simon Willison’s write-up. The approach splits AI coding into two sessions: one architect to design, one implementer to execute. No weeks of trial & error to understand the nuances. Read, implement, test, done. The pattern emerging : instant implementation. We can now test productivity systems like trying coffee drinks. Monday : architect/implementer (cappuccino—structured , classic). Tuesday : traditional single-session (flat white—simpler , maybe better?). Wednesday : hybrid workflow (chai latte—wait , is this even coffee?). By Thursday , the data shows which saves 3 hours per week. The self-help aisle promised transformation through commitment. AI promises transformation through experimentation.

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Today, Clemens Wasner and I had our obligatory weekly coffee and, once again, ended up in a discussion on the (currently very hot) topic of AI and its impact on SaaS companies. A few points we quickly agreed on: On the one hand, AI is creating clear winners. SaaS companies that embed AI deeply into their products, workflows, or data advantage are seeing higher growth expectations and, in many cases, stronger valuation multiples. On the other hand, AI is putting real pressure on classic SaaS models, with many SaaS stocks down 30 - 80% from their highs. Pricing power, switching costs, and long-term differentiation are increasingly being questioned - especially where AI can commoditise features or reduce overall software spend. The big unresolved question - how will AI pricing look like going forward? In public markets, this shows up as much wider multiple dispersion. In private markets, buyers are becoming more selective and are explicitly factoring AI impact into their investment theses.   From an M&A perspective, this leads to a few interesting dynamics: Young, AI-native companies can be very attractive acquisition targets - even with limited revenues and customer bases. Mid-size SaaS companies risk getting stuck in the middle: often too big to move fast, but too small to buy speedboats. Data is becoming the real moat. Financial buyers are heavily discounting AI risk in traditional SaaS business models. VCs will have to pick their follow-on investments even more carefully - with many hard portfolio cleaning decisions ahead.   Curious how others are seeing this play out. Samira Advisors Paul Weinberger Stefano Gentili Julia Ornatowski

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"Big Tech’s new bet is healthcare.” This observation, now echoed by the Handelsblatt, reflects a broader shift that is becoming increasingly visible: 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞. Healthcare is moving into the strategic focus of Big Tech. What’s driving this momentum is clear: rising costs, aging populations, overloaded systems, and an enormous amount of data that has not always been used. It’s no longer a simple story of AI startups versus established big players. Frontier labs and large tech players are bringing platforms, models, and infrastructure that can lift the entire field. AI is already changing parts of the system in very practical ways: - Medical scans can be analyzed faster, anomalies flagged earlier, and diagnoses supported with additional context. - In oncology and chronic care, therapies are becoming more individualized, moving closer to the specific patient instead of the average case. - Documentation, billing, scheduling, and coding consume a significant share of clinical time. This shift deserves attention, but also care. - Capacity to care for more people. - Capacity to personalize treatment. - Capacity to focus human expertise where it matters most. Technology here must earn legitimacy through transparency, reliability, and clear human oversight. If healthcare systems, regulators, clinicians, and technology providers move forward together, these new capabilities can strengthen resilience rather than concentrate dependency. The future of healthcare AI can be collaborative, responsible, and deeply human — supported by powerful technology, but guided by shared values. Source: Handelsblatt Picture and logo: Handelsblatt

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ZOLLHOF – Tech Incubator secures €30M in funding to become one of Germany’s new Startup Factories  It’s official: ZOLLHOF is now a Startup Factory! After months of planning, fundraising, and a few sleepless nights, our collective effort has paid off. ZOLLHOF has been selected as one of only 10 EXIST Startup Factories nationwide, unlocking €20 million from private investors and up to €10 million in public funding. We are also happy to announce that FlixBus founder Daniel Krauss has become a new shareholder of ZOLLHOF, and that US venture capitalist Albert Wenger has become an official advisor and donor to the ZOHO Factory. This milestone belongs to everyone who believed in this vision. Together, we’re setting out to turn our region into a true startup epicenter for bold thinkers and resilient builders. A huge thank you to Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Katherina Reiche for championing startups and hosting today’s inspiring ceremony, and congratulations to all the other new startup factories - it’s an honor to stand alongside you. Today we celebrate. Tomorrow, we get to work.

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