Three UB spin-offs led by women will receive funding as part of the Women TechEU pilot call for proposals
Nimble Diagnostics, Gate2Brain and ColorSensing, spin-offs of the University of Barcelona, have been selected as part of the Women TechEU pilot call, a new European Union programme that supports deep tech start-ups led by women. The three UB spin-offs will receive an individual grant of 75,000 euros this year to support the first steps of their innovation process and the growth of their company.
Nimble Diagnostics, Gate2Brain and ColorSensing, spin-offs of the University of Barcelona, have been selected as part of the Women TechEU pilot call, a new European Union programme that supports deep tech start-ups led by women. The three UB spin-offs will receive an individual grant of 75,000 euros this year to support the first steps of their innovation process and the growth of their company.
Nimble Diagnostics is a spin-off by the Germans Trias i Pujol Health Sciences Research Institute (IGTP), the Technical University of Catalonia - BarcelonaTech (UPC) and the University of Barcelona. It will commercialise a device to monitor stents using microwave-based technology. Stents are commonly used to treat cardiovascular diseases. However, once implanted they can become obstructed or damaged, although symptoms can appear when the stent has already lost 90% of its functional capacity.
Project: A novel non-invasive and nonionizing medical device for monitoring patients with implanted stents.
Gate2Brain is a spin-off by the Barcelona Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute (Hospital Sant Joan de Déu). It is a biotech company focused on the development of therapeutics that cross biological barriers such as the blood-brain barrier.
Project: Gate2Brain towards SME designation and orphan drug designation.
ColorSensing has developed a smart label that helps reduce food waste. It is a QR code label that monitors the freshness of packaged food. There are inks that change their colour when they react with the gases given off by the food and they are printed on a few pixels of the QR code and a patented algorithm automatically measures food spoilage based on the colour changes of these pigments.
Project: ColorSensing: Tracing true colours