Meet us at section 6D.1. See our innovations and meet the researchers behind them. The University’s Slush section will feature a total of 12 innovations at different stages of the commercialisation process. At Slush, they will look for partners, entrepreneurs and investors. See also technologies available for licensing.
Slush 2019
Mobile spectral imaging
Making smartphones see the world in its fullest detail
AI-based technology enables consumer cameras to capture the full spectrum of visible light. This rich information can fuel completely new kinds of computer vision applications.
Read article: Computer vision identifies ripe fruit and counterfeit drugs
spexel.ai
Ville Kurri
+358 50 343 5751
ville.kurri@helsinki.fi
Arto Klami
+358 50 582 3654
arto.klami@helsinki.fi
Mikko Toivonen
+358 44 330 3131
mikko.e.toivonen@helsinki.fi
Chang Rajani
+358 50 311 5791
chang.rajani@helsinki.fi
Needle-Free Glucose Monitoring
Completed successful clinical trials with type 2 diabetics
A new key enabling technology that can help 400 million diabetics and 1,9 billion overweight people to live healthier. The same technology can be used for non-invasive monitoring of other biomarkers and analytes. Smart watch size industrial grade prototype created. Global patent portfolio.
Read article: GlucoModicum: Needle-free and painless health monitoring
GlucoModicum
Jokke Mäki
+358 40 586 0946
jokke.maki@outlook.com
Alejandro Garcia-Perez
+358 40 532 4413
alejandro.garciaperez@helsinki.fi
AI-enhanced anonymized data
Powerful approach to de-identify personal data
Many future innovations are built on artificial intelligence that uses sensitive data. VEIL.AI is an AI-enhanced way to ease the sharing of privacy-preserving data while improving data quality and supporting complex data types.
Read article: VEIL.AI enables the efficient use of sensitive data
VEIL.AI
Tuomo Pentikäinen
+358 40 183 2881
tuomo.pentikainen@helsinki.fi
Fueling smart mobility with data
Understanding people flow with patented technology
The data solution that understands urban mobility behaviour and enables the development of smarter cities and better mobility services.
Read article: Moprim identifies modes of transport and helps reduce carbon footprints
Moprim
Petri Martikainen
+358 50 550 0666
petri@moprim.com
Fighting food waste
Active packaging component for improving fresh vegetable shelf-life
Up to 20% of vegetable production, worth €200 billion, is wasted by supermarkets and consumers every year (EU and USA). The solution helps reduce this waste, its costs and environmental impact.
FreshPack
Emmi Korjus
+358 50 520 6886
emmi.korjus@helsinki.fi
Kirsi Mikkonen
+358 50 318 5744
kirsi.s.mikkonen@helsinki.fi
Better health with genome data
Next generation tools for personalised disease prevention and treatment
Interactive web applications that combine traditional health data with newly discovered genetic risk information for disease prevention and targeted therapy.
Read article: KardioKompassi: Individualised prevention of cardiac disease with genomic data
KardioKompassi
Elisabeth Widén
+358 294 125 477
elisabeth.widen@helsinki.fi
Johanna Aro
+358 40 721 9741
johanna.aro@helsinki.fi
Learning working life competence
Impactful tool for making people work together skillfully
A digital solution for educational institutions and workplaces that combines individual and collective perspectives to support learning of working life competence and expertise.
Read article: Teamwork skills are needed at every age – The dLearn.Helsinki project generated the spinout TeamFluent
Team Fluent Oy
Auli Toom
+358 50 415 4852
auli.toom@helsinki.fi
Jukka Rautiainen
jukka@teamfluent.fi
The Four faces of Vitamin B3
The Solution for monitoring vitamin B3 balance in human body
A proprietary method that measures four vitamin-B3-based molecules from human blood. NADmed analysis provides guidelines for dietary interventions in ageing and disease.
Read article: NADmed reveals whether there is enough vitamin B3 in the body
NADmed
Jana Buzkova
jana.buzkova@helsinki.fi
Liliya Euro
liliya.euro@helsinki.fi
Sara Kangaspeska
Helsinki Innovation Services
sara.kangaspeska@helsinki.fi
Access to future of biomedicine
Tunable platform for exosome biomarker discovery
With its high-throughput isolation process targeting complex samples, the platform maximizes the chances of detecting biomarker signatures in biofluids containing exosomes and other extracellular vesicles. The platform supports discovery for improved diagnosis, monitoring and treatment.
Read article: FastEV paves way for precision biomedicine
FastEV
Pia Siljander
+358 50 448 6373
pia.siljander@helsinki.fi
Droplets for digital accuracy
Accelerating rapid diagnostics and single cell analytics
Portable device and disposable chips for easy and quick droplet microfluidics. Unique all-in-one platform that enables advances in digital PCR and single cell technologies.
Read article: DropPen: Small droplet chips speed up diagnostics and biomedicine
DropPen
Päivi Saavalainen
+358 50 448 7487
paivi.saavalainen@helsinki.fi
Natural boost for the immune system
Using nature’s microbial diversity for consumer goods
Urbanisation has caused people to lose connection to nature, leading to immune mediated illnesses such as diabetes, allergy and asthma. Uute is the substance with nature’s own microbial diversity to keep your immune system functioning.
Read article: Uute Scientific – biodiversity applied straight to your skin
Uute Scientific
Aki Sinkkonen
+358 50 332 1110
aki.sinkkonen@helsinki.fi
Kari Sinivuori
+358 50 386 0444
kari.sinivuori@uutescientific.com
The world’s best preschool
Finnish early education as a scalable model
Bridging the excellence of Finnish pedagogy with Nordic design to provide first-class early childhood education globally.
Read article: HEI Schools turning Finnish early childhood education into easy-to-implement products
HEI Schools
Milla Kokko
+358 40 860 0277
milla.kokko@heischools.com
Anne Rusanen
+358 40 754 8756
anne.rusanen@heischools.com