European Innovation Council

– Ganymed Robotics secured a €2,5M grant through the European Innovation Council Accelerator program.
– EIC Accelerator is the most competitive public funding scheme for deeptech startups in the world, with this year over 2000 companies applying and only 65 winners.
– Ganymed Robotics is developing a radically new approach to surgical robotics by combining computer vision, a branch of artificial intelligence, and mechatronics.
– Ganymed’s first application is a robotic surgical assistant for total knee arthroplasties (TKA).
– Driven by a growing and aging population, demand for orthopedic surgery is rapidly increasing and the market for TKA is expected to rise from 2.4 million procedures in 2021 to 5.7 million in 2030 in the OECD alone.

– EpiEndo Pharmaceuticals announced the closing of a €20m Series A financing round.
– The round was led by Flerie Invest and Iðunn Venture Fund, with existing investors ABC Ventures participating, along with the European Innovation Council joining the round.
– The financing secures funds to advance clinical development of EpiEndo’s lead compound EP395, which entered phase I clinical trials in April, through Phase IIa, targeting COPD as a primary indication.
– EpiEndo’s development rationale is based on a newly acknowledged therapeutic paradigm, that loss of integrity of epithelial barriers plays a critical role in propagating chronic inflammatory diseases in lungs and contributes to vulnerability to infections associated with acute exacerbations of airway diseases.