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DMEA nova Award – Clear the Stage for Startups
DMEA nova Award: Visionary solutions for digital healthcare wanted!
The DMEA nova Award was presented for the first time at DMEA 2024. The award is aimed at startups from the digital health sector and will give them the opportunity to pitch their outstanding concepts and solutions in multiple rounds at the DMEA. The most convincing idea will be rewarded with a prize money of EUR 2,500 in the Final Session at DMEA.
The DMEA nova Award also creates valuable networking opportunities for startups to get in direct contact with potential partners, investors and customers from the industry at and after the DMEA.
The application period for the DMEA nova Award 2025 will start in January 2025.
From the Call for Ideas to the DMEA nova Award 2025
- 1st Round: Open Call for Ideas (January 2025)
All eligible startups can submit only one application on one of the selected topics. - 2nd Round: Evaluation period (February 2025)
The expert jury evaluates the applications received and nominates the five best startups per key topic that will be pitching live at DMEA in Berlin. - 3rd Round: Preliminary rounds with thematic pitches (April 2025)
The nominated startups compete against each other at DMEA in thematically clustered pitch sessions.
The expert jury nominates 1 finalist per thematic cluster. - 4th Round: Final pitches (April 2025)
In the Final Session, the finalists from the preliminary rounds compete against each other.
The expert jury and the audience shall select the best idea/solution.
Application conditions
Free application for all startups that were founded no more than 5 years ago (2020 and younger).
Any startup exhibiting at the _Focus: Startups Area of DMEA can apply via the Call for Ideas. Other startups can participate once in the application process and, if nominated, at the event. Repeat applications will not be considered.
Applications/Abstracts can be submitted in German or English, all presentations and pitches must be provided and held in English only.
Multiple applications are not possible, each startup gets a single chance to apply for a presentation slot at the DMEA on a specific key topic.
The application period is binding, late applications will not be accepted.
DMEA nova Award 2024 Winner: Exploris Health
On April 11, the inaugural DMEA nova Award was presented in an impressive final session with jury and audience voting: Exploris Health made the most convincing pitch on the topic of "AI-based test for efficient & targeted Coronary Artery Disesase (CAD) diagnostics" from the category "AI use to improve care".
We have the pleasure of congratulating Exploris Health and would like to thank all the finalists for their encouraging and inspiring pitches!
Nominated startups for the Live Pitches at DMEA 2024 were:
Sustainable
Business Management
- Change IT Solutions GmbH
- Fenjax (*FINALIST)
- L21s GmbH
- Neo Q Quality in Imaging GmbH
- NETQUES.daten & diagnostik GmbH
Process Innovation:
New Forms of Medical Care
- Breathment GmbH
- Famedly GmbH
- healthyverse GmbH
- living brain GmbH (*FINALIST)
- ROPCA
Focus: Patients, Caring Relatives, Employees
- Bearcover GmbH
- Careanimations GmbH
- HospiChef
- inContAlert (*FINALIST)
- Stigma Health GmbH
Use of Artificial Intelligence
to Improve Healthcare
- Exploris Health AG (*FINALIST & WINNER)
- gMendel
- nyra health GmbH
- PH Predicting Health GmbH
- Saventic Health GmbH