3 start-ups honored by the Monaco Women in Finance Institute
Veterinary surgery, 3D models for doctors and faster detection of breast cancer: three talented startupers came to present the fruit of their work.
What better place to talk about innovation than MonacoTech, a start-up incubator in the Principality? On October 6, the Monaco Women in Finance Institute offered a brand new conference, dedicated to technologies related to health and care: medtech.
On this occasion, Pascale Caron, CEO of Yunova, a laboratory based in Monaco specializing in micro-nutrition applied to the nervous system, spoke with Lionel Galfré, Director of MonacoTech, as well as with three startupers supported by MonacoTech, who came to present their business.
Novetech Chirurgie: innovation at the service of animals
Maud Bouresche got the ball rolling as co-founder of Novetech Surgery, a company that provides veterinarians with a range of orthopedic surgical implants for ligament and tendon repair, as well as bone and visceral surgery implants. The goal: to offer a minimally invasive technology that will allow dogs, cats and other animals that will benefit from it to recover quickly after the intervention.
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” I co-founded Novetech Surgery with Victor Robalo. We started from an observation: the orthopedic surgery of animals is not as well developed as that of humans. Animals are not treated as well as one could be, so we came to this marketexplains Maud Bouresche. We worked on research and development, since humans and animals have different bones and different triggers. Today, we can treat fifteen different orthopedic pathologies and we sell our devices internationally. »
After five years at MonacoTech, then joining Monaco Boost, the company now hopes to establish itself in the American market. But Maud Bouresch is confident, and for good reason: since 2021, Novetech Surgery has tripled its turnover.
First created for dogs, this new technology has gradually been extended to cats and then to certain New Pets (NAC), because each animal has its specificities.
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Spheno Id: supporting the physicians of today and tomorrow
Pascale Caron then spoke with Omar Bouhelal, Managing Director of Spheno Id in Hong Kong. Trained as a graphic designer and expert in 3D modeling, he uses this technique, as well as video and virtual reality to help doctors, dental surgeons and students to train themselves. ” The students can have the object in their hand, they are not human bodies, they can take it home. (…) When the Center du don des Corps de Paris closed in 2019, the training courses on human anatomical subjects were able to continue by using printed models. Without these tools, a surgeon cannot practice. Or, he needs to practice a hundred times “, he comments.
This process could also allow surgeons to print in 3D a very realistic model of what he will have to operate on the future patient, taking into account his morphology and his particularities. A model with which he can therefore train in complete safety before the big day.
The start-up joined MonacoTech last September. The goal is to eventually combine 3D printing and virtual reality to allow doctors and future doctors to practice in the best conditions. In addition, on the occasion of Pink October, Spheno Id collaborates with the Nice-based company Realetee, which manufactures tailor-made breast prostheses for people who have had their breasts removed.
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InnoDeep: overcoming the lack of radiologists around the world
It was precisely with the issue of breast cancer that the conference ended: Mustapha Hamdi, founder of InnoDeep, came to present the work carried out by his start-up, which also won him the Prix du Numérique of Monaco Business. And for good reason: thanks to artificial intelligence, InnoDeep offers a remote interpretation platform, in order to accelerate the care of patients, in particular breast cancer, and to strengthen the care offer in regions where radiologists are lacking.
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” This technology offers physicians the possibility of diagnosing cancers quickly and with high precision. Women residing in African countries, in particular, are mostly deprived of diagnostics in the detection of breast cancer. InnoDeep provides a remote solution in the field of improving health services, while using diagnostic costs and time. The key word of the project is the democratization of access to health “, he underlined.
The three startupers closed the conference by praising the important role that MonacoTech has played in the development of their companies, defining the incubator as a structure “ on a human scale », « good luck ” and ” an extraordinary opportunity to meet other entrepreneurs “. For his part, Lionel Galfré did not hide his pride in the face of these great projects: ” it is the illustration that we are there to help innovations that make sense. These three projects are magnificent, it is our duty to allow them to develop as well as possible. »