Mr Pasi Markkanen
KYS Invest Ltd is an investor operating in pre-seed or seed phase of health or welfare companies We have been operating in Eastern-Finland since 1995. The company is owned by City of Kuopio, Northern-Savo Health District and Itä-Suomen rahasto (Fund of Eastern-Finland).
KYS Invest

Mr Iacob Mathiesen
Otivio is a Medtech company with technology which improves blood flow to the limbs of patients. This can be used for treatment of chronic ischemic wounds, in particular for patients with reduced peripheral circulation.
Another application is to exploit the improved blood flow to heat or cool patients by using the the limb as a heat exchanger.
Otivio is a coordinator of an EU funded project and are currently looking for funding to strenghten its organization and fund additional activites.
Otivio

Mr Markus Merne
Company specialized in wireless and mobile solutions for monitoring, alarn and control wiithin health care and security markets.
We focus on eldercare and we already have thousands of users and have entered the growth phase. Major distribution deals have been signed in UK, NL, FR, SE, FI and will shortly be in US.
Looking to raise a total of 3 M in funding for the expansion and rapid growth.
Our leading product is the Vega GPS global solution with the wearable watch providing answers to 3 major challenges:
- protection always available
- always know where a person/wearer is
- interact with the users
Dr Søren Møller
Novo Seeds is a life science supporting program launched by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and Novo A/S. Novo Seeds has two components, a pre-seed funding capacity and a seed financing fund. Both aim at identifying and developing the unexplored commercial potential present in academic and early stage applied research projects at universities and biotech companies within life science in Scandinavia.
The pre-seed program supports early stage projects based on ideas and results with commercial potential. Funding is given as grants in the same manner as other grants awarded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
The seed fund aims at supporting more advanced projects and will operate on commercial terms, i.e. support is given to projects and companies in exchange for ownership or other rights to the companies/projects. Typically, the seed program will invest in newly formed companies that are too early in their development stage to be supported by Novo A/S’ venture capital or other international investors