A new year has started with new dreams, projects, and goals. We are super excited about 2022, new innovations, new companies, and resilience to withstand and create change for a better future.
Last week, we hosted Sting Demo Day as an online experience where 15 of our star companies pitched their plans for the future to investors and a wider audience. It was an exciting day with great and inspiring ideas from our startups that have journeyed with us in the past year. If you missed it, you can see the replay here. We would like to personally thank everyone involved who came together and made the day possible.
2022 is a very special year for us as we are celebrating 20 years! The year has already started with high energy and this first newsletter is packed with exciting news and insights from our companies.
Stockholm-based company Momentus, which participated in the Sting Incubate Program in 2021, is raising external capital to accelerate its service targeting the health of new mothers after pregnancy and childbirth. Download the app here.
The digital translation service has close to 200,000 users in 200 countries and can translate to and from 40 different languages. The service is adapted to a care context and is medically verified. Download the app here.
The textile and fashion industry is one of the biggest climate criminals in the world. Now is the time to change with innovation and new thinking. Join the NEST initiative - Entrepreneurship for a Sustainable Textile Industry and apply to the accelerator program now. It's your chance to make a change in the world.
Meet Propel Capital’s most recent portfolio company, Attini, a startup that provides a serverless deployment framework for infrastructure as code (IaC). With Attini’s solution, organizations can improve the way they administrate large IT environments in the Cloud.
Between 70-90% of people using an inhaler don’t get the right amount of medicine. We spoke to co-founders Petra Szeszula and Essam Sharaf to learn how Andning Med’s device helps respiratory patients inhale their medication correctly. They also just received 120 kSEK from MedTech4Health to design a clinical study.
The Stockholm region is the first in the world with a new type of investment that, in the long run, can free up billions for healthcare by preventing ill health. The initiative offers people in the risk zone for type 2 diabetes support in a digital health program. After 6 months, 43% of participants are no longer at risk for type 2 diabetes.
“This means that our AI has been assessed as mature and complies with the high standards that were reviewed by the international jury consisting of leading AI experts,” said Flox Robotics CEO Sara Nozkova.
Discover music from people instead of algorithms, read more about how music obsessive Josephine Norvell came up with the idea for Syncc, an exclusive social media app for shared listening experiences.
🎵 ElkLIVE was selected as SXSW Innovation Award Finalist. Elk LIVE is being recognized for creating a way for music to enter the hyper-connected world and making it possible, for the first time, to teach, rehearse, jam, and play together in real-time over the internet as if you are in the same room.
