A joint program between EPFL Innovation Park and Groupe Mutuel
Call for Application 2022 Opening soon!
Next Roadshow November 17th
Program Duration 9 months
A joint program by Foundation EPFL Innovation Park and Groupe Mutuel
See you at 2025 Tech4Eva Opening Conference on May 12th!
We create impact in women's health & accelerate global innovations
Tech4Eva is a global Femtech community and a 6-month equity free Femtech start-up acceleration program for companies developing innovative women's health solutions that create impact and change to improve women's health - managed by non-profit Foundation EPFL Innovation Park.
Tech4Eva start-ups raised CHF 200+ million for women's healthcare to date. Congratulations to the progress of the start-ups, we are proud to have supported 94 alumni to date and we celebrate our success stories!
I believe that Tech4Eva facilitates access to invaluable advisors and potential clients, allowing founders to gain valuable insights from the consumer sector and draw significant conclusions from those experiences.
Thanks to the various support services offered by Tech4Eva, our aim is to structure our international offering. The knowledge we have acquired about the various markets, international trade fairs and the quality of the network made available by Tech4Eva will enable us to arrive better prepared and more quickly on our various target market.
As a start-up you have many limitations, especially in how quickly you can grow your team so to be able to get advice, mentorship, guidance, and peer support through an initiative like Tech4Eva helps start-ups like us to get further with less. It is also great from a synergy point of view as there could be some fantastic opportunities to team up with other companies in this space to collectively drive women's health forward.
Karolina Löfqvist
Co-Founder
Benefits
Benefits for Start-ups Selected by the Accelerator
Access to one of Europe’s leading healthcare ecosystems
6 months of tailored coaching and specialized workshops
Develop pilot projects with Group Mutuel or its partner companies
Access to potential customers through international collaborations
Exposure to international investors
Access to a unique knowledge from payer’s perspective
A desk at La Forge, the incubator of EPFL Innovation Park in Lausanne
Direct feedback from a panel of technology experts from EPFL Innovation Park network and the University
Eligibility
Start-up Application
All start-ups developing innovative solutions to improve women’s health are welcome to apply to this program. 94 alumni have already gone through the Tech4Eva programs. Priority will be given to those start-ups that:
Are Tech Driven
Demonstrate growth potential and traction to customers
Have a product /service that is ready to be commercialized
Are looking for international development and further fundraising
Are committed to attend diligently all the program activities (1-2 senior team members)
Female and/or male founders
The program welcomes global solutions of all areas and stages to apply. Preference will be given to start-ups with scientific evidence, having or ideally building a clinical or animal model, or in vitro for the mechanism of action, ideally IP protected or in submission, or having proof of concept / prototype /users /data / early adopters. We look for founders who are committed to participate in the program activities, open to discussions or suggestions of assigned mentors, willing to share his/her network to benefit others in the program and determined to make progress.
Offering Femtech innovative solution in one or more of these areas:
pregnancy & post-partum
mental health & wellbeing
period health
fertility & infertility
menopause care
endometriosis
sexual & pelvic health
nutrition, digestive, hormonal health
autoimmune & heart diseases
brain & bone health
prevention, treatment & oncology
Products and services could take the following forms:
application software
mobile apps
B2C information platforms
therapeutics/wearable devices/hardware
IoT preventive medicine
diagnostics
monitoring equipment
AI services & data analysis
consumer non durables
personal products
outcome management
InsurTech
Selection and Process
Applications are reviewed by a selection committee and include personal interviews for shortlisted start-ups prior to selection.
Maximum of 10-15 start-up with a strong business model.
The program and some corporate partners have a particular interest in solutions for brain or heart health, menopause, mental health, prevention and treatment as well as nutrition, sportstech, digestive or hormonal health for women in all stages of their life.