
OULUHEALTH, FINLAND
Oyster incubator teams
OYSTER Incubator start-up Teams 2026
At the moment, 19 teams are building and validating health and life sciences solutions within the OYSTER Incubator.

NeuraScope
Current methods for diagnosing these conditions are often expensive, inaccurate, and require specialized expertise. They frequently miss the opportunity for early detection of dementia. In contrast, our platforms introduce the first-ever home-based sampling method that is needle-free, precise, cost-effective, and accessible to all age groups. We boast a multidisciplinary team that includes clinicians, scientists, business development professionals, and regulatory experts.
By enabling timely intervention, NeuraScope is shaping the future to enhance patient compliance and improve quality of life.
Team Lead: Nsrein Ali
WICOAR Technologies
WICOAR Technologies develops wireless wearable solutions based on augmented reality (AR) for healthcare providers and hospitals. The company’s products, such as HealthVision and HealthAudio, enhance clinical workflows by enabling hands-free access to patient data, secure audio communication, and real-time collaboration in operating rooms and patient wards.
Team Lead: Rauno Jokelainen

Ennen
Ennen Oy develops a digital service for the early detection of memory disorders. The service helps aging individuals and their families recognize memory-related concerns in time and guides them to healthcare when needed. The goal is to improve treatment outcomes, reduce human suffering, and generate significant savings for society.
Team Lead: Mikko Katajamäki
APPS
APPS (AI Assisted Patient Positioning Solution) is a research project focused on investigating ways to improve X‑ray imaging through innovative technological solutions. Our aim in the research is to identify solutions that ensure the patient is correctly positioned and aligned before the actual X‑ray is taken. The goal of the project is to find solutions that enhance imaging accuracy, reduce unnecessary retakes, and support radiographers in their work with more efficient methods.
Our project team consists of three hospital physicists, a business development expert, an IT specialist, and a radiographer. Our project is funded by Business Finland’s Research to Business ‑funding.

Seton
Seton is an AI based web application, which takes care of the notes, while you can focus on being present and having a meaningful conversation. Our summary compilation features saves a lot of time and makes everything fluent, increasing also the quality of your notes.
There are also plenty of other helpful features.
Seton has been designed especially for psychotherapists, social workers and elder care nurses, but also suitable for anyone doing work with interviews or discussions.
Team Lead: Saku Huttunen

MemorySenior
MemorySenior is the winner of the Positive Technology Achievement Award 2026, a well-being app for the elderly combining physical, psychological and social support in one easy-to-use solution. It offers physical video-guided exercises, Montessori-based memory and cognition activities, and a memory book that strengthens community and belonging. The app also stores statistical information on activity and progress, providing valuable insights for care personnel and management. For staff, it is a helpful additional tool that frees up time for other nursing work, as well as improves planning and efficiency for management. For seniors it improves staying active, committed and connected with everyday care providing more joy and independence in daily life.
Team Lead: Nina Sevander

Oodio
Oodio is an Oulu-based health-tech startup developing Oodi, a privacy-first app that helps parents understand their baby’s crying patterns more clearly.
Oodi helps parents track crying and visualise patterns over time, helping them move beyond tired memory and guesswork. When concerns arise, the same structured information can support clearer conversations between families and healthcare professionals.Oodi is being shaped through early validation with Finnish clinicians, public health nurses, nursing educators and families. Our lean, care-informed approach starts with a focused problem, learns from real families and professionals, and expands only where the evidence supports it.
The founding team previously developed internationally recognised infant technology. Oodio is currently fundraising to prepare Oodi for its first consumer launch in the UK and to continue piloting and validating the solution with healthcare and public-service partners.
We are looking to connect with parents, healthcare professionals, public-sector partners, researchers and investors interested in helping families navigate the uncertain early weeks of parenthood.
Team Lead: Erasmus Van Niekerk

ChainPeptides
ChainPeptides Oy develops smart plasters for Diabetic foot ulcers. Our plasters use antimicrobial peptides and biosensors to track infections and targeted release of antimicrobials in real time. This makes treatment safer, faster, and easier for both patients and healthcare professionals. We aim to reduce complications, lower treatment costs, and improve quality of life for people with diabetic foot ulcers.
Team Lead: Tejesvi Mysore

VitD3Act
Osteoarthritis is one of the most widespread yet underserved diseases, with most current treatments offering only temporary symptom relief. VitD3Act, Our project is dedicated to developing safer and more effective therapeutic options with true disease-modifying potential, aiming to protect joints and improve quality of life for patients of all ages—from juvenile to the elderly. By pursuing this path, we will give people a life free from osteoarthritis-related disability.
Team Lead: Julius Gomez

Mind Pilot
A cognitive load monitoring system for drivers. This innovative driver safety system helps keep drivers alert and safe, even in challenging conditions like long drives, icy roads, or sudden obstacles. Worn as a comfortable wristband, it monitors signs of fatigue and stress in real time while also considering the driving environment and vehicle status. Unlike current systems, it is self-powered and energy-efficient, making it reliable even in off-grid or rural areas. By combining smart sensing with sustainable design, the system supports safer, greener, and more resilient mobility.
Team Lead: Chamika Karunarathna

iHealth
iHealth is a smartphone-based health assistance platform that helps anyone monitor and protect their eye health. Using AI to analyze retinal images in real time, it supports early detection of diabetic eye conditions and guides users toward timely care directly from their phone.
Team Lead: Prabhash Rathnayake

Cuidoo
Cuidoo brings matchmaking into caretaking. We want to create a platform and app where caregivers and people in need find each other easily and in real time by creating and browsing profiles.
Caregiver specifies what kind of help they can offer. Person in need details what they need and when and where. Then they can match accordingly.
Users can chat in real time, announce open jobs plan and secure work schedules, give feedback and have instructions for caregivers visible.
AI assists in creating these profiles so it’s doable for everyone.
This way Cuidoo platform allows caregivers from assitans to nurses and babysitters to offer their services and elderly people, people with disabilities and families with kids to find the help that suitable them best
Team Lead: Riikka Kärkkäinen

Nocitrace
A solution for the seamless digital recording of pain location data from the body surface with an interactive high resolution 3D map and AI-powered population-level insights.
Team Lead: Juhani Määttä

Clinexus
Are you a clinician in Internal Medicine spending too much time reconstructing patient information across multiple systems before you can focus on care?
Clinexus is designed to reduce that burden. Starting with focused clinical workflows, Clinexus helps assemble relevant patient information, connect events across time, highlight missing or conflicting data, and present a clear, source-linked clinical view with fewer clicks.
As Clinexus expands, specialised case agents will support different Internal Medicine workflows while remaining clinician-directed and reviewable.
Reach out to us to be part of our clinical validation.
Team Lead: Fuzel Shaik
eSine
eSine is transforming EEG analysis with a new method that delivers clear, ready-to-use test results for clinicians. Our first test focuses on comatose post–cardiac arrest patients, providing an automated neurological outcome assessment that supports treatment decisions and helps predict recovery potential. By reducing manual workload and uncertainty, we enable doctors to focus on decisions, not raw signals. With deep biomedical engineering expertise and solutions built around clinicians’ needs, we are building the future standard for EEG.
Team Lead: Jenna Ahvensalmi

TheraCoz
Real-time monitoring of the Neonatal ICU incubator with vision and vitals alert system.
Team Lead: Siraj Us Salekin
DOSTI
DOSTI is a research and innovation project focused on building a more connected and personalised way to understand health.
Instead of looking at diseases, symptoms, and risk factors separately, DOSTI brings together different parts of a person’s health and daily life into one evolving model. The aim is to understand how health changes over time, what is driving that change, and which intervention is most likely to help each person.
Team Lead: Gunjan Chandra

MediTrack
MediTrack is a digital health platform that makes medication routines for patients simple, accurate, and stress-free. It provides personalized reminders, automated medication management, and seamless real-time integration with OmaKanta to ensure that patients and healthcare providers always have up-to-date prescription information. The system combines smart automation, AI-driven routines, and a user-friendly interface designed specifically for individuals managing complex or long-term treatments.
Team Lead: Khaled Md Saifullah

Rejocare
Rejocare’s mission is to become a leading supplier of technologies and solutions for the Finnish market in the field of remote healthcare services. Rejocare collaborates with a network of partners to provide a comprehensive range of services, ensuring high-quality remote healthcare solutions across Finland.
Our object is to improve the access to care in remote areas – reaching regions where the distance to hospitals and clinics is significant, and providing residents with high-quality healthcare services. Enhancing response times in urban and suburban areas – offering faster access to medical care for communities located near hospitals and clinics that still experience long waiting times.
Team Lead: Jouko Karhu
More information
Minna Komu
Email: minna.komu@businessoulu.com
Phone: +358 50 591 7721
OYSTER Incubator: Making the Future — Empowering health & life science startups



