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