Oys­ter incu­ba­tor

OYS­TER Incu­ba­tor Teams 2026:

1. NeuraS­cope: (Nsrein Ali)

NeuraS­cope is a pio­neer­ing com­pa­ny ded­i­cat­ed to ear­ly diag­nos­tic devel­op­ment. We cre­ate inno­v­a­tive plat­forms for the ear­ly detec­tion of var­i­ous brain-relat­ed dis­eases, includ­ing dif­fer­ent sub­types of demen­tia and brain can­cers. Our mis­sion is to facil­i­tate ear­ly inter­ven­tion, ensur­ing that treat­ment begins before symp­toms sig­nif­i­cant­ly affect qual­i­ty of life.

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.

2. WICOAR Tech­nolo­gies (Rauno Joke­lainen)

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.

WICOAR web page

WICOAR Tech­nolo­gies LinkedIn

3. Ennen Oy (Mikko Kata­jamä­ki)

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.

4. APPS (Tomi Väänä­nen)

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.

5. Seton (Saku Hut­tunen)

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.

6. Mem­o­ry­Se­nior (Nina Sevan­der)

Mem­o­ry­Se­nior is 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.

7. Ood­io Oy (Eras­mus van Niek­erk)

Ood­io is an Oulu-based health-tech start­up devel­op­ing a sys­tem that quan­ti­fies infant cry­ing, turn­ing a com­mon source of stress into struc­tured data that sup­ports clear­er con­ver­sa­tions between par­ents and health­care pro­fes­sion­als.
Val­i­dat­ed by Finnish clin­i­cians, the sys­tem has the poten­tial to reduce unnec­es­sary doc­tor vis­its caused by uncer­tain­ty, an issue behind an esti­mat­ed 18,000 extra appoint­ments in Fin­land each year.
Our team pre­vi­ous­ly devel­oped inter­na­tion­al­ly award­ed baby tech. That expe­ri­ence now dri­ves our lean, care-informed approach. We’re cur­rent­ly fundrais­ing to pilot the sys­tem with local part­ners and gen­er­ate real-world data to guide future devel­op­ment.
In an over­stretched sys­tem, tools that reduce uncer­tain­ty and improve triage are essen­tial. If you work in health­care, neu­vola ser­vices, research, or pub­lic ser­vices and want to co-cre­ate ear­li­er, pre­ven­tive care for fam­i­lies, we’d love to talk.

8. Chain­Pep­tides (Tejesvi Mysore)

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.

9. VitD3Act (Julius Gomez)

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.

10. Mind Pilot (Chami­ka Karunarath­na)

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.

11. iHealth (Prab­hash Rath­nayake)

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.

12. Cuidoo (Riik­ka Kärkkäi­nen)

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

13. Noc­i­trace (Juhani Määt­tä)

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.

14. Clinexus (Fuzel Shaik)

Are you a clin­i­cian who feels exhaust­ed with over­whelm­ing admin­is­tra­tive tasks? Don’t wor­ry, Clinexus is for you. Inte­grate Clinexus into your work rou­tine to stream­line admin­is­tra­tive tasks. While you focus on treat­ing the patient, Clinexus assists you in fetch­ing infor­ma­tion about the patient with the fewest pos­si­ble clicks and time. For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact our team.

15. eSine (Jen­na Ahven­sal­mi)

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.

16. Team Name: Ther­a­Coz (Sir­aj Us Salekin)

Real-time mon­i­tor­ing of the Neona­tal ICU incu­ba­tor with vision and vitals alert sys­tem

17. HeAIth (Gun­jan Chan­dra)

HeAIth is an evi­dence-based, explain­able AI–powered well­ness com­pan­ion that inte­grates wear­able device data, elec­tron­ic health records (EHR), and patient-report­ed out­comes. It con­tin­u­ous­ly mon­i­tors health and pre­dicts chron­ic dis­ease risks while sup­port­ing dai­ly health man­age­ment and dis­ease pre­ven­tion. By pro­vid­ing per­son­al­ized, con­text-aware recommendations—such as stress man­age­ment strate­gies or cycle-based adjustments—it empow­ers both patients with chron­ic con­di­tions and proac­tive indi­vid­u­als to stay in con­trol of their health every day, with trans­paren­cy and trust at its core.

18. NerveIQ (Khaled Md Sai­ful­lah)

NerveIQ is a dig­i­tal health plat­form that makes med­ica­tion rou­tines for chron­ic 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.

19. Rejo­care (Jouko Karhu)

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.