London-based Punto Well being, a HealthTech startup innovating dementia care, has obtained €100k plus a year-long mentorship program from NN Group and Rubio Influence Ventures.
The grant and mentorship programme have been a results of profitable the second version of the NN Social Innovation Startup Award at The Subsequent Net Convention.
“One in two individuals will likely be affected by dementia throughout their lifetime, and ladies are disproportionately impacted, each as sufferers and as carers,” says Anna Muñoz Farré, Co-founder and CEO of Punto Well being. “This €100k grant from NN Group, mixed with Rubio’s community and experience in scaling affect startups, provides us the whole lot we have to rework dementia care and assist households higher handle the rising burden globally.”
Based in 2023 by Anna Muñoz Farré and Jack Eckersley, Punto Well being goals to show how AI can rework disaster administration into proactive household assist, particularly within the shadow of fragmented dementia care.
Their mission is to grow to be the trusted companion empowering personalised look after these impacted by cognitive illness.
With years of accrued experience throughout the healthcare spectrum and progressive applied sciences, they design, validate and check their merchandise involving sufferers, carers and clinicians at every step.
“We designed this award to champion early-stage social enterprises that present progressive options for enhancing monetary, bodily and psychological well-being. Growing services that create options for individuals at scale, remains to be a problem for a lot of social entrepreneurs to make the affect that they envision. The variety of options this yr exhibits that expertise can actually be a drive for good,” says Lonneke Roza, Head of Group Funding at NN Group. “From AI remodeling dementia care to platforms redirecting digital expertise towards cybersecurity – these are the improvements that make a distinction for individuals who want it most.”
Farré was moved to create Punto Well being after her grandfather was identified with dementia, witnessing the gaps within the healthcare system. In accordance with Punto, 78 million individuals will face dementia prognosis by 2030.
Because of this, Farré and Eckersley look to remodel dementia care by empowering sufferers, households and healthcare suppliers with AI-driven personalised assist.
Ilonka Jankovich, Enterprise Companion at Rubio Influence Ventures, provides: “Among the most impactful startups are constructed by individuals with deep private perception into the issues they’re fixing. However turning that right into a scalable enterprise – particularly in sectors like psychological well being, healthcare entry, or monetary resilience – is extremely exhausting with out the proper of assist. This award was created to fill that hole. Not simply with funding, however with the steerage from NN Group and Rubio and the assist of the neighborhood of innovators we’ve created with this competitors. Each one is dedicated to altering the system, in order that tech-driven options for well-being grow to be the norm, not the exception.”
Punto Well being presently provides two merchandise:
- PuntoCare: A smartphone/pill app that provides every day assist to individuals with cognitive impairment and their households. This contains personalised every day care plans, cognitive stimulation workouts, bodily exercise, wholesome habits, leisure, and so on.; and articles offering clinically validated data curated by specialists. The app options anAI assistant that interacts with content material and offers solutions, suggestions and techniques, together with a symptom diary that facilitates monitoring and administration.
- PuntoClinic: A speech-based digital biomarker for cognitive evaluation to facilitate and enhance distant monitoring of illness development and early detection.
