MedTech Accelerator® 2025
Turn your idea into a solution and launch your start-up.
Our intensive 6-month program (March to October) is designed to give a boost to your project, enhance your visibility and integrate you into a top-tier ecosystem.
The Cohort 2025
The Team
Aude Cordemans, Founder & CEO/CFO
The Problem
Today’s approach to paediatric care management is fragmented and outdated. Parents rely on paper booklets and scattered tools to manage their children’s health, while doctors struggle to access up-to-date, complete information in a timely manner. This leads to delays, increases mental and administrative burden, and ultimately shifts focus away from what matters most – the child’s wellbeing.
The Solution
BE PARENT is a secure, patient-centric SaaS that makes children health data truly accessible and actionable for both parents and medical practitioners. By centralising and digitising a child’s health journey, we transform fragmented data into real-time, clinically actionable insights. Through personalised care plans, predictive diagnostics and remote monitoring, BE PARENT empowers caregivers to make faster, better-informed decisions – so every child receives the care they need, exactly when they need it.
The Team
Angel Sole Morillo, PhD
Joan Lambert Cause, PhD
Johan Stiens, Academic Supervisor
Bruno da Silva, Academic Supervisor
The Problem
Pulse oximeters, widely used to measure oxygen saturation (SpO2), function less accurately on patients with dark skin, often overestimate SpO2, and miss critical hypoxemia events. This bias has been a known issue for decades, leading to preventable deaths, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Addressing this inaccuracy has become an FDA priority.
The Solution
We are developing a next-generation pulse oximeter that eliminates skin-tone biases through adaptive calibration methods. Our technology ensures accurate readings across all skin tones without requiring additional equipment or complex adjustments, improving patient safety and clinical decision-making.
The Team
Abel Díaz Berenguer, Lead AI/ML Research Engineer
Hichem Sahli, Principal Scientist
Nikos Deligiannis, Senior Scientist
Koenraad Nieboer, Lead Medical Expert
Arne Pauwels, Business Growth Mentor
The Problem
Pulmonary Embolism (PE) is a leading cause of cardiovascular death, with up to 30% mortality if undiagnosed. Current PE management tools focus on detection via imaging but fail to integrate multimodal data—such as electronic health records (EHR)—for prognosis, risk assessment, and long-term patient care. This lack of integration limits diagnostic accuracy and treatment efficiency.
The Solution
Our AI-powered Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) enhances PE management by combining imaging, EHR, and predictive analytics. It offers dynamic risk stratification, prognosis insights, and treatment guidance, optimizing patient outcomes while reducing hospital burden and healthcare costs.
The Team
Maxime Bollengier, CEO & CTO
The Problem
Personalized cancer treatments have the potential to revolutionize patient care, yet their design process remains slow, fragmented, and inefficient. Current approaches are fragmented, with each stakeholder—clinicians, bioinformaticians, and manufacturers—focusing only on isolated steps without a global optimization strategy. No solution ensures a fully integrated, optimized, and regulated design across all stages, leading to inefficiencies, delays, and high costs in delivering truly personalized treatments.
The Solution
We develop a Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) that optimizes, streamlines, and connects every stage of personalized treatment design. By bridging the gap between healthcare institutions and biotech companies, our platform provides a seamless, regulatory-ready, and scalable framework to accelerate the creation and deployment of personalized therapies. By standardizing workflows, ensuring compliance, and reducing operational complexity, we enable faster, more accessible, and more efficient personalized treatments for patients.
THE TEAM
Hafez Jafari, Project lead
Armin Shavandi, Scientific advisor
Amir Salar Malekmohammadinouri, Researcher
THE PROBLEM
The core health-related problem we address is the inefficiency and poor accuracy of current drug testing methods and lack of personalized treatments. Current bioinks, although biocompatible, are predominantly animal-derived, raising ethical concerns, or synthetic, lacking inherent biofunctionality.
THE SOLUTION
Our innovative biomaterial platform introduces a non-animal-derived bioink , offering intrinsic bioactivities (antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory), sustainability, and streamlined regulatory approval. Additionally, we developed a uniquely photo-cleavable, natural-based sacrificial (support) ink enabling precise fabrication and easy removal under gentle visible-light conditions, facilitating the creation of highly complex tissue structures and advancing the development of functional in-vivo-like organs and personalized medicine applications.
The Team
Amin Khorasani, PhD Researcher
Louis Heiremans, Research & Innovation Manager
The Problem
Gene therapy injections for eye diseases require high precision, yet existing robotic solutions are designed for clinical use rather than preclinical research in small animal models. The lack of adaptable, perception-driven control limits research progress.
The Solution
We develop robotic-assisted injection technology optimized for preclinical gene therapy research. By enhancing precision and adaptability, our system improves the safety and accuracy of ophthalmic procedures, paving the way for better therapeutic outcomes in both research and clinical settings.
The Team
Sahar Serajian, Founder
Shadmehr Ghorbani, AI Specialist
Negin Bagheri, Researcher
Yagmur Mohammadi, Nutritionist
The Problem
Micronutrient deficiencies, also known as the “hidden hunger,” persist despite adequate caloric intake, leading to weakened immunity, cognitive impairment, and chronic diseases. Existing diagnostic methods are either invasive or unreliable, and are driven by commercial interests rather than science-backed recommendations.
The Solution
SuppLifyLab is an AI-powered platform that provides personalized, non-invasive supplement recommendations. By analyzing health data, diet, and risk factors through a validated digital questionnaire, our tool delivers science-backed guidance to consumers and pharmacists, making supplementation safer, more effective, and more accessible.
The Team
Sibylle-Gottlieb Broes, co-founder & CEO/CMO
Fabrice Bolland, Co-founder & COO
The Problem
Healthcare ecosystems suffer from fragmented communication between primary and secondary care providers, as well as patients. This leads to inefficiencies, delays, overcrowded consultation rooms, and suboptimal patient outcomes.
The Solution
We provide a digital platform that bridges communication gaps between care providers, patients, and healthcare institutions by optimising the initial steps of the patient’s healthcare journey. Our solution streamlines information exchange and creates a seamless communication ecosystem among patients, primary care providers, and specialised healthcare professionals. This enables optimal patient triage and improves the overall healthcare workflow.
The Team
Henri Haelterman, Business Developer
Marc Haelterman, Technical Expert
The Problem
Prolonged neck flexion from activities like screen use, manual work, and reading causes musculoskeletal pain and long-term spinal damage. Existing ergonomic solutions are impractical, uncomfortable, or ineffective, limiting their adoption.
The Solution
Our innovative glasses eliminate harmful neck flexion by optimizing visual field deflection in a comfortable, ergonomic design. A preliminary study confirms the device’s usability and benefits, offering a practical solution for reducing neck strain in everyday activities.
Meet the coaches

Gaetan Van Wijck
Seasoned HealthTech leader and entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in driving high-growth strategies for international teams in established and scale-up companies. Gaetan is an enthusiastic communicator and pragmatic decision-maker who is committed e about building strong teams. He has extensive experience in company acquisitions and integrations.
Enrique Vega
Senior executive with over 25 years of international management experience in startups and global companies. Enrique has a strong track record in fundraising, shareholder relations, strategic partnerships, and IPO preparation. An engineer by training, he holds an MBA from INSEAD.
Shahram Sharif
Serial technology entrepreneur and senior executive with a passion for health, wellness and innovation. Shahram has just stepped down as CEO of Liva Healthcare, a digital therapy company focused on the management and reversal of chronic lifestyle diseases. Previously, he was Chief Business Officer at Huma Therapeutics and founder and CEO of LindaCare. He holds a master’s degree in electronic engineering and an executive master’s degree in business innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare and life sciences.
Xavier Delcorps
Business development and management expert with 30 years of experience in medical technologies. Xavier specializes in helping startups, scale-ups, and SMEs successfully enter and grow in their target markets. An experienced C-level executive, independent board director, and MedTech entrepreneur, he has a strong background in business expansion within multinational environments.
Benjamin Mertens
Founder and CEO of Lys Medical, a MedTech company specializing in lung cancer diagnostics. With over 18 years of experience in MedTech, he has led the full development cycle, from incubation and clinical validation to certification and commercialization. Benjamin is also a program coordinator for the advanced master’s in Biotech and MedTech Ventures at Solvay. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and an Executive Master in Management from Solvay Brussels School.
Why join our program?
Since 2016, the MedTech Accelerator has supported early-stage entrepreneurs providing value to patients and professionals.
The program brings together recognized experts and key players in the ecosystem.

Test, accelerate and realize your project

Join an exclusive healthcare innovation network in Brussels

Develop through contact with other project leaders

Become a pro at pitching to raise funds or win over partners

Win up to €5,000 in the final competition
Our community is changing the future of healthcare:
imagine what we can achieve together!
Advantages
A comprehensive support to identify and overcome any risks
Our lifetech cluster team, coaches and experts will help you through the initial, foundational stages of drafting your business plan.
When you leave the Accelerator, you will be able to:
- Present a credible business plan and roadmap.
- Pitch your idea to pre-seed investors.
- Activate Brussels grants and set up your own company.
- Join the lifetech cluster as an aspiring member, then as a full member.
Over 6 months, you will benefit from:
- 20 workshops theoretical and practical
- 20 hours of personalized business coaching.
- Continuous training in pitching.
- 2 days of targeted meetings with the ecosystem
Our focus
- # Value proposition for your customers
- # Market and competitor analysis
- # Business plan, financial plan, funding
- # CE marking and intellectual property
- # Prototyping
- # Regional and European aid
To gain a detailed understanding of the program and determine if it aligns with your needs, we’ll arrange a one-on-one meeting to present its details and allow you to introduce your project.
For that purpose, you can contact us directly or sign up.

Our trackrecord since 2016
On the market
Access criteria
You will benefit greatly from this program if you are :
A healthcare professional with experience to build on.
An entrepreneur with an impactful vision.
A student or a researcher with an innovative technology.
Discover the projects selected for 2024
The solutions developed in the context of the MedTech Accelerator 2024 will change the future of prevention and healthcare!
The solutions
And the 2024 winners are...! 🎉
Prix du Jury
BREEZE MEDICAL
“An innovation that redefines respiratory monitoring”
– Jason Pettiaux

Prix du PUBLIC
FLUENT ROBOTICS
“Smart robots to ease the workload of clinicians”
– Omar Al-Ahmad & Mirza Awais Ahmad

Huge congratulations to both teams for their outstanding innovation and their contributions to the future of healthtech!
Just think, you could be the next person to transform healthcare thanks to your project…
Previous participants
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Meet your MedTech Accelerator® team
The MedTech Accelerator® supports healthtech enthusiasts to accelerate the innovation potential of their solution in Brussels and beyond. We are an enthusiastic team ready to support you throughout your project lifetime within the program and after, if you are eligible to join the lifetech.brussels cluster.
The MedTech Accelerator® is an initiative of lifetech.brussels.
The MedTech Accelerator® is financially supported by the Brussels Regional Government.
”More for Brussels” This project was supported by the ERDF between 2016 and 2023.