Experts from “tech2b” support founders in Upper Austria with know-how, capital and contacts in order to develop business models and products from ideas – and help the start-ups to bring their products to the market themselves or in cooperation with leading companies in the state and grow fast. Projects that have recently successfully completed the tech2b start-up program have now been honored, including two start-ups from the Innviertel.
“MatheArena GmbH” from Hohenzell wants to bring mathematics closer to learners in a mobile and flexible way using its own app (www.mathearena.com). The degree of difficulty automatically adapts to the user, mathematical topics are to be served up in small, playful chunks based on the latest findings on e-learning – and trained in a motivating and fearless manner in the form of questions and mini-games.
The focus is directly on the needs of the learners in order to reduce inhibitions, fears and stress factors as much as possible. “In the medium and long term, the MatheArena is to become an international duel app that, as a digital trainer, redesigns learning mathematics, makes differentiated learning possible for each individual and at the same time brings learners from all over the world together,” says founder Eva-Maria Infanger. “The start-up phase was a very challenging time for us, during which the team around tech2b looked after us competently,” says the MatheArena maker.
The start-up “DigiThy” from Schalchen under founder Thomas Benninger wants to meet increasing challenges in the healthcare system: increasingly complex treatments, an aging society, enormous time pressure for doctors, growing patient demands such as the demand for clearly measurable, individually tailored and therefore comprehensible treatments.
In this area of tension between the very limited time resources of the medical profession and high patient demands, computer-aided procedures can make a significant contribution to the quality of treatment, according to “DigiThy” from Schalchen: The company’s goal is to transfer proven methods from the fields of control systems and machine learning to the medical field in a suitable way , to enable individualized dosing procedures in chronic metabolic diseases.
With “DigiThy” methods for calculating the dosage, treatments should also be brought closer to the patients. This makes it possible to transform “simple point-of-care devices” into “digital assistants”. These can be used at home in order to monitor the course of the disease and to be able to adapt medication in a patient-oriented manner.
“In medical technology, complex technical developments with very high investment costs usually encounter major regulatory difficulties. Reasons with additional hurdles, so to speak. Thanks to participating in the Pre-Scale-up MedTech program, I was able to draw on enormous expert knowledge,” says founder Thomas Benninger.
The Tech2b initiative supports, accompanies and accelerates the development of innovative start-up projects. “New business models, products and services strengthen the innovative power and the location and bring the local economy one step further,” says Economics Minister Markus Achleitner.
Source: Nachrichten
