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...and that's a wrap for MedTech Pitch Day 2025! While we're closing the day with more networking, let's recap the afternoon: We started off with our panel discussion moderated by Alexander E. Katzung, Vice President Acceleration & Innovation at B.Braun. Franzpeter Bracht of Lindis Blood Care GmbH, Sascha Preget of SmartAIs and Jana Hassel, consultant on digital policy at BAG SELBSTHILFE e.V., disussed startups working together with patient organisations. Then, Andrea Venturato of Apersys AG kicked off the second pitch session: This Swiss startup develops an advanced perfusion system, as the best possible environment for a liver outside the human body.   Cathrin Johansson presented Solutio by Swedish startup MedVasc. Their method enables pain-free deployment and precise distribution of local anesthetic agents by penetrating the vein wall from inside the vein. Skincubator Neocare from Israel, represented by Alon Metrikin-Gold, developed a wearable-based solution suite, that solves the key challenges to both immediate and prolonged skin-to-skin care to overcome the separation of parents and infants in the Neonatal ICU, to improve outcomes, and to reduce complications, and costs. Fourth to pitch this afernoon was Dr. Maximilian Brinkmann for Refined Laser Systems GmbH. This startup develops automated laser technology with switching speed for the fields of nonlinear microscopy, ultrashort pulse lasers and for white light sources. In our final presentation, Dr. Corentin Gondrand pitched for QuantiLight's portable diagnostic platform for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM), enabling chronic patients to perform blood tests at home. In his closing remarks, Dr. Thilo Brinkmann, Managing Director at B. Braun Stiftung - der Gesundheit neue Wege bereiten, announced that B. Braun will be hosting next year's MedTech Pitch Day. More details will be announced later. Dr. Achim Plum, Managing Director of HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds and responsible for the investment area Life Sciences & Chemistry, commented: "Our hosts at Dräger provided a great stage for this year's MedTech Pitch Day and the ten presenting founders. The event paves the way for highly innovative ideas to be put into medical practice. Ultimately, patients will benefit from this." Thank you to our co-organizers: B. Braun Group, B. Braun Stiftung - der Gesundheit neue Wege bereiten, Life Science Nord and this year's host Dräger. CC: Tom Gales, André Albrecht, Esther Vielitz, Mika Hansen Franziska Otto, Matthias Warken, Ingo Hämmerle, Julius Welsch, Oliver Schacht HTGF team: Achim Plum, Christian Kannemeier, Lena-Sophie Schütter, Jonas von der Decken, Kaja Buller, Jörn Thesen