Barcelona-based Punto Well being, a HealthTech startup innovating dementia care, has acquired €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 folks shall 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 influence startups, offers us every thing 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 exhibit how AI can rework disaster administration into proactive household help, particularly within the shadow of fragmented dementia care.
Their mission is to turn into the trusted companion empowering personalised look after these impacted by cognitive illness.
With years of gathered experience throughout the healthcare spectrum and progressive applied sciences, they design, validate and take a look at 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 folks at scale, continues to be a problem for a lot of social entrepreneurs to make the influence that they envision. The variety of options this yr reveals that expertise can really be a power 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 recognized with dementia, witnessing the gaps within the healthcare system. In response to Punto, 78 million folks will face dementia analysis by 2030.
In consequence, Farré and Eckersley look to rework dementia care by empowering sufferers, households and healthcare suppliers with AI-driven personalised help all through Spain.
Ilonka Jankovich, Enterprise Accomplice at Rubio Influence Ventures, provides: “A few of the most impactful startups are constructed by folks 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 laborious with out the proper of help. This award was created to fill that hole. Not simply with funding, however with the steerage from NN Group and Rubio and the help of the group 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 turn into the norm, not the exception.”
Punto Well being at present provides two merchandise:
- PuntoCare: A smartphone/pill app that gives each day help to folks with cognitive impairment and their households. This contains personalised each day care plans, cognitive stimulation workouts, bodily exercise, wholesome habits, rest, and so on.; and articles offering clinically validated info curated by specialists. The app options anAI assistant that interacts with content material and offers solutions, ideas and methods, 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.
