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Czech entrepreneurs Simona Kijonkova and Karla Ašerová just said what we're all thinking about women's healthcare. Even in 2025, "women are still considered primarily mothers in medicine, even though they play many different roles." You know what it's like bouncing between specialists, repeating the same tests, leaving consultations with zero understanding of what's wrong or what happens next. So Simona and Karla opened Evalon, a clinic that tracks: • How long it takes to get real answers • Whether you understand what's wrong with you • Whether your doctors talk to each other "What is money and success if a person doesn't have health?" says Kijonková, who survived a serious illness herself. They're proving that when you design healthcare around what patients need, it just works better. For everyone involved. 💕 Want to know about women breaking boundaries with style? Subscribe to Vogue CS for stories on creativity, culture, and changemakers: https://t2m.io/mnLtdDOP 📩 P.S. Follow me for the latest in fashion and business from our team at VOGUE CS!

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Healthcare R&D investment in the Czech Republic hit €1.3B in 2024, with a growing chunk flowing into AI diagnostics, femtech, and medical devices. (Source: CzechInvest + EU HealthTech Tracker 2025) This isn’t just a medtech hub anymore—it’s a playground for deep-tech meets human health, backed by powerhouse investors like RSJ and Reflex Capital and incubators like JIC and CzechInvest. As part of my ecosystem mapping work, I’ve visualized the most active health & wellness startups making waves in 2025👇 🧠 Digital Health VOS.Health — Your Way to a Balanced Life, Scase, Perci Health, Vitadio, and Hypherdata are building tools for mental health, remote diagnostics, diabetes care, and secure AI health app development. 🩺 MedTech Devices HTG Medical, Photothera Labs, Kardi Ai, NANTEO, and STIMVIA are bringing innovation to ICUs, neurology, cardiology, and rapid diagnostics—with CE-marked wearables and AI-powered monitors. 📊 Health IT & Analytics COGNEO, Carebot, Adiquit, Solvica, s.r.o., Mild Blue, and neotiv are enhancing clinical decisions with X-ray AI, dementia screening, and operational modeling for hospitals. 🧬 Biotech & Therapeutics GeneProof a.s., SOTIO Biotech, Contipro, Enantis, and EXBIO Praha, a.s. are driving advances in immunotherapy, hyaluronic acid treatments, protein engineering, and diagnostics. 💪 Wellness & Fitness WorkoutCoachAI, Systers, Actijoy, and Deli life are shaping healthier lifestyles—from AI training plans and office nutrition to pet health tech. 🌸 FemTech & Contraception snuggs, Beacap, Apricity, and Credo are redesigning fertility care, period products, and baby monitoring tools for a modern generation of parents and patients. 💼 Ways to Plug Into Czechia’s HealthTech Momentum: - Scale With Real-Time Health Data: Use platforms like Carebot, VOS.health, or Upheal to add clinically validated, AI-based insights into your product roadmap. - Co-Build With Wellness & FemTech Startups: Partner with Systers or Apricity to expand into mental health or reproductive care. - Accelerate MedTech & AI Products: Fit into EU regulatory frameworks with CE-marked solutions from Kardi AI, Stimvia, or HTG Medical. 🌍 I built this map to support founders, investors, and ecosystem partners exploring the Czech healthcare space. 📩 If you're expanding in Central Europe—or want to tap into Czechia’s fast-growing ecosystem—I can help. I've supported 500+ startups with market research, lead generation, and fundraising strategy across 35+ markets. Let’s scale smarter—together. #CzechRepublic #HealthTech #Biotech #DigitalHealth #FemTech #AIinHealthcare #MedTech #Wellness #HealthcareInnovation #GrowthConsulting #EcosystemMapping #StartupEcosystem

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Two Cities, Two Realities: The Startup Divide in Cyprus Bifurcation of the startup and business ecosystem is nowhere more pronounced than between Limassol and Nicosia. Companies in Nicosia are linked with government, banks, and institutions, with most startups being university R&D-focused and reliant on state grants. Limassol companies are outward-looking, collaborate to create an ecosystem for their staff (and themselves) because their market is the world, and startups follow the same path. The role of government should be to bridge these, transferring Limassol’s knowledge to Nicosia. Unfortunately, not only is that not happening, but many are choosing to “leave the foreigners do their thing.” This won’t end well. The growth pace is so different that the “fight back” will come from foreigners — questioning and challenging how the country is run. You can already see it in sectors like overseas-owned hotels, food chains, and finance groups stepping in where local companies fail to deliver. PS: Check the sponsors of tech events in each city and you’ll see the split. Why invest heavily to attract companies to Cyprus only to live in our bubble? If the logic is “I can’t compete, but the CEO is my cousin so I’ll get the contract”, it makes short-term sense — but it’s the easy road. And easy roads lead to weak foundations, which crack when the downturn comes.

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