Cancer strikes 30 millions people in the world each year. Discover a selection of promising startups and projects willing to fight against it thanks to algorithms.
3. Definition
Cancer: a group of diseases involving abnormal cell
growth with the potential to invade or spread to other
parts of the body
Synonym: Malignant Tumor
Big Data: often refers simply to the use of predictive
analytics or other certain advanced methods to extract
value from data.
9. Health Data
Centers in France
In advanced countries, it’s critical to
secure health data transmission to
meet regulatory compliances.
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A suit of applications for Oncologists that help them to capture data easily.
Compiled data allows drug makers to make more precise trials
History: build by 2 IT guys, they met expert in the domain + oncologists (1000 meetings in 6 months)
Investment: 130 M$ from google venture
Business Model: Selling software to cancer cancer and distibuting data to drug maker
History: more bacteria than cells in your body (3 to 10x). And they can influence your cells and then cancer development. Mostly in skin, intestin, mouth, lungs,
Investment: Get 350K via Crowdfunding (Indiegogo) + 4,5M$
Business Model: Sell microbiome sequencing for 90$
70 entités en France qui vendent (ou pas) leur capacité d’hebergement
History: After a recurred cancer a doctor send a biopsy to Foundation Medicine. Analysis revealed 200 genes with known link to this cancer and 4 « actionnable mutations. Predict 4 drugs undergoin trials
Investment: IPO and get 1B$ investment by Roche (biggest cancer drug maker)
Business Model: Sell sequencing and report
5 appli payantes
30,000 professionnel par jours utilisent
Predicting patterns thanks to multiple points of data
Lots of tumors are diagnosed thnaks to medical imaging
Histoire: When a mole shape change rapidly, this may be the sign of a malignous tumor.
Traction: 200,000 downloads. The only one to get CE mark
Investment: 4M$ with a dermatological pharma company among investor (LEO Pharma)
Business Model: 2€/month
History: Imagine a surgeon need to plan an liver cancer operation thanks to 2D images. Made in Strasbourg
Business Model: sell modelisation to surgeons
Investment:
History: Israel startup applying image identification algorithm to medical images. Dataset of 10M images
Invest: 8M$ by Khosla Venture
Business Model: Invite researcher to create algorithm and share revenues when thos algorithms are sold to radiologists
History: Israel startup. Cheap and easy to use tool. Piggyback on smartphone capabilities to run algorithms
Invest: 8M$ in grants
Business Model: As low as 800$ (compared to 10,000$ for regular Colposcope)