Build a startup for hearts to beat longer.

 

Our next batch is starting in March 2025. Apply NOW.

Caelestinus is a hybrid Digital Health Interoperability and FHIR Incubator based in Prague. The 3-months hybrid program is powered by InterSystems and supported by IKEM - the biggest transplant center in Europe – and many more.

Meet top healthcare, technology, legal, and marketing mentors. Get market validation. Raise your first capital. We are open to individuals as well as teams with ideas.

And the best part – it’s free, we take NO equity and you don’t need to make any hard commitments. Plus you can take part online or offline. Sounds good to you?

Final DEMO Day (24 June 2024)

Watch the recording of the session below & find agenda incl. team descriptions by clicking on the button.
Youtube video contains timestamps of each pitch (open the video in Youtube and see the video desription).

 

Missed the Kick-off meeting of the 2024 cohort?

 

Photos from 2024 Batch opening

 

What have our alumni to say?

 

Our support

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Technology

>> Use InterSystems FHIRaaS and IRIS for Health technologies to build a prototype.

You will have InterSystems mentors at your disposal as well as a data platform specifically engineered to extract value from healthcare data. It empowers you to rapidly create and scale the healthcare industry’s next breakthrough applications. See the resources.

Networking & Fundraising

>> Our great experts will help you create a scalable business.

You will have access to our pool of experts from various fields who will give you invaluable knowledge in workshops or 1-to-1 meetings. We will assign your own business mentor and we will introduce you to investors focusing on medtech startups. We will also invite you to big health-tech conferences in the US/Europe – e.g. ISC Global Summit 2024.

Product validation

>> Build the best version of your product with our HCP partners.

We will connect you with doctors and pilot organizations to help you steer your initial idea and get a direct reality check when you build your MVP. This will help you get your first customers and accelerate.

 

What else? See all the benefits in Caelestinus.

Our Partners

‘If you are the new Steve, we will find you a Wozz. If you are Wozz, we will get you your Steve.’

Tomáš Studeník, Caelestinus founder

  • Chronic Kidney Desease

    Ten percent of population are under the threat of this “silent killer”. Help identify patients with risk of kidney failure in time through power of data and technology.

  • Diabetes

    Half a billion suffer from diabetes worldwide. Many do not know.

  • Medical Devices

    Finally build an IoT gadget that makes sense.

  • Surgery

    Enhance heart surgery and transplant procedures with power of information technology.

  • Telemedicine

    Make healthcare available for everyone regardless of where they are.

  • Prevention

    Make invisible symptoms visible. Make people act in time.

  • Diagnostics

    How could we self-diagnose better? How could technology help clinicians?

  • Artificial Intelligence

    Is analysis of X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, video images or text your cup of tea?

  • Augmented and Virtual Reality

    Can you make the job of surgeons and hospital staff easier through AR and VR?

  • Healthcare Data

    Data mining, analysing, sharing, connecting, exporting. Can you make it faster and cheaper?

  • Other

    Apply with your own idea how technology might keep us in great shape.

 

Hybrid Healthtech Incubator

Join in from anywhere with the advantage of meeting and working space in the very centre of Prague.

 

Timeline

Apply for 2025 batch

Apply until 16 February 2025 to become one the Caelestini with all the support we offer.

 

Selection
process

We will review all registrations and invite selected applicants for a pre-offer interview in the first half of February 2025 and inform the seleted participants in the second half of February 2025.

 
 

Kick-off &
Intensive program

We will be opening our incubator on 4 March 2024 with a kick-off event for all selected applicants. Book a placeholder: 19 March 2025 at (3 PM CET; 10 AM EDT); in person in Prague and online.

From March until June 2025, you will attend a variety of interesting deep-diving and networking events, you will pilot your product with potential clients (HCPs), and prepare for possible certification and future investment.

 
 
 

Pitch event
& farewell

Your chance to impress U.S. clients and raise money comes between 22–25 June 2025 at the InterSystems Global Summit 2025, Orlando, USA.

You will farewell with great insights and possibly with some leads and promising partnership proposals for the future.

Registration for the next batch is open.
Apply now to save your seat for the ride starting in March 2025.

After your submission, we will soon let you know what happens next
(no later than January 2025).

Your New Destination

Caelestinus — Digital Health Interoperability and FHIR Incubator
Insane Business Ideas s.r.o.
Celetná 19, Prague 1, Czech Republic
You do not need to move to Prague though – we are a hybrid incubator so you can attend the events ONLINE.