Build a startup for hearts to beat longer
Our next batch is starting on 19 March 2025. Watch the Grand Opening with the presentation of all the startups in our current intake – broadcast below.
Caelestinus – Digital Health Interoperability and FHIR Incubator is a 3-month program powered by InterSystems and supported by many institutions, such as IKEM - the biggest transplant center in Europe. Why join?
You will 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. Caelestinus is 100% virtual. Sounds good to you?
2025 Batch of Caelestinus – Grand Opening Session
What have our alumni to say?
Our support
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. InterSystems Global Summit 2025.
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
Our Supporters
‘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
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Healthcare Data
Data mining, analysing, sharing, connecting, exporting. Can you make it faster and cheaper?
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Medical Devices
We help you create any kind of prototype of any kind of medical device. Finally, build an IoT gadget that makes sense.
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Telemedicine
Make healthcare available for everyone regardless of where they are.
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Artificial Intelligence
Is analysis of X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, video images or text your cup of tea?
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Augmented and Virtual Reality
Can you make the job of surgeons and hospital staff easier through AR and VR?
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Surgery
Enhance heart surgery and transplant procedures with power of information technology.
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Prevention
Make invisible symptoms visible. Make people act in time and costs to be reduced. Can you prevent chronic kidney disease, the “silent killer” or other civilization diseases?
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Diagnostics
How could we self-diagnose better? How could technology help clinicians to fight diseases? Did you choose diabetes that a half billion people suffer from worldwide? Do you fight heart attacks? Or something else? You arrived at the right spot.
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Other
Apply with your own idea how technology might keep us in great shape.
Hybrid Healthtech Incubator
with Fully Virtual Program
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 19 March 2025 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.