# Healthtech

14 Italian early stage startups to watch, according to VCs

Sifted asked investors from 2100, Vento, United Ventures, Italians Founders for their top picks

Stryker to invest $400m in CMR Surgical, with option to buy it outright

The listed medtech will act as exclusive US sales agent for CMR’s robot-assisted surgery system

Exclusive: Weight loss startup Yazen raises €50m led by Verdane

Swedish health platform previously topped Sifted’s Nordics and Benelux leaderboard

Owkin alum raises $25m seed to build world model for human cells

The Paris-based startup is building an automated wet lab to generate high-quality data at scale about human cell behaviour

Voice AI startup Vocca raises $20m to automate patient phone calls

The company has seen rapid growth in the past year and now serves 15k practitioners across the US and Europe

Who are Europe’s fastest-growing companies?

London-based wellness marketplace Healf was crowned winner

Smart ring maker Oura delays IPO amid 'market uncertainty'

Smart wearables scaleup had been targeting a valuation of around $15bn

‘Pushing the frontier is best done outside’: DeepMind alum Simon Kohl on leaving Big Tech

Kohl left DeepMind three years ago to launch Latent Labs, an AI lab dedicated to drug design and discovery

Exclusive: Vsquared and East X Ventures lead £10m seed for rare materials startup

London-based StandardX is building a particle accelerator to manufacture medical isotopes at scale

EU Scaleup Fund leads $100m Tandem Health raise

The Swedish company’s tech is currently used by over 10k healthcare organisations

Exclusive: Femtech Ipremom raises €15m seed for early detection of pregnancy complications

The Spanish startup has developed a blood test that can identify risks of future complications from the first trimester of pregnancy

‘I’m not here to be acquired’: Meet Nabla’s new CEO Brian Manning

Manning took on the role of CEO at the Paris-based healthtech six months after Alexandre Lebrun’s departure

13 technical founders across Europe to watch, according to VCs

Featuring one builder who started their business from a sailboat

The sectors with the most momentum heading into H2

Sifted dug into the data to discover the hottest sectors across Europe in the first half of 2026

Can Neko's unflattering avatars actually change behaviour?

My latest Neko Health scan says I'm two years younger than my actual age; my avatar makes me think otherwise

Neko raises $700m Series C: ‘We now have 100k members and are profitable at clinic level’

Sifted sits down with CEO Hjalmar Nilsonne at its new clinic in Stockholm

Why late-stage secondary offerings are transforming private market access

Europe’s proactive health startups, mapped

From full-body scans to biological age tests, startups are building for consumers who want more data, earlier warnings and personalised ways to take control of their health

Health unicorn Alan raises €480m Series G round led by Prosus

Fresh funding round values French healthtech platform at €5.5bn

Tandem Health CEO: ‘We’re not dependent on OpenAI or Anthropic’

The medical scribe startup is pushing into Europe, with the UK as its largest market

All female-GP firm Thena Capital raises £45m for debut healthcare fund

The firm aims to back 25 healthcare and medtech startups and believes “AI is going to completely transform healthcare”

How bio:cap is reconnecting Europe’s life sciences ecosystem

Despite capital, talent and high class research, Europe's life sciences sector remains fragmented

Exclusive: General Catalyst backs YC alum Lucis in $20m Series A

Longevity and preventative health technologies are becoming increasingly popular across Europe

Smart ring maker Oura files for IPO in New York

The company was valued at $11bn last October