Build a startup for hearts to beat longer.
The Caelestinus 2024 Spring batch has been launched.
Registration for the next batch is open!
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?
Missed the Kick-off meeting of the 2024 cohort?
Photos from 2024 Batch opening
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. 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
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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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.
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Diabetes
Half a billion suffer from diabetes worldwide. Many do not know.
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Medical Devices
Finally build an IoT gadget that makes sense.
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Surgery
Enhance heart surgery and transplant procedures with power of information technology.
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Telemedicine
Make healthcare available for everyone regardless of where they are.
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Prevention
Make invisible symptoms visible. Make people act in time.
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Diagnostics
How could we self-diagnose better? How could technology help clinicians?
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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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Healthcare Data
Data mining, analysing, sharing, connecting, exporting. Can you make it faster and cheaper?
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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 2024 batch
Apply until 18 February 2024 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 2024 and inform the seleted participants in the second half of February 2024.
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: 4 March at 2 PM (CET); in person in Prague and online.
From March until June 2024, 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 9–12 June 2024 at the InterSystems Global Summit 2024, Maryland, 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 so you can save your seat already.
After your submission, we will soon let you know what happens next.
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.