CHF 40,000 for startups developing a webapp to better treat depressive disorder, and recycling lithium-ion car batteries
04.03.2021
DeepPsy and LIBREC win Venture Kick's second stage of financial and entrepreneurial support. Their projects help psychiatrists and hospitals lower the time until remission from their patient's depressive disorder, the car industry with a solution for collection and full recycling of spent e-car batteries.
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 DeepPsy: Data Scientist Mateo de Bardeci, B.Sc. Physics ETH Zurich, and PD Dr. med. Sebastian Olbrich
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 LIBREC: Investor (anonym); Denis Werner, CTO; André Schwaninger, Business Development; Jodok Reinhardt, CEO; Stefan Bahamonde, CEO of Libattion (Partner for Second Life of the batteries and integrated in LIBREC)
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DeepPsy: For a better treatment of major depressive disorder
In psychiatry, opposite to most fields of medicine, treatment decisions are mostly based on information obtained at the symptomatic level, with little consideration for the biological mechanisms involved in the mental disorders of individual patients. To find an effective treatment, patients and psychiatrists go through a prolonged trial-and-error process.
DeepPsy's mission is to help psychiatrists identify the treatment with the highest likelihood of a positive response in a specific patient by analyzing brain waves (EEG) and heart activity (ECG) with scientifically validated algorithms. This technology is made available to psychiatrist through a user-friendly web-application to which EEG and
ECG data can be uploaded. The team is composed by PD Dr. med. Sebastian Olbrich from the University Hospital Zurich and data scientist Mateo de Bardeci who studied Physics at ETH Zurich.
The Venture Kick funds will be used to finish the product and to obtain the medical device CE certification. venturekick.ch/DeePsy
The Venture Kick funds will be used to finish the product and to obtain the medical device CE certification. venturekick.ch/DeePsy
LIBREC: Safe collection and recycling of e-car batteries with full recovery of cobalt, nickel, lithium and manganese
Car importers are obliged by law to take back and dispose spent lithium-ion car batteries from hybrid, plug-in hybrid, battery electric or fuel-cell electric cars. Transportation of such batteries is costly and can be dangerous. LIBREC’s proposal to collect old cars and pick-up spent batteries safely, as well as to repair, up-cycle or re-cycle the batteries entirely in one location comes with a strong cost advantage and is preferred by Swiss car importers. Co-founder and CEO Jodok Reinhardt, energy/utility expert André Schwaninger and recycling engineer Denis Werner are setting up the system with auto schweiz and innovate the recycling technology with BFH, Prof. Axel Fuerst to full recovery of all materials. No more mining, no more long-distance transportation and no more smelting or landfill of old batteries are needed.
The Venture Kick funds will help them get framework agreements with auto schweiz and car importers, set-up safe transportation, and finalize the recycling process. www.venturekick.ch/librec