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Healthtech · Pre-seed

Sigrun Diagnostics

A blood test that flags sepsis twelve hours earlier. Raising pre-seed capital to expand after two-hospital pilot.

Round progress

••• of $900,000

18% funded

Instrument

Equity

Min cheque

$25K

Valuation cap

•••

Deadline

97 days

Committed capital and the valuation cap open after sign-in.

Problem

Sepsis kills because it is identified hours too late in emergency departments.

Solution

A host-response biomarker panel that runs on existing hospital analysers.

Traction

Two-hospital pilot, 1,400 samples, 91% sensitivity in retrospective study.

Team

Karolinska clinicians and a proteomics founder; 8 people.

Use of funds

60% engineering and product, 25% go-to-market hires, 15% compliance and working capital.

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