2018 Startup GUIDE - 10th Edition
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STARTUPS ON THE WAY TO SUCCESS 87<br />
15<br />
COMPANIES<br />
ON THE WAY<br />
TO SUCCESS<br />
Aesyra<br />
Swiss wearable innovation<br />
to stop bruxism<br />
TEAM<br />
AESYRA<br />
Aesyra 87<br />
AgroSustain 88<br />
ARTIRIA Medical 88<br />
CLARA 89<br />
EBA Med 89<br />
Involi 90<br />
LuckaBox 90<br />
Microcaps 91<br />
Nanoleq 91<br />
Nanolive 92<br />
Scewo 92<br />
SwissProsthetics 93<br />
Vatorex 93<br />
Technis 94<br />
WeGaw 94<br />
Aesyra develops a solution to help clinicians and patients<br />
better manage bruxism diagnosis, monitoring<br />
and therapy, a big market opportunity.<br />
Aesyra SA is a spin-off of EPFL created in close collaboration<br />
with medical experts from the Clinique Universitaire de Médecine<br />
Dentaire de Genève (CUMD). Aesyra’s mission is to develop<br />
and commercialize a medical device able to accurately monitor<br />
the jaw activity of the patient during sleep and provide an<br />
active bio-feedback treatment to reduce teeth grinding (a condition<br />
known as bruxism) without waking-up the patient.<br />
Bruxism is a major dental problem, affecting 8% of adults. It is a<br />
disorder consisting of teeth grinding and jaw clenching during<br />
sleep. If improperly managed or misdiagnosed, the overload on<br />
the jaw can cause unaesthetic teeth patterns, teeth fractures, severe<br />
dental prosthesis damages, dental implant complications,<br />
sleep disruption, headaches and facial pain. Nowadays there are<br />
no effective ways to monitor and treat bruxism.<br />
AesyBite is a medical specifically designed to solve this problem.<br />
The product consists of a one-size-fits-all smart dental splint. During<br />
use, AesyBite detects and measures bruxism episodes and<br />
delivers mild vibratory stimuli, known as bio-feedback therapy, in<br />
response. These mild stimuli induce the facial muscles to relax,<br />
leading to a reduction of grinding or clenching without disturbing<br />
sleep. Pilot tests show that AesyBite reduces the bruxism time<br />
by 70% since the first night of use.<br />
The company is looking for CHF 1.4 Mio in a seed round funding<br />
to industrialize the product conduct the clinical trials and obtain<br />
the CE mark. The product will be launched in Switzerland and Europe<br />
in 2020.<br />
Aesyra SA | Lausanne, Vaud | Founded in 2017 | Medtech<br />
| Generated capital: non-dilutive funds: CHF<br />
485,000| Supported by Volkswirtschaftsstiftung, Gebert<br />
Rüf Stiftung, Innovaud, SPECo, MassChallenge,<br />
Venture-lab, Innosuisse, winner of StartSummit <strong>2018</strong><br />
www.aesyra.com<br />
SWISS STARTUP <strong>GUIDE</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
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