Who will be crowned startup of the year? Shortlist revealed

By Published On: April 23, 2025Last Updated: May 15, 2025
Who will be crowned startup of the year? Shortlist revealed

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for Health Tech Startup of the Year, sponsored by LFH Regulatory.

LFH Regulatory is your trusted partner in navigating the complex world of Medical Device and In Vitro Diagnostic Regulations.

Founded in 2019 by Laura Friedl-Hirst, the firm has quickly grown into a dynamic team of passionate professionals committed to making the regulatory and compliance process as straightforward as possible. At LFH Regulatory, our ethos is “regulation made simple.”

This was once again one of the most popular categories, attracting a wealth of quality entries from across the Health Tech World.

The four shortlisted entries will soon be judged by the category sponsor, with the ultimate winner announced at a virtual event on May 8

Congratulations to the shortlist and many thanks to all the brilliant companies that entered.

Startup of the Year Shortlist

Earzz is redefining safety, independence, and proactive care through AI-powered sound recognition.

As a pioneering tech startup, we serve two critical sectors—adult social care and deaf and hard-of-hearing people.

By harnessing our patented acoustic monitoring technology, Earzz delivers intelligent, real-time alerts tailored to individual needs.

Our mission is to make care settings safer whilst improving the quality of care and to ensure accessibility without compromising privacy or dignity.

Eolas Medical is a knowledge management platform, used at the point of care, to help clinicians access the information they need to make clinical decisions.

It is currently being used by over 500 healthcare teams and has over 200,000 healthcare professionals registered on the platform in the UK, Ireland and the US.

Eolas Medical was designed and developed by physicians to streamline access to the information you need in seconds on mobile or desktop.

This includes a content management system, allowing streamlining of local content such as guidelines, pathways, education and much more.

We reduce the time searching for information for HCPs allowing greater efficiency and improve compliance to clinical guideline utilisation, ensuring consistent and safe care.

 

To introduce health tech into the NHS safely, technology must first meet NHS security, data and information standards.

But as 80 per cent of companies in this sector are small medium British enterprises, the resource needed to meet compliance is the industry’s biggest barrier, stopping 50 per cent getting to market.

Naq is the market’s first automated compliance platform.

Automating 80 per cent of compliance tasks, it’s fast, simple, and saves companies 160,000 man hours or £20,000 in consultancy a year.

Its revolutionary approach has enabled products to make it into the NHS, delivering efficiencies and improving patient outcomes.

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