Healthcare Hackers: The challenges of 2020
December 30, 2020
Innovation in healthcare can often be a long, laborious process. Finding the right partners, the right investors, and plotting a path to market are challenges that all healthcare start-ups face. Some of Europe’s most innovative companies in the health field shared their stories with Emerging Europe this year, as part of a podcast series called Healthcare Hackers. We take a look at some of the lessons they shared.
To suggest that 2020 was a challenge for health tech start-ups is an enormous understatement that fails to underline the many difficulties faced by young firms across the region: from building a hardware device that depended on parts sourced from China, through solution validation to more prosaic challenges, such as access to funding.