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Best HealthTech Companies in Lower Saxony, Germany

The 59 best HealthTech companies in Lower Saxony, Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: MedKitDoc.

59companies tracked
$12.5Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
6have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · HEALTHTECH × LOWER SAXONY

Our analysis of 50 HealthTech companies

$1.6b in tracked funding; 95% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

50companies analysed
95%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
1unicorns
2019median founding year

Ranked: Best HealthTech companies in Lower Saxony

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1MedKitDoc
Provider of telehealth and health monitoring solutions for doctors and patients
$10M34 mo agoSeed2020WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+331 partnership
2esqLABS
Provider of workflow management tools for drug research and discovery
$1M62 mo agoFunding RaisedStephan Schaller
Founder & CEO
2017WordPressMySQLPHP+19
3geneXplain
Provider of bioinformatics and systems biology software
$1M102 mo agoFunding RaisedEdgar Wingender
Founder & CEO
2010WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+204 patents
Small-molecule quinoxaline inhibitors of thioredoxin reductase for therapeutic use
1 launch
4FeelSpace
Developer of a belt for navigation purpose using tactile signals
$304K64 mo agoFunding RaisedSilke Kaercher
CEO
2015WordPress Block EditorBeaver BuilderWordPress+19
5VetVise
Provider of AI-based platform to track and manage animal health
46 mo agoFunding Raised2020WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+26
6MEDIFOX DAN
Provider of administrative task software for providers
98 mo agoAcquiredThorsten Schliebe
CEO/Managing Director
1994WordPressMySQLPHP+211 job opening
7Capical
Developer of capacitive sensor technology for non-contact electrocardiogram measurements
155 mo agoPublic201036 patents
Capacitive bio-signal acquisition using textile electrodes for wearable health monitoring
8420Cloud
Provider of software solution provider for cannabis social clubs
UnfundedAlexander Gomer
Founder & MD
2023WordPressMySQLPHP+17

Top 7 HealthTech companies in Lower Saxony

#1
Seed · Hann. Munden, Lower Saxony · founded 2020 · 24 employees
$10Mraised

Provider of telehealth and health monitoring solutions for doctors and patients. The company has developed remote monitoring devices such as a digital stethoscope, Electrocardiogram (EKG), blood monitoring device, and more which assist doctors to examine patients' health. The telehealth platform has features for patients to book appointments online, communicate virtually with doctors via video call, and for doctors to manage patients' data, records, and appointment details.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 8.6% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 3 partnerships (incl. MedKitDoc) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2023Seed
  • Dec 2021Seed$7.9M
  • Apr 2021Seed$2M
  • Jan 2021Seed
Investors
Vorwerk Ventures, Acton Capital, Picus Capital, EIT Health, Health Wildcatters, Ricus Capital
#2
Funding Raised · Saterland, Lower Saxony · founded 2017 · 9 employees
$1.3Mraised

Provider of workflow management tools for drug research and discovery. It enables pharmaceutical industries and research industries to manage their data for research and development.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 21.4% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • May 2021Grant (prize money)$1.3M
Founders & team
Stephan SchallerFounder & CEO
Investors
Europa
Tech stack
Amazon AlbAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAmerican ExpressAnimate.CssApache Http Server
#3
Funding Raised · Osnabruck, Lower Saxony · founded 2015 · 11 employees
$304.4Kraised

feelSpace offers an eponymous belt which helps users in navigation through tactile signals. It allows users to set the destination location in their smartphone using the companion application. The information is then sent to the belt via Bluetooth. The belt has an inbuilt compass which senses the direction of movement of the user and based on that it directs them to the destination using tactile signal. This allows user to freely navigate without looking at his phone or any other GPS device. Its target market includes individuals with visual impairment. The company launched a campaign on Indiegogo and raised an amount of $13,664 against $25,000 goal.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 166 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2021Grant (prize money)$304.4K
Founders & team
Silke KaercherCEO
Investors
Europa, EIT Health
Tech stack
Beaver BuilderFancyboxGoogle AnalyticsJqueryJquery MigrateMediaelement.Js
#4
Funding Raised · Wolfenbuttel, Lower Saxony · founded 2010
$1Mraised

Provider of bioinformatics and systems biology software. Products include eneXplain platform which is an online toolbox and workflow management system, GenomeTraveler- whole-genome analysis software, In-silico Molecular Cloning (IMC) software for analysis, annotation, and visualization of genomic features, PASS- Prediction of Activity Spectra for Substances, PharmaExpert which for study relationships between biological activities, drug-drug interactions and multiple targeting of chemical compounds, GUSAR which is a tool for quantitative structure-activity relationships and BRENDA which is a database of enzymes and enzyme-ligand data. It also is a part of active research.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 9.0% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$341.7K
  • Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$263.9K
  • Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$406.4K
Founders & team
Edgar WingenderFounder & CEOAlexander KelFounder & CSO
Investors
Europa
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAosApache Http ServerCloudflareCloudflare Browser Insights
#5
Funding Raised · Hannover, Lower Saxony · founded 2020 · 10 employees
raised

Developer of an animal monitoring system intended to improve livestock welfare and farm efficiency. The company's machine learning supported early warning system, based on 2D camera data, provides the earliest possible indication of unusual behavior, disease, pain and other problems in the barn, enabling users to treat such effects at the first moment of occurrence, thereby avoiding spread to other animals, widespread use of medication or costly measures.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers — 5.9% of this cohort's audience
Investors
RootCamp
Tech stack
BootstrapCloudflareGoogle AnalyticsGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud CdnGoogle Tag Manager
#6
Acquired · Hildesheim, Lower Saxony · founded 1994 · 700 employees
raised

Provider of administrative task software for providers

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 7k LinkedIn followers — 30.6% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Customer Satisfaction Manager
Funding rounds
  • May 2018Conventional Debt
Founders & team
Thorsten SchliebeCEO/Managing Director
Investors
Ardian, Hg, EQT, Equity Capital Management, HgCapital Trust
Tech stack
Alpine.JsAnime.JsApache Http ServerAtlassian ConfluenceBackbone.JsCloudflare
#7
Public · Braunschweig, Lower Saxony · founded 2010 · 5 employees
raised

Developer of capacitive sensor technology for non-contact electrocardiogram measurements. The company provides capacitive electrodes that enable electrocardiogram measurements without skin contact. This technology allows for monitoring of heart activity and physical parameters. It offers sensors in various sizes and shapes for integration into products.

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2013Series A
  • Jul 2011Seed
Investors
HTGF, M-INVESTAR, Kfw, M-Invest, K & SW Consult
Tech stack
WixReactGoogle CloudHstsGoogle Cloud CdnHttp/3

Funding & investor landscape

$12.5Mtotal disclosed funding
4companies funded
7disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
OHA4 rounds
Europa3 rounds
EIT Health2 rounds
AB12041 rounds
Acton Capital1 rounds
Ardian1 rounds
EQT1 rounds
Equity Capital Management1 rounds
HEMEX1 rounds
HTGF1 rounds

Notable founders

Stephan Schaller
Founder & CEO · esqLABS
Silke Kaercher
CEO · FeelSpace
Edgar Wingender
Founder & CEO · geneXplain
Alexander Kel
Founder & CSO · geneXplain
Thorsten Schliebe
CEO/Managing Director · MEDIFOX DAN
Prism market signals · Germany · country-scoped Prism corpus, 189,277 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of HealthTech coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time flat

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Germany

How research on Digital Health is moving in Germany

A read on the academic research around Digital Health — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,976 Germany-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201020192026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 21% → 38% across 2010–2026.
top research entities
  • Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin161
  • Heidelberg University147
  • Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin82
  • Technical University of Munich76
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg73
leading researchers
Voelskow, Vanessa · Meßner, Claudia · Kurth, Tobias · Busam, Amelie · Glatz, Toivo · Stephen Gilbert · Mayer, Gerhard · Sven Meister
Breakthroughs204 · 10%
▲ 10%→11% share
▲1.1× share momentum0 median citations93% since 2021mostly methods-led
Wearable computer research is rising sharply — German digital health papers grew from 3 to 18, signaling emerging biosignal innovation.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Health informatics1→28
  • Wearable computer3→18
  • Context (archaeology)1→11
  • Photoplethysmogram1→10
  • Psychological intervention1→8
Newly emergingHealth care 0→38 · Interoperability 0→18 · Usability 0→11
Landmark Conceptualising patient empowerment: a mixed methods study · 433 cites
Advancements534 · 27%
▲ 20%→28% share
▲1.4× share momentum0 median citations94% since 2021mostly empirical
Health informatics advancements are intensifying — German institutional papers surged from 8 to 118, driving a field-share jump from 20% to 28%.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Health informatics8→118
  • Health care5→106
  • Public health2→60
  • Psychological intervention2→60
  • Intervention (counseling)1→49
Newly emergingUsability 0→43 · Randomized controlled trial 0→30 · Informatics 0→29
Landmark MRI-based brain tumor detection using convolutional deep learning methods and chosen machine learning techniques · 501 cites
Concerns845 · 43%
▼ 52%→41% share
▼0.8× share momentum1 median citations89% since 2021mostly empirical
Psychological intervention concerns are escalating — papers grew from 2 to 91, with Mental health newly emerging at 51 papers.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Health care11→278
  • Health informatics31→192
  • Public health14→120
  • Psychological intervention2→91
  • Health administration24→100
Newly emergingMEDLINE 0→51 · Mental health 0→51 · German 0→38
Landmark The future of digital health with federated learning · 2,258 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Germany

Where digital health is researched across Germany

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

Berlin288 · +0.16
Hot · MEDLINEAdvancing · MultimorbidityOpportunity · Intervention (counseling)Concern · Global health
Heidelberg163 · +0.08
Hot · Health informaticsAdvancing · Data integrationOpportunity · Mental healthConcern · Standardization
Munich142 · +0.14
Hot · Health careAdvancing · UsabilityOpportunity · Mental healthConcern · Corporate governance
Jülich/Bonn85 · +0.19
Hot · SoftwareAdvancing · Identification (biology)Opportunity · eHealthConcern · Public health
Dresden61 · +0.05
Hot · Set (abstract data type)Advancing · Wearable computerOpportunity · Health informaticsConcern · Process management
Aachen45 · +0.17
Hot · Remote patient monitoringAdvancing · InteroperabilityOpportunity · InformaticsConcern · Workflow
Karlsruhe33 · +0.06
Hot · InformaticsOpportunity · Business modelConcern · Data governance
PATENT SIGNAL · Germany

Who's filing medical devices patents in Germany

Germany medical devices patent filing is cooling — 97,357 filings from 8,000 assignees (2016–2025), led by Siemens, Sanofi Aventis Deutschland, Aesculap; annual filings 10817→8851.

97,357 filings8,000 assigneespeak 10817/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
  • Siemens18029
  • Sanofi Aventis Deutschland10212
  • Aesculap4911
  • Zeiss CARL Meditec4291
  • Fresenius Medical CARE Deutschla4185
  • Hoffmann LA Roche2978
  • Fresenius Medical CARE DE2692
  • Biotronik SE & KG2562

Common questions

How many HealthTech companies are there in Lower Saxony, Germany?
Radar tracks 59 indexable HealthTech companies headquartered in Lower Saxony, Germany that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by HealthTech companies in Lower Saxony, Germany?
The HealthTech companies in Lower Saxony, Germany on this list have raised a combined $12.5M in disclosed equity funding across 4 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded HealthTech company in Lower Saxony, Germany?
MedKitDoc is the highest-funded HealthTech company in Lower Saxony, Germany, with $10M in disclosed equity funding.
How many HealthTech companies in Lower Saxony, Germany are funded?
4 of the 59 HealthTech companies in Lower Saxony, Germany on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many HealthTech unicorns are there in Lower Saxony, Germany?
None of the HealthTech companies in Lower Saxony, Germany on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Lower Saxony, Germany HealthTech companies?
The most active investors in Lower Saxony, Germany HealthTech companies on this list include OHA, Europa, EIT Health, AB1204, Acton Capital.
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