Dive Medical receives the distinction for 'Best project' at the Ebro Innovation Day

Under the motto "Innovation and Technology: transferring its potential to the business world", the meeting was held last Thursday, June 22 Ebro Innovation Day. A day where innovative companies and startups from Aragón, Logroño, Navarra and Soria come together, with the aim of energizing the innovative ecosystem of the Ebro valley and learning about the latest trends and opportunities in the sector.

A pioneering event that brought together more than 250 people and featured top-level speakers and companies. During the day, presentations, workshops, stands and networking were held, as well as a pitch contest. Precisely, in this last part, the startup projects from Zaragoza, Barcelona or Madrid were presented to investors (national and international). Among them, Dive Medical, a startup promoted by researchers from the IIS Aragón and the Aragón Engineering Research Institute of the University of Zaragoza, which won the 'Best Project' award. Important distinction since in the jury and the public There were more than 20 investors with investment capacity of more than 500 million euros.

The Zaragoza startup that detects if your baby does not see well

DIVE arose from the difficulties ophthalmologists and pediatricians experience daily when examining the visual function of preverbal and nonverbal patients. Pediatric ophthalmologists and optometrists from the Miguel Servet Hospital, through the IIS Aragón, and engineers from the University of Zaragoza are working together to develop a device that enables rapid and accurate screening of visual function in young children. After five years of research, it was founded DIVE-Medical SL. to bring the benefits of this device to all ophthalmologists, pediatricians and optometrists.

Every day 11.000 children are born in the world with vision problems. However, their diagnosis is made, hopefully, from the age of three, which means that the consequences of their pathologies can worsen over time. To alleviate the defenselessness of the weakest, a startup Zaragoza, Dive Medical, has designed a prototype that takes advantage of the power of artificial intelligence (AI) for early diagnosis. And his invention not only arouses interest in the medical community, but has also caught the attention of Richard Yu himself, CEO of the technology giant Huawei, who wants to support its development.