Medicsen

medicsen.com ↗ ·Madrid ·Seed

Medicsen is a Madrid-based healthtech/medtech company developing the Smartpatch, a needle-free wearable drug delivery device that uses sonophoresis (ultrasound waves) to temporarily increase skin permeability and painlessly deliver large molecules such as insulin and heparin through the skin. Founded in 2015 by doctors Eduardo W. Jorgensen and Patricia Cremades with telecom engineers César de Mercado and José Carlos Montesinos, it started with a glucose-prediction app and AI-driven insulin delivery before focusing on the transdermal patch. Funding has been largely non-dilutive: around €5M secured in 2024 through the EU EIC Accelerator, Innovate UK Smart Grants and the Spanish Ministry of Science/CDTI, with an EIC equity component expected; no traditional VC fund is an equity investor.

Founded
2015
Founders
4
Total funds raised
€850K
Rounds
2
Investors
4
Last round
Oct 2020
SectorsHealthtech, Medical Devices, Drug Delivery, Diabetes Care, Deeptech, Wearables Start-up MapHealthtech & Bio › Medical devices & surgical hardware

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Founders

César de Mercado
COO & Co-Founder
Eduardo W. Jørgensen de Vizcarrondo
CEO & Co-Founder
Also at Kanara →
José Carlos Montesinos Pérez
CTO & Co-Founder
Patricia Cremades
Medical Co-Founder

Global models 4

Rani Therapeutics
Builds a device platform that delivers large molecules like insulin without needle injections (an oral robotic pill), chasing the same needle-free biologics goal as Medicsen.
~$140MComparable
Vaxxas
Australia · www.vaxxas.com ↗
Builds a skin patch that painlessly delivers vaccines and biologics through the skin and plans to license and partner it with pharma companies, as Medicsen does.
~$100MComparable
Portal Instruments
Builds a needle-free device that delivers biologics through the skin and partners with pharma companies, which matches Medicsen's device-plus-pharma-partner model.
~$50MComparable
Zosano Pharma
United States
Was VC-backed before its IPO while building a transdermal skin patch to deliver drugs without injections, aiming it at pharma-style drug products.
~$40MComparable

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Investors 4

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Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación
www.cdti.es
Public lender Spain
Brisbane Economic Development Agency
Investor Australia
South Summit
Investor Spain
SpinLab – The HHL Accelerator
Investor Germany

Funding rounds 2

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