MiWEndo Solutions

miwendo.com ↗ ·Barcelona ·Seed

MiWEndo Solutions is a Barcelona-based medtech company developing MiWEndo, a low-cost microwave (non-ionizing) accessory that clips onto the tip of a conventional colonoscope to expand the field of view to 360 degrees, automatically detect polyps with a real-time alert, and differentiate tissue types. It was founded in 2019 as a spin-off of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and ICREA, and addresses the roughly 22% of polyps missed in standard colonoscopies. The company closed a ~€4.1M round led by the European Innovation Council (EIC Accelerator, ~€2.8M) and Banco Sabadell and has entered a pivotal clinical trial.

Founded

2019

Founders

Total funds raised

€1.3M

SectorsMedtech, Medical Devices, Healthtech, Oncology / Cancer Diagnostics, Deeptech Start-up MapHealthtech & Bio › Medical devices & surgical hardware

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Founders

Glòria Fernández-Esparrach

Co-Founder & CMO

Marta Guardiola

Co-Founder & CTO

Global models 5

Iterative Health

United States · iterative.health ↗

Sells real-time AI polyp detection to gastroenterology providers to cut missed polyps in colonoscopy, the core clinical claim MiWEndo also makes.

$180MComparable

EndoChoice

United States · www.endochoice.com ↗

Sold hospitals a wide-field-of-view colonoscopy system (Fuse) that reduces missed polyps, the same view-expansion idea as MiWEndo before Boston Scientific acquired it.

$170MComparable

Motus GI

United States · www.motusgi.com ↗

Sells a disposable add-on that fits over a standard colonoscope (Pure-Vu) to improve what doctors can see, the same accessory-for-existing-scopes model as MiWEndo.

$90MComparable

Smart Medical Systems

Israel · www.smartmedsys.com ↗

Sells a single-use balloon accessory (G-EYE) that attaches to standard colonoscopes to raise the adenoma detection rate, the same clip-on disposable model as MiWEndo.

$30MComparable