Digital Health
8 Digital Health Startups Supporting Everyday Care
DealBio tracks early-stage digital health startups across Europe and North America. These eight address everyday health needs through digital activities, practical guidance, symptom information and support for patients and caregivers.
- Mental Health
- Patient Engagement
- Chronic Care
- AI Coaching
- Physical Therapy
Much of the work of managing a health condition happens outside appointments. People interpret symptoms, build routines, cope with stress and make day-to-day decisions, often with limited professional support.
Digital products are bringing practical assistance closer to the situations in which people need it: emotional self-reflection, rehabilitation exercises, caregiving decisions and everyday symptom management. The eight startups take distinct approaches, from immersive experiences and personalised companions to structured assessment and condition-specific guidance.
At a Glance
- Acute XRSpain2024VR biofeedback games for emotional regulation
- Ailuna (GreatDay)Austria2025Daily check-ins and social connection
- Eiqus TechFrance2025Immersive mental-health screening and treatment software
- SILAPSFrance2026Guided emotional-wellbeing exercises
- EmycareFrance2024Psychological and behavioural obesity assessment
- Alzheimer.AppNetherlands2025Personalised advice for dementia caregivers
- Anea HealthSweden2026Home stroke-rehabilitation support
- DyjestFrance2024Meal and digestive-symptom tracking
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Acute XR
Building VR games that use heartbeat feedback to teach emotional regulation
- Country
Spain- Founded
- 2024
- Sector
- Digital health
- Funding stage
- Seed or earlier
Why Acute XR stands out
Acute XR makes emotional-regulation exercises interactive through virtual reality and heartbeat-driven feedback. Its work combines an immersive game format with a physiological signal, creating a distinctive way to practise awareness of physical and emotional responses.
What Acute XR is building
Acute XR is building virtual reality (VR) games, computer-generated environments experienced through a headset, that use biofeedback, real-time information about physiological responses, to guide emotional-regulation activities. Heartbeat feedback becomes part of the experience rather than a separate measurement.
Providing an AI companion for daily check-ins, reminders and social connection
- Country
- Austria
- Founded
- 2025
- Sector
- Consumer health
- Funding stage
- Seed or earlier
- Founders
Why Ailuna (GreatDay) stands out
Co-founder Clemens Kirner previously founded innovation.rocks (now known as svarmony), which was sold to private equity in 2017, and INS Insider Navigation Systems. GreatDay has surpassed 100 Android downloads, indicating an initial audience for its everyday-support companion.
What Ailuna (GreatDay) is building
GreatDay combines conversations, daily check-ins, routines, reminders and connections with like-minded people. The web and mobile companion focuses on daily wellbeing and social connection, including the needs of older adults.
Developing immersive software for mental-health screening and treatment
- Country
France- Founded
- 2025
- Sector
- Digital health
- Funding stage
- Seed or earlier
- Founders
Why Eiqus Tech stands out
Eiqus Tech applies immersive technology to mental-health screening and treatment applications and has received incubator support. This combination brings a distinctive software format into a defined area of mental-health care.
What Eiqus Tech is building
Eiqus Tech develops immersive software designed for mental-health screening and treatment settings.
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SILAPS
Offering an AI companion and guided exercises for emotional well-being
- Country
- France
- Founded
- 2026
- Sector
- Consumer health
- Funding stage
- Seed or earlier
- Founders
Why SILAPS stands out
Founder Nada Benzakour previously founded Nadaya Wellness and Le Maitre Chocolatier. SILAPS developed a functional app, tested it in real-life conditions and presented the product at VivaTech 2026.
What SILAPS is building
SILAPS combines AI conversations, emotional mapping and guided exercises intended to help users identify patterns and prepare difficult conversations. It also describes employee support and tools for therapists to follow progress between sessions.
05
Emycare
Measuring psychological and behavioural factors in obesity
- Country
- France
- Founded
- 2024
- Sector
- Digital health
- Funding stage
- Seed or earlier
- Founders
Why Emycare stands out
The startup joined EDHEC Entrepreneurs and Prevent2Care. The team also reported around 100 users of its earlier MyCharly solution in June 2024, showing experience deploying a patient-facing obesity-support product.
What Emycare is building
EmyDiag is a 26-item questionnaire measuring six psychological and behavioural dimensions of obesity. It gives research teams structured information about study participants and provides health organisations with aggregate scores that may clarify population needs.
Giving caregivers personalised AI advice for everyday dementia care
- Country
Netherlands- Founded
- 2025
- Sector
- Digital health
- Funding stage
- Seed or earlier
- Founders
Why Alzheimer.App stands out
The startup collaborates with UMCG, Hanze and Maastricht University on the IDA-DEM initiative, involving home dementia monitoring and an advisory app. Peter Spijkers previously founded a residential and day-care provider for people with dementia.
What Alzheimer.App is building
The app gives relatives and care professionals personalised advice about difficult situations, informed by a person's life story and circumstances. By combining the person's history with the caregiver's immediate question, the product focuses on the practical decisions families and care professionals face at home.
Developing home stroke rehabilitation tools for patients and caregivers
- Country
Sweden- Founded
- 2026
- Sector
- Digital health
- Funding stage
- Seed or earlier
- Founders
Why Anea Health stands out
The product addresses the work stroke survivors and relatives face between rehabilitation visits. Founder Rebekka Quiroz Wiberg won an iF Design Award for the stroke-rehabilitation concept that preceded Anea Health.
What Anea Health is building
Anea Health is developing an app with structured home rehabilitation exercises and an AI assistant. The startup also envisages links to clinical records as the product develops. The product explicitly includes family caregivers as users.
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Dyjest
Tracking meals and digestive symptoms to explore possible triggers
- Country
- France
- Founded
- 2024
- Sector
- Digital health
- Funding stage
- Seed or earlier
- Founders
- Mehdi Douch
- Benjamin Cohen
Why Dyjest stands out
A tracking product can help people identify patterns across daily meals and digestive symptoms. Its approach focuses on turning ordinary food and symptom records into a more organised picture of a person's digestive experience.
What Dyjest is building
Dyjest uses food and symptom logging to support exploration of possible digestive triggers. The combination of meal and symptom histories gives users a repeatable method for noticing possible associations and discussing them with professionals.