Medtech
Mobility and Rehabilitation: 5 Medtech Startups to Watch
DealBio tracks early-stage mobility and rehabilitation medtech startups across Europe. These five are working on movement support, objective rehabilitation assessment, patient monitoring and technologies designed for people whose mobility is limited.
- Physical Therapy
- Medical Devices
- Wearables
- Neurotech
- Chronic Care
Mobility is more than the ability to walk. It affects whether a person can get out of bed, participate in therapy, avoid preventable complications and recover confidence after illness or injury. For care teams, these challenges are also physical and operational: moving patients safely, assessing progress and providing repeated treatment can demand time, specialist equipment and staff support.
A new generation of medtech startups is focusing on the moments where those demands are most visible. Some are making movement assistance or rehabilitation easier to deliver. Others are bringing measurement, monitoring and preventative support closer to the patient. The shared opportunity is technology that can fit into everyday care, rather than requiring a specialist setting for every step.
At a Glance
- Aydonie MedicalFrance2025Assistance with getting up and moving
- MyoLinkSwitzerland2025Wearable muscle and movement assessment
- COMAS MedicalSweden2024Monitoring and preventing pressure injuries
- AirScaleSwitzerland2024Weighing immobile patients in bed
- HaptikaSpain2025Wearable electrical stimulation for rehabilitation
Developing a transfer aid to help people with reduced mobility stand independently
- Country
France- Founded
- 2025
- Sector
- Medtech
- Funding stage
- Seed or earlier
- Founders
Why Aydonie Medical stands out
Aydonie Medical addresses a practical challenge shared by hospitals, long-term care facilities and households: helping people rise and move without putting unnecessary strain on patients or caregivers. The opportunity spans both patient independence and staff safety, where repeated physical assistance is part of everyday care.
The startup has progressed through the DECA-BFC incubation programme. Its combination of an accessible use case and a design intended for existing care environments gives it a clear route to conversations with healthcare providers and care facilities.
What Aydonie Medical is building
Aydonie Medical is developing an assistive device for people who need support when moving from a lying or seated position. The technology is designed to work with existing beds, bringing assistance into environments where replacing furniture or installing large equipment is impractical.
Its intended benefit is greater patient participation in everyday movement alongside reduced physical effort for caregivers.
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MyoLink
Developing wearable muscle sensors for neurological rehabilitation assessments
- Country
Switzerland- Founded
- 2025
- Sector
- Medtech
- Funding stage
- Seed or earlier
- Founders
Why MyoLink stands out
Rehabilitation teams often judge movement through observation because detailed muscle measurements can take too long to set up for routine use. MyoLink is tackling this bottleneck with a wearable format designed to make more quantitative assessments practical in clinical settings.
The project secured early support through Venture Kick and a FONGIT Innovation Fund grant, providing external backing for a technology emerging from neuroengineering research. Its clinical ambition is particularly relevant to gait rehabilitation, where objective information about muscle recruitment may help therapists understand progress over time.
What MyoLink is building
MyoLink combines wireless electromyography, which records electrical activity in muscles, with motion sensors to measure how muscles and limbs work together. Elastic bands integrate the sensors, while software turns the measurements into information that rehabilitation professionals can interpret.
The system is designed for rapid setup and repeated use during gait assessment, making muscle-activity data easier to collect within rehabilitation sessions.
Developing an oxygen-sensing stimulation patch to prevent pressure ulcers
- Country
Sweden- Founded
- 2024
- Sector
- Medtech
- Funding stage
- Seed or earlier
Why COMAS Medical stands out
Pressure injuries are a major complication for people who spend long periods in bed or a wheelchair. They can develop when sustained pressure compromises blood supply to tissue, creating risks that extend beyond mobility loss itself. COMAS Medical focuses on an earlier point in that process: detecting deteriorating tissue oxygenation and responding before damage advances.
The startup has secured Vinnova funding, an exclusive global licence to Worcester Polytechnic Institute oxygen-sensor technology and a joint-development agreement with Masimo for oxygen-sensing components. Its scientific foundation also includes a 1993 precursor study of electrical stimulation in people with spinal cord injury, distinct from validation of the current patch.
What COMAS Medical is building
COMAS Medical is developing a wearable patch that measures oxygenation in tissue at risk of pressure injury. The system is designed to activate gentle electrical stimulation when measurements suggest circulation is declining, pairing ongoing sensing with an automated response.
The intended settings include hospital care and other environments where people face prolonged immobility.
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AirScale
Developing in-bed weight monitoring for immobile hospital patients.
- Country
- Switzerland
- Founded
- 2024
- Sector
- Medtech
- Funding stage
- Seed or earlier
- Founders
Why AirScale stands out
AirScale is addressing a routine clinical measurement that becomes difficult when a patient cannot safely leave the bed. Weight changes can inform treatment decisions and nutritional care, yet traditional weighing can require transfers, several staff members and extra handling of vulnerable patients.
The startup has developed and tested a working prototype with University Hospital Zurich and has established patient-testing collaborations with additional hospital partners. It also received Venture Kick support and CHF 230,000 from the Swiss Paraplegic Foundation, connecting device development with a clearly defined hospital need.
What AirScale is building
AirScale is developing an under-mattress system that measures a patient’s body weight while they remain in bed. Its sensor-based approach is designed to make regular weighing possible without moving patients onto separate scales.
For nursing teams, the system could simplify a repetitive task and make longitudinal weight measurements easier to obtain in care settings that support patients with restricted mobility.
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Haptika
Developing body-worn electrical stimulation to support movement rehabilitation.
- Country
Spain- Founded
- 2025
- Sector
- Medtech
- Funding stage
- Seed or earlier
Why Haptika stands out
Haptika brings product-engineering experience to rehabilitation technology that needs to be worn and used repeatedly. Its earlier sensory-feedback prototype was tested with users, and the team won both Spain’s national James Dyson Award and a Santander X university award in 2025.
CEO and co-founder Jordi Puig Prujà previously developed rehabilitation devices at ABLE Human Motion and contributed to a prosthetic-arm project for the CYBATHLON assistive-technology competition. That hands-on experience is relevant to translating wearable hardware into usable devices.
What Haptika is building
Haptika is developing a non-invasive wearable system that uses functional electrical stimulation to help activate muscles during rehabilitation exercises. The stimulation is designed to be timed with movement, with gait recovery among its intended applications.
A companion app provides session controls, adjustable intensity, patient profiles and progress history, supporting repeated practice beyond a single supervised treatment session.
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Investment perspective
The clearest opportunity across mobility and rehabilitation medtech is to make important parts of care easier to deliver repeatedly. Patient handling, movement assessment and routine monitoring are not occasional specialist procedures. They are everyday activities, and relatively small improvements in time, comfort or consistency can matter across hundreds of care encounters.
This creates a meaningful distinction between technology that demonstrates an interesting capability and technology that fits the conditions in which care actually happens. Devices designed for ordinary beds, quick sensor placement or wearable use can potentially reach settings where larger equipment and specialist workflows are difficult to sustain. The strength of that opportunity will depend on whether the product saves time or improves useful information without adding complexity for care teams.
A second pattern is the movement from intermittent observation toward more continuous and responsive support. Muscle monitoring, physiological sensing and timed stimulation offer different ways to make rehabilitation and prevention more informed by what is happening to the patient during daily care. The value of these tools will emerge through reliable performance and demonstrable benefits for patients and clinical teams.
Methodology
DealBio selected these five early-stage medtech startups for their relevance to mobility, rehabilitation and the care needs associated with limited movement. The selection covers assistive movement, neuromuscular assessment, pressure-injury prevention, in-bed monitoring and wearable stimulation to show the range of practical problems being addressed.
DealBio builds its Startup Briefs using publicly available startup materials, ecosystem sources, market references and professional profiles.