Key Investor Signals
Founders received EXIST Women scholarships in 2024
The two founders received EXIST Women scholarships through Heidelberg’s startup ecosystem in 2024, supporting the venture before its December 2024 founding.
Won Bergstraße’s Best Start-Up award in 2025
Little Life Support won the “Best Start-Up including Business Succession” category in the Bergstraße 2025 competition for its epilepsy training business.
Launched bookable training with assessed completion
The epilepsy course has a defined booking and deposit process, personal online access, a knowledge test and optional on-site practical training for caregiver teams.
Other Positive Signals
- Won Heidelberg’s Startup Lab pitch and placed second in the Flensburg Female StartAperitivo semifinal in 2024.
Team
Lena Weickert
Co-founder
- Pediatric nurse with several years of experience on a neuropediatric ward, directly relevant to childhood seizure care.
- Works as a Care Development Specialist at University Medicine Mannheim, bringing a current perspective on nursing practice.
- Studied interprofessional healthcare, providing a foundation for teaching across clinical and non-clinical care roles.
Maraike Zahn
Co-founder
- Trained as a pediatric nurse, bringing a professional foundation in caring for children and responding to their health needs.
- Spent several years working on a general pediatric ward, building practical experience of everyday childhood illness.
- Has studied human medicine alongside her nursing background, adding medical knowledge to her work in caregiver education.
Product
The epilepsy course combines self-paced theory with optional practice in the learner’s own institution. Caregivers study how to recognise seizures, when rescue medication is needed and how it is given, then complete a test before receiving a course certificate.
Ten sequential learning units
Each participant receives a personal login for ten short-video units that unlock in sequence. Comprehension tasks and an optional workbook reinforce the material, while repeat video access supports self-paced study.
A tested route to course completion
After working through all videos, learners take a knowledge test. A score of at least 70% earns a course-completion certificate, giving the training a defined assessment step rather than attendance alone.
Practice in the familiar care setting
An optional on-site workshop refreshes the online material and adds practical exercises for responding to a seizure. The session usually takes around two hours and provides a second certificate for successful participants.
Market Overview
Schools and childcare settings must manage seizures as well as the learning and social consequences of epilepsy. German teacher research identifies unsafe first-aid beliefs and reluctance to include affected pupils in some activities. This creates a specific training need among non-clinical staff responsible for children.
Digital training can reach distributed caregiver teams, while practical instruction addresses confidence in emergency situations. Free epilepsy resources already exist internationally, so paid providers must offer useful assessment, local support and delivery that institutions value beyond freely available information.
Estimated number of people living with epilepsy worldwide, across all age groups.
Share of German teachers who endorsed putting an object in the mouth during a seizure, an unsafe practice.
Canadian teacher trainees who felt unprepared before an epilepsy video; 57 paired respondents.
German teachers inclined to exclude pupils with epilepsy from activities, varying by activity.
Comparable Outcomes
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Sources
This profile was built from public company materials, ecosystem sources, market references, and professional profiles.