VIVA TECHNOLOGY PARIS : Institut Mérieux’s Award

L’Institut Mérieux a participé à la manifestation internationale VIVA TECHNOLOGY organisée du 30 juin au 2 juillet 2016 à Paris, Porte de Versailles.
A cette occasion, le challenge d’innovation: « One Health in action with connected diagnostics and big data » a été lancé en direction des startups.

De nombreuses jeunes pousses ont relevé le défi et le gagnant est la société i-Nside basée à Strasbourg. Elle se verra accorder :
– 50 000€ d’emprunt convertible par Mérieux Développement, la société d’investissement de l’Institut
– 30 000€ de coaching par Mérieux Université (« Comment transformer l’innovation en modèle économique profitable et pérenne? »)
– Un accès privilégié au réseau des sociétés de l’Institut Mérieux

The start-up i-Nside based in Strasbourg is using visual recognition solutions to build an accurate medical diagnosis platform. Through its patent portfolio, applied artificial intelligence systems, and sustainable mobile technology, i-Nside is bringing reliable and cost-efficient medical devices to physicians and patients all over the world including traditionally underserved markets like some parts of Africa, Asia, and South America.
First application is acute otitis: with a small device, one can attach to any smartphone, i-Nside is taking professional-grade medical images of the human ear and use them to diagnose problems.

i-Nside is achieving 99% accuracy in identifying ear problems with this visual diagnostic tool.
i-Nside have already partnered with the worldwide leader of endoscopic tools Karl Storz for distribution and is working with Clarifai  on the artificial intelligence systems.
Following a successful validation of the proof of concept using partnerships with external providers, the award money will be leveraged by internalizing the next development of the artificial intelligence algorithm and by launching the commercialization.