Health start-up Tediro receives seven-figure sum

The Leipzig-based company is dedicated to robotics in everyday clinical practice and has already developed its first assistant. Tediro has now received a seven-figure sum in its seed financing round.

Tediro's first product is a robot that uses AI to analyze gait after hip or knee surgery, motivates patients to train and passes on their progress to therapists and doctors. The Leipzig-based company has now raised a seven-figure sum in its seed financing round. The company intends to use this to grow and expand its range of autonomous robotic assistants.

The round is led by Beteiligungsmanagement Thüringen (bm|t) and also includes Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Thüringen (MBG) and Olaf Jedersberger, the former Managing Director of Helios Kliniken. "The capital raised will enable us to continue on our growth path. In line with medical needs, we will continuously expand the robotics platform with new additional applications, also in cooperation with external providers," explains Tediro co-founder Christian Sternitzke.

The Leipzig-based start-up works closely with MatraLabs, a company based at Ilmenau University of Technology that specializes in robotics and autonomous navigation. Tediro's first robotic assistant for hip and knee operations was developed over several years of studies at the German Center for Orthopaedics in Eisenberg.

For co-founder Anke Mayfarth, the use of the technology has advantages for all sides in everyday clinical practice: "By relieving the therapists of routine and documentation tasks, their motivation increases and they can focus more on the individual treatment of patients," explains Mayfarth. This would help clinics to "alleviate the shortage of specialists" and ensure the quality of treatment. And this is "an increasingly important factor for patients when choosing a hospital".