The Lyon-based start-up Stane, formerly known as O Santé, announced this Tuesday, September 19, a fundraising of 10 million euros. She brought together the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Sovereign Fund and the Mutuelles Impact fund managed by Siparex.
New generation healthcare structures
Founded in 2019, Stane describes itself as “a company with a mission committed to urban health“by its founders, Mehdi Djelamani and Tiphanie Perr, trained osteopaths.”When creating a health residency, we realized the difficulty that health professionals have in creating care structures and adopting innovations.“, tells CEO Mehdi Djelamani that The digital factory. From there came the idea of offering support to project leaders in “creating innovative structures to alter the urban health system“making it available to you”all support functions: legal, administrative, real estate, technology, HR, communication and public health”.
Once this brick was laid, Stane decided to offer his daily services to healthcare professionals and help them develop innovative solutions. The “Stane Service” and the “Stane Laboratory” were born. “We thus became the first integrated health network dedicated to improving the functioning of community medicine.“, summarizes Mehdi Djelamani.
Field tests
In practice, Stane will, for example, offer startups the opportunity to integrate into a healthcare structure to be able to work in “real life medical facts“In this way it supported Apneal, which is developing a sleep apnea detection device through a smartphone.”The product is tested on patients and with general practitioners and pulmonologists.“explains the president.
As far as the business model goes, Stane is paid the “subsidies granted by the Regional Health Agency (ARS), Social Security and local authorities“for the creation of structures. As for the service part, it is paid in “the savings generated“and for the development of innovations, in”clinical research packages“.
450 structures supported until 2027
Since its creation, Stane has supported 115 healthcare structures.”type of health home“, indicates the CEO. 70% of them are located in medical deserts. By 2027, their goal is to support 450. To surpass this milestone, they will employ 100 people before the end of the year.
For the coming months, the company pursues two objectives. The first is to start an application.”a kind of portal” in which all the technologies developed with Stane Lab will be made available to healthcare professionals. The second is the establishment of a healthcare data warehouse through which users will be able to develop innovations from a large volume of data. The identity of the host of the data has not yet been decided, the CEO says.
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