After receiving over 40 impressive applications and conducting a rigorous selection process, we are ready to reveal the finalists for the Startup Pitch Event! A huge thank-you to everyone who submitted their pitches — we were blown away by the creativity and innovation showcased.

The selected finalists will now take center stage at the 9th AMR Conference. Mark your calendars for the live competition, happening on February 25, 2025, at 6pm CET, kindly sponsored by Vossius. It’s going to be an exciting event as these startups showcase their ideas in front of the live audience, who will be choosing the winner.

Curious about who made it to the final round? Meet the finalists and learn more about their groundbreaking ventures here!

mycoBiologics
Presented by: Fiona Rudkin
Website: https://www.mycobiologics.com
The innovation in one sentence: mycoBiologics is developing patient-derived human monoclonal antibodies as new, safe and more effective anti-infective drugs.

SoundCell
Presented by: Aleksandre Japaridze
Website: https://www.soundcell.nl/
The innovation in one sentence: SoundCell has developed a rapid phenotypic Antimicrobial susceptibility testing device that delivers AST in one hour.

Inicure AB
Presented by: Peter Olofsson-Sahl
Website: https://www.inicure.com
The innovation in one sentence: Small Molecule FPR1 Agonists: Boosting the Innate Immune System – to treat Bacterial Infections without causing antibiotic resistance.

DimiCare
Presented by: Juan A. Garcia-Sanchez
Website: https://www.dimicare-biotech.com/
The innovation in one sentence: DimiCare introduces a new generation of antibiotics: highly specific to pathogens, less prone to resistance, and effective against biofilm- and spore-producing bacteria.

Precise Health SA
Presented by: José Bila
Website: https://precisehealth.io/
The innovation in one sentence: Precise Health SA leverages AI-powered platforms to match and engineer phages to bacteria in silico to accelerate treatment of time-sensitive and multidrug-resistant infections.

Nostics
Presented by: Isabell Trinh
Website: https://www.nostics.com
The innovation in one sentence: Nostics is developing a point-of-care diagnostic platform based on Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) and artificial intelligence (AI), to detect and identify pathogens at species-level in less than 10 minutes rather than days.

Elemental Therapeutics
Presented by: Ella Casale
Website: https://www.mcdevittlab.org
The innovation in one sentence: We’re developing an oral therapeutic called PBT2, which can restore the efficacy of antibiotics against drug-resistant community-acquired bacterial pneumonia infections.

BioTryp Therapeutics
Presented by: Ash Zarkan
Website: https://biotryp.com/
The innovation in one sentence: BioTryp is developing a novel anti-biofilm orally-administered treatment for bacterial infections (starting with urinary tract infections), as an add-on to antibiotics to increase their effectiveness and reduce treatment failure and recurrence.

nanodecal
Presented by: Roberto de la Rica
Website: https://www.nanodecal.com/
The innovation in one sentence: A rapid test for detecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa in sputum at the point of care.

Osta Therapeutics
Presented by: Éric Samarut
Website: https://www.ostatx.com
The innovation in one sentence: Developing smart drugs to fight antibiotic resistance