These are the teams in the 2025 Brighter Program, KTH Innovation's immersion, inspiration and internationalization program, aimed for early stage startup projects or research commercialization projects. In 2025, we will visit London, UK.
Aipek
Every minute counts in stroke. A longer time to treatment means a greater the risk of death or permanent brain damage. Currently, deciding on the right treatment requires conducting a special imaging with injected dye (perfusion CT). This takes extra time, requires a specialized expensive scanner, and it is not suitable for all patients.
Aipek aims to change this. We are building an AI tool that can extract the same information needed for deciding on the right treatment from a standard brain scan, which can be performed at every hospital. Doctors can then make treatment decisions at least 15-30 minutes faster, which translates into a 10% lower risk of death and a 10% higher chance of patients recovering well enough to live independently.
The potential impact is huge, given that each year 12 million people suffer from a stroke worldwide. Our tool could bring advanced stroke care to smaller and rural hospitals, cut down on unnecessary risky transfers, and ensure more patients get the right treatment, right away.
We are now working on preparing this tool for real-world use, including clinical testing, regulatory approval, and commercialization
Everi Labs builds AI and intelligent tools for specialized healthcare clinics, helping them streamline fittings, automate documentation, and match patients with the right medical components based on chart data, insurance codes, and real-time availability.
We’re starting with prosthetic and orthotic clinics, where clinicians spend a half their time on documentation, approvals, and supplier coordination, tasks that take time away from patients and delay access to care. Everi Labs helps reduce this administrative burden, making the fitting and delivery process faster, more accurate, and easier to manage.
Founded by engineers and researchers from Standford, KTH, SSE, and ETH Zürich, and guided by advisors from MIT, Stanford, Ottobock and leading clinics and industry partners. Everi Labs is building the digital infrastructure for a new era of personalized, data-driven healthcare. Our mission is to make advanced care faster, smarter, and more accessible, starting in high-need clinics across the US and EU, and expanding globally.
With Lernico's AI, every teacher gets their own personal assistant. It knows their curriculum, students and lessons, saving them hours each week, while recommending research-backed approaches to teaching. School leaders gain insights into teaching quality and workload to target support and allocate resources.
Lynora is reducing regulatory submission timelines in pharma and biotech. From summarising tables, drafting modules to auto-updating sections. We turn months to minutes!
In today’s global economy, talent should move as fast as innovation — but outdated permit processes are still one of the biggest bottlenecks across all countries in the EU. They’re opaque, manual, and notoriously complex.
Permly is an AI-powered platform that automates every step of the permit process — from eligibility and union approvals to tax authority filings and compliance tracking. What used to take weeks of paperwork and back-and-forth can now be done in under an hour — even by a company with no prior experience.
But Permly isn’t just a tool — we back international talent 100% free! We verify their documents, flag risks early, and make them permit-ready before they even apply. Employers can bring their own candidates or hire from our growing pool of pre-vetted talent — including top graduates from Sweden’s leading universities and skilled professionals across the globe.
We already have a working product, and verified candidate pipelines. Now, we’re ready to scale our model — testing it across Europe and beyond to prove that borders should never be what holds world-class talent back!
Quantum technologies are advancing at an accelerated pace, and many of their most promising applications rely on one essential capability: accurately measuring the polarization state of quantum light at the single-photon level.
Today’s quantum state tomography methods—the standard way to characterize a photonic qubit—are slow, bulky, and require frequent recalibration. They depend on many separate measurement settings and complex optical arrangements, which become increasingly difficult to scale as quantum systems grow in size and complexity.
PolariQ introduces a new approach. Our Fourier-based quantum state tomography technique replaces dozens of discrete measurement settings with a single, continuously varying polarization modulation paired with a reconstruction algorithm based on Fourier analysis. This results in more compact hardware, faster measurements, and a significantly higher degree of automation.
With PolariQ’s quantum polarimeter, researchers and engineers can obtain high-fidelity quantum-state measurements with far less setup time and fewer calibration steps. This allows teams to focus on improving their photon sources and advancing their applications—rather than wrestling with complicated diagnostic tools.
We have built and tested a working prototype, applying it to multiple types of entangled-photon sources. The results match the information obtained with standard tomography methods, demonstrating that our Fourier-based approach delivers equivalent accuracy with greater efficiency. The patenting process for this technology is currently underway.
