This year’s Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD) 2025 Tech Fair showcased a record-breaking lineup of 36 pioneering startups, all redefining the future of diabetes care through groundbreaking digital health solutions and medical devices. As part of its commitment to nurturing innovation, ATTD 2025 awarded €2,500 grants to a selection of what they term standout early-stage companies.
The winning companies impressed with cutting-edge innovations ranging from non-invasive glucose monitoring and AI-powered diagnostics to digital health companions, emergency hypoglycaemia alerts for drivers and precision exercise coaching tools for people living with diabetes. Highlights included:
- Afon Technology, creators of Glucowear™, a non-invasive, continuous glucose monitor.
- ABCURED, whose blood test LPancreas leverages AI and epigenetics for early diabetes detection.
- ContextML, a Berlin-based platform using AI-powered analytics to transform complex diabetes data into clear, actionable insights.
- Diabetes Driving Pal, a mobile app that detects hypoglycaemia in real-time and provides automated emergency alerts to keep drivers with diabetes safe.
- Enhance-d, empowers people with diabetes to exercise safely and effectively by turning GCM data into actionable insights through a mobile app and clinical dashboard that offer guidance, coaching, and community support.
- GlucoFit, a digital companion for people with type 1 diabetes, offering personalized therapy recommendations based on real-time device data.
- GlucoSet, developing in-bloodstream CGM for critical care settings.
- Petit Cactus, an intuitive daily management app designed to support people with diabetes through simple, personalized guidance.
- Sava, pioneers of painless real-time microsensor monitoring.
- T1D Scout, offering genetic-based early detection of type 1 diabetes.
- Undermyfork, a digital healthcare platform that helps people with diabetes and their care providers make informed lifestyle and treatment decisions by analysing CGM data alongside food, insulin and exercise to reveal personalized Time-in-Range patterns, supported by a mobile app and a web portal for healthcare professionals.
- YHealth, a virtual care platform offering continuous, app-based support and metabolic modeling for real-time, tailored diabetes management.
From virtual care platforms to intuitive health management apps, this year’s award recipients demonstrate how emerging technologies can empower patients, support clinicians and improve outcomes across the spectrum of diabetes care.
Prof. Moshe Phillip and Prof. Tadej Battelino, Co-Chairs of the ATTD Conference, praised the Tech Fair as a “gateway to discovering innovative solutions” and a catalyst for collaboration between healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs and investors.
These awards spotlight not only the promise of these startups but also ATTD’s broader mission to accelerate meaningful change in diabetes management worldwide.
Disclosure: This article was created by the touchENDOCRINOLOGY team utilizing AI as an editorial tool (ChatGPT (GPT-4o) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat.) The content was developed and edited by human editors. No funding was received in the publication of this article.
Editor: Gina Furnival, Senior Editorial Director
Cite: ATTD 2025 Tech Fair Awards Spotlight the Future of Diabetes Innovation. touchENDOCRINOLOGY. 22 April 2025.
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