Before the innovation from Greifswald, wound healing was above all one thing: a profitable business for established manufacturers.
For many of us, wounds are certainly an annoying, but at least short-term issue. However, for many people, skin injuries are the opposite: time-consuming, painful, and debilitating for life. Especially millions of older people suffer from the high nursing effort triggered by the treatment of chronic wounds.
Wounds alone in hospitals in numbers: 16 million surgical interventions, 800,000 infections with multiresistant bacteria, 3 billion € treatment costs.
And when we then talk about millions of people, we can also say something provocative with certainty: A lively business has developed here. And not always is the actual healing in the foreground.
A startup from Greifswald to change everything.
COLDPLASMATECH GmbH has specialized in the development of medical innovations in the field of plasma medicine, particularly for the treatment of chronic and infected wounds. The company’s products achieve significantly higher wound healing in a shorter time.
The gain in quality of life for patients and the reduction of costs for the healthcare system are significant.
The construction of an eco and supply system is also essential.
With a network of 40 audited treatment and study centers across Germany, the company has secured a strong position in the market. These centers enable the provision of comprehensive and coherent patient care.
In addition, COLDPLASMATECH expands its activities by covering the entire patient journey in cooperation with clinics, thus ensuring a seamless and effective treatment. Chronic wounds pose a major problem both medically and economically. Medically, they are difficult to treat as they often heal slowly and are prone to infections, which further slows down the healing process.
Costs and Quality of Life: Win-Win
Economically, they cause high costs in the healthcare system through long-term treatments, repeated doctor visits and special care products. Infections, especially with multiresistant pathogens, are also problematic. These pathogens are resistant to several types of antibiotics, which makes the treatment of infections significantly more difficult. They can lead to longer hospital stays, higher treatment costs and, in the worst case, to severe complications.
In wound care, this is particularly problematic, as chronic wounds provide an ideal environment for such infections.
The solution from Coldplasmatech works regardless of size and depth and can even close infected and long-standing wounds. The company aims to change wound care from a purely nursing approach to a healing-oriented treatment and is therefore considered disruptive.
Note du fondateur
Entrepreneurially, I find the philosophy „kintsugi“ inspiring. The art of repairing something broken with liquid gold and making it into something special. This works with our patients (only that we work with Coldplasma here), as well as with all problems that get in your way. When you seek solutions that not only eliminate a problem, but also enable a completely new opportunity, you eventually look forward to problems that advance you.
A second thought is to deal with potentials as an entrepreneur in a prospective manner and not to surround oneself with past achievements in a retrospective manner. This is also one of the greatest starting points for (promotional) policy and the ecosystem of young companies in the country.
Milestones, successes and challenges
Every restored person is a success. With over 4700 successful treatments, we can look back on many successful moments in recent years with a twenty-strong team. But that’s just the beginning.
Besides prices like the Public Value Award from Ernst&Young, the German Innovation Award and the Bavarian Innovation Award, it is especially the people and stories behind the patients that drive us. And the success gives us momentum.
Next, more foreign markets and a large round of financing are on the agenda to accelerate the process.
Question 1: What is going particularly well from your point of view in the start-up scene in MV?
The spirit.
Question 2: What do you wish for the future?
More focus of the country on young companies and less on settlement policy.
Question 3: How did you find the founding shipyard?
Chuck.
