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Hylomorph is a medical device
start-up company based in Zürich.

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We work on preventing post-operative complications
in implantable medical devices.

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The company was founded in 2014.
Our official first business year was in 2015.

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It was founded by myself and my co-founders Francesco,
Aldo and Professor Dimos Poulikakos from ETH Zürich.

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As a platform technology, as medical technology company,
you know that you're going to have a long way ahead of you.

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So we were looking for initial investment
to reach our initial milestones.

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The main goal was to reach
first in human clinical use of our technology.

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We had already advanced a lot in the development preclinically.

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Production and preclinical results were taken care of.

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And then we knew we had a little stretch,
a long and capital-intensive stretch in front of us to do.

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And this is when Zürcher Kantonalbank came into the game.

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So thanks for the investment we were able to
achieve the significant milestones of initiating a roll-out of the clinical development.

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But also we had the chance to establish intensive relationship
with the regulatory agencies in particular the FDA and the European Notified Body.

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Because we were trying to obtain certifications in Europa and the US.

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So this investment was very helpful to achieve this,
those components in the development.

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Yeah, I think the interaction towards and after the investment
is very lean and it runs very smooth, helpful and constructive.

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Communication is always linear.

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And we say what we have to say and hear what we have to hear.

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So, this has worked always very well.

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And I also think what has been done very good
in our collaboration with Zürcher Kantonalbank

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is that there is a lot of mutual trust, a lot of support in the idea,
in the team, in the development that we have presented.

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We have always been accompanied
and felt reassured that we have a good partner to work with.