MEDICAL DEVICE for Urine Output MONITORING for prediction of Acute Kidney Injury

The problem:

  • Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) hospitalized patients in Italy: 490K / year
  • Italian healthcare expenditures due to late diagnosis of AKI in hospitals: € 3 B / year


Current solution to monitor kidney’s failure: manual reading of the urine level contained in the urine bag

Problems of current solution:

  • Data inaccuracy
  • Lack of analysis of collected data


Our Solution: A medical device on hospitals beds for

  • Accurate and continuous monitoring of Urine Output
  • Early diagnosis of Acute Kidney Injury through machine learning algorithms
  • Italian maximum potential sales in ICU* (target market): € 36.5 M / year
  • Potential ICU Return on Investment: 10x


“A monitoring and prediction system of diuresis for the calculation of kidney failure risk, and the method thereof” Italian Patent N. IT102019000001365 of 30th January 2019, inventors: A. Ancona, V. Cauda, E. Manti, PCT extension in progress

Prizes and acceleration programs:

  • January 2020: Winner of the Proof of Concept grant by Venture Factory (Vertis sgr)
  • May 2020: Selected for the 3 months Bioupper 4 Acceleration Program (10 projects selected over 120 partecipants)
  • May 2020: Selected by Intesa San Paolo Innovation Center to present for the StartUp Initiative / BioInItaly Investment Forum
  • July 2020: Selected for the 2 stage of the Jumpstarter program organized by EIT HEALTH
  • July 2020: Selected for the StartUP Bootcamp 2020 by Meet in Italy for Life Sciences
  • October 2020: Winner of Start CUP Piemonte Valle d’Aosta
  • October 2020: Winner of Digithon 2020 digital marathon
  • November 2020: Winner of PNI Life Science National Innovation Prize
  • May 2021: Winner of Arkathon Program, Startup Program in Switzerland
  • June 2021: Startup Incorporation and Incubation at I3P


This project has received funding from the VV3TT 2018 POC Program, financed by European Investment Fund (EIF) and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) within the ITAtech platform and from the LiFTT-LINKS POC INSTRUMENT 2020, LiFTT-LINKS POC INSTRUMENT 2021.