The AI for Good Innovation Factory is a global startup pitching platform that helps AI-driven startups scale solutions to solve global challenges. Through year-round competitions, winning startups gain visibility, funding opportunities, and a chance to compete in the Grand Finale at the AI for Good Global Summit.
During Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, the AI for Good Innovation Factory Catalonia showcased some of the region’s most promising AI-driven startups. Organized by the Government of Catalonia as part of the Catalonia AI Strategy, with support from CIDAI – Centre of Innovation for Data Tech and Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Catalonia Alliance (DCA), the event highlighted the role of AI innovation in addressing global challenges.
This competition’s winner, Predictheon, is bringing a new level of precision to anesthesia and perioperative care through AI-driven predictive monitoring. Emerging from Hospital CLINIC de Barcelona, the company was founded by a team of clinicians, scientists, and engineers dedicated to improving patient outcomes. By combining AI with medical technology, their solution helps anticipate anesthetic-related complications before they occur, giving healthcare professionals crucial time to intervene. With a strong foundation in research and real-world clinical experience, Predictheon’s innovation is paving the way for safer and more efficient surgical procedures.
As the startup prepares for the Innovation Factory Grand Finale, we spoke with Eva Gubern, CCO of Predictheon, about their groundbreaking technology and their journey as an AI startup.
- Can you tell us about your winning solution?
Predictheon, a spin-off of Hospital CLINIC de Barcelona, was founded by clinicians, scientists, and engineers with expertise in patient management, mathematical modeling, signal analysis, and AI.
“Our mission is to develop predictive software for anesthesia and perioperative care. Integrating AI with a medical device, we detect over 80% of anesthetic-related adverse events up to 10 minutes in advance, enabling clinicians to take preventive action. Built on decades of research, our technology enhances patient safety, prevents complications, and optimizes surgical care.”
- Where are you from and what regions do you work in?
Predictheon is based in Barcelona, Spain. Our work is closely related to Hospital CLINIC de Barcelona, because we are deeply involved in the clinical setting. We do not focus on any particular region as our sector is global in nature however, our heart is in Europe.
- How can your solution help to solve global challenges?
Our predictive technology for perioperative care has the potential to transform patient monitoring across critical care, oncology, blood management and many other areas. By preventing complications, we enhance patient safety, optimize healthcare resources, and reduce hospital overcrowding. As aging populations drive higher surgical demand, our AI-driven solution mitigates strain on overburdened health systems while generating valuable data for public health planning, making AI the top investment priority for the health sector.
As our model adapts to physiology, variables such as gender are a non-factor ensuring that all patients, regardless of gender, benefit equally from our innovations. As part of the 2% of VC-funded female-led tech companies, Predictheon champions equal hiring, merit-based advancement, and work-life balance.
Ware creating jobs in deep health tech, AI, and medical research, contributing to economic growth, as well as promoting equitable treatment of employees, continuous professional development and a flexible ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy.
As the lead innovator in predictive AI technologies for medical devices our technology opens a new field in predictive analytics, advances medical technology through AI, contributes to health-focused innovation and improves healthcare infrastructure.
Our AI solutions can be lifesaving where there is a lack of trained medical professionals. Many African countries have fewer than one anesthesiologist per 100,000 people so surgeons often take on the role of anesthesiologists due to this severe shortage of trained anesthesia professionals. This can turn into a deadly additional burden for doctors and non-physician providers. As our solution advances alongside regulations one Anesthesiologist will be better able to look after multiple patients, creating a more efficient use of hospital resources, increasing healthcare accessibility for underserved populations, and reducing healthcare disparities.
Our PDA™ minimizes waste through optimized medical resource use, specifically anesthetics and reduces the number of unnecessary medical interventions, reinforcing our commitment to sustainable healthcare.
We ensure ethical and responsible use of health data as our data is anonymized so patients cannot be identified and is never connected to the cloud ensuring data safety while supporting transparent and equitable healthcare.
Predictheon believes in the power of collaboration. Therefore, we have built strong partnerships over the course of decades with leading research hospitals, universities, scientific associations and medical device and monitoring companies.
- What is your biggest challenge as an AI start-up?
Access to financial resources, regulatory pathways and bureaucracy.
- Why did you join the Innovation Factory Pitching Competition?
“As a company we are constantly seeking ways to disseminate the concept of ‘predictive monitoring’ for health systems. For this reason, Predictheon is a part of the Digital Catalonia Alliance (DCA) which made us aware of the AI for Good event. The Innovation Factory Pitching Competition during the Mobile World Congress looked like a great platform to extend our reach and give us an opportunity to sharpen our pitch,” explained Eva Gubern.
Predictheon now joins the ranks of other outstanding AI startups advancing to the Innovation Factory Grand Finale, where winners from different regional competitions will compete for the top prize at the AI for Good Global Summit. With this achievement, they continue to push the boundaries of AI-driven healthcare innovation, demonstrating the power of technology to improve lives. Stay tuned as we follow their journey and showcase more groundbreaking startups shaping the future with AI.
