TMUxBExSCHS Demo Day: Bridge to Beyond

Your technology is ready—but are you struggling to break into clinical validation?Your product is built—but are you still looking for the funding and access to global markets?Meet Taiwan’s top medical innovators — TMUxBExSCHS — and discover what’s next in healthcare innovation!

In medtech innovation, bridging clinical adoption, investor confidence, and real-world market entry is one of the toughest challenges. Every founder needs a strong bridge—connecting clinical trust, capital readiness, and actual deployment in the field.

Jointly hosted by BE Health, Taipei Medical University Biomed Accelerator, and Show Chwan Healthcare System, this is Taiwan’s only MedTech Demo Day focused on clinical validation.

This year’s theme, “Bridge to Beyond,” builds on our mission to accelerate MedTech innovation through clinical collaboration, investor connections, and international expansion. We invite healthcare startups, clinicians, and investors from around the world to join us in advancing the next wave of global medical innovation.

【Event Information】

▸Event Name: TMU x BE x SCHS Demo Day: Bridge to Beyond

▸Event Date: 2025.07.25 Fri.

▸Event Time: 12:30-16:30 (GTM+8)

▸Event Venue: Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1, Rooms 504 (No. 1, Jingmao 2nd Rd., Nangang Dist., Taipei City, Taiwan)

* Hybrid event

【Event Highlights】

✨Asia’s only hospital-integrated, clinically-driven Demo Day:In partnership with medical institutions, startups get real-world testing and clinical feedback to accelerate adoption.

✨16 global startups across 9 countries:Showcasing innovations in AI diagnostics, smart care, and precision medicine, tackling both technical and clinical challenges.

✨Expert panel discussion:Led by MedTech strategist David Uffer, exploring how capital and clinical validation converge to scale medical innovation.

Whether you are an investor, startup, or HealthTech professional, you can't miss this Demo Day!

【Startups】

【Panel Discussion】

❏ Topic: Capital Meets Clinical: How MedTech is Scaling in a Rebounding Market

✧David Uffer｜Managing Director, Trinity Life Sciences

David Uffer brings over 25 years of global experience in MedTech, diagnostics, and digital health. As Managing Director at Trinity Life Sciences, he has led MedTech investment portfolios at General Inception and played key roles in M&A and strategic investments with major healthcare companies including Medtronic, Hologic, and Boston Scientific. He specializes in guiding early-stage teams to define product value, plan clinical pathways, and accelerate commercialization through strategic growth, partnerships, and global market expansion.

✧Nobuhiro Yagi｜Executive Officer, Head of Investment Dept I, Kyoto University Innovation Capital

Nobuhiro Yagi focuses on deep tech and university-originated innovation investments. He currently manages over JPY 34 billion in assets at Kyoto University Innovation Capital, helping startups transition from research to global scale-up. With a background spanning academia, industry, and government, his notable portfolio includes Kyoto Fusioneering (nuclear fusion), aceRNA Technologies (next-gen mRNA), BTB Therapeutics (cancer immunology), and LegalOn Technologies (LegalTech unicorn).

✧ Pei-Jing Kao｜台灣證券交易所 資深經理

The Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) is one of Asia’s leading financial markets, actively attracting global companies to list in Taiwan and driving regional capital growth. Pei-Jing Kao is a senior manager in the Listing Department for Foreign Companies and brings over 15 years of hands-on experience in capital markets. She leads initiatives to support overseas companies listing in Taiwan and advancing cross-border financial integration.

✧ Natalie Torin｜Partner, Woods Capital

Natalie Torin is a seasoned advisor to family offices and cross-border investors. As Partner at Woods Capital, she focuses on international investments in real estate, sustainability, and education. She also serves as a senior advisor at GrayBella Capital, was previously with US Capital Global, and founded Natalie’s Network — a global platform supporting women’s leadership and mentorship in business.

【Organizers】

➣TMU BioMed Accelerator

Taiwan's first international innovative medical university accelerator, with a well-established medical market, clinical resources, biomedical and artificial intelligence talents. TMU focus on three themes of "digital medicine", "artificial intelligence" and "medical equipment", assisting startups in fundraising, linking new communities with international resources, reducing product development risks, establishing medical pathways with clinical trials. TMU leverage the expertise of our physicians, to guide the team's products in clinical trials, so as to accelerate the commercialization of research results and link the international ecosystem.

➣BE Health

BE Health is a "hospital VC" dedicated to investing in innovative medical technology. It is also the largest medtech and healthtech startup accelerator in Taiwan. Since our establishment in 2018, BE Health has mentored over 100 influential and forward-thinking startup teams, helping them raise over $150 million in funding. We focus on innovative medical devices and digital healthcare, utilizing Taiwan as a gateway for global medical startups to enter the Asian market. We work closely with prestigious healthcare systems, research institutions, investors, and biotech experts worldwide to build an international ecosystem in the challenging and complex field of healthcare. We work together to assist startups in their growth journey, aiming to transform them into disruptive enterprises. Our mission is to collaborate with ecosystem partners in nurturing exceptional medical startup teams and driving innovative medical technology to provide patients with better healthcare experience.

➣Show Chwan Healthcare System

Show Chwan is a hand-in-hand “family” healthcare system with a current number of 9 hospitals, 3700 beds, and 6000 employees. For medical and healthcare, President Huang Min-Ho advocates the spirit of “Mayo Clinic” by establishing a “sound rural hospital” system, allowing even the people in the most remote of areas to enjoy the quality and cordial medical care found in cosmopolitan cities. Apart from that, SCMH also has care facility targeting elderly, postnatal care and cancers.

➣IRCAD-Taiwan

IRCAD, which originated in Strasbourg, France in 1994, combines cutting-edge technology with renowned experts and scholars, dedicated to cultivating and training surgeons. Through collaboration with the Show Chwan Healthcare System, Asian Institute of Telesurgery (AITS/IRCAD-Taiwan) was established in 2008, continuing the efforts of the French Minimally Invasive Surgery Center to provide the best educational and training model for Asian surgeons. Currently, it has trained over 21,913 participants from 68 countries worldwide. Following the surgical training model of the French Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, step-by-step surgical demonstrations, live animal and cadaver experiments bring the highest quality of education to Asian surgeons.