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Jordi Carrera and Rafel Bru, company co-founders (Photo: DeepUll).
 13.12.2022

EUR 20 million EIB loan to DeepUll accelerates early detection and diagnosis of Sepsis

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing  DeepUll, a medical diagnostics company developing culture-free, affordable diagnostic solutions for the early identification of sepsis and other acute infections, with an EUR 20 million loan to finance its Research Development and Investigation (R&D&I) activities for its highly innovative easy-to-use diagnostics platform to accelerate and improve the diagnostic accuracy of these diseases.

The EIB loan will enable DeepUll to increase its RDI activity to further develop its automated diagnostics device, which has the potential to enable faster and more accurate early sepsis diagnosis than the present standard of care, in turn improving treatment efficacy and patient outcomes.

The EIB venture loan is financed under the Infectious Diseases Finance Facility set up as part of Horizon 2020, the European Union’s research and innovation programme for 2014-2020. The combination of the EIB’s expertise and the European Commission’s support with the InnovFin guarantee has made it possible to set up an innovative financing package tailor-made to the needs of DeepUll.

Ricardo Mourinho Félix, European Investment Bank Vice-President, said: “Finding cures to global diseases can only be achieved through greater investment in innovation. The signature with DeepUll today bears witness to the impact that European finance can bring to companies developing new technology in the medical diagnostics field. Together we can address infectious diseases, whilst mitigating their impact on populations and economic growth at a global scale.”

Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, says “The EU research and innovation programme supports innovations, which bring about technologies to help improve our lives. The Commission is proud to participate in this deal and support DeepUll’s efforts to develop an innovative testing platform for sepsis, automatise the process and improve the diagnostics services for patients”.

Jordi Carrera, Chief Executive Officer at DeepUll, said: “This funding will support us in accelerating the development of our sepsis identification platform. We believe our product has tremendous potential in rapidly improving patient outcomes and streamlining hospital processes in order to identify at-risk patients as early as possible and provide support for treatment decisions”.

Sepsis diagnostics

DeepUll’s sepsis product is designed to detect more than 250 different pathogens and about 15 resistance genes in one hour, starting from 10mL of whole blood. The product will generate phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility results in about eight hours, without requiring a positive blood culture. The product will be a desktop system with end-to-end automation with the aim to be placed in any clinical setting (laboratory, ER, ICU). The product will also utilise artificial intelligence to offer seamless medical decision support across all phases of patient management, from early disease recognition, to precise diagnostics, up to therapy guidance.