ONAkids | Early Screening for Language Development Disorders

Are you seeking a new entrepreneurial adventure in health innovation with the opportunity to build a high-impact medtech spin-off?

ONAkids, project developed at the Brainlab Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group (Universitat de Barcelona) with the support of Fundació Bosch i Gimpera, is looking for an entrepreneurial profile with strong business acumen and founder experience to join the team.

As the Entrepreneur, you will be part of our venture-building journey, leading the business validation phase (3-4 months) hand-in-hand with the scientific team. At the end of this process, if the business and the team are validated, the spin-off will be incorporated and you will become the CEO & Co-Founder of a disruptive medical device company transforming neonatal health.

About ONAkids

Language delay affects 1 in 5 children and is associated with long-term difficulties in reading, attention, socialization and mental health. Early detection significantly improves outcomes but today,



no neonatal screening tool reliably identifies this risk.

ONAkids has developed an EEG-based medical device that records newborns brain responses to speech sounds and, through cloud-based AI models, provides 80% prediction accuracy for language-development riskenabling early intervention within the first months of life.

The team vision is to position ONAkids as a universal newborn screening tool, comparable in simplicity and cost to current mandatory hearing tests.

Main project achivements so far:

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Validated AI algorithms reaching 80% accuracy.

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A protected database of 600 neonatal EEG recordings, with longitudinal follow-up available for approximately 200 cases.
- A dedicated prototype device designed for neonatal clinical use.
- Consistent competitive funding since 2021, securing a total of 400,000 including MICINN, AGAUR, Biocat and CRAASH.

Current Founding Team:

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Prof. Dr. Carles Escera

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Dr. José Valenzuela Ruiz

You

📌 CEO ONAKids (Barcelona)
🏢 MOBILE WORLD CAPITAL
📍 Barcelona