Trajectory & Recognition
Since 2019, Legit.Health has built a track record of regulatory certifications, peer-reviewed publications, awards, customer logos, and media coverage. This page summarises the historical trajectory through Q4 2024 (seed close) plus a snapshot of the current state. For the post-seed period (Oct 2024 → today), see Bridge Round → Value Creation Since Seed.
Years operating
7
Since 2019
Capital raised
€6.6M
64% non-dilutive
Active markets
7
ES · PT · PL · BR · UK · DE · US
Founder team
5
Co-founders · +5 yr together
Foundation era (2019-2023)
The first four years built the foundational stack: product, first regulatory certification, first peer-reviewed publications, first competitive grants, and early awards.
2020 · Regulatory
🇪🇺 EU CE marking (MDD Class I)
First medical device certification. Foundation for current MDR Class IIa transition.
2022 · Scientific
🔬 ASCORAD paper
Automatic SCOring of Atopic Dermatitis. JID Innovations.
2023 · Scientific
🔬 DIQA + AIHS4 papers
DIQA in JAAD. AIHS4 in Skin Research & Technology.
2023 · Grant
🇪🇺 CDTI Seal of Excellence
€2.5M from EU Horizon Europe programme. Top-decile evaluation score.
2023 · Award
🥇 South Summit Winners
Health and Best Team categories, among 3,500+ startups.
2023 · Award
🌍 Santander X Global Winners
The AI Revolution scale-up challenge. Among 1000+ startups from 11 countries. €30K prize, awarded at Silicon Valley HQ.
2023 · Pharma Award
💊 Boehringer Ingelheim Call for Startups
Best technology for early identification of GPP (Generalised Pustular Psoriasis). Boston Immersion & Mentorship Program. Foundation for ongoing Boehringer relationship.
2023 · Award
🇪🇺 eHealth Award (Castres-Mazamet)
17th edition. Healthcare Professionals & Caregivers category.
2023 · Award
🇪🇺 100startups · Best eHealth in Europe
Brand awareness prize recognising the best eHealth startup in Europe.
2022 · Award
🏅 Expansión Startup 2022
Recognised as one of Spain's most innovative startups. Jury included Cebek, Deusto Emprende, CaixaBank, Cellnex, Lanzadera.
2021 · Award
🏆 Quality Innovation Award
Excellence Finland · innovation in healthcare sector.
2021 · Award
🩺 European Patient Digital Health Awards
Category: New ways to interact with healthcare teams and providers.
2021 · Award
📚 AEDV Scientific Publication Contest
Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. Automatic psoriasis area and severity calculation paper.
Multiple · Finalist
🎯 15+ additional recognitions
EU Startup Summit · 4YFN MWC · Cisco Global Problem Solver · Eco Disruptive (Bupa) · Emprende XXI (2nd place) · ElReferente Top 100 Spain · CEBEK Emprende · DigitalTek · Distrito eHealth · Ship2B Impact · others
Seed era (2024)
The seed year consolidated the foundation: UK market access, top-tier individual recognition, fourth peer-reviewed paper, and the €2.03M seed round closure.
Q4 2024 · Funding
💰 €2.03M Seed Round
Closed at €7.5M pre-money. Lead investor: Mutua Ventures. Strategic investors from healthcare and telecom.
2024 · Recognition
🏆 Forbes 30 Under 30 (Spain)
Andy Aguilar selected as Top 10 Most Visionary Women.
2024 · Regulatory
🇬🇧 UKCA Class IIa granted
UK market access secured post-Brexit.
2024 · Scientific
🔬 AUAS paper
Automatic Urticaria Activity Score. JID Innovations.
Current state at a glance
Aggregate metrics representing where Legit.Health stands today, across all dimensions of the trajectory.
Regulatory portfolio
4
EU CE · UKCA · ANVISA · ENS Alto. +EU MDR & FDA pre-sub in progress.
Peer-reviewed papers
7
JAAD · JID Innovations · JMIR Derm · Skin Research & Technology · JEADV · Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngology
Tier-1 customer logos
9+
J&J · Boehringer · Lilly · Novartis · Almirall · Pierre Fabre · ICON · BUPA · Sanitas
Capital raised
€6.6M
€3.44M grants · €2.38M equity · €795K loans. 64% non-dilutive.
Algorithms validated
300+
Pathologies covered. Dataset: 1M+ annotated images, 232 distinct conditions.
Countries validated
18
Clinical studies executed in 18 countries.
Team (FTE)
28
26 employees + 2 co-founders (non-payroll). 5 co-founders, +5 yr without rotation.
Awards won
15
Plus 15+ additional finalist/top-ranking recognitions across innovation, health, and AI competitions.
Where the trajectory is now
The trajectory in one sentence
From a 2019 product idea to a 4-jurisdiction certified medical device with 8 peer-reviewed publications, €3.44M in grants captured, 9 tier-1 customer logos including J&J + Boehringer + BUPA + ICON, and a senior team of 28 — all on €2M of equity raised since inception.
For the detailed momentum since seed close (ANVISA, ENS Alto, ICON, Lux Med, SESPA, AGPPGA, Fast Track, ARR doubling, senior team renewal, etc.), see Value Creation Since Seed.
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| Date ↓ | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | Prize | Legit.Health has been selected as the winner of the Lideremos award in the Health category. |
| November 2024 | Acknowledgement | Legit.Health has been recognized as one of the most impactful innovation companies in Spain by the Top101 Spain Up Nation, organized by ENISA, Foro ADR, and Andalucía Emprende. |
| October 2024 | Scientific publication | Utility and reliability of a deep learning algorithm as a decision-support tool for diagnosing non-melanoma skin malignancies of the head and neck. |
| October 2024 | Funding | Closing of a €2,033,381.97 seed investment round with a pre-money valuation of €7,500,000. |
| October 2024 | Programme | Legit.Health has been selected for Desafía Nórdicos by ICEX, a program that supports the growth of Spanish companies in Denmark and Sweden. |
| October 2024 | Programme | Legit.Health has been selected for the MultiCorporate Matchmaking Event on Health and MedTech, where it will participate in one-on-one meetings with health tech companies. |
| September 2024 | Acknowledgement | Alfonso and Andy have been selected by Forbes Spain for the ‘30 Under 30’ list of young leaders under 30, recognizing individuals across industries for their ambition, strategic vision, and passion. Andy receives a special mention as one of Forbes’ Ten Most Visionary Women. |
| April 2024 | Programme | Legit.Health was selected by ICEX to participate in the MDIR Brazil 2024 trade mission. |
| December 2023 | Funding | Grant from Ekintzaile + by the Basque Goverment for the amount of €87,500 to incorporate 2 high-level management profiles in the area of strategy and business development. |
| November 2023 | Programme | Legit.Health is selected for Desafia Singapore Immersion Programme by ICEX to accelerate the growth of the Spanish companies in Asia, leveraging on Singapore’s world class startup and healthcare ecosystems, and using Singapore as a landing pad to reach the South East Asian markets. |
| November 2023 | Prize | Winners of Call for Startups de Boehringer Ingelheim & Richi Childhood Cancer Foundation as the best technology for early identification of PPG (Generalised Pustular Psoriasis) to participate in the prestigious Boston Immersion & Mentorship Program to Accelerate Go-to-Market for GPP Digital Health Startups |
| October 2023 | Funding | Grant from Zabaldu 2023 by the Basque Goverment for the amount of €23,760.00 to promote actions that support Basque companies that are not very internationalized to help them to increase their presence abroad its presence abroad. |
| July 2023 | Funding | Grant from the Internationalization Program by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia for the amount of €37,360.00 in order to expand to the UK. |
| July 2023 | Prize | Winners of eHealth Award 2023 in the 17th edition organized by Castres-Mazamet Technopole in the #HealthcareProfessionalsAndCaregivers category. The eHealth Awards encourage development of the latest digital innovations in health for the benefit of our society. |
| June 2023 | Scientific publication | Our work "Automatic International Hidradenitis Suppurativa Severity Score System (AIHS4): A novel tool to assess the severity of hidradenitis suppurativa using artificial intelligence" is published in the journal "Skin Research & Technology" |
| June 2023 | Scientific publication | Our work "Automatic Urticaria Activity Score (AUAS): deep learning-based automatic hive counting for urticaria severity assessment" is accepted for publication in JID Innovations |
| June 2023 | Prize | Winners of South Summit 2023 in the categories of Health and best team. This prestigious recognition showcases how our company is helping doctors around the world to improve patient care through our AI technology applied to dermatology. This recognition also drives our team to continue working hard to expand our impact, helping more physicians deliver quality care to their patients. Winning this award gave us visibilty and the opportunity to connect with investors. |
| June 2023 | Prize | Winners of eHealth Award 2023 in the 17th edition in the Healthcare Professionals and Caregivers category. This achievement showcases how our company is aiding healthcare proffesionals worldwide in enhancing patient care through the application of our AI technology in dermatology. |
| June 2023 | Acknowledgement | Finalist of the Emprende XXI Awards, In the Regional Prize category in the Basque Country. |
| June 2023 | Acknowledgement | Second place of the Emprende XXI Awards, In the SILVERXXI challenge. This award recognizes our company as one that ensures active aging and a long, healthy life to through technology. |
| May 2023 | Funding | Grant 2.5M from CDTI by Seal of Excellence program. The Seal of Excellence is awarded to project proposals submitted under a Horizon Europe call for proposals and ranked above a predefined quality thresholds but were not funded by Horizon Europe due to budgetary constraints. With this label the Commission recognise the value of project proposals and encourage other funding organisations to take advantage of the high-quality |
| May 2023 | Prize | Winners of the Santander X Global Challenge - The AI Revolution. Amongst a pool of over 1000 startups from 11 countries, we have been selected as the champions in the scale-up category. This remarkable achievement showcases our exceptional prowess in the field of AI technology. Notably, our victory was endorsed by esteemed personalities such as the President of Microsoft, Santander Bank, and Oxentia. As winners, we had the honor of receiving the prize at the headquarters of Silicon Valley and were awarded a substantial amount of 30,000€. This accolade further solidifies our position as leaders in the AI industry and propels us towards even greater success and innovation. |
| May 2023 | Funding | Grant from Plan 2i to promote innovation and advanced investment 2023 by Provincial Council of Bizkaia and Feder for the amount of 6,851.23€ |
| April 2023 | Acknowledgement | Selected to participate in the 50th National Dermatology Congress of the AEDV. We were honored to be selected amongst esteemed industry leaders to present two groundbreaking clinical validations. Our first presentation showcased the remarkable results of our state-of-the-art Deep Learning Algorithm, designed to support the diagnosis of pigmented lesions. Additionally, we shared our groundbreaking innovation—a sophisticated automatic scaling system based on a deep learning algorithm, specifically tailored for evaluating the severity of acne. Our participation in this prestigious congress further solidified our position as industry trailblazers, dedicated to pushing the boundaries of medical technology and revolutionizing patient care. |
| March 2023 | Prize | Winners of 100startups this is a brand awareness prize that recognises as the best ehealth startup in Europe |
| March 2023 | Acknowledgement | Selected to present a oral communication in thethe advances that Artificial Intelligence is bringing to primary care referral and management in dermatology, transforming the way we work and improving the quality of patient care in the Working Group on e-Dermatology and Imaging (GEDEI) |
| March 2023 | Acknowledgement | Selected as finalists of the EU startup summit among more than 1300 applicants. This award recognises the best startup in Europe and rewards them with a 160k prize package. |
| February 2023 | Acknowledgement | Semi finalist in the EIT Health Catapult programme, a European Union programme that accelerates Europe's best start-ups in a training programme that showcases biotech, medtech and digital health start-ups to leading experts and investors across Europe. |
| February 2023 | Acknowledgement | Selected to participate in the IOT Solutions world congress 2023 to showcase how to digitalize clinical trials with AI with Diego Herrera from Almirall. |
| February 2023 | Acknowledgement | Selected by Sanofi to participate in Futuderm 2023 to chowcasethe benefits of our solution infront of more than 50 chief dermatologies from public hospitals in Spain. |
| February 2023 | Acknowledgement | Selected to give a oral communication in the 23rd national congress of hospitals and hospital management to showcase how our tool reduces banal referrals from primary to secondary by more than 23%. |
| December 2022 | Acknowledgement | Legit.Health is a finalist in BUM Sariak, an award that recognises emerging companies in Bizkaia, promoted by Global Shapers and the Provincial Council of Bizkaia. |
| December 2022 | Prize | Legit.Health receives the DigitalTek2022 Award for its work helping doctors help their patients through Artificial Intelligence. This award is promoted by the post office, and the winning company has been selected by: the provincial government of Bizkaia, BBVA, the post office, Telefonica and Cebek. |
| December 2022 | Acknowledgement | Finalists in the Eco Disruptive programme, promoted by Bupa. For this, we have been awarded £25,000 to develop an MVP to co-create the best fit for our solution to be integrated into My Sanitas. |
| December 2022 | Prize | Winners of the Expansion Startup 2022 awards. This award recognises us as one of the most innovative start-ups in our country. This award has been promoted by the newspaper Expansion, with the help of a jury of experts formed by the following entities: Cebek, Deusto Emprende, CaixaBank, Damm, Abertis, Cellnex and Lanzadera. |
| November 2022 | Scientific publication | Publication in Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology of the research letter Dermatology Image Quality Assessment (DIQA): Artificial Intelligence to ensure the clinical utility of images for remote consultations and clinical trials. |
| November 2022 | Acknowledgement | Semi finalists of The 4YFN Awards , which is a global startup competition aimed at finding the best digital startups around the globe. It is the highest official recognition offered exclusively to startups during MWC Barcelona 2023. |
| November 2022 | Funding | Selected by the Expande Digital Programme promoted by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and Spri Group to provide us with personal and monetary support, up to 4000€ in expenses, for the entry into a new market, in this case Germany. |
| November 2022 | Acknowledgement | Semi-finalists of the Ship2B Impact Awards 2022 in the IMPACT STARTUP 2022 category, this award rewards companies with innovative, sustainable, scalable impact potential and best business practices, regardless of their territorial scope of action or implementation. |
| November 2022 | Funding | Grant HAZITEK 2022 Business R&D Support Programme awarded by the Basque Government and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for the amount of 38,680.82€. |
| October 2022 | Programme | Legit.Health is selected for the 7th edition of Emprende inHealth by Lilly. The main objective of the programme is to support social impact entrepreneurs in the field of health and to generate a cultural change in Lilly Spain to promote innovation inside and outside the company. The programme offers support tailored to the needs of each project by a team of expert health professionals from Lilly Spain. |
| October 2022 | Funding | Grant from Binkaintek 2022 by the Basque Goverment for the amount of €90,161.72 to hire a doctoral candidate profile |
| September 2022 | Scientific publication | Selected to present at the EADV congress together with Alira Health for two scientific publications: DIQA (Dermatology image Quality Algorithms) and AUAS (Automatic Urticaria Activity Score) |
| September 2022 | Acknowledgement | Finalists of the eAwards Spain 2022, organized by NTT Data a Japanese multinational information technology service and consulting company. |
| July 2022 | Acknowledgement | Finalists of the 6th annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2022 is a worldwide search for early-stage technology-enabled solutions and services that can enable economic development and/or benefit society and/or the environment. |
| July 2022 | Funding | Grant from the Internationalization Program by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia for the amount of €50,904.96 in order to expand to Germany. |
| July 2022 | Funding | Grant from Plan 2i to promote innovation and advanced investment by Provincial Council of Bizkaia and Feder or the amount of €34,121.38. |
| June 2022 | Scientific publication | Legit.Health participates in the 49th National Dermatology Congress of the AEDV. We presented two scientific publications and a poster, as well as a communication and poster on Legit.Health presented by doctors from the dermatology department of the Hospital Universitario de Torrejón. |
| June 2022 | Programme | Selected in the EIT Health Catapult programme, a European Union programme that accelerates Europe's best start-ups in a training programme that showcases biotech, medtech and digital health start-ups to leading experts and investors across Europe. |
| June 2022 | Programme | Selected in the Beaz Acceleration Program, organised by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and the investment fund Seed Capital with the aim of accelerating high-potential technology companies. |
| May 2022 | Acknowledgement | Selected to participate in the IOT Solutions world congress to present the pilot with the Hospital de Torrejon together with Dr. Elena Sanchez Largo. |
| May 2022 | Programme | Selected in the EIT Health BridgeHead programme which consists of helping us to enter even new or new markets that we have identified and give us a grant of €40,000 to cover the costs. |
| May 2022 | Prize | Winners of the the Distrito eHealth competition, which consists of launching a proof of concept in a health department in the Valencian Community. |
| May 2022 | Funding | Legit.Health receives a loan of 155.000€ through the Innovation Fund programme guaranteed by Elkargi, Euribor of 1,5% commissions included with 1 year grace period and 5 years maturity. |
| May 2022 | Funding | Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal grant us the amount of 66,217.68€ to hiring of a technical profile for two years. |
| April 2022 | Scientific publication | The scientific paper on the automatic measurement of urticaria severity is under review in JID Innovations and the preprint Automatic Urticaria Activity Score (AUAS): A Novel Technology for Urticaria Severity Assessment Based on Automatic High-Precision Hive Counting is made public. |
| April 2022 | Programme | Selected by the ACCIO: Health digital expansion and medtech in europe programme to support our entry into the French market. |
| March 2022 | Acknowledgement | Selected to be a founding member of the Digi Derma Campus programme created with the German Dermatology Academy to promote technological innovation in the sector, allowing the company to open doors to enter the new market. |
| March 2022 | Scientific publication | The scientific article is published Automatic SCOring of Atopic Dermatitis Using Deep Learning: A Pilot Study en la revista JID Innovations. |
| January 2022 | Programme | Selected by BIND 4.0 Open Innovation and Acceleration Program funded by the Basque Government and the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment through the SPRI Group. |
| January 2022 | Programme | Selected in the European Scaleup4Europe HealthLab Accelerator programme "Living smarter with skin-related conditions" challenge by Egis Pharmaceuticals and Pioneers allowing us to launch a pilot with Egis throughout the programme. |
| December 2021 | Prize | Winners of the Quality Innovation Award in the field of innovation in the healthcare sector, a competition created by Excellence Finland to give national and international recognition to the most innovative projects that meet the 5 criteria: Effectiveness, Novelty, Customer Orientation, Usefulness and Learning. |
| December 2021 | Prize | Winners of the scientific publication contest 2021 by the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology with the presentation of the Automatic calculation of the psoriasis severity and area index using deep learning algorithms. |
| December 2021 | Funding | Grant HAZITEK 2021 Business R&D Support Programme awarded by the Basque Government and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for the amount of 55,622.02€. |
| December 2021 | Scientific publication | Publicación en el Journal of Investigative Dermatology Innovation del paper Automatic SCOring of Atopic Dermatitis using Deep Learning (ASCORAD): Un piloto |
| November 2021 | Prize | Winners of the CEBEK Emprende Award 2021 of the Bizkaia Business Confederation. |
| November 2021 | Acknowledgement | Ranked 14th in the RANKING of the 100 most innovative STARTUPS of 2021 in Spain according to the study by the magazine ElReferente. |
| November 2021 | Funding | Grant Area 2 - Creation of new innovative companies awarded by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia in the amount of €36,960. |
| November 2021 | Funding | Selected for the programme and public grant of up to €100,000 COVID-X Co-funded and financed by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. |
| November 2021 | Programme | Selected in the 4th call of the SOSA-Bizkaia programme, a programme of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and the international accelerator SOSA to introduce Basque companies to the Israeli ecosystem. |
| November 2021 | Funding | Grant from the Hazinnova programme of the SPRI-Basque Business Development Agency in the amount of €4,560.00. |
| November 2021 | Scientific publication | Legit.Health participates in the 48th National Congress of Dermatology of the AEDV. We presented a scientific publication, which received the award for the second best e-dermatology publication, and a poster. |
| October 2021 | Acknowledgement | South Summit Health & Wellbeing 2021 Finalists |
| October 2021 | Acknowledgement | Legit.Health receives the Ship2b foundation's seal of approval as a Social Enterprise with an Impact Management System. |
| October 2021 | Funding | Grant from the Hazinnova programme of the SPRI-Basque Business Development Agency in the amount of €4,468.00. |
| October 2021 | Product | The clinical validation focused on the validation of Legit.Health in the detection of melanoma has been completed. The results are excellent and Osakidetza and the heads of service are interested in implementing Legit.Health. Furthermore, it was decided to extend the study with the aim of including other types of cancer and similar pathologies. |
| September 2021 | Prize | Winners of the European Patient Digital Health Awards 2021 in the category of New ways to interact with healthcare teams and providers. |
| July 2021 | Acknowledgement | Selected to participate in XPatient Congress, XPA Barcelona's benchmark event (Patient Experience) on the change of care model that empowers the patient. |
| July 2021 | Programme | Selected for the Patient Innovation Bootcamp acceleration programme, a Europe-wide acceleration programme organised and sponsored by Patient Innovation and EIT Health. |
| June 2021 | Programme | Selected for the EMEA Edison programme, a Europe-wide acceleration programme for the pilot launch of the product in a new market organised by Wayra, GE Healthcare and Telefónica. |
| June 2021 | Funding | Closing of the first pre-seed investment round of €342,000 at a pre-money valuation of €3,000,000. |
| April 2021 | Programme | Selected by the Reactor21 programme, a Europe-wide acceleration programme organised by EIT Health, Health Venture Lab and GE Healthcare. |
| January 2021 | Programme | Beginning of collaboration as members of the Barcelona Health Hub, a leading digital health hub that connects startups with partners and potential customers. |
| December 2020 | Programme | Selected Almirall Digital Garden Acceleration programme for companies in the health sector with the possibility of closing a commercial agreement with the pharmaceutical group. |
| November 2020 | Programme | Selected in Ship2B Health&Care, an acceleration programme for companies in the health sector organised and co-founded by the Ship2B foundation, Cofares and DKV Salud. |
| November 2020 | Programme | Selected in Kunsen, the first offshore acceleration programme, €100,000 investment and testing in hospitals for digital health startups founded by owners of hospital groups in Spain. |
| October 2020 | Product | Pilot study for the clinical validation of a DAO (Computer Aided Diagnosis) system with artificial intelligence algorithms to objectively and stably determine the degree of affectation in patients with chronic urticaria at Cruces University Hospital. |
| October 2020 | Product | Pilot study for the clinical validation of a DAO (Computer Aided Diagnosis) system with artificial intelligence algorithms to objectively and stably determine the degree of postoperative facial paralysis and/or paresis in patients who underwent parotid surgery at Cruces University Hospital. |
| October 2020 | Regulatory | Obtaining the health licence and CE marking from the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS). |
| September 2020 | Programme | Selected by the acceleration programme LANZADERA to launch a Pilot with Ribera Salud |
| September 2020 | Programme | Start of collaboration as partners of the Basque Health Cluster, a health cluster that provides training, connections with partners and potential clients at an international level. |
| August 2020 | Programme | Selected in INNOLAB. Business acceleration programme that connects startups with corporates to close commercial/partnership agreements. |
| July 2020 | Funding | Seed Capital Loan in the amount of €15,000 |
| July 2020 | Programme | Selected by the BIOME NOVARTIS acceleration programme of the pharmaceutical group Novartis. |
| June 2020 | Funding | Grant of the programme Area 1 - Development of innovative business projects awarded by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia for the amount of 15.000€. |
| June 2020 | Funding | Ekintzaile programme grant awarded by the Basque Government and the SPRI Group in the amount of 15,000€. |
| March 2020 | Product | Partnership with the technological company XiaoMi |
| March 2020 | Product | Partnership with Dermlite German company manufacturer and distributor of dermatoscopes |
| February 2020 | Funding | Foundation of the company under the name AI Labs Group SL. |