Solid IO

Solid IO is building a new way to personalize cancer treatment, starting with immunotherapies. Our technology shows how a patient’s own tumor and immune cells respond to different treatment options in a human-relevant model. This opens up new possibilities for both cancer drug development and personalized treatment decisions. Immunotherapies are transforming cancer care, but they still work for only a fraction of patients. Today, treatment decisions are made with limited ability to predict who will actually benefit. For patients, this can mean lost time, unnecessary side effects and ineffective treatment. For pharma and biotech companies, the same biological uncertainty makes developing new drugs and combinations slower, riskier and more expensive. Solid IO brings the patient’s own cancer biology into the equation. By testing treatment responses outside the body before treatment, our technology aims to help identify which therapies are most likely to work for an individual patient. At the same time, it can help pharma and biotech companies generate human-relevant evidence, identify responders and develop new therapies and combinations more effectively. Our mission to end guesswork in cancer care. Solid IO was founded in 2025 and is a spinout from the University of Helsinki. We have established technical proof of concept, started clinical feasibility validation, raised €2M in funding, and are already working with our first paying customer.
Location Finland
Website solid-io.com
Founded 2025
Employees 1-10
Industries Healthcare & Life Science
Business model B2B
Funding state Pre-seed

Working at
Solid IO

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Near public transit
Near public transit

Maternity / paternity leave
Maternity / paternity leave

Remote work allowed
Remote work allowed

Equity package
Equity package

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Work life balance
Work life balance

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“Medicine advances, technology evolves, and at the core of it all is the patient, waiting for a treatment that truly works. At Solid IO, our mission is to remove guesswork in cancer care.”

Noora Hujala, CEO

Key numbers

€2m

Money raised

50/50

Male / female ratio

3

Nationalities

SDGs

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Team

Founder, CEO

Noora Hujala

Founder, CSO

Heidi Haikala

Founder, Lead Scientist

Bassel Alsaed

Scientist

Ross Nelson

Data Lead

Kimmo Pääkkönen

Business Development and Product Lead

Emmi Tiilikainen

Research Assistant

Emilia Mäki

Investors

NS
VENTURES

Nordic Science Investments

BV
VENTURES

BSV Ventures

LC
VENTURES

Leo Capital

LS
ANGEL

Life Science Investment