{"id":461632,"date":"2026-08-03T10:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/08\/03\/dalla-bei-20-milioni-di-euro-ad-aiforia-per-la-ricerca-sui-tumori\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:39:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T09:39:46","slug":"eib-grants-20-million-euro-to-aiforia-for-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/08\/03\/eib-grants-20-million-euro-to-aiforia-for-cancer-research\/","title":{"rendered":"EIB grants 20\u202fmillion euro to Aiforia for cancer research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013  The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed today (3 August) a 20 million euro venture debt financing agreement <\/a> \u2013 a loan granted to innovative start-ups or growing companies already backed by equity funds \u2013 to Aiforia, a Finnish company specialising in the development of artificial intelligence software and cloud technologies for digital pathology \u2013 the medical technique that converts traditional glass tissue slides into high\u2011resolution digital images. The funding will support the development of an artificial intelligence-based platform, used primarily for the detection of tumours.<\/strong> Specifically, the software analyses ultra-high-resolution images of biopsy samples \u2013 small fragments of tissue or clusters of cells taken from a living organism for examination under a microscope \u2013 to identify cancer cells with high precision and speed. <\/p>\n

The EIB\u2019s support for Aiforia forms part of the European Commission\u2019s InvestEU<\/a> programme<\/strong>, which mobilises investment, supports economic recovery, and finances the green and digital transitions. Aiforia plans to use the funding to \u201caccelerate product development, expand our commercial operations.”<\/em> The funding is divided into three tranches, the first of which is worth 5 million euros. The disbursement of each instalment is, however, conditional upon the achievement of turnover targets and other interim targets set out in the financing agreement. <\/p>\n

“Our continent is working to remain competitive, and we need to support the companies that make that possible,” said EIB Vice-President Karl Nehammer<\/strong>, emphasising that “Europe must have the best technologies developed in-house to protect and care for its citizens.”  Aiforia\u2019s CEO, Jukka Tapaninen<\/strong>, added: \u201cWith this financing, we can accelerate product development, expand our commercial operations internationally, and advance our goal of improving patient care through AI-powered image analysis solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013  The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed today (3 August) a 20 million euro venture debt financing agreement \u2013 a loan granted to innovative start-ups or growing companies already backed by equity funds \u2013 to Aiforia, a Finnish company specialising in the development of artificial intelligence software and cloud technologies for digital pathology \u2013 the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":461609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30961,25774],"tags":[25821,25911,26590,35160,35161,26641],"class_list":["post-461632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salute-en","category-in-brief","tag-artificial-intelligence-en","tag-bei-en","tag-finlandia-and","tag-istituto-di-ricerca","tag-patologia","tag-tumori-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461633,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461632\/revisions\/461633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}