This Entrepreneur Is Tackling Antibiotic Resistant Infections With New Advances In MedTech | Forbes

Antibiotic resistant infections kill 1.2 million people each year. Rochelle Niemeijer, cofounder and chief scientific officer of Nostics, wants to help fight the misuse and overuse of antibiotics that contribute to this global problem. Nostics is starting with tackling a common ailment: urinary tract infections. Niemeijer says the Netherlands-based medtech startup has raised $7.4 million to build new diagnostic tools that can quickly identify the bacteria that is causing an infection and help doctors make better treatment decisions. The technology combines a portable miniature chemistry lab with AI-powered software to analyze a urine sample in 15 minutes (compared to the day or longer it can take for a lab to process the results of a urine culture). Her next big hurdle? Working through the regulatory process. "What I find is really important along this journey is to have perseverance and passion," says Niemeijer. "Especially in science, there's a lot of failures and there's a lot of trials. You really need to push through to be able to achieve your goal."

Even a difficult year marred by the ongoing war in Ukraine, a pressing energy crisis, rocketing inflation and a barrage of natural disasters couldn’t slow down Europe’s youngest visionary leaders. In a historically tough environment, the 300 founders and entrepreneurs featured on our 2023 Forbes Under 30 Europe list raised more than $3 billion in capital—$1 billion more than our 2022 class. Europe's brightest founders are putting the cash to work, building bold companies that are out to combat climate change, fight fraud, reinvent the banking industry and better treat infections.

To compile our eighth annual list, Forbes writers and editors combed through thousands of online submissions, and tapped industry experts and list alumni for recommendations. Candidates were evaluated by Forbes staff and a panel of independent, expert judges (including beauty entrepreneur and Bliss Spa founder Marcia Kilgore, musician Joy Crookes and Zepz, formerly WorldRemit, founder Ismail Ahmed) on a variety of factors, including (but not limited to) funding, revenue, social impact, scale, inventiveness and potential. All final listers must have been 29 or younger as of March 7, 2023.

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