Ankerias helps clinicians and healthcare working with chronic and neuropathic pain better diagnose pain mechanisms, identify suitable candidates for spinal cord stimulation (SCS), and optimize treatment outcomes.
Built on real-world health data and AI-assisted insights, our solution supports more precise decision-making from diagnosis to treatment optimization.
Ankerias helps clinicians and healthcare working with chronic and neuropathic pain better diagnose pain mechanisms, identify suitable candidates for spinal cord stimulation (SCS), and optimize treatment outcomes.
Built on real-world health data and AI-assisted insights, our solution supports more precise decision-making from diagnosis to treatment optimization.
Global chronic pain
Everyone deserves to live a healthy and pain-free life. Around 1.5 billion individuals globally suffer from chronic pain, with neuropathic pain affecting 7–10% of these cases. Too many are left in pain without adequate care, leading to ongoing suffering as pain mechanisms are often difficult to identify.
Spinal cord stimulation
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) provides pain relief when other treatments don’t. SCS reduces pain in 40–80% of treated cases. Stimulation also reduces and stabilizes drug use. Moreover, it has been shown to significantly reduce healthcare costs.
However, less than 5% of eligible patients receive this treatment. Underutilization of effective care entails significant additional costs for societies and prolonged suffering for patients.
Ankerias’s solution
Ankerias provides healthcare professionals with a digital platform that enhances the treatment of chronic and neuropathic pain patients. Using pain diaries, data analysis, AI/ML and physiological modeling, we support assessment and clinical decision-making to personalize and target SCS pain therapy better.
Spinal cord stimulation is a highly effective treatment for selected patients with chronic pain. However, identifying the right patients at the right time remains a challenge.
Many patients do not receive this therapy early enough to achieve optimal benefit. There is a clear need for a faster, smarter tool to support patient selection and therapy optimization.
— Dr. Mette Nissen, Consultant in Neurosurgery, Kuopio University Hospital
Spinal cord stimulation is a highly effective treatment for selected patients with chronic pain. However, identifying the right patients at the right time remains a challenge.
Many patients do not receive this therapy early enough to achieve optimal benefit. There is a clear need for a faster, smarter tool to support patient selection and therapy optimization.
— Dr. Mette Nissen, Consultant in Neurosurgery, Kuopio University Hospital
After years of trying treatments that didn’t work, I was finally offered spinal cord stimulation and it changed everything. I just wish it had come earlier.
— Spinal cord stimulation patient, Oulu, Finland
Our mission is to make effective pain treatment accessible sooner for chronic pain patients. By combining AI with clinical insight, we empower healthcare professionals to make more timely and targeted decisions.
— Hanna Viisanen-Kuopila, CEO & Co-Founder, Ankerias
Spinal cord stimulation is a highly effective treatment for selected patients with chronic pain. However, identifying the right patients at the right time remains a challenge.
Many patients do not receive this therapy early enough to achieve optimal benefit. There is a clear need for a faster, smarter tool to support patient selection and therapy optimization.
— Dr. Mette Nissen, Consultant in Neurosurgery, Kuopio University Hospital
Spinal cord stimulation is a highly effective treatment for selected patients with chronic pain. However, identifying the right patients at the right time remains a challenge.
Many patients do not receive this therapy early enough to achieve optimal benefit. There is a clear need for a faster, smarter tool to support patient selection and therapy optimization.
— Dr. Mette Nissen, Consultant in Neurosurgery, Kuopio University Hospital
After years of trying treatments that didn’t work, I was finally offered spinal cord stimulation and it changed everything. I just wish it had come earlier.
— Spinal cord stimulation patient, Oulu, Finland
Our mission is to make effective pain treatment accessible sooner for chronic pain patients. By combining AI with clinical insight, we empower healthcare professionals to make more timely and targeted decisions.
— Hanna Viisanen-Kuopila, CEO & Co-Founder, Ankerias
Meet Team Ankerias
Meet Team Ankerias
We have a very strong background in neuroscience, pain research, data analysis, and AI/ML applications.
Collaborators
Collaborators
Ankerias News
Follow Ankerias and track the progress of our project.
In 2025, we strengthened our clinical validation work through surveys and early-stage piloting. We also advanced our clinical AI software platform for complex neuropathic pain and SCS therapy and strengthened our research and development work.
In 2026, our focus is to move into the next validation phases, expand pilots, and continue developing the platform toward clinical adoption. We are also working toward first commercial deployments in the second half of the year.
Our pre-seed round is progressing, and we are open to connecting with additional investors.
Drop us a message and let’s talk. We are happy to share more about Ankerias and our solution!
Ankerias News
Follow Ankerias and track the progress of our project.
In 2025, we strengthened our clinical validation work through surveys and early-stage piloting. We also advanced our clinical AI software platform for complex neuropathic pain and SCS therapy and strengthened our research and development work.
In 2026, our focus is to move into the next validation phases, expand pilots, and continue developing the platform toward clinical adoption. We are also working toward first commercial deployments in the second half of the year.
Our pre-seed round is progressing, and we are open to connecting with additional investors.
Drop us a message and let’s talk. We are happy to share more about Ankerias and our solution!
We are looking for investors and partners!
Interested to hear more? Contact us.
Ankerias is based in Espoo and Helsinki, Finland.
Let’s organize a meeting so we can look at Ankerias’s solution in detail, face to face or online.
We should discuss how we could collaborate with you and your organization!
Interested to hear more? Contact us.
Ankerias is based in Espoo and Helsinki, Finland.
Let’s organize a meeting so we can look at Ankerias’s solution in detail, face to face or online.
We should discuss how we could collaborate with you and your organization!