Who we are
Innovade Consulting GmbH, based in Freiburg, Germany, is led by PD Dr. med. Tobias Schäfer, M.Sc.
He combines more than 15 years of building and leading healthcare software companies with clinical and scientific expertise: as a founder, as CEO of a private-equity-backed software group with more than 400 employees and today as Chief Product Architect in healthcare IT. As a nephrologist and habilitated physician, he knows patient care first-hand.
Who we advise
We work for academic institutions, hospitals, initiatives and organisations as well as for start-ups, companies and funds in the medical field.
How we work
- First-hand clinical experience: We start from everyday patient care and the benefit for patients.
- Technology and leadership experience: We have built and led products, teams and companies ourselves.
- From strategy to market entry: No slide decks for the drawer – we support you through to results.
The Innovade family
The name Innovade stands for three things that deliberately belong together:
- Innovade Consulting GmbH is the consultancy. It works on behalf of hospitals, academia, companies and investors and is described on this website.
- Innovade is a public-interest initiative supported by Innovade Consulting GmbH. It develops and tests its own projects for better healthcare – independently of client work.
- Innovade Therapeutics is an academic group at the University Medical Center Freiburg developing a new generation of fast-acting antidepressants.
All three share the same conviction: innovation only counts once it reaches patients. Experience from consulting, the initiative and research feeds into each other.