Fouad Al-Hakim Khalak
Founder & CEO
PhD in advanced therapies for musculoskeletal repair from UPV/EHU's NanoBioCel group, where he worked on 3D bioprinting and tissue engineering. Leads the company and its science.
LinkedIn profileWe make guided implant surgery the easy choice.
NeoSegMed is a spin-off of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), based in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Every guided implant case needs a surgical guide, and most are still designed by hand. We replace days of technician and lab time with minutes of compute, sold as a subscription to clinics and dental labs.
- ~23,000
- dental clinics in Spain, our first market
- ~5 min
- from upload to finished guide
- TRL 5
- validated in a relevant environment
Our story
Research
From bioprinting to surgical planning
Our founder's PhD at UPV/EHU's NanoBioCel group was about 3D-printing tissue for bone and tendon repair. Working with patient scans showed the same bottleneck again and again: turning a CT into something you can print takes days of skilled manual work.
The problem
Guided implant surgery is held back by design time
A surgical guide makes implant placement more accurate, but designing one means hours of segmentation and planning by a technician, and often a week or two waiting on a lab. That time and cost make the guide easy to skip.
May 2026
INIZIA award
NeoSegMed won first prize in the New Innovative Initiatives category of the INIZIA 2026 awards, run by BIC Araba and the UPV/EHU Álava campus.
Sept 2026
Basque Tek Ventures
Selected for SPRI's deep-tech programme for companies built on Basque research, and featured by SPRI as a UPV/EHU spin-off.
Oct 2026
Upload to printed guide
The full pipeline now runs on our cloud platform, from upload to finished guide.
Why we win
- End to end
- Raw CT and intraoral scan in, printable guide out: segmentation, planning and guide design in one automated run, no CAD seat needed.
- A safety engine you can audit
- Planning by explicit clinical rules with a hard stop at the nerve, and a written score for every placement. Built for the scrutiny of regulators and surgeons.
- Low cost per case
- Minutes of compute instead of hours of technician time, so the cost per case stays low as we scale.
- Protected
- A European patent application covering the integrated method is in preparation with ZBM Patents.
The people behind it
Prof. José Luis Pedraz
Scientific Advisor
Professor at UPV/EHU and principal investigator of the NanoBioCel research group; heads a CIBER-BBN laboratory. More than 150 papers in the last ten years.
LinkedIn profileKamal Al Hakim
Clinical Advisor
Dentist and implant surgeon with his own clinic, and a daily user of surgical guides. Advises on how the guides are used at the chair.
LinkedIn profileWho we work with
Kaya Dental Lab
Printing partner, Istanbul
Prints and finishes our surgical guides for pilot cases.
Born at the University of the Basque Country, backed by its innovation ecosystem
In the news
“Integrates segmentation, planning and the generation of personalised surgical guides into a single digital workflow.”
“First prize, New Innovative Initiatives: an AI platform for automatic segmentation of biomedical images and personalised surgical planning.”
Talk to us.
Whether you are a dentist who wants to see it run on one of your cases, or an investor who wants the deck, tell us who you are and we will set up a live demo.