Company
ABOUT ANEA
Stroke rehabilitation focusing on caregivers in the Nordics.
HOW IT STARTED
It started in Umeå. The city of birches.
Anea has its roots in Umeå at Norrland University Hospital, where the concept was developed together with staff and patients at the Neuro and Stroke Rehabilitation unit. What began as a design concept, and was awarded an iF Design Award, is now being built into a real system.
Most rehabilitation happens at home. But the home is invisible to healthcare and the family member who is there every day has no place in the system. Research shows that family support is one of the most important factors for recovery after a stroke. Yet they lack tools, guidance and a connection to the clinic. Anea Health gives caregivers a structured role and makes home rehabilitation visible to clinicians.
FOUNDER
Rebekka Quiroz Wiberg
Founder & CEO, Anea Health AB
Rebekka won the iF Design Award for her stroke rehabilitation concept. It is what she is now building. With 15+ years of experience from Meta, NASA, Netflix, Huawei and Sveriges Radio, she knows how complex products move from idea to millions of users under regulatory demands. At Meta, she led cybersecurity as lead designer in London, working on integrity and security design including SOC 2 compliance and security logging under strict regulatory demands with a global market focus. Earlier in her career, she was the sole designer on Future Engineers, a NASA-affiliated 3D printing initiative developed alongside a rocket engineer with direct NASA and SpaceX relationships, work that helped the initiative secure federal government backing under the Obama administration.
"With 15+ years of experience from Meta, NASA, Netflix, Huawei, Google and Sveriges Radio, she knows how complex products move from idea to millions of users under regulatory demands"
Rebekka grew up in a family where healthcare was a given: a father who researched cancer diagnostics and a mother who is a cardiac surgery nurse. The brain and how people learn has fascinated her for a long time. Anea Health is not a career project. It is a societal project built in Sweden, with the Nordics in sight.
"Anea Health is not a career project. It is a health care project built in Sweden, with the Nordics in sight."
Awards
Anea Health is built on a concept recognised by the world's most prestigious design awards:
CLINICAL ADVISORY
Built and guided
by clinicians
We are assembling our clinical advisory, bringing together physicians, therapists, and researchers from rehabilitation clinics across Scandinavia. Real clinical experience shapes every decision we make.
Håkan Littbrand, Forskare
Institutionen för samhällsmedicin och rehabilitering, Umeå universitet
Umeå, Sverige
Lena Lundman Myrlund, arbetsterapeutspecialist
Norrlands Universitetssjukhus, Neuro- och Strokerehab
Umeå, Sverige
