[company_age]4.0[/company_age][employees]2-10 employees[/employees][funding]Seed[/funding][description]LAYCO is a Dutch medical device company founded in 2020 by Dieuwertje Drexhage and Thom Weustink. The company develops reusable medical devices to increase safe births globally and reduce the CO2 footprint and waste of the healthcare industry. LAYCO's flagship product is vela®, a reusable vacuum extractor designed to be more sustainable and user-friendly than traditional disposable vacuum extractors. LAYCO is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and has received funding from Innovation Funds Noord-Holland and the Albert Schweitzer Prize. The company is a spin-off from the research group Surgery for All at TU Delft.[/description][ps]Reusable medical devices, specifically the vela® reusable vacuum extractor.[/ps]