About Polarity

High-quality information for high-quality care.

Our story

Polarity began with a worry that anyone living with or close to someone with a mood disorder will recognise: when will the next episode arrive? We started working towards prediction, but soon realised we needed to start even earlier, by making basic digital phenotyping data available to both patients and clinicians.

The idea grew out of lived experience and the bipolar community in Gothenburg, and is developed through Sahlgrenska Science Park's CO-AX incubator. In 2026 the work moved into Polarity Digital Health AB, which is building Polarity as medical device software for clinics and clinical trials.

Today we work from Gothenburg, in dialogue with psychiatry and research in the Nordics and Germany.

Every other specialty has a continuous instrument.Psychiatry never did.

Care in other fields is guided by measurements. In psychiatry, follow-up still relies on conversations and rating scales a few times a year, based on what the patient remembers.

CardiologyECGIn clinical use since 1905.
EndocrinologyContinuous glucose monitoringA reading every five minutes. First approved in 1999.
PulmonologyPulse oximetryContinuous. A standard in anaesthesia since 1986.
PsychiatryInterviews & rating scalesA handful of times a year, from memory. Polarity adds objective data from the weeks in between.

Leadership

Jennifer Wiklund

Jennifer Wiklund

Founder & CEO

Jennifer founded Polarity Digital Health to help bring psychiatry into the 21st century, utilizing objective data for insight into the deeply human.

Her first-hand experience as a family member of someone with bipolar disorder drives Polarity.

Jennifer also chairs Riksförbundet Balans in Gothenburg and founded Bipolär Innovation i Väst.

Work with us

Open role

Technical co-founder

Bring psychiatry into the 21st century. We're looking for an experienced regulated software engineer.

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Advisors

Clinical & regulatory advisors

We welcome psychiatrists, researchers and regulatory specialists who want to help shape objective monitoring in psychiatry.

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Recognition & support

2025
VinnovaInnovative Startups grant, awarded after national peer review.
2025
AlmiVerification funding.
2025
Sahlgrenska Science ParkSelected for the CO-AX incubator.
2025
Venture Cup SwedenWinner, Impact Makers, national final.
2025
B3 IndesB3 Award.
2025, 2026
SwecarePart of the Swedish delegation to Germany.
2026
FöretagarnaTop 10 finalist, Årets Unga Idé (Young Idea of the Year), awarded to Jennifer Wiklund for the Polarity idea.

Recognition and funding from 2025 was received by the Polarity project under its former company, Polarity Health AB.

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