Alovita aims to prevent the impaired health conditions that result from bedsores.

Two graduates from Kaunas University of Technology have launched Alovita, a new company that tackles bedsores and associated impaired health conditions. The startup has developed a care bed with a tilting function which assists patients in changing their position.

Andrius Darulis and Vaidas Talačka, who hope to introduce a prototype in autumn 2014, launched Alovita when they realised that similar solutions are too expensive and too complex for home users. The company has attracted 70,000 litas ($27,500) in funding from…