SIMAE

What SIMAE does

SIMAE (Società Italiana Medicina Ambienti Estremi) is an Italian non-profit scientific society founded in late 2022 and headquartered in Pavia, Lombardy, operating as Italy's first society dedicated exclusively to research and training in extreme-environment medicine. Its functional scope spans sea rescue, high-altitude pathology, underwater medicine, tactical/combat casualty care, disaster medicine, endurance event medicine, and expedition medicine in resource-scarce or conflict zones. The organization coordinates multicentric clinical research projects (e.g., a CPR-in-microgravity study at the University of Pavia's Campus Aquae pool) and delivers training through webinars, workshops, partner courses (INTUBATI EM, Big Salad Advanced Airway Management), expeditions (Selvaggio Blu trek; three Ukraine missions using 3D-printed hemorrhage simulators co-developed with 3D4Med), and its first in-person congress scheduled for November 8, 2025 in Bologna.

SIMAE's core technology stack is non-commercial: it comprises clinical training curricula, simulation content (notably custom 3D-printed hemorrhage mass simulators built with the 3D4Med lab), and an outsourced digital learning environment via Rescue Press Academy that hosts archived webinars. There is no proprietary software product, app, API, or AI component in the current offering.

The revenue model is a hybrid of recurring individual membership dues (€15/year students; €30/year professionals) and event/conference fees (e.g., €18 member / €70 non-member for the 2025 congress, capped at 70 seats), with supplementary grant support (Rotary District 2050 funded the Ukraine expeditions) and indirect revenue via partner-course discounts. Go-to-market is community-led: growth comes from peer referrals within Italian healthcare, rescue, and outdoor enthusiast networks, supplemented by Instagram, the simae.it website, newsletters, and presence at external congresses (CEU, AcEMC). Customers are exclusively individuals — healthcare professionals, university students, and outdoor enthusiasts — with no enterprise or institutional paying customers disclosed.

Name

SIMAE

Legal name

SOCIETA' ITALIANA MEDICINA AMBIENTI ESTREMI

Website

https://simae.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

SIMAE is Italy's first non-profit scientific society dedicated to extreme-environment medicine, coordinating multicentric research and delivering training (webinars, expeditions, partner courses, annual congress) to healthcare professionals, students, and outdoor enthusiasts across Italy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medical Scientific Society

NAICS

Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Scientific Research and Development Services (5417)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAGACAB

Hospitals, Clinics & Charitable Healthcare Providers

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Health & Medical Nonprofits

SECONDARYEDAIAGAF

Disaster Relief & Humanitarian Aid Volunteering

Education/International Education & Study Abroad/International Service Learning, Volunteering & Gap Year Programs

Keywords

• Extreme environment medicine
• Wilderness medical society
• Expedition medicine training
• Tactical medicine education
• Medical scientific society

Headquarters

HQ city

Pavia

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: SIMAE generates revenue primarily through annual membership fees. Student members pay €15/year and professional members pay €30/year. Additional revenue is generated through event registrations such as the 2025 congress (€18 for members, €70 for non-members).
2. Congress and Event Fees: Revenue from ticketed in-person events such as the November 8, 2025 congress in Bologna, with separate pricing for members (€18) and non-members (€70).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

SIMAE is an Italian non-profit scientific society that sells annual membership subscriptions to healthcare professionals, students, and outdoor enthusiasts, and delivers medical training, webinars, conferences, and research coordination focused on extreme environment medicine. Its core offerings include tiered membership (€15/year students, €30/year professionals), an annual in-person congress, a faculty-led webinar and workshop program, and access to a multicenter research network covering underwater, high-altitude, tactical, disaster, and expedition medicine.

Product overview

SIMAE (Società Italiana di Medicina degli Ambienti Estremi) is a professional scientific society, not a software product company. It operates as a membership-based organization providing research coordination, professional training, conferences, and educational resources for healthcare professionals and enthusiasts working in extreme environments (sea, mountains, rural areas, conflict zones, disaster areas). Core offerings include a network for multicenter research projects, educational webinars and practical workshops, an annual conference, and discounted partner courses. Members access exclusive content through Rescue Press Academy and receive promotional codes for training courses from partner organizations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SIMAE Student Membership Annual membership subscription for university students of medicine, nursing, health professions, and other faculties, granting access to SIMAE's webinars, events, and partner discounts for €15/year.
• SIMAE Professional Membership Annual membership subscription for doctors, medical residents, nurses, rescue technicians, and professionals passionate about extreme environments, priced at €30/year and granting access to webinars, events, and partner course discounts.
• Primo Convegno SIMAE 2025 — "Tra Luce e Buio" SIMAE's first annual in-person congress held in Bologna, focusing on speleological rescue, underwater exploration, and expedition medicine, with ticketed registration (€18 for SIMAE members, €70 for non-members, limited to 70 seats).
• SIMAE Webinar Series Educational webinar program covering extreme environment medicine topics (tactical medicine, remote life support, drowning pathophysiology, cardiac massage in microgravity), delivered online by SIMAE faculty and accessible on-demand via the Rescue Press Academy member area.
• SIMAE Multicenter Research Network Network of researchers and experts conducting multicenter research projects in resource-scarce medical contexts including sea rescue, high-altitude pathologies, and expeditions; an example project is the CPR-in-microgravity study conducted at Campus Aquae Pavia.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 30 healthcare professional volunteers completed a CPR technique comparison study in simulated microgravity conditions at a university pool, advancing evidence on optimal resuscitation methods in space analogues.
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Rescue Press AcademycoreTechnology or IntegrationRescue Press Academy serves as the digital learning platform for SIMAE members, providing a reserved area where members can rewatch all past webinars organized by SIMAE or in collaboration with the society. This partnership provides the technological infrastructure for SIMAE's online educational content delivery.
• 3D4MedcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner3D4Med is a clinical 3D printing laboratory born from the collaboration between Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo and the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Pavia. SIMAE collaborated with 3D4Med to develop custom hemorrhage mass simulators used in Ukraine for tactical medicine training courses.
• MilesBeyondminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMilesBeyond is an organization providing logistics and training for extreme locations. SIMAE members collaborated with MilesBeyond during the 2023 CEU Congress in Florence to deliver expedition medicine workshops alongside SIMAE faculty members.
• Italian Trauma LeagueminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSIMAE collaborated with the Italian Trauma League at the 2023 CEU Congress in Florence to deliver the Stop the Bleed course, teaching hemorrhage control techniques to civilians without healthcare background.
• Prof. Carlo Alessandro LocatellicoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProf. Carlo Alessandro Locatelli, Professor of Toxicology and Director of the Pavia Poison Control Center, played a foundational role in drafting SIMAE's statutes, providing critical guidance in navigating the bureaucratic process of establishing the scientific society.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Club Alpino Italiano (CAI) - Commissione Medica: Italian Alpine Club, including its medical commission focused on mountain medicine and rescue. Comparable to SIMAE as a national-level organization addressing extreme environment medicine in Italy, with a longer history but more diffuse focus.
• Società Italiana di Medicina d'Emergenza-Urgenza (SIMEU): Italian scientific society for emergency medicine. Comparable as a peer Italian medical society, with overlapping clinical audience but broader emergency medicine focus (less extreme-environment specialization).

Direct peers

• International Commission for Alpine Rescue (ICAR): International commission of alpine rescue organizations. Comparable to SIMAE's mountain and high-altitude rescue training focus and faculty expertise in mountain medicine.
• World Extreme Medicine: UK-based organization that delivers extreme medicine education, conferences, and training. Directly comparable to SIMAE's educational and conference offering; SIMAE identifies WEM as a primary international analogue it is replicating at a national level.
• International Society for Mountain Medicine: International scientific society focused on mountain medicine, covering a core sub-discipline of SIMAE's portfolio (high-altitude pathologies). Comparable as a peer scientific society serving medical professionals interested in extreme environments.
• Divers Alert Network (DAN) Europe: International organization specializing in dive medicine, safety, and underwater research. Directly comparable to SIMAE's underwater/hyperbaric medicine faculty expertise and CPR-in-microgravity research.
• Wilderness Medical Society: US-based international scientific society dedicated to wilderness medicine. Directly comparable to SIMAE as a membership society for medical professionals practicing in austere environments; SIMAE explicitly cites WMS as a benchmark it is filling a gap for in Italy.

Broad incumbents

• European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM): European society for emergency medicine with broader scope than SIMAE. Comparable as a peer scientific society serving emergency medicine professionals, with overlapping faculty and audience but less extreme-environment specialization.
• European Resuscitation Council (ERC): European-wide body setting resuscitation guidelines and training standards. Comparable to SIMAE's CPR-in-microgravity research and cardiac massage training, but operating at a much broader scope across all resuscitation contexts.

Emerging players

• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) - Nuffield Department: Academic evidence-based medicine research center. Comparable to SIMAE's research coordination agenda and multicenter study design, though SIMAE is earlier-stage and narrower in extreme environment focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/simae.it?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/simae-it

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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