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Pitch Perfect Startup Contest
Pitch Perfect offers an opportunity for healthcare startups to pitch their solutions to a panel of healthcare investor judges. The winner from each track will receive $20,000 worth of branding advertising package from MedCity News.
Application Deadline: February 29, 2024. Investment professionals are reviewing applications and selections will be announced starting March 31, 2024.
Healthtech: Payer/Provider
Startups addressing burnout and operational efficiency.
Contestants
The future of healthcare data privacy. DNAsafe develops cryptographically enabled privacy preserving solutions for your business.
We bring state-of-the-art supervised and generative AI systems to the patient bedside at scale.
A motion tracking exercise platform focused on providing the most personalized home exercise experience for physiotherapy & health/wellness providers
Samaritan is a support platform that empowers people without a home to move forward.
We combine human-led care with technology to empower people with sleep apnea to sleep better at home.
Syntax Health is designed to smooth out the value-based care contracting process using analytics, infrastructure and a collaborative virtual workspace.
Judges
Jasmi Shah
Managing Director
Cigna Ventures
Full Bio
Jane Rho
Director, Fund & AI
DaVita Ventures
Full Bio
Dipa Mehta
Managing Partner
Cobalt Ventures
Full Bio
Devices & Diagnostics
Startups focused on cardiology.
Contestants
BioMEMS is an ultra-high performance, non-invasive IVD testing platform with simple to use test cartridges and handheld analyzers ported to mobile devices.
CoraVie Medical is a pre-revenue medical device company developing an implantable continuous blood pressure monitor and end-to-end remote management solution monitors for early detection of silent but dangerous blood pressures to intervene and prevent a hypertension crisis that could lead to stroke, heart attack, kidney failure or death.
With GPx, doctors can monitor their patients’ blood biomarkers remotely – without needles or implants
JB HealthTech, Inc. was established with the goal of creating neoBPTM, a continuous non-invasive blood pressure (cNIBP) monitor, specially designed for the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU).
Polynova Cardiovascular, Inc. (PCI) is a commercial spin-off that has emerged from years of private and federally funded academic research on polymeric heart valves.
The Shape Sensing Company is building a next-generation 3D guidance system utilizing fiber optic shape sensing to reduce the radiation exposure to patients and physicians during interventional procedures.
Judges
Ken Nelson
Partner
Medtech Advantage Fund
Full Bio
David Kereiakes
Managing Partner
Windham Venture Partners
Full Bio
Lewis Kilongo
Principal
Unorthodox Ventures
Full Bio
Healthtech: Consumer/Employer
Startups addressing women’s health.
Contestants
The GoNo Food Finder takes the tedious task of reading product labels and replaces it with a simple speedy scan of product barcodes, resulting in recommendations for foods clinically proven good for you.
First, Drug-Free, Faster, and More Effective Treatment of Vaginal Infections.
Using applied and original estrogen-based research, our targeted chemistry aims to drastically reduce the mental and physical effects of menopause.
Mother’s Milk Is Best (MMIB) is developing a point of care Human Milk Concentration (HMC) device that increases the ability to use mother’s own milk instead of other fortification processes.
Bringing the Power of Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Patient Monitoring to The Bedside
With Marma, women and birthing people will feel empowered to make nutritional choices that will holistically support their body.
Judges
Samir Batra
Managing Partner
HIP
Full Bio
Carli Sapir
Founding Partner
Amboy Street Ventures
Full Bio
Julien L. Pham
Founder and Managing Partner
3CC | Third Culture Capital
Full Bio
Biopharma
Startups focused on oncology.
Contestants
Amplified Sciences is developing a suite of in-vitro diagnostics with a clinical stage test that helps physicians more accurately detect risk for pancreatic cancer built on their ultra-sensitive optical reporter platform.
We utilize our expertise engineering enzymes to reduce the dangerous side effects and improve the safety profile of cancer therapeutics.
miRecule is a biotechnology company developing RNA therapies for cancer and muscular dystrophy.
MTI has successfully developed 3 novel efficacious compounds for potentially improving the lives of refractor cancer patients with no other current options for a cure.
OncoSwab is an innovative healthcare startup dedicated to revolutionizing early lung cancer detection. Utilizing a non-invasive, easy-to-use nasal swab, OncoSwab’s technology aims to identify lung cancer biomarkers at an early stage, significantly improving patient outcomes.
Talus Bio’s automated, highly scalable drug discovery engine discovers first-in-class small molecules capable of modulating previously undruggable transcription factors, optimizing them to achieve high potency and selectivity while minimizing toxicity.
Judges
Meredith Wilkerson
Investment Principal
Plains VC
Full Bio
Ryan Kole
Partner
VCapital
Full Bio
Nancy Sullivan
CEO & Managing Partner
Illinois Ventures
Full Bio
Canadian Pitch Track
Startups from Canada.
Contestants
The world’s first customizable pessary for women with Pelvic Floor Disorders.
Reach Orthopaedics has developed a shoulder implant to treat patients suffering from massive irreparable rotator cuff tears (MIRCT). The Reach implant restores shoulder function, reduces chronic pain and protects the acromion from associated stress fractures.
PragmaClin Research Inc. is aiming to change the world of neurological care with our remote patient monitoring system, PRIMS. This advanced platform employs depth cameras alongside patient-reported data to revolutionize the accuracy and efficiency of Parkinson’s diagnostics and monitoring.
OPTT offers evidence-based AI-powered digital mental health tools that augment mental health teams’ care quality and capacity.