![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/medcity-presenterimg.webp)
GET INVOLVED
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
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/dnasafe-logo.png)
The future of healthcare data privacy. DNAsafe develops cryptographically enabled privacy preserving solutions for your business.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/healsisco-logo.png)
We bring state-of-the-art supervised and generative AI systems to the patient bedside at scale.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kemtai-logo.png)
A motion tracking exercise platform focused on providing the most personalized home exercise experience for physiotherapy & health/wellness providers
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-24-at-7.35.07-AM.png)
Samaritan is a support platform that empowers people without a home to move forward.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/somnea-logo.png)
We combine human-led care with technology to empower people with sleep apnea to sleep better at home.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/syntax-logo.png)
Syntax Health is designed to smooth out the value-based care contracting process using analytics, infrastructure and a collaborative virtual workspace.
Judges
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Jasmi-Shah.webp)
Jasmi Shah
Managing Director
Cigna Ventures
Full Bio
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Jane-Rho-Headshot.jpg)
Jane Rho
Director, Fund & AI
DaVita Ventures
Full Bio
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Dipa-Mehta.webp)
Dipa Mehta
Managing Partner
Cobalt Ventures
Full Bio
Devices & Diagnostics
Startups focused on cardiology.
Contestants
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/biomemsdiagnostic-logo.png)
BioMEMS is an ultra-high performance, non-invasive IVD testing platform with simple to use test cartridges and handheld analyzers ported to mobile devices.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/coravie-logo.png)
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.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/General-Prognostics.jpg)
With GPx, doctors can monitor their patients’ blood biomarkers remotely – without needles or implants
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/JBH-logo3.jpg)
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).
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-05-03-at-8.48.19-AM.png)
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.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/theshapesenseing-logo.png)
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
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Ken-Nelson-1.webp)
Ken Nelson
Partner
Medtech Advantage Fund
Full Bio
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/David-Kereiakes.webp)
David Kereiakes
Managing Partner
Windham Venture Partners
Full Bio
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Lewis-Kilongo.webp)
Lewis Kilongo
Principal
Unorthodox Ventures
Full Bio
Healthtech: Consumer/Employer
Startups addressing women’s health.
Contestants
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/gonofood-logo.png)
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.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/coologics-logo.png)
First, Drug-Free, Faster, and More Effective Treatment of Vaginal Infections.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/estriginex-logo.png)
Using applied and original estrogen-based research, our targeted chemistry aims to drastically reduce the mental and physical effects of menopause.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mothersmilk-logo.png)
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.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/nomai-logo.png)
Bringing the Power of Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Patient Monitoring to The Bedside
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/marma-logo.png)
With Marma, women and birthing people will feel empowered to make nutritional choices that will holistically support their body.
Judges
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Samir-Batra.webp)
Samir Batra
Managing Partner
HIP
Full Bio
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CARLI-SAPIR.webp)
Carli Sapir
Founding Partner
Amboy Street Ventures
Full Bio
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Julien-Pham-Official-3CC-Headshot.webp)
Julien L. Pham
Founder and Managing Partner
3CC | Third Culture Capital
Full Bio
Biopharma
Startups focused on oncology.
Contestants
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/amplifiedscience-logo.png)
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.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/enzymebydesign-logo.png)
We utilize our expertise engineering enzymes to reduce the dangerous side effects and improve the safety profile of cancer therapeutics.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mirecule-logo.png)
miRecule is a biotechnology company developing RNA therapies for cancer and muscular dystrophy.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/modulationtheraputics-logo.png)
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.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/oncoswab-logo.png)
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.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/talusbio-logo.png)
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
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Meredith-Wilkerson.webp)
Meredith Wilkerson
Investment Principal
Plains VC
Full Bio
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ryan-Kole.jpg)
Ryan Kole
Partner
VCapital
Full Bio
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Nancy-Sullivan.jpg)
Nancy Sullivan
CEO & Managing Partner
Illinois Ventures
Full Bio
Canadian Pitch Track
Startups from Canada.
Contestants
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/femtherepeutics-logo.png)
The world’s first customizable pessary for women with Pelvic Floor Disorders.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/reach-logo.png)
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.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pragmaclin-logo.png)
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.
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/optt-logo.png)
OPTT offers evidence-based AI-powered digital mental health tools that augment mental health teams’ care quality and capacity.
Sponsors
![](https://medcityinvestconference.com/invest/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Canada.jpeg)