(DALLAS,TX) — Today Dallas-based seed accelerator, Health Wildcatters announced the nationally ranked program has added eleven new startups to its portfolio, bringing the number of startups under Health Wildcatters’ umbrella to 99. The accelerator is entering its tenth year and has become a mainstay in the North Texas healthcare and entrepreneurial community, recently moving their headquarters to Pegasus Park.
This year’s program introduces a new partnership with the Health Finance Institute in a pilot program to accelerate a mutually selected healthcare startup with an application in chronic disease management or treatment applications.
“Once again, we welcome some of the best and brightest health entrepreneurs to Health Wildcatters with teams spanning the globe from India to Israel, and from France & Austria to the United States.”, said Hubert Zajicek, MD, CEO & Co-founder of Health Wildcatters. We are also excited to add an 11th startup this year in collaboration with the Health Finance Institute, he said.
“I am thrilled about this collaboration and opportunity with Health Wildcatters, one of the most well recognized health-focused accelerators. Health Finance Institute is moving from evidence and theory to practice in supporting a deal that will quantify health impact based on scientific metrics – moving from evidence to action and social, which is what we are all about!”, said Andrea Feigl, PhD, CEO of Health Finance Institute.
Alviss.ai (Paris, France) – Alviss.ai builds artificial intelligence-powered predictive medicine software with an emphasis on cardiovascular interventions.
Aptus Life (Dallas, TX) – Aptus Life is a new direction in patient care and healthcare efficiency. CEO Jay Brenner has spent his career in pursuit of the optimum collaboration of technology, artificial intelligence, data logistics, processes and treatment. The goal of improved outcomes in health is realized with the Aptus Life platform of enhanced Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management.
Gosia Genomics (New York, NY) – Gosia Genomics is a personalized genomic testing company empowering individuals to improve their health, wellbeing, happiness, quality of life and longevity, and fueling discovery of new disease and drug targets through genomic testing. Gosia Genomics offers saliva-based DNA sequencing tests for proactive detection of risk to chronic diseases such as arrhythmias, cardiomyopathies, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol level coupled together with genetic factors for nutrition, wellness, and personalized drug treatment.
KIOMA (Dallas, TX) – We build the world’s safest and most elegant baby car seats.
LCM BioSensor Technologies (New York, NY) – LCM BioSensor Technologies is a next generation metabolic health self-monitoring device used in prevention and management of chronic diseases.
OUI Medical (Bangalore, India) – OUI Medical has developed a novel endoscope to perform peritoneal cavity examination under local anesthesia. The solution is OPD Procedure which is cost effective, convenient and quick with minimal discomfort to the patients.
QuantiFace (Vienna, Austria) – Maximising the socio-economic value of faces. Using artificial intelligence, QuantiFace develops applications to quantify first impression along different traits and enables computer simulated changes to faces according to a desired impression.
Sage Spectra (College Station, TX) – SageSpectra is a low-cost, portable device that uses light to accurately measure tissue oxygenation across any patient at risk of Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) in under 3-minutes. PAD is the narrowing of the peripheral arteries that carry blood away from the heart, resulting in reduced blood flow to the legs and feet. SageSpectra strives to aid asymptotic patients in the early detection of PAD. Through early detection with SageSpectra’s device, long-term complications such as amputation, heart attack, and stroke and their associated acute care costs can be avoided.
Tenets AI (Chicago, IL) – Tenets.ai is a stealth mode startup which was founded by two grads pursuing Executive MBA at IE School of Business in Madrid, Spain. The health-tech industry has high affinity to leverage AI solutions, however currently does not have a solution that can allow rapid adoption. Tenets has the validated solution for this space & prefers to remain in stealth mode until fundraise and MVP development so as to retain the first-mover advantage.
Ultrasonic Medical Mapping, Inc. (Bethesda, MD) – Ultrasonic Medical Mapping, Inc (UMM) is a US-based biomedical technology company delivering the first-to-market diagnostic application of an automated low-frequency ultrasonic scanner focused on detecting early stage pancreatic and liver cancers.
VenoVision (Jerusalem, Israel) – VenoVision will help improve therapeutic management, patient outcomes, and drive down the billions of dollars wasted on preventable deterioration and rehospitalization of those suffering, or at risk of, heart failure and hemodynamic complications. It will support medical teams to stabilize patients by setting a new frontier in low-cost, objective, non invasive hemodynamic monitoring. VenoVision is an easy-to-use, contactless, deep-thermal imaging device and hemodynamic monitoring platform for the inpatient, outpatient and home environments. The new startups will deliver their elevator pitches and be formally introduced to the DFW healthcare community. For more information visit healthwildcatters.com
About Health Wildcatters
Health Wildcatters is a top-ranked seed accelerator based in Dallas, TX. Exclusively focused on healthcare, Health Wildcatters has 88 portfolio companies and has raised collectively over $250 million across the last nine years. To learn more about Health Wildcatters visit www.healthwildcatters.com
About Health Finance Institute
The Health Finance Institute is a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit aiming to increase investment in non-communicable diseases to save millions of lives by translating economic evidence into actionable, high-impact blended finance investment opportunities worldwide. To learn more about Health Finance Institute visit www.healthfinanceinstitute.org
