We are still in awe of all the astonishing participants who contributed to our Women's Health Tech Challenge last Friday!
We had some phenomenal speakers on all our panels who gave advice to all our early stage founders, discussed the future of women's health and shared women's health perspectives from healthcare payers & providers Thank you to Stan Kachnowski PHD MPA, Victoria Iezzi, CPA, Kristopher Brown (he/him/his), Anna Zornosa, Sarah Temkin, Claret Presley, DNP, MBA, RN, CNOR, Dr. Ainsley MacLean, Sue Merrigan and Savitha Srinivasan for your discourse and important insights!
Congratulations to all of our finalists who delivered brilliant presentations of the essential Women's Health solutions that they are developing and for representing their companies!
Non-Profit Category
1st Place: Maisha Meds (presented by Sisi Pan)
2nd Place: ComfortWAVE VR; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (presented by Mary Catherine George)
Pre-Seed Category
1st Place: Myri Health (Google '24/Techstars '23) (presented by Dr. Pinkey P.)
2nd Place: Nawara Health - نوارة لصحة المرأة (presented by Raghda Rashad 🇵🇸)
Seed Category
1st Place: Bone Health Technologies | Osteoboost (presented by Laura Yecies)
2nd Place: Partum Health (presented by Meghan Doyle)
The incredible Challenge Day judges: Courtney Leimkuhler, Christina Jenkins, MD, Julianne Roseman & Dana Sun were all on hand to ask some very thoughtful questions to our finalists so that the audience could get to know these startups better in such a small amount of time.
Our pitches culminated in a marvelous keynote delivered by the one and only Esther Dyson who gave us insight to her experiences and was also kind enough to answer questions from the attendees of the virtual event!
Thank you to our generous sponsors of the event: Goodwin, Withum, Guidea, Femovate by Guidea, One Mind at Work, Beyond the Paper Gown without whom, we would not be able to host this important event highlighting the best in class for femtech solutions!
Kudos to the screeding judges, networking breakoutroom hosts & HITLAB team that made this hallmark event possible: Ansley Bowen, MPH, Samantha Richt, Pallavi Kumar, Rachel Fredman, Nicole (Nico) Hughes.
Huge, infinite thanks and appreciation finally for Susan Solinsky who orchestrated eveything from top to bottom and worked tirelessly to get this incredible community together to talk about and celebrate women's health!
To find out more about HITLAB's Women's Health Tech Challenge visit: https://lnkd.in/eZ8zhSQT
We are also running a pitch competition in partnership with Versalie searching for innovations addressing menopause. To find out more and apply, visit: https://lnkd.in/eWD-ykae
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