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MedTech Color Pitch Competition
Top 10 Startups Selected
Advanced Surgical Retractor Systems, Inc
Founder - Ramon Cestero
Advanced Surgical Retractor Systems, Inc. (ASR Systems) is a Texas-based C corporation based in San Antonio, TX. We are dedicated to the design, development, and commercialization of innovative surgical retractor systems, and our mission is to advance the way surgeons operate and improve patient outcomes.
Alva Health Inc.
Founder - Sandra Saldana
Alva Health is developing a neuromonitoring platform and our first indication is real-time monitoring of stroke. Ischemic stroke affects 700,000 Americans each year and is the leading cause of disability, resulting in $67B annual avoidable healthcare spend due to delays in symptom recognition and treatment.
LENA
Founder - Alex Harb
LENA enables Health Systems, providers and health plans to deploy remote Personal Assistant to at risk patient populations for health navigation that makes health simpler and improves outcomes.
DiaM Life Inc.
Founder - Lorenna Feliz Santos
DiaM started because our CEO, who is the mother of two children with Type One Diabetes, saw how the lack of real-time connection to doctors, limited resources, and hardships of managing/self-care with Diabetes was affecting her children.
Disati Medical
Founder - Feyisope Eweje
Clinicians face a significant challenge in determining the appropriate level of respiratory support for critically-ill patients: a moving target that requires a continuous view into the patients’ respiratory status to respond to trends or changes before it’s too late.
NewGait
Founder - Benga Adeeko, P.E.
NewGait gives hope to those who have lost it. Many patients are given few options when they have mobility problems; use one of the old outdated legacy solutions or spend thousands of dollars on a complicated high-tech device.
Guardian Lane Inc.
Founder - Kristina Jones
Guardianlane.com is a children's mental health platform that is innovating how children access grief counseling. Children watch, create, and share fun creative grief projects, creating their own social healing network. Featured counselors are also available for 1:1 tele-counseling sessions.
Respira Labs
Founder - Maria Artunduaga
Respira Labs is a Machine Learning-enabled platform that uses intelligent patches and a patented acoustic resonance technology to monitor, predict and prevent lung disease.
Sayenza Biosciences, Inc
Founder - Derek Banyard
Headquartered in Orange County, CA, Sayenza Bio was founded by Dr. Derek Banyard who left plastic surgery residency at UC Irvine to found this company after receiving grants from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Plastic Surgery Foundations and realizing the immense potential of this novel technology.
Starling Medical Inc
Founder - Alex Arevalos
At Starling Medical, we are a digital health device company based in Houston, Texas developing a revolutionary new way for the 3 million US patients with severe neurogenic bladder dysfunction to empty their bladders quickly and easily with our tech-enabled urinary catheter prosthesis.
Timeline
Application Opens
Jan 7th, 2021.
Application Closes
Feb 10th, 2021.
Top 10 Startups Announced
Feb 22nd, 2021.
Startup Bootcamp
Feb - March 2021.
Pitch Night
Mar 23rd, 2021.
Cash Awards and Services
April, 2021.
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Our Core Objectives
Thought Leadership
Catalyst for Professional Development
Access to a Diversified Medtech Professional Network
The Competition
MedTech Color
Pitch Competition
The MedTech Color Pitch Competition is a foundational start for early-stage startups within the med tech industry. We’re looking for innovative startups to take the stage for a virtual competition, showcase their products or services that will directly benefit patients, and tell their story.
Eligibility
We are looking for:
Prizes
1st
Cash
$25,000
Education
3 Master Classes
5 Workshops
Non-Dilutive Capital
In-Kind Services
MedTech Color Membership
2nd
Cash
$15,000
Education
3 Master Classes
5 Workshops
Non-Dilutive Capital
In-Kind Services
MedTech Color Membership
3rd
Cash
$10,000
Education
3 Master Classes
5 Workshops
Non-Dilutive Capital
In-Kind Services
MedTech Color Membership
Special Prizes
ResMed
Cash
$25,000
Non Dilutive
3-6 Months of Virtual Residency
Executive Point-Of-Contact
1 to 1 Mentoring
Advisory Sessions with Select ResMed Leaders
Startup Acceleration Plan and In-Residency Milestons
Olympus
Cash
$15,000
Mentorship
3-6 Month Corporate Scholarship
O'Melveney
In-Kind
$25,000
Legal Services and Support
Mentorship
Ximedica
In-Kind
$20,000
Multigenerational Plan
Working sessions with curated Ximedica team
Advisory support to develop a custom plan
Top 10 Participants will have:
Access to 3 Master Classes
Access to 5 workshops
Membership in MedTech Color
In Partnership with
MATTER HEALTH
Step 1
Attend Q&A Session in January 2021 (Optional)
Step 2
Complete Application
Step 3
Submit Pitch Deck
