Impact Pediatric Health, a pitch competition at the Austin, Texas-based film and conference festival South by Southwest, offers the CEOs of its 10 finalists three minutes to pitch how their startup is solving pediatric health issues. There are two $15,000 prizes at the event.
Here are the 10 digital health and medical device finalists.
- Astarte Medical Partners (Ewing, N.J.)
- CareDox (New York City)
- Cast21 (Champaign, Ill.)
- emojiHEALTH (Toronto, Canada)
- EpiBiome (San Francisco)
- Force Impact Technologies (Gilbert, Ariz.)
- Keriton (Philadelphia)
- Luminopia (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Metamason (Los Angeles)
- Neuroelectrics (Cambridge, Mass.)
The competition is hosted by eight U.S. children’s hospitals: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Boston Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Stanford (Calif.) Children’s Health and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.
Click here to learn more about the 10 finalists.
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