ABOUT HEALTH TECH CHALLENGERS
Health Tech Challengers is a premier platform for discovering and supporting innovative digital health startups that make a difference in the world. Each year, we host an epic pitch competition for entrepreneurs who develop disruptive products revolutionising the future of health.
To enter, startups must be innovators in one of the eight tracks fostering the digital health revolution – Gamified Wellness & Fitness, Gender-Specific Health, Sleep Science & Technology, Mental & Holistic Health, Nutrition, Metabolic & Gut Health, Employee Wellness & Burnout Prevention, Chronic Disease Management or Solving X (Wild Card).
8 application tracks
HOW DOES IT WORK?
10 companies in each track are shortlisted by a distinguished panel of industry experts from leading corporations, Venture Capital, ecosystem builders and media partners.
The Top 80 startups are invited to pitch live at Health Tech Forward 2023, the leading industry conference of the year, offering valuable media and PR attention, as well as vast networking opportunities.
One company is announced as the ultimate winner of the Health Tech Challengers 2023 award.
Timeline
JURY
Ida Luka-Lognone
Stephen Konya
Sofie Roorda
Michael Treskow
Pekka Simula
Guy Spigelman
Dominick Kennerson
Jaime Bland
Sander Ruitenberg
Cris Salinas
Dr. Sabine Klein
Ayotunde Aladejana
Madeleine Durand
Karolina Maria Nowak PharmD, PhD, MBA
Stefan Schwarz
Marcin Kwiatek
Erki Mölder
Aleksandro Grabulov
Christina Brandmair
Tatiana Klimanova
Amine Benmoussa
Beatriz Testoni
Ján Szöllös
Johannes Blaschke
Simon Turner
Katharina Neisinger
Hugh Bowen
Justin Smith
Aahuti Rai
Katarzyna Kolasa
Alexis Edwards
Ritesh Patel
Issy Gordon
Philipp Spenger
Nick Fox
Simon Bates
Dan Ma
Dr. Saira Ghafur
Alexander Kuznetsov
Daniel Dillinger
Tomasz Chwiałkowski
Ilona Hubbard
Lina Behrens
Max Grenz
Nils Bottler
Amin Esmaily-Fard
Susan van Boxtel
Terje Peetso
Martina Vitézová
Dr Avi Mehra MBBS BSc (Hons) FFCI
Lucas Paul
Sascha Lorenzen
Suki Nahl
Johannes Fischer
Marta Mrozowicz
Christian Oberlé
Filippo Falaschi
Bill McMahon
Philipp Kopp
Dr. José Ferrer Costa, MD
Daria Gherghelas
Johannes Link
Maciej Banach
George Mitropoulos
Samanta Dall'Agnese
Laura Schäfer
Jan Przybylowicz, MD
Sophy Li
Matthew Foran
Bernhard Ungerböck
Jakob Lilienweiss
Thorsten Kern
Pieter De Maeght
Ruth Coleman
Hanna Fedchyshyn
Livia Jacob
Michael Hübner
André Moraes Sarmento
Elizabeth Piatkowska
Jakub Chwiećko
Benjamin Belot
Alexander Selzer
Nicolas Vandekerkhof
Moritz Grosse
We announce new jury members every week.
Stay tuned!
LAST YEAR’S HIGHLIGHTS
WINNERS OF 2022
ULTIMATE
CHALLENGER
NovaSight focuses on bringing pediatric vision care into the digital age by delivering eye tracking-based solutions for vision diagnostics and treatment. NovaSight has two flagship products:
– The CureSight™ – an FDA cleared digital therapy for amblyopia that is designed to replace traditional patching
– The EyeSwift®PRO – a comprehensive vision diagnostics device which screens for multiple vision impairments
ULTIMATE
CHALLENGER
NovaSight focuses on bringing pediatric vision care into the digital age by delivering eye tracking-based solutions for vision diagnostics and treatment. NovaSight has two flagship products:
– The CureSight™ – an FDA cleared digital therapy for amblyopia that is designed to replace traditional patching
– The EyeSwift®PRO – a comprehensive vision diagnostics device which screens for multiple vision impairments
TOP 8 finalists
Yatek is a company that develops VR-based exposure training to help millions of people treat social anxiety using VR exposure therapy & AI.
Motilent is a technology startup focused on delivering innovative services for the quantitative investigation of the gut. Motilent champions the use of novel MRI post-processing software as a cheaper and safer biomarker for Gastrointestinal and Bowel Disorders, providing quantitative end points for research, drug development and clinical decision-making.
Alertgy has been founded by a small team of innovators that had collaborated on challenging technical programs over the years, specifically to address the highly desired ability to measure blood sugar levels with an external wearable sensor device.
Implicity developed a remote monitoring platform for patients with connected pacemakers and defibrillators. Designed for cardiologists and healthcare professionals, it automates remote monitoring of their patients. An artificial intelligence module determines the criticality of each alert considering the medical context of the patient.
medical magnesium develops metallic bioabsorbable implants for orthopaedic and trauma surgical therapy, based on its mm.X implant technology. The mm.X implants are mechanically stable and will be physiologically absorbed by the body after the fracture has healed.
NovaSight focuses on bringing pediatric vision care into the digital age by delivering eye tracking-based solutions for vision diagnostics and treatment. NovaSight has two flagship products:
– The CureSight™ – an FDA cleared digital therapy for amblyopia that is designed to replace traditional patching
– The EyeSwift®PRO – a comprehensive vision diagnostics device which screens for multiple vision impairments
Onsurity is a HealthTech & Employee Benefits organisation, disrupting the SME and startup healthcare market with technology and innovation. The company is offering a revolutionary healthcare platform – TeamSure, the next big thing in comprehensive employee healthcare.
Saventic Health is a med-tech company that creates artificial intelligence algorithms to support doctors in diagnosing rare (hidden) diseases early based on patients’ medical records i.e. laboratory test results, radiology and other descriptive medical data.