| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.10.2023 | Time Is Running Out to Register for MedCity INVEST Digital Health in Dallas on October 26 | The INVEST Digital Health conference, a collaboration between MedCity News and the Health Wildcatters accelerator, is coming up this Thursday, October 26. Held at Pegasus Park in Dallas, the conference spotlights a wide range of hot topics ... |
| 13.10.2023 | UH to deliver on tech to DOD, 2 Houston startups raise funding, and more trending news from the week | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included a major military contract for UH, two startups with fundi... |
| 10.10.2023 | Houston Innovation Awards names longtime Rice leader as 2023 Trailblazer | In less than a month, all of Houston's innovation community's movers and shakers will gather to celebrate the Houston Innovation Awards, and the night's first honoree has officially been named.
Brad Burke, managing director of the Rice Alli... |
| 06.10.2023 | Texas burger spot takes bite out of innovative, eco-friendly initiative | Hearty Austin-based chain Hopdoddy Burger Bar has unveiled a new lineup of regenerative burgers that are supposed to be better for the planet and the consumer.
The term "regenerative burger" could cause a few head-scratches: Some ... |
| 29.09.2023 | Houston-area schools make best universities list, tech nonprofit expands, and more trending news | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included Houston schools scoring big on a recent ranking, a tech nonpr... |
| 26.09.2023 | Growing Houston tech nonprofit expands access to textbooks for college students | If everyone that attended a college or university were polled, they’d all likely agree that one of the worst parts of the experience was the rising costs of textbooks.
In an effort to combat the hefty price tag of assigned texts, OpenStax, ... |
| 21.09.2023 | Houston program buoys promising cancer research with live-saving innovation | How do you bring promising cancer research to the masses? TMC Innovation's Accelerator for Cancer Therapeutics was established with that question in mind.
Funded by a $5 million grant from CPRIT, or the Cancer Prevention and Research Instit... |
| 11.09.2023 | Health Wildcatters Takes The Wraps Off Its Latest Cohort of Healthcare Startups | Health Wildcatters has launched the latest cohort of healthcare startups, bringing its total number of portfolio companies to 109 in the 11th year for the accelerator.
Of the 10 healthcare startups in the latest cohort, 60% are women-led. I... |
| 22.08.2023 | Massive $32M gift from former patient, new UH deal pump big changes into Houston organization | Leadership at The Texas Heart Institute has two major things to celebrate. First, it just received a $32 million donation from a patient — the largest charitable donation in its history.
Shortly after that news came out, the institute annou... |
| 18.08.2023 | Top hospitals, accelerator's new leader, and more trending Houston innovation news | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included the top hospitals in Texas, key facts about Houston's innovat... |
| 31.07.2023 | Houston health tech startup secures $16M series A, prepares for first U.S. clinical trials | Fueled by fresh funding in the bank, a medical device startup has announced upcoming trials.
VenoStent, Inc., a company developing an innovative tool to improve outcomes for hemodialysis patients, has closed $16 million in a series A round ... |
| 15.06.2023 | INVEST Digital Health Conference in Dallas Will Probe True Value and Not Fanciful Valuation | A lot has changed in the past 12 months. Digital health funding isn’t as easy to access though one report suggests that it has steadied in the first quarter from the steep decline in 2022.
Still, what is gaining in currency is concrete evid... |
| 13.11.2022 | How Are Investors Thinking About Healthcare Investment Trends for 2023? | This article is part of a series sponsored by HLTH highlighting topics that will be discussed at the HLTH conference November 13-16 in Las Vegas.
If you were to sum up healthcare investment trends in 2022, behavioral health, healthcare on d... |
| 03.12.2021 | Invent health roundtable: eight companies reinventing primary care | They included Bone Health Technologies, CrowdHealth, HealthNxt, HeyRenee, and Insiteflow
At the fifth session of Invent Health Virtual Event - Primary Care and the New Medical QB last month, eight startups in the primary care space presente... |
| 01.12.2021 | Video: Primary care roundtable featuring UCSF, Health Wildcatters, Providence Ventures | Startups disrupting primary care @ Primary Care and the New Medical QB event 11/17/21
At the fifth session of Invent Health Virtual Event - Primary Care and the New Medical QB we are going to listen to the startups. This session is emceed b... |
| 10.09.2021 | StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups | Emulate this week announced the close of an $82 million Series E financing round led by existing investor Northpond Ventures with additional participation from Perceptive Advisors. With this investment, Emulate has raised nearly $225 millio... |
| 11.12.2020 | Healthcare in Politics Conference Session 2: Startups Disrupting Session | Sempre Health, Makhers Studio, Ejenta present
Vator · Healthcare in Politics Invent Health Startups Disrupting Session
Healthcare in Politics, Startups Disrupting session is hosted by Ethan Prater from Alchemist Accelerator; Hubert Zajicek ... |
| 12.10.2020 | Invent Health Startups Disrupting Session | Healthcare in Politics, Oct 2020
Healthcare in Politics, Startups Disrupting session is hosted by Ethan Prater from Alchemist Accelerator; Hubert Zajicek (CEO, Co-founder & Partner, Health Wildcatters) and Adam Sharkawy (Co-Founder &... |
| 20.08.2018 | Video: VCs are investing in technologies to address our emotional well-being | At SplashX Invent Health: Behavioral and Mental Health, hosted by HP and Vator
At our June 2018 event, SplashX Invent Health: Mental and Behavioral Health, Archana Dubey (Global Medical Director, HP Health Centers, HP) and Bambi Francisco R... |
| 03.07.2018 | We're all crazy; it doesn't mean we're all mentally ill | Healthtech VCs weigh in on mental health challenges, and call treatments a 'crapshoot'
This year could be a record-setting year for VC investments in mental health and wellness.
It's one of the reasons Vator and HP focused on this topic dur... |
| 26.06.2018 | Why healthtech VCs are investing in mental and behavioral health | VCs from KP Ventures, GE Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Maverick, Health Wildcatters share their views
This year could be a record-setting year for VC investments in mental health and wellness.
It's one of the reasons Vator and HP focused on this top... |
| 12.04.2018 | Health Wildcatters portfolio company scores exit with Nike acquisition | Nike Chief Digital Officer Adam Sussman said in a company news release that Invertex would fit into Nike’s Consumer Direct Offense strategy.
“The acquisition of Invertex will deepen our bench of digital talent and further our capabilities i... |
| 21.09.2017 | 20 Startup Accelerators Impacting the Healthcare Industry | Startup accelerators are all about support. They gives budding companies a chance to succeed thanks to mentorship, networking opportunities, and plenty of capital. In the healthcare industry, those kinds of resources aren't found easily, pa... |
| 31.08.2017 | Gregor Joins Texas Accelerator to Advance Prostate Cancer Test | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When Tobias Zutz left his job as a senior research associate at Exact Sciences in 2015, he knew he wanted his next career stop to be at a smaller organization.
Zutz worked at ... |
| 30.08.2017 | Health Wildcatters Unveils Fifth Class of 9 Health IT Startups | Health Wildcatters, a mentorship-driven healthcare seed accelerator has unveiled nine new health IT companies selected to participate in the 2017 accelerator program. With the addition of these 10 healthcare startups, which comprise Health ... |
| 23.06.2017 | Family office is raising $30M for medtech and health IT investment follow-on fund | In response to an email, Soderstrom offered some details on Green Park’s investment strategy. It has invested 40 percent of its capital in medical devices, 20 percent in therapeutics, 20 percent in software as a service and health IT, 10 pe... |
| 14.06.2017 | MassChallenge’s digital health program gets funding renewed | Although Baker comes from a health administration background as a former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim, his presence at the event marking the end of the six-month program is not the kind of recognition most healthcare accelerators are able to must... |
| 08.06.2017 | Your guide to accelerators focused on the healthcare space! | Dreamit, Blueprint Health and Healthbox are among those programs focused only on healthcare
For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, ... |
| 06.06.2017 | 30 Best Startup Accelerators in the US Ranked | There's no shame in getting a little bit of help, particularly when it comes to running a business. Sure, you can bootstrap a one-man company with no advice from seasoned entrepreneurs and a notable lack of experience yourself, but you know... |
| 18.04.2017 | Video: Catalia Health at Vator Splash Health 2017 | Check out Cory Kidds' winning presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
At Vator Splash Health 2017, here's the video of Cory Kidd,Founder, Catalia Health, LLC, giving his presentation.
Catalia Health charge on a per patient per month ... |
| 14.04.2017 | Video:Multisensor Diagnostics - Vator Splash Health 2017 | Check out Sathya Elumalais' winning presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
At Vator Splash Health 2017, here's the video of Sathya Elumalai,Founder, Multisensor Diagnostics (MDx), LLC, giving his presentation.
Multisensor Diagnostic... |
| 13.04.2017 | Video: Invivox - Vator Splash Health 2017 | Check out Julian Delpechs' winning presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
At Vator Splash Health 2017, here's the video of Julian Delpech,Founder, Invivox giving his presentation.
Invivox takes a commission (10 to 25% based on the n... |
| 12.04.2017 | Video: Amicomed - Vator Splash Health 2017 | Check out Giangiacomo Rocco di Torrepadulas' winning presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
At Vator Splash Health 2017, here's the video of Giangiacomo Rocco di Torrepadula,Founder, Amicomed giving his presentation.
Amicomed addres... |
| 11.04.2017 | Blumio - Vator Splash Health 2017 Runner-Up | Check out Catherine Liaos' winning presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Blumio took home the silver at Vator Splash Health 2017. Here's the video of Catherine Liao, Blumio, Founder and CEO, giving her presentation.
Blumio has deve... |
| 10.04.2017 | Iris Plans - Vator Splash Health 2017 Winner | Check out Steve Wardles' winning presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Health 2017 cohort Iris Plans, took home the gold. Here's the video of Steve Wardle, Iris Plans, Founder and CEO, giving the winning presentation.
... |
| 23.03.2017 | Presenting the finalists for Vator Splash Health! | 8 startups will be pitching their ideas to some of the top healthtech VCs!
Vator Splash Health is finally here! And in just a few hours, we'll find out who the winner of our competition is!
The winning company, and the runner up, gets about... |
| 23.03.2017 | The winner of Vator Splash Health is... Iris Plans! | Congratulations to our runner up: Blumio!
The ballots are in! They have all been counted and recounted, and we have a winner for this year's Vator Splash Health, Wellness & Wearables 2017.
Hubert Zajicek of Health Wildcatters, and one o... |
| 29.11.2016 | Orb Health and PadInMotion offer two different approaches to engaging patients | Orb Health also has a chronic care management component. Its technology integrates electronic medical records and data from wearables, patient engagement tools, deep healthcare information.
In response to questions, Orb Health CEO Paul Oran... |
| 14.03.2016 | Health tech accelerators Healthbox, Health Wildcatters get props in report | Business professors Yael Hochberg of Rice University and Susan Cohen of the University of Richmond produced the report with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Innovation Initiative Lab for Innovation Science, and highlighted their find... |
| 25.09.2015 | Sneak Peek: Check Out Our Celebrate 2015 Epic Office Hours | The first day of fall was only a few days ago, which means October is right around the corner. Stores are putting out the Halloween candy, the leaves are changing colors, and our annual Tech Cocktail Celebrate Conference is fast approaching... |
| 10.09.2015 | Dallas health tech accelerator includes Google Glass, stroke treatment for aFib patients | Here’s a look at the company’s in the new class:
Codedgi developed an automated coding software to help physicians understand compliance guidelines, learn new ICD10 codes, and speed up billing. It is designed for the coding of ambulatory di... |
| 30.07.2015 | Tech-Friendly Startup Accelerators in Dallas | It takes a special person to pursue a venture like a startup; that path is definitely not for just anyone. When you are new to the game, it can be difficult to know where to begin. This may attribute to why top cities for startups have buil... |
| 09.06.2015 | Seed Accelerator Health Wildcatters Startups Raise $10M | Health Wildcatters, a Dallas-based mentorship-driven healthcare seed accelerator, announced cumulative fundraising results from its two startup classes today, reporting that the 22 companies collectively raised more than $10 million in the ... |
| 29.04.2015 | GSK gene therapy close to EU submission, CRISPR closes new cash, Takeda settles Actos (Morning Read) | It looks like GlaxoSmithKline will be the first big pharma company to file for marketing approval for a gene therapy to combat adenosine deaminase severe combined immune deficiency when it submits its drug for ADA-SCID in Europe, according ... |
| 28.04.2015 | Health Wildcatters 2014 Startup Class Raises $4.5 Million | Health Wildcatters, a mentorship-driven healthcare seed accelerator, announced that its second class of startups has collectively raised $4.5 million since the program ended in late November. The fundraising results from this class are simi... |
| 20.03.2015 | Amidst the SXSW carnival atmosphere, some takeaways for healthcare | Smarter, more sophisticated wearables drew some attention at the conference.
The U.S. Agency for International Development highlighted its MultiSense Memory wearable at the conference. It’s designed to attach to the sternum and take heart r... |
| 18.03.2015 | Orb Health raises $650K for its health data exchange platform | Phoenix, Arizona-based Orb Health has raised $650,000 from incubator Health Wildcatters, Green Park and Golf Ventures, and others, according to a post from MedCity News.
Orb Health has developed a platform that helps patients and providers ... |
| 17.03.2015 | Orb Health raises funds for portal launch to build fuller picture of consumers’ health from lab results, EHRs, wearable data | “It’s a huge differentiator for providers who want to have more engagement with patients on mobile health,” said Paul Oran, co-founder and CEO of Orb Health, in a phone interview. “The provider doesn’t just want [patients] to have access to... |
| 19.02.2015 | Don’t mess with Texas startups: Why the Dallas tech scene is set to explode | Photo via Shutterstock.
Editor’s Note: GeekWire has partnered with UP Global and Chase to cover four Startup Week events around the country, starting with Tampa Bay earlier this month, Phoenix next week, and Dallas from Mar. 2 to 6. Tune in... |
| 05.01.2015 | Here’s a group getting it together in the murky world of healthcare collaboration | The class provides Life Science/Health Care entrepreneurs with real world, hands-on learning on how to rapidly:
define clinical utility before spending millions of dollars
understand who their core and tertiary customers are, and the sales ... |
| 19.11.2014 | Health Wildcatters Pitch Day 2014 Showcases New Class of Startups | Health Wildcatters, the Southwest’s first healthcare seed-accelerator presented eleven innovative companies at their annual “Pitch Day” yesterday at the Majestic Theatre in Dallas. Each startup participated in the 12 week accelerator progra... |
| 26.08.2014 | Seed Accelerator Health Wildcatters Unveils Second Class of Startups | Health Wildcatters, the Southwest’s first healthcare seed-accelerator announced the twelve innovative companies chosen for the second class of the Dallas-based accelerator program today. Each startup will participate in the 12 week accelera... |
| 10.06.2014 | Health Wildcatters First Class Raises $5M in Funding 6 Months After Pitch Day | Health Wildcatters’ (HW) alumni startups are celebrating the accomplishment of raising almost $5M in funding only six short months after pitch day. The first HW Class had twelve diverse companies that are changing the way healthcare is deli... |
| 05.06.2014 | Match.com for senior care, Cariloop gives users more control over healthcare decisions | It just raised $400,000 in seed capital, according to a company statement. Dallas-based Green Park & Golf Ventures and Fort Worth-based Corbett Capital led the financing round. The funding will help it develop distribution channels acro... |
| 04.11.2013 | Venture Spur’s Dallas Pitch Day Highlights North Texas Startup Scene | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In the last year, entrepreneurial activities in Dallas have been going gangbusters. One illustration of this: In just a few short months, we went from having one accelerator f... |
| 25.10.2013 | Startup kicks off crowdfunding campaign for noninvasive glucose meter | “We’re cautiously optimistic. We absolutely do have a plan in place and we also cheer our competitors. There’s definitely room in this space for five or six noninvasive glucometers because the market is so large,” he said. Socrates is curre... |
| 14.05.2013 | Health Wildcatters Co-Founder Talks Dallas Health Startup Accelerator | Dr. Hubert Zajicek, Co-Founder of Health Wildcatters talks about their mentorship-driven healthcare seed accelerator.
Last month, Health Wildcatters, a Dallas based seed stage healthcare accelerator announced their launch and is accepting a... |
| 26.04.2013 | Health Wildcatters looking to support HIT entrepreneurs in the great state of Texas | The competition for the 15 spots is expected to be strong, with a live quick-pitch “finals” event with the Top 30 teams in Dallas in July. Startups accepted into the program are partnered with mentors, advisors, capital, connections, strate... |
| - | Orb Health and PadInMotion offer two different approaches to engaging patients | Orb Health, a digital health startup based in Phoenix, has raised $3.2 million, a company news release said. The funding will be used to expand its platform to improve the way physicians communicate with patients and provide practice manage... |
| - | StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups | Element Biosciences, developer of a new and disruptive DNA sequencing platform, recently announced that the company has closed its acquisition of Loop Genomics, a long-read solutions company that enables short-read sequencers to obtain long... |
| - | MassChallenge’s digital health program gets funding renewed | Boston skyline along the Harborwalk
MassChallenge marked the end of its first digital health cohort PULSE@MassChallenge with assurances from Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker that the Commonwealth would back a second class of digital health ... |
| - | Health tech accelerators Healthbox, Health Wildcatters get props in report | Health Wildcatters got recognized for the first time in an annual report ranking seed accelerators. It scored a Silver ranking while Healthbox attained a Gold in the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project.
Hubert Zajicek is the head of the Dalla... |
| - | Health Wildcatters looking to support HIT entrepreneurs in the great state of Texas | A Dallas technology accelerator is launching a new program for healthcare startups. Applications for the first class of Health Wildcatters is now open.
The accelerator is looking for companies working in digital health, mHealth, healthIT, S... |
| - | StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups | Emulate this week announced the close of an $82 million Series E financing round led by existing investor Northpond Ventures with additional participation from Perceptive Advisors. With this investment, Emulate has raised nearly $225 millio... |
| - | Dallas health tech accelerator includes Google Glass, stroke treatment for aFib patients | The Health Wildcatters accelerator’s third class of healthcare startups reflects a diverse group of entrepreneurs tackling a broad range of conditions. Among the participants include a company helping people regain control of their muscles ... |
| - | Startup kicks off crowdfunding campaign for noninvasive glucose meter | Socrates Health Solutions has gone to Indiegogo to crowdfund $125,000 for its noninvasive glucose meter technology, the Companion, by Nov. 12. The healthcare startup has Dallas roots as part of the Health Wildcatters incubator. The campaign... |
| - | INVEST Digital Health conference set to move to Texas amid state’s growing stature as a health hub | Whenever people think of healthcare and Texas, all eyes turn toward Houston, home to the world’s largest medical complex with marquee names like MD Anderson Cancer Center.
To be slightly contrarian, we at MedCity News have chosen a differen... |
| - | Orb Health raises funds for portal launch to build fuller picture of consumers’ health from lab results, EHRs, wearable data | Orb Health, a Phoenix-based grad of the Dallas-based healthcare accelerator Health Wildcatters, has raised seed funding as it prepares to launch a portal to connect physicians with labs and patients. The goal is to provide tools that spark ... |
| - | Amidst the SXSW carnival atmosphere, some takeaways for healthcare | The carnival atmosphere of South by Southwest Interactive did not disappoint from guys in gorilla costumes riding a scooter down the main drag of South Congress to a plane pulling along a grumpy cat banner and throngs of uniformed minions p... |
| - | Family office is raising $30M for medtech and health IT investment follow-on fund | Green Park & Golf Ventures, a family office that zeroes in on the medtech and health IT sectors, has raised a portion of its $30 million follow-on investment fund. The goal is to raise the fund by the end of the year.
The Dallas-based f... |
| - | Here’s a group getting it together in the murky world of healthcare collaboration | The landscape for how to turn life science and health care technologies into viable companies has changed more in the last 3 years than in the last 30. New approaches to translational medicine have emerged. Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Scie... |
| - | Health Wildcatters portfolio company scores exit with Nike acquisition | In a win for Dallas-based accelerator Health Wildcatters, Nike has snapped up portfolio company Invertex, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based technology business that seeks to disrupt the footwear industry through 3D body scanning. The terms of the de... |
| - | GSK gene therapy close to EU submission, CRISPR closes new cash, Takeda settles Actos (Morning Read) | TOP STORIES
Takeda has agreed to pay $2.4 billion to settle the Actos cancer lawsuits.
NEA, Celgene and SROne have lead a $60 million+ round for CRISPR Therapeutics.
It looks like GlaxoSmithKline will be the first big pharma company to file... |
| - | Match.com for senior care, Cariloop gives users more control over healthcare decisions | One of the toughest decisions seniors and their adult children often have to make is picking a care facility. One healthcare startup confronting that challenge is Cariloop. Its service reflects the growing trend of the healthcare industry a... |
