Versalie™ Virtual Innovation Challenge

Attend Pitch Day

November 21, 2024 @ 1-3pm EST

Register to attend the virtual event and download the agenda. Three finalists will present their innovations and winners will be receive a total of $50,000!

Versalie™ Virtual Innovation Challenge

2024 Winners

First Place

Second Place

Third place & Audience Choice

Pitch Day Agenda

1:00 PM – 1:05 PM: Welcome and Introduction

  • Moderator: Amy West, Principal Director, Advisory Services & Chair for the Women’s Health Tech Initiative at HITLAB
  • Overview of the day’s agenda

1:05 PM – 1:25 PM: Keynote Address

  • Speaker: Ben Serbiak, Director, New Ventures- Versalie
  • Topic: Overview of Versalie Challenge, Purpose and Prizes

1:25 PM – 1:40 PM: Research Presentation on Women’s Health

  • Speaker: Kat Marriott,  Senior Research Scientist at HITLAB
  • Topic: Women’s Health Research Presentation

1:40 PM – 1:55PM: Judge Introductions

  • Brief introductions of each judge
  • Overview of judging criteria
  • Kristin Chung, Versalie Product Lead, Versalie
  • Russ Gould, R&D Digital Health, Versalie
  • Bryan Cunningham, Versalie Technology Lead ,Versalie 
  • Sean Wolf, Versalie Ecomm Lead, Versalie
  • Kelly Vohden, Versalie Growth Lead, Versalie
  • Dr. Jill Liss, OBGYN and Versalie Advisor

1:55 PM – 2:30 PM: Pitches from Applicants

  • Time allotted for each pitch: 5 minutes
  • Q&A session after each pitch
  • Dr. Amy Beckley, Owner & CEO, Proov 
  • Cat De Roure, Co-Founder & CTO, TAG, Alicia Mergenthaler,Co-Founder & COO, TAG, & Renee Wurth, Co-Founder & CEO, TAG 
  • Susan Sly, CEO & Founder, The Pause Technology & Mia Chorney, CEO & Founder, The Pause Technology

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM: Fireside Chat Discussion

  • Judges discuss pitches while fireside chat occurs
  • Speaker: Joe Cody, Associate Director, Health IT and Digital Health Policy, American College of Cardiology & Founder, Grain Fertility
  • Moderator: Amy West, Principal Director, Advisory Services & Chair for the Women’s Health Tech Initiative at HITLAB

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM: Awards Ceremony

  • Announcement of winners
  • Audience Choice Award, 3rd place, 2nd place, 1st place

3:00 PM: Closing Remarks and Thank You’s

  • Acknowledgments to participants, judges, and sponsors
  • Invitation to engage

Seeking Innovators

The 2024 Fall Versalie™ Virtual Innovation Challenge is a competition that focuses on innovative solutions for women’s health, specifically menopause, and sourcing small startups and entrepreneurs with MVPs (Minimum Viable Products). This event aims to identify emerging technologies that use innovative endeavors in digital healthcare technology to improve consumer engagement, education, and adherence to healthy practices for better holistic health. As healthcare technology continues to change the world, health companies are looking to opportunities created by these digital advances to create applications and systems to improve access, availability, awareness, and the design of health solutions for underserved populations. The Challenge seeks innovators who have developed groundbreaking solutions that explore the connection between women’s health and holistic well-being using data-driven methodologies. The purpose of the challenge is to bolster innovation and identify high-potential new technologies in an emerging, and quickly growing, segment of the digital health and healthcare market that provides opportunities to address healthcare challenges.

Timeline

  • Applications Open​: September 4
  • Applications Close​: November 3
  • Finalists Announced​: November 14
  • Challenge Day: November 21, 2024

Application Process

Call for Applications

Review of Applications

Applications Close

Final Review
& Selection

Innovators Selected to Pitch

Apply to Pitch

We are currently accepting applications for the event, which will be judged based on the following criteria:

  • Impact: Will the innovation make an impact on a large population/large number of lives touched or a particularly strong impact on a smaller population?
  • Differentiation: Does the idea create competitive processes, products, and/or ideas compared to what is currently available?
  • Scalability: Does the idea meet criteria that show it’s capable of scaling to meet full value potential?
  • Technical feasibility: Does the idea have a potential product market fit and the potential for standing up the product in the market?
  • Economic feasibility: Does the idea have a business case articulated and the potential to raise and sustain funding?
  • Team: Does the idea lend itself to a team collaboration?
  • Quality of Work: Is the pitch and value proposition clear and well-articulated?
Eligibility Criteria

Prizes

1st Place Prize

  • The first-place winner will receive the Grand Prize in the form of a check for $25,000 U.S. dollars.

2nd Place Prize

  • The second-place winner will receive a prize in the form of a check for $15,000 U.S. dollars.

3rd Place Prize

  • The third-place winner will receive a prize in the form of a check for $10,000 U.S. dollar

Audience Choice Award

  • The Audience Choice Award winner will receive a 12-month Executive BTA Fellowship (Valued at $999.99) as well as a HITLAB Research study, publication, and a promotional feature on a HITLAB event

Applications closed

Fill out the following form to submit your application. Deadline November 3, 2024 @ 11:59pm EST.

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FAQ

No, there is no application fee. HITLAB does not take equity from winners or participants, and there is no fee to accept prizes. There is no cost to innovators for applying or participating.

The challenge will be judged by a panel of digital health leaders and pitched solutions will be selected on the basis of impact, differentiation, scalability, technical feasibility, economic feasibility, and quality of work.

Ideally we are looking for early stage companies with a minimum viable product. Companies can be located worldwide (excluding Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Russia and Syria).
No, the Challenge Day on November 21, 2024 will be held entirely virtually. You will not be required to attend in-person. You or someone from your team will be required to attend the challenge virtually to complete your pitch.
Finalists will be announced on November 14, 2024 on social media and the website

Versalie Challenge Pitch Day Event

Thursday, November 21, 2024 @ 1-3pm ET

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