Are you a healthcare startup in baby or adolescent behavioral well being? If the reply is sure, please contemplate making use of MedCity Information' startup pitch competitors on the INVEST Digital Well being convention at Pegasus Park in Dallas on September 18.

MedCity Information selected baby and teenage behavioral well being because the class for this 12 months's digital well being pitch competitors as a result of the prevalence and severity of psychological well being points among the many nation's youth has been growing for years. In response to the Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being Companies Administration (SAMHSA), roughly 6.5% of American teenagers had made a suicide plan by 2022. SAMHSA information additionally exhibits that just about 20% of teenagers skilled a depressive episode final 12 months.

US Surgeon Normal Vivek Murthy has described worsening psychological well being signs amongst America's youth because the “defining public well being disaster of our time.” Our upcoming pitch competitors goals to highlight the startups working arduous to sort out this main downside.

Six finalists will probably be chosen for the pitch competitors and may have the chance to current their firm to an viewers of traders. The competitors will probably be judged LIVE by three enterprise capitalists, who will ask questions of every presenter earlier than choosing a winner.

There are not any prices related to making use of. Startups chosen to take part within the competitors should register for the occasion at a reduced price of $149. Startups that pitched at a MedCity Information INVEST occasions throughout the final 12 months are usually not eligible for registration. The deadline for submitting purposes is July 10. Funding professionals will evaluation the purposes and the chosen startups will probably be introduced on August 2. Click on right here to submit an software for the competitors.

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