The MedCity INVEST Digital Well being convention on September 18 at Pegasus Park in Dallas — dwelling to the Well being Wildcatters accelerator, a key associate — will highlight healthcare entrepreneurs within the Pitch Good competitors, which would be the centerpiece of the occasion. The theme for this yr’s competitors is pediatric psychological well being. After reviewing functions, six corporations had been chosen to compete.

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Throughout the competitors, finalists will current their applied sciences and providers to the attendees. A panel of judges will ask inquiries to the entrepreneurs and consider every staff in response to the competitors standards. On the finish of the convention, a winner might be introduced. MedCity Information reporter Marissa Plescia will reasonable the competitors. The judges are:

Stephen Hays, founding father of What If Ventures, a enterprise capital agency investing in psychological well being and breakthrough healthcare startups.

Erica Murdock, Managing Director of Unseen (powered by Seae Ventures), a pre-seed/early seed stage funding agency specializing in technology-driven healthcare options.

Dan Easton, a principal at Unorthodox Ventures, the Austin-based funding agency of Large Ass Followers founder Carey Smith.

Beneath you may learn extra concerning the finalists and the way they purpose to enhance kids's psychological well being.

Acute X-ray develops a platform for medical professionals who examine and deal with psychological well being points in kids and adolescents. The primary sport makes use of biofeedback in digital actuality to immerse sufferers in and train them about their our bodies and emotional states. The CEO is Dominik Kirchdorfer.

futuresTHRIVE has developed psychological well being screening instruments to determine and observe psychological well being in kids earlier than it turns into acute or life-threatening. It makes use of a mix of synthetic intelligence and sentiment evaluation to create psychological well being baselines to higher perceive a toddler’s distinctive psychological well being qualities.

Genyus WorldwideUpLifti.ai is described as a Software program as a Service platform designed to assist younger individuals on their psychological well being journey. Subscribers could have entry to customized temper monitoring and AI-powered analytics, customized cognitive behavioral remedy workout routines, guided meditation, digital peer assist teams, sleep and exercise optimization instruments, social media monitoring and assist, academic assets, and progress monitoring options. Uplift goals to combine seamlessly with wearable gadgets equivalent to Apple Watches and Android smartwatches to supply real-time knowledge on sleep patterns, coronary heart charge variability, and exercise ranges to reinforce the customized insights and proposals provided to customers. Kumar Vadivel is the CEO.

Gramercy Counseling gives inexpensive, accessible, and multiculturally delicate on-line psychological well being providers to kids ages 10 and up in an effort to assist their psychological well being and promote private progress. Providers are delivered via a web-based app that enables a number of licensed clinicians to serve purchasers in a digital atmosphere whereas adhering to the very best requirements of apply within the trade. It really works with an in depth checklist of insurance coverage to make getting assist extra accessible and inexpensive for the purchasers it serves. Elizabeth Alegria, its founder, is a licensed skilled counselor.

Wholesome younger minds is a pediatric behavioral and psychological well being telehealth firm serving kids and younger adults as much as the age of 21. A few of the 80+ circumstances the startup addresses embody anxiousness, autism, ADHD, despair, and trauma. It affords counseling, testing, diagnostics, speech remedy, occupational remedy, artwork and music remedy in a collaborative care mannequin. It has targeted on the drastically underserved Medicaid market. Paul Graf is the founder and CEO.

Drama is a “protected telephone” that grows with kids. By selling an age-appropriate screen-life steadiness and maintaining kids away from pornography, predators, bullies and social media, Troomi goals to cut back stress, anxiousness and despair in kids. Invoice Brady (CEO) and Dave Preece (COO) are the co-founders.

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