StartUp Health and HLTH Announce Partnership to Convene World’s Health Transformers Working to Achieve Health Moonshots
StartUp Health @ ViVE 2022 and HLTH 2022 Will Unite Global Ecosystem of Health Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Investors
January 18, 2022 — New York, NY, & San Francisco, CA — StartUp Health, a global organization dedicated to achieving health moonshots, announced today a new multi-year partnership with HLTH, the leading platform bringing together the entire health ecosystem, to host StartUp Health at ViVE and HLTH annual events beginning in 2022.
Since 2011, StartUp Health has regularly gathered thousands of CEOs, investors, and entrepreneurs from around the world who are focused on achieving health moonshots and this spring is expanding to ViVE in Miami Beach. ViVE, the industry’s new health information technology event, merges the leadership of CHIME and the digital marketplace of HLTH to create a technology event focused on the business of transformation in healthcare.
“The best way to solve health moonshots — the world’s largest health challenges — is to unite the people and organizations from around the world dedicating their lives to achieving them,” said Unity Stoakes, Co-founder & President of StartUp Health. “We’re excited to partner with HLTH and invite even more entrepreneurs, investors, and those working in public and private sectors who want to speed up health innovation to access StartUp Health’s global army of Health Transformers. The partnership offers another annual opportunity to drive moonshot ideas forward and makes sense for our mutual evolution.”
StartUp Health programming will take place throughout the ViVE conference, March 6–9, 2022, at the Miami Beach Conference Center. StartUp Health will integrate main stage programming and also include a dedicated stage featuring Health Transformer Showcases and a startup pavilion, all of which will be open to registered ViVE 2022 attendees and will feature StartUp Health’s community of Health Transformers. Programming highlights include:
- Two stages featuring a roster of speakers, including founders working across each of StartUp Health’s 12 global health moonshots
- The StartUp Health Pavilion, where you can watch demos and meet founders working on next-gen innovation
- StartUp Health Studio, interviewing CEOs, investors, thought leaders, and more live over the four days
- ViVE Collector’s edition of StartUp Health Magazine
- Health Transformer Circles on-site meetings
- Pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings, meetups, and curated networking to speed up the process of bringing solutions to market
Rich Scarfo, President of HLTH commented, “StartUp Health’s plan for achieving health moonshots is incredibly inspiring and their global army of Health Transformers offers hundreds of examples of the impact that’s possible from transformative health innovation. Having StartUp Health @ ViVE is an opportunity for us to showcase bold ideas from around the world and continue to build from the success of StartUp Health over the past decade. Our intention is to create an experience together that inspires real-world action and pushes progress forward faster.”
Innovators, investors, leaders, and Health Transformers are invited to participate by registering at startuphealth.com/vive2022.
About HLTH
HLTH (pronounced “health”) is the leading platform bringing together the entire health ecosystem, focused on health innovation and transformation. From unparalleled events with industry-leading speakers to inspirational digital content and mission-driven initiatives, HLTH creates a unique marketplace for the health community leading the dialogue and development of a better health ecosystem. HLTH returns to Las Vegas November 13–16, 2022, at the Sands Expo and Convention Center.
About ViVE
Developed by healthcare transformation leaders HLTH and CHIME, ViVE is an annual event intentionally designed for progressive digital health leaders innovating across the spectrum of health and care. ViVE is the industry’s new health information technology event focused on the business of healthcare systems. ViVE merges the leadership of CHIME and the digital marketplace of HLTH to create a technology event focused on the business of transformation in healthcare — bringing together C-suite executives, senior digital health leaders, and buyers, health startups, and investors, government and solution providers. ViVE creates an immersive environment for interactive learning, idea generation, and collaboration for the digital health community to come together to advance healthcare. ViVE’s inaugural event will take place March 6–9, 2022, in Miami Beach, Florida.
About StartUp Health
StartUp Health is investing in and building a global army of Health Transformers collaborating to achieve health moonshots — from curing diabetes and eradicating Alzheimer’s, to delivering quality care to everyone in the world. Since 2012, StartUp Health has invested in nearly 400 health innovation companies across 27 countries. Select investments and exits include Nightingale Health (Nasdaq Helsinki), Doctor.com (acquired by Press Ganey), Conversa Health (acquired by AmWell), RespondWell (acquired by Zimmer Biomet), wayForward (acquired by Dario Health), Babyscripts, Cala Health, Cityblock Health, Devoted Health, Joint Academy, Quit Genius, and Virta Health.
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