SAN FRANCISCO, September 27, 2021 - UCSF Health Hub and UCSF Health Awards is proud to announce the finalist class of companies for the 2021 Health Awards. Companies include Vida, Virta, Allogene, Amwell, Cityblock and others. The full list can be found
here.
The finalists were selected across 14 categories by an expert
team of judges in the healthcare and VC industries, including Daniel Kraft (CEO of Digital.Health), Ursheet Parikh (Mayfield Fund), Blake Wu (NEA), Michael Roizen (Cleveland Clinic) and Michael Blum, MD (UCSF), among 450 others. Five finalists per category were chosen from more than 1,200 submissions.
“The competition was rough and scant points separated the finalists from those that did not advance. It's a great group of companies that represents the top 5% of the submissions we received and really are the best of the best and represent the future of health tech and life sciences,” said Mark H. Goldstein, Chairman of the UCSF Health Hub and General Partner at venture capital firm Builders VC.
Finalists in each of the below categories are solving the biggest challenges in the health tech and life sciences spaces.
UCSF Health Awards Finalists:
Breakthrough COVID-19 Technology
SummerBio, Dimagi, Conversa Health, Biobot Analytics, Enable Biosciences
Podimetrics, Truepill, Strive Health, Wellframe, Viocare
Earlens, Unite Us, Cue Health, Evidation Health, IrisVision
Employer Prevention & Wellness
Virta Health, Vida Health, Carrot, Wellthy, Omada Health
MobileODT, Rady Genomics, Mission Bio, Zeto, Darmiyan
Mental and Behavioral Health
Cityblock Health, Freespira, NOCD, Sentio Solutions Inc., NeuroFlow
New Application of Telehealth
Amwell, Smart Vision Labs, HIMS & HERS, The Pill Club, Genome Medical
RxRevu, Xealth, CarePort, 1upHealth, Ambra Health
New Health Application of AI
Karius, HeartFlow, Ada Health, Aidoc, Sight OLO
New Life Sciences Diagnostic
Mirvie, Docbot, Helix, Day Zero Diagnostics, Micronoma
Scribe Therapeutics, Twist Bioscience, insitro, BigHat Biosciences, LiveMetric
Global Blood Therapeutics, Allogene Therapeutics, RefleXion Medical, Boundless Bio, Adamas
Carrum Health, Innovaccer Inc., Gemini Health, Ambient Clinical Analytics, CareCentrix
Remote Diagnostic Tool or Device
Bardy Diagnostics, Siren, iRhythm Technologies, Good Parents/Kiddo, Scanwell Health
Learn more about each company
here.
Join UCSF Health Hub on October 7, 2021, to see the winners crowned. Sign up
here. Guests can join in person or online.
Preview Video Link for the Award Show can be viewed
here. To learn more about the UCSF Health Awards visit
here.
About UCSF Health Awards 2021
Produced by UCSF Health Hub, the UCSF Health Awards, now in its 3rd year, is the leading awards show in the health tech industry awarding the next best products and technologies in digital health and life sciences. Eighteen winners are hand selected from thousands of submissions.
About UCSF Health Hub
UCSF Health Hub is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, affiliated with the University of California. Our goal is to help the next best digital health companies develop ideas, validate, and scale by matching them to advisors, investors, mentors, clinicians, and customers.
Our member and subscriber community consists of 20,000 select, early to late stage healthcare companies and highly qualified healthcare industry experts, mentors, investors, clinicians, researchers, and buyers who subscribe to our newsletters, get matched via our UCSF Health Hub Connect platform, participate in the UCSF Health Award program, and attend our monthly events (both live and virtual).
About UCSF:
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is exclusively focused on the healthsciences and is dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedicalresearch, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, andexcellence in patient care. It includes UCSF Health, which comprises three top-ranked hospitals, as well as affiliations throughout the Bay Area. Learn more at ucsf.edu, or see our Fact Sheet.
