National Business Accelerator Finalists
Health Tech-Enabled Products & Services Track Finalists
Meet the Health Tech Track finalists — early-stage and growth-stage organizations developing technology-enabled products and services designed to improve health outcomes. Representing both nonprofit and for-profit ventures, these founders are leveraging innovation to address critical health challenges and expand access to care.
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Benten Technologies, Inc. (Safe4both) |
Cardiacfitt |
CerTracker |
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Cocina RX |
Geneticure |
Health in Her Hue |
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Healthy Hip Hop |
Hydrohub Technologies, Inc. |
Intersect Healthcare Systems |
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Senior Shield Technologies |
Storc® |
T1D1 (Type 1 Diabetes from Day 1) |
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Ukali Health |
Benten Technologies, Inc. (Safe4both)
Tony Ma – Co-Founder/President
Benten Technologies is a social impact company advancing maternal and child health through applied research and data-driven care solutions. Its flagship platform, Safe4both, connects mothers, infants, providers, and community partners through unified data exchange and AI-enabled care coordination across the prenatal-to-postpartum journey. Built on NIH-funded research and co-designed with more than 160 mothers, the platform supports early risk identification and remote monitoring for high-risk conditions such as hypertension and preeclampsia. Benten delivers continuous, personalized care to improve outcomes across the maternal health continuum.
Cardiacfitt
Crystal Dobson – CEO
Cardiacfitt is a digital health platform improving cardiovascular outcomes in underserved communities by bridging clinical care and community-based support. The platform combines community health workers with technology-enabled monitoring to deliver continuous post-discharge care. Since 2019, Cardiacfitt has supported more than 3,500 individuals, delivered over 4,500 screenings, and reduced hospital readmissions by 40% among participants. Its model expands access to culturally responsive, community-centered cardiac care.
CerTracker
Shadrach Igwe – Co-Founder
CerTracker is a digital credential management platform designed to help healthcare organizations and licensed professionals effortlessly track, manage and share their licenses and certifications. Their automated system reduces administrative burden, ensures compliance and streamlines onboarding.
Cocina RX
Javier Haro – Founder
Cocina Rx is building the first tech-enabled food clinic in the Food-as-Medicine movement, powered by its proprietary Food Clinic OS. The closed-loop clinical platform integrates AI-driven precision nutrition, Registered Dietitian oversight, and evidence-based recipes designed for bioactive functionality. By combining clinical rigor with payer-aligned outcomes tracking, Cocina Rx delivers scalable, measurable nutrition interventions.
Geneticure
Scott Snyder – CEO
Geneticure is a Mayo Clinic–backed precision medicine company transforming how hypertension is treated. Using a simple cheek swab and a patented genetic algorithm, the platform eliminates trial-and-error in selecting drug and device therapies. Geneticure enables more precise, personalized treatment decisions that improve blood pressure control. Its approach reduces unnecessary interventions while improving long-term cardiovascular outcomes.
Health in Her Hue
Ashlee Wisdom, MPH – Founder/CEO
Health in Her Hue is a digital health platform improving outcomes for Black women and women of color through culturally responsive care. The platform connects users to trusted providers, evidence-based health information, and community support. With more than 72,000 members and 1,800 providers across 60 specialties, it expands access to equitable, personalized care. The platform empowers women to navigate healthcare with confidence while advancing representation in research and clinical practice.
Healthy Hip Hop
Roy Scott – CEO
Healthy Hip Hop is an AI-powered children’s wellness platform that uses pop culture to promote physical health, mental well-being, and literacy. The platform delivers engaging, culturally relevant content designed to influence healthy behaviors in young audiences. It is expanding into pediatric healthcare as a prescribable intervention. Healthy Hip Hop is redefining how children access and experience health education.
Hydrohub Technologies, Inc.
Veleke Brown – Founder/CEO
Hydrohub Technologies helps community-health programs verify service delivery and capture evidence of participant outcomes in real time. Its platform connects intervention activity with assessment data, strengthening accountability for food as medicine and other community-based programs. Hydrohub is investigating how this evidence can support reimbursement, funding and sustained institutional partnerships.
Intersect Healthcare Systems
Larry D. Rine – CEO
Intersect Healthcare Systems is developing IntersectOnFHIR™, a FHIR-native precision-medicine platform designed for rural healthcare organizations and safety-net healthcare systems. The platform extends advanced capabilities such as remote monitoring, telehealth, and care coordination beyond academic medical centers. Built on a hub-and-spoke model, it addresses infrastructure-driven access gaps rather than clinical limitations. Intersect focuses on improving cardiovascular and chronic disease care in underserved communities.
Senior Shield Technologies
Kareem Elfoulie – Co-Founder/CEO
Senior Shield Technologies is an award-winning medical device company recognized by the National Institute on Aging, Mayo Clinic, and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. Its incontinence monitoring system alerts caregivers in real time when a patient’s brief is soiled. This enables faster intervention that preserves dignity and reduces the risk of infections, pressure injuries, and sepsis. The technology improves both patient outcomes and caregiver efficiency.
Storc®
Visionary Blu Barnes-Jackson – Founder
Storc® is a patented maternal health technology platform designed to make the journey to birth safer by addressing a critical gap in pregnancy care: the time expecting mothers spend in transit to the hospital. Connecting mothers, families, healthcare professionals, EMS and hospitals through an integrated mobile app, vehicle alert technology, and real-time care coordination dashboard, Storc enhances communication, visibility, and response during labor and maternal transport emergencies. With more than 200,000 pregnant women involved in police-reported vehicle crashes each year in the United States, Storc’s patented universal alert ecosystem helps ensure safer, more connected journeys to care while supporting better maternal and infant outcomes.
T1D1 (Type 1 Diabetes from Day 1)
Laura Mendelow – Executive Director/CEO
T1D1 is a nonprofit organization improving daily diabetes management through the first free, over-the-counter FDA-cleared insulin calculator app for people with Type 1 diabetes. Created by Drew Mendelow following his diagnosis at age 13, the app simplifies insulin-dose calculations, supports data tracking and helps users share information with their healthcare teams. T1D1 is now investigating how the app can enter clinical workflows and strengthen support from the earliest stages of diagnosis.
Ukali Health
Korin Reid, PhD – CEO/CTO
Ukali Health is developing an integrated health-data infrastructure to support earlier detection and monitoring of Alzheimer’s disease. The platform brings together fragmented clinical records, imaging, wearable data and caregiver information to create a more complete view of disease progression. Ukali is currently coordinating an institutional research pathway involving Morehouse School of Medicine and Emory University while preparing for institutional review board, security and audit requirements.
Collegiate Track Finalists
Meet the Collegiate Track finalists who are transforming innovative ideas into solutions that address real health challenges. These undergraduate and graduate student founders are developing ventures rooted in lived experience, research and community need.
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ClinPrep |
CranioView |
Fetal Therapy Technologies |
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GiSens Biotech |
HeartLens |
Let’s Grow Akron |
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Lub Dub Lab |
OralSync |
OVAI |
ClinPrep
Michael Ryder, DO – Founder/CEO
ClinPrep Health is a field-first service-accountability platform that helps organizations document, coordinate and validate care delivered to unhoused and complex-needs populations outside traditional clinical settings. By identifying missing documentation and creating defensible evidence of completed services, ClinPrep helps organizations maintain continuity, prepare for audits, and protect reimbursement and program funding. The platform makes fragmented community-based care visible, accountable and financially sustainable.
CranioView
Gil Herrnstadt, PhD – Co-Founder/CEO
CranioView is developing a non-invasive, ultrasound-based solution to assess intracranial pressure in patients with traumatic brain injury, stroke, and other neurologic emergencies. The technology enables earlier clinical insight without the risks associated with invasive monitoring. By improving access to timely diagnostics, CranioView supports better patient outcomes while reducing ICU utilization and costs. The solution is designed for rapid deployment across acute care settings.
Fetal Therapy Technologies
Selena Shirkin – Co-Founder/CEO
Fetal Therapy Technologies is a microsurgical-device company developing a radially expanding sheath for fetal and endovascular procedures. Unlike fixed-diameter sheaths that may require upsizing and larger access points, the device enters at a low profile and expands as needed to accommodate procedural instruments. The approach is designed to reduce vascular trauma, minimize complications and improve procedural workflow.
GiSens Biotech
Luis Pierpauli – CEO
GiSens Biotech develops clinical-grade biosensing technology for continuous monitoring of cardio-kidney-metabolic health. The company is initially focused on chronic kidney disease, a major and often under-monitored driver of cardiovascular risk. Its platform provides real-time biological data to support earlier intervention and better long-term outcomes. GiSens Biotech aims to make advanced health monitoring more accessible and actionable, particularly for underserved communities.
HeartLens
Elizabeth Djajalie – Co-Founder
HeartLens is developing an AI-enabled nutrition platform that uses photo-based meal analysis, personalized guidance and social accountability to help people build heart-healthy eating habits. By translating evidence-based cardiovascular recommendations into practical daily choices, HeartLens aims to improve adherence and support long-term cardiovascular risk reduction.
Let’s Grow Akron
India Nunn
Let’s Grow Akron is a nonprofit organization dedicated to overcoming urban blight and alleviating hunger by teaching people to grow, prepare and preserve their own food. What began with a donated sack of potatoes and a reclaimed vacant lot has grown into a 37-year legacy of transforming hundreds of vacant properties into thriving community gardens and green spaces that strengthen neighborhoods and improve access to fresh, healthy food.
Let’s Grow Akron was founded by Elaine Evans in 1988. Today, under the leadership of Lisa Nunn, the organization continues to empower residents through community gardening, food education and urban agriculture. By providing hands-on training, technical assistance and collaborative programs, Let’s Grow Akron helps build healthier, more resilient communities where neighbors come together to cultivate food, relationships and lasting positive change.
Lub Dub Lab
Yazhini Ravi – Founder/CEO
Lub Dub Lab is an MIT-incubated company developing AI-enabled voice biomarkers for cardiovascular-risk monitoring. Through brief, repeatable voice check-ins, the platform is designed to help heart-failure teams identify signs of post-discharge deterioration and intervene earlier. Lub Dub Lab is currently investigating how voice-based risk information could enter an owned clinical workflow involving alert review, escalation and follow-up.
OralSync
Christian Davis – Founder
OralSync connects dental and medical care by transforming routine dental visits into opportunities for early detection of chronic disease. The platform enables dentists to capture and share actionable health insights linked to systemic conditions. By supporting earlier intervention, OralSync strengthens collaboration between dental and medical providers. The platform expands access to preventive care, particularly for underserved populations.
Ovai
Polona Safaric Tepes, PhD – CEO
Ovai is building the continuous hormone-measurement infrastructure that modern medicine has lacked. Hormones fluctuate rapidly and play a critical role in cardiovascular risk, yet are typically measured only through episodic snapshots. OVAI’s non-invasive, on-skin platform enables continuous hormone monitoring. This capability shifts women’s heart care from reactive to anticipatory.