The Meta Lab Startup Challenge
Offers startups a $30,000 travel-and-cash pool to pilot with Charlotte's biggest firms.
MassChallenge, a global network of zero-equity startup accelerators, runs this challenge together with the Carolina Fintech Hub and three Charlotte-based corporate sponsors: Atrium Health, Barings and Truist. Entrepreneurs anywhere in the world enter by creating a founder profile on MassChallenge's application platform, registering their startup, and completing a single online application. Winning…
The challenge sought startups able to solve sponsor-defined problems: Barings wanted a way to organize and search structured and unstructured investment data; Truist wanted an end-to-end digital insurance experience and a blockchain-based client data asset; Atrium Health wanted to organize patient data for individualized care. All three also wanted solutions addressing economic and health equity and rebuilding trust in digital services.
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