ViVE Startup Pitch Competition
Offers healthcare startups a live pitch stage at ViVE and a grand prize to help them scale.
The competition runs as a single live session on ViVE's West Coast Stage, with each startup given three minutes to present followed by three minutes of questions from a panel of judges. The 2026 heat ran on February 25 from 9:15 to 10:45 a.m. in Los Angeles, drawing nine finalists: Eos AI, Kento, Logical Health, Medara, Rapport Health, Rovex, Serelora, The Aftercancer, and Wrapt Health. Rovex was …
Open to startups building next-generation healthcare technology that pushes beyond traditional boundaries, from patient-access tools to AI approaches to cost. Startups must be less than five years old and must have raised under $8 million in funding.
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