Hubert Zajicek, MD, MBA
CEO, Co-founder & Partner at Health Wildcatters
Moderator
Hubert Zajicek, MD MBA is co-founder, partner and CEO of Health Wildcatters. Health Wildcatters is a top-ranked seed stage healthcare fund and accelerator in Dallas, TX. Health Wildcatters provides mentorship, capital and guidance to up to 12 healthcare related startups during an intensive 3 month program annually. The fund has invested in over 80 healthcare startups, which have attracted over $200M in capital in 8 years. Over the past 15 years he has reviewed, evaluated, mentored and advised thousands of startup companies. Prior, he was on faculty at UT Southwestern, as an NIH funded principal investigator, in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Cell Biology. He has an MD from the University of Vienna and an MBA from SMU. He lives in Dallas, with his wife, Beth McNally Zajicek, MD, a diagnostic radiologist, and two daughters.
Meet the judges:
Laura Baldwin
President of Waco Bend Asset Management Ltd. & Managing Partner of Goldenseed Ventures
Dennis Cail
CEO and Founder at Zirtue
Elyse Dickerson
CEO and Co-Founder Eosera, Inc.
Blake Wiley
Co-founder of Access Capital
Helmuth Ludwig
Professor of Practice for Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Marisa Bertha
Vice President of Growth, Business Development & Head of 7-Ventures at 7-Eleven
Meet the Finalists:
Irewole Akande - City Health Tech Inc
City Health Tech is a public health tech startup promoting health literacy and more hygienic habits while collecting informative data through its proprietary and revolutionary IoT health communication device, Opal™. By installing Opal™ in event centers, schools, office buildings, hotels, restaurants, and food manufacturing facilities, organizations can encourage healthier habits (e.g. handwashing) within their space, communicate with their community, and collect key hygiene data that can be leveraged to better prevent the spread of diseases. Learn more…
Elias Ellefsen - Spiked
Spiked is an all-natural, spirits based alcoholic seltzer that uses the electrolytes, minerals, vitamins, and rare antioxidants found naturally in the prickly pear cactus to help re-hydrate, manage fluid balance, and provide a better taste for your alcoholic beverage. Learn more…
Hunter Gore - Horizon's Edge
Design and manufacture electric vertical take-off and landing (EVTOL) aircraft. The first product, Dragonfly, will be a personal EVTOL within the minimally regulated ultralight aircraft category. Learn more…
Katie Lewis - Borrow
Borrow is the peer-to-peer marketplace for renting. Learn more…
Jude Lugo - Commerce Navigator
Commerce Navigator will use powerful technology to offer e-commerce entrepreneurs an all-in-one platform to manage their sales and track their profits — providing support every step of the way. Learn more…
Phillip Truppelli & Ethan Lux - Principia Technologies
The goal of Principia Technologies is to empower retail investors by providing free and reliable information to increase the adoption of informed investing leading to more efficient capital markets. Learn more…
Madison McMahon - The Social Panacea
Panacea is an app that encourages and helps university students connect and form new friendships based on similar interests. It matches people to people, and people to events in their area based on those interests. Learn more…
Sonia Saeed - spotBOX LLC
spotBOX is a menstrual education and product company that provides users with a web and mobile application to track their period, receive informational content on their symptoms, and shop the subscription box service, all in one place. Learn more…
Adam Siepker - OrcaChat, LLC
We help e-commerce brands increase their website conversation rate. We do this by allowing the brand’s online shoppers to chat in real-time with existing customers who own the product. Learn more…
Seun Suberu - CollegePlus
CollegePlus creates and aggregates all the predetermined significant resources such as college recommendations, degree recommendations, and scholarships available on the internet into one concise platform to reduce the complexity for potential and current college students. The products are the accumulation of key resources a high schooler needs to understand how to plan a collegiate career. Learn more…
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