Barracuda Bowl 2024 HealthTech Pitch Event

5 startups will present innovations that answer M2D2's current areas of interest in the point-of-care space. They'll face tough questions from a panel of investors in a "Shark Tank" style pitch event.

Stay tuned for the solicitation announcement to apply to pitch at this year's event

2023 Speaker Panel

• Sandeep Patel — Director, BARDA DRIVe, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
• Manasa Gummalla — VP, Startup Banking, J.P. Morgan
• Rick Pierce — CEO, Co-Founder & Board Member, Decoy Therapeutics, Inc.
• Casey Cunningham — Partner & CSO, Sante Ventures

2023 "Barracudas":

• Denise Saltojanes - Managing Director, Golden Seeds // Early Stage Investor, NuFund Venture Fund
• Serban Georgescu - Sr. Trade Officer, Canadian Tech Accelerator & Digital Health // Co Founder of NotoVoc, Inc.
• Ashim Subedee - Director, Catalyst Office at BARDA DRIVe/BARDA Ventures
• Christian Klaucke - Emergency Medicine Physician, UMass Memorial Medical Center // Assistant Professor of eMergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
• Steve Battista - Senior Vice President, Anzu Partners

Agenda:

3:00 – Doors open, networking and poster session

4:30 – Introduction, keynote

5:00 – Panel discussion

6:00 – BARDA presentation

6:15 – Break

6:30 – Pitches begin

7:20 – Networking, poster session

7:30 - 7:45 – Program close

for a sample of the energy that the innovators and the investors bring to the event. Then get your FREE tickets — see you December 4th!

Host or Publisher M2D2