Hackathon Locations
BANGALORE
NASSCOM 10,000 Start-Ups Warehouse
Lower Ground Floor, DD3, Diamond District ISRO Colony, Domlur
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MUMBAI
WeSchool
Lakhamsi Nappu Road, Matunga East, Near Matunga Central Railway Station
TEL AVIV
Google Campus
Electra Tower, 34th Floor,
98 Yigal Alon Street
Sponsored challenge track:
Indian and Israeli teams will generate solutions to affordable healthcare challenges provided by Indian healthcare providers, corporates and NGOs. Several teams can address a challenge with different solutions. The winning teams will be offered cash prizes and follow up acceleration opportunities in India and in Israel.
Adaptation track :
Israeli companies that already have an existing medtech product and wish to target the Indian market will work in collaboration with Indian teams to adapt their product during the hackathon.
Join us in this unique track connecting breakthrough technologies with Indian need-knowers and experts.
For three days in July (22-24th), innovators, entrepreneurs and healthcare professionals gathered in four locations in India and Israel to develop healthcare solutions for low and lower-middle income Indians. Participants had face-to-face and online access to dozens of top industry mentors. Teams competed for cash prizes, mentoring packages, and placements in an Indian-Israeli healthcare accelerator to help them transform their ideas into successful ventures!
The Event
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The Opportunity
Israel is the 3rd most innovative country in the world and #1 country in the world for density of startups
Israel is the
hotbed of the world’s most disruptive technologies: instant messaging,
USB, voicemail,
firewalls.
India is the world leader in
frugal innovation
India’s consumer market will be
3.6 $ trillion by 2020
Israel has over 1,000 start-ups
in the healthcare sector.
Israel has
300 venture
capital funds representing $10 billion in investment capital
India is a
2 trillion dollar ​
economy growing at
a rate of 8%
per annum
India's healthcare sector will grow to
$280 billion
by 2020
CONTACT
Hyderabad | T-Hub
Mumbai | WeSchool
Having questions about the event? Reach out to us!
med4dev2016@gmail.com
Tel Aviv | Google Campus
Bangalore | 10,000 Start-Ups Warehouse
HACKATHON LOCATIONS
Advisors, Mentors & Judges
Founder One Breath
Co-founder & CEO Lattice Innovation
E V Kalyani Medical Foundation Pvt. Ltd.
Founder & Physician Leader VISHWAS
Chief Policy Officer Naandi Foundation
Founder Monitra Healthcare
Lead Google Developers Group Bangalore
MD & CEO Cardea Labs & Cardea Biomedical Technologies
Manager Intellecap Innovations Lab
Associate Vice President Intellecap Innovations Lab
Co-Founder Life Circle Health Services Pvt. Ltd.
Founder Life Circle Health Services Pvt. Ltd.
Director The Heart Institute Hadassah Hebrew University Medical School
Founder Maker's Asylum
Early Stage Investments Lead Axilor
CEO Axilor Ventures
Associate VP and Head of Delivery - Insurance Europe Infosys
Associate Group Lead Medtronic Engineering and Innovation Center
Founder & CEO InnAccel
Founder & CTO InnAccel
Director, Clinical Innovation and Partnerships InnAccel
Business Associate InnAccel
Engineering Program Manager AI
Systems Design Engineer InnAccel
Co-Founder Coeo Labs Pvt. Ltd.
Co-Founder Coeo Labs Pvt. Ltd.
Managing Director Biosync Medica
Head of Shruti Program, Business model innovation Medtronic
Engineering Program Manager Medtronic
Head, Business Development A&G Partners Israel
Business Head, New Business Ventures Aditya Birla Group
Country Principal IMS Consulting Group
CTO - Technology Services Hewlett Packard Enterprise India
Founder & Director Pears Program for Global Innovation
Co-founder & Managing Partner A&G Partners Israel
Arambhan Group Founder, Chairman, Group Head
Aarin Capital Managing Director
India Advisory Board
Mentors & Judges
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Partners
Challenges
CHALLENGE #6
Improving Access to Funding for Cancer Treatments*
Manipal Hospitals is seeking a technological-driven platform to help connect patients to funding sources for cancer treatment.
Challenge sponsored by Manipal Hospitals
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CHALLENGE #8
Managing the Side Effects of Chemotherapy for Patients in Remote Areas*
Manipal Hospitals is seeking technological solutions for administering cancer drugs and managing chemotherapy side-effects during dose administration to patients in remote areas.
Challenge sponsored by Manipal Hospitals
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CHALLENGE #7
Psychological Counseling Platform for Cancer Patients*
Manipal Hospitals is seeking a technology-driven solution to provide psychological counseling for cancer patients by connecting them to doctors and counselors in a simple and highly accessible manner.
Challenge sponsored by Manipal Hospitals
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CHALLENGE #3
Hearing Impairment Screening and Diagnosis for Rural Populations
Prize: US$ 1,500 (Rs. 1 lakh)
Medtronic is seeking solutions for screening and diagnosis of hearing impairment disorders, which build upon and complement their existing ENTraview Ear Screening Kit.
Challenge sponsored by Medtronic ​
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CHALLENGE #4
Real-Time, Personal Monitoring Device for Pregnant Women in Remore Areas
Prize: US$ 1,500 (Rs. 1 lakh)
NICE Foundation is looking for a low cost, portable, light, personal device, used by non-practitioners or the patients themselves in very remote areas to monitor wellbeing of mother and unborn child in real time.
Challenge sponsored by NICE Foundation
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CHALLENGE #5
Smart Pills & Digestible
Prize: US$ 1,500 (Rs. 1 lakh)
IMS Health is seeking a solution in remote monitoring (also known as telemonitoring) that can provide valuable feedback to healthcare providers on patients adherence to treatment.
Challenge sponsored by IMS Health​
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*Challenges 6, 7, 8 and 9 are not attached to any cash prize but qualify to all the other prizes (see details here)
CHALLENGE #1
Anaemia Diagnostic Test for Young Girls
Prize: US$ 1,500 (Rs. 1 lakh)
Naandi Foundation is seeking a non invasive, on-the-go, low-cost and scalable haemogram that provides on the spot diagnosis of anemia together with a compliance mechanism for the follow-up drugs.
Challenge sponsored by Naandi Foundation
CHALLENGE #2
Food Monitoring System for Infants
Prize: US$ 1,500 (Rs. 1 lakh)
Naandi Foundation is seeking a technological solution to monitor food and milk intake (quantity and frequency) among children 6 to 8 months old, as well as recommendations for adequate complementary feeding practices for mothers in order to prevent child malnutrition.
Challenge sponsored by Naandi Foundation
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CHALLENGE #9 NEW!!
Tracking Children's Immunization Against Preventable Diseases*
Doctors For You is seeking a technology to provide digital, cloud-based children's vaccination track records to their beneficiaries and health centers in order to improve immunization coverage in the urban slums of Mumbai.
Challenge sponsored by Doctors For You
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Pears Program for Global Innovation
Pears Program for Global Innovation
Pears Program for Global Innovation
Pears Program for Global Innovation
Pears Program for Global Innovation
WeSchool
Arambhan Group
WeSchool
WeSchool
NASSCOM
NASSCOM
YourStory
T-Hub
T-Hub
T-Hub
TiE Mumbai
Venturesity
Founder & CEO HackMania Technology Pvt. Ltd.
India Partnerships Manager DigitalOcean
Organizers
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Prizes
All teams participating in the hackathon, regardless of whether they win the cash prize, are eligible to win all the prizes offered post-hackathon
For Indian Participants
For Israeli Participants
* Each challenge will have1 winning team chosen from all locations
Minimum US$ 1,500 (Rs. 1 lakh) cash prize for each sponsored challenge*
45-day mentoring package
Best teams will be matched with leading investors and mentors to continue the product development.
1 week acceleration in Tel Aviv from Sep 25 to Oct 2
4 Israeli entrepreneurs participating in the 45 day mentoring package will receive a 1 week, tailor made acceleration program in Tel-Aviv with leading innovation partners in Israel.
Win a spot in the Pears Challenge fellowship program
Win an opportunity to receive months of world-class mentorship and training, access to funding, media, connection to industry leaders and more.
Following the 45-day period, the most promising teams in the sponsored challenge track will receive the opportunity to join the prestigious Pears Challenge fellowship program.
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Pitch for you next investment to India’s leading VCs
Win a seat at the table of the most influential investors in India. Companies in the adaptation track will recieve the opportunity to pitch their adapted products to Intellecap, Unitus and Menterra for an investment.
Win a spot in India's leading accelerators
Win an opportunity to receive months of world-class mentorship and training, office space, access to funding, media, connection to industry leaders and more.
Following the 45-day period, the most promising teams in the sponsored challenge track will receive the opportunity to join T-Hub's or Villgro's acceleration frameworks.
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Pitch for you next investment to India’s leading VCs
Win a seat at the table of the most influential investors in India. Companies in the adaptation track will recieve the opportunity to pitch their adapted products to Intellecap, Unitus and Menterra for an investment.
Trip to Tel-Aviv for a 1 week fully paid acceleration package (courtesy of Start-Up Nation Central)
4 Indian entrepreneurs participating in the 45 day mentoring package will receive a 1 week, tailor made acceleration program in Tel-Aviv, Israel - the world's innovation hub with more startups per capita than Silicon Valley.
The package includes: flight tickets, accommodation, participation in Tel-Aviv DLD Innovation Conference with an international delegation and a week of hands on product development and acceleration with leading innovation partners in Israel.
45-day mentoring package
Best teams will be matched with leading investors and mentors to continue the product development.
Minimum US$ 1,500 (Rs. 1 lakh) cash prize for each sponsored challenge*
Prizes, Sponsorship & In-Kind
With The Kind Support Of
The Tel Aviv Event is Hosted By:
