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‘More Personalized, More Global, More Digital’: 11 Startups Join Health Wildcatters in Dallas
by Lance Murray | Sep 8, 2025
The Dallas-based accelerator’s 13th class includes startups from Texas, Boston, Utah, Ireland, Israel, Italy, and the UAE—spanning digital health, medical devices, biopharma, and more. With a new VC Center at Pegasus Park, Health Wildcatters is fueling connections between investors and innovators.
by David Seeley |
Jul 9, 2025
With 500-plus founder applications flowing in each year, Dallas-based seed accelerator Health Wildcatters needed more room to help startups grow. On Thursday, it will cut the ribbon on its newly expanded headquarters— and launch its new HW Venture Center—before a busily networking crowd of startup founders and investors.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 3, 2025
Focused on community health, this weekend's April 4-5 hackathon attracted more than 200 applicants, with 120 participants selected to form cross-functional teams of students, researchers, clinicians, engineers, and entrepreneurs.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 14, 2024
The expansion is aimed at advancing the health innovation incubator's mission of supporting transformative healthcare startups and connecting them with the resources needed for success. Since 2013, 118 healthcare-focused companies have collectively secured over $350 million in follow-up funding after participating in its accelerator, Health Wildcatters said.
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Health Wildcatters co-founder and CEO Hubert Zajicek [Image: Courtesy Health Wildcatters]
The Last Word: Health Wildcatters’ Dr. Hubert Zajicek on Dallas’ Biotech Boom
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Apr 4, 2023
Dr. Zajicek and three other local biotech leaders—Sulagna Bhattacharya, CEO of Nanoscope Therapeutics; Gabby Everett, director of business operations and strategy at BioLabs Pegasus Park; and R.A. Session II, founder of Taysha Gene Therapies—discussed Dallas' biotech boom on a panel hosted by D CEO Healthcare.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 1, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth is well known for its tech expertise. Now it being recognized as the place where technology meets life science—a convergence that’s driving rapid growth in the biotech ecosystem....
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 17, 2023
Dallas Innovates and D CEO celebrated 68 honorees and revealed the winners of our fourth-annual Innovation Awards at an event held at On the Levee in the Dallas Design District.
Here's a full list of winners and finalists.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 3, 2022
Now in its fourth year, the program from Dallas Innovates and D CEO honors 68 disruptors and trailblazers driving a new vision for innovation in North Texas.
Finalists will be recognized in the January/February issue of D CEO magazine and online at DallasInnovates.com. Winners will be revealed at an exclusive awards event in January.
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Health Wildcatters co-founder and CEO Hubert Zajicek address the audience during Pitch Day 2019. [Photo: Courtesy Health Wildcatters]
Recap: Startups Take the Stage at Health Wildcatters’ Pitch Day
by Lance Murray | Nov 19, 2019
Three of the startups that helped close the fall cohort at Health Wildcatters are based in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 4, 2019
This diverse group of founders has two things in common: joining Health Wildcatters and getting stuck in an elevator.
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by Lance Murray |
May 2, 2019
The women’s sexuality and wellness platform beat nine competitors to take the top prize in the pitch competition that was part of the Healthcare Dealmakers Conference in Dallas.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 1, 2019
Danforth Advisors LLC provides integrated and scalable consulting teams ranging from controller through CFO for life sciences companies, freeing time for innovation.
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The Health Wildcatters reception desk was custom designed an built by Atico. [Photo by Lance Murray]
Health Wildcatters Names Six Startups for Fall Cohort
by Lance Murray | Aug 29, 2018
The companies from across the country and Israel in the health IT, pharmaceutical, and diagnostic realms.
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by Lance Murray |
May 17, 2018
Insight Optics beat 10 startups participating in the pitch as part of Healthcare Dealmakers, one of the nation’s premier events bringing together health-care providers, their capital sources, and advisers.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 2, 2018
The new center, on the campus of UT Arlington, will be available to academic and corporate researchers. Official said it could help elevate the region as a leader in precision medicine.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 30, 2017
The 2017 class ranges from a sparkling probiotic drink to medical tech that restores mobility and improves rehabilitation through augmented activity.
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