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Dr. Hubert Zajicek
One of the winning teams at the 8th annual Texas Healthcare Challenge Hackathon. [Photo: Health Wildcatters]
Meet the Winners of Health Wildcatters’ 2026 Texas Healthcare Challenge Hackathon
by Sandra Engelland | Apr 30, 2026
Participants at the Pegasus Park event had 48 hours to turn early-stage concepts and functional prototypes into actionable solutions "to improve health outcomes, expand access, improve patient experience, and drive system-wide efficiency," Health Wildcatters said.
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.
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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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Health Wildcatters' WISH Network is extending its impact in partnership with college and university campuses across North Texas. [Photo: Health Wildcatters]
With New SBA Grant, Health Wildcatters Expands WISH Network Initiative to Promote Healthcare and Female Entrepreneurship
by Lance Murray | Oct 2, 2024
Health Wildcatters said the Small Business Administration's Growth Accelerator Fund recognition will enable the WISH Network to expand its reach across university campuses in North Texas—including Dallas College, UT Southwestern, UT Arlington, UT Dallas, UNT, and SMU—as well as Baylor University.
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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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Meet the Finalists: The Innovation Awards 2021, Presented by Dallas Innovates and D CEO
by Lauren Hawkins | Oct 13, 2020
Now in its second year, the program from Dallas Innovates and D CEO honors disruptors and trailblazers driving a new vision for North Texas.
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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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Hubert Zajiceck,CEO, co-founder, and partner at Health Wildcatters. [Photo by Lance Murray]
Health Wildcatters Ranks Among Nation’s Top Accelerators for 3rd Year
by Lance Murray | Oct 26, 2018
The SARP evaluation is based mostly on the accelerator’s portfolio and the performance of companies that have successfully completed its program. Health Wildcatters has grown to 57 health startups in its portfolio, collectively raising over $50 million in investment.
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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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