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Seed Accelerator Health Wildcatters Is Moving to Dallas’ Pegasus Park

by | Jan 25, 2022
The accelerator will move this summer from its downtown Dallas location to 6,000 square feet of collaborative and flexible office space in Pegasus Park's 18-story tower. Just weeks ago, Pegasus Park landed one of its biggest tenants to date: UT Southwestern‘s Office for Technology Development and other UTSW entities will be leasing six floors in the tower. 
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Four Startups Advancing Global Health Win Health Wildcatter’s Med.Ventures Pitch Competition
by | May 13, 2021
Hera Biotech—a San Antonio-based startup that's developing the first non-surgical, definitive, tissue-based test capable of both diagnosing and staging endometriosis—took home first prize in this year's Health Innovation Pitch Competition. The other winners were Steadiwear (Canada), Vigilant Software (Dallas), and Reopia Optics (California).

All winners can be considered Dallas Innovators: Each will receive space at Health Wildcatters.
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Sunny Nadolsky, founder and CEO of Medibookr. [Photo: Medibookr]
MediBookr Founder Says the Future of Healthcare Has a UX Built for Customer Loyalty
by | Feb 9, 2021
"Traditionally, customer lifetime value hasn’t existed in healthcare," says Sunny Nadolsky. She's out to change that with her startup's user-friendly platform that streamlines communication between patients and healthcare providers.
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Health Wildcatters Co-Founder and CEO Hubert Zajicek To Receive 2020 Dennis K. Stone Award
by | Oct 27, 2020
The Dallas-based leader will receive the award from BionorthTX for his contributions to the field of life sciences.
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DFW Leaders Discuss How COVID-19 Has Fueled Innovation in Health Care, Philanthropy, and More

by | Oct 12, 2020
"The downside of a pandemic is that it's frightening. The good thing is, sometimes it speeds up things that probably needed to happen. Like telemedicine," Nicole Small, CEO of LH Capital/Lyda Hill Philanthropies, said during the event.
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Children’s Health Innovators Program Lifts Veil on Health Care Research and Breakthroughs
by | Oct 6, 2020
Health Wildcatters CEO Hubert Zajicek, Perot Jain Principal Cindy Revol, Lyda Hill Philanthropies CEO Nicole Small, and others will be on a panel about how the health care and tech industries have been innovative during COVID-19 as part of the new Children’s Health program launch on Oct. 8.
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Health Wildcatters Adds Nine New Startups to Its Portfolio
by | Sep 10, 2020
The new cohort brings the number of startups under Health Wildcatter's umbrella to 77, according to CEO Hubert Zajicek.
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Recap: Startups Take the Stage at Health Wildcatters’ Pitch Day

by | 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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Seed Accelerator Health Wildcatters Adds 8 Startups to New Cohort
by | 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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Photo Recap: Health Wildcatters Hosts its Second Hackathon
by | Aug 16, 2019
The Texas Healthcare Challenge gives healthcare consumers the opportunity to find new innovations to systems that might be broken. After the teams went head-to-head with their solutions, a total prize package valued at more than $360K was awarded.
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Fatal Yeast: Carrollton Startup MycoDART Steps Up to Fight Infections in Hospitalized Patients
by | Apr 30, 2019
MycoDART, which was named one of Health Wildcatter's six startup healthcare accelerators, has a new test that may have cracked the code on Candida auris, a type of yeast that can cause severe sickness in hospitalized patients.
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First-Of-Its-Kind Event Aims to Connect The North Texas Life Science Community

by | Apr 23, 2019
Don't miss the North Texas Life Science Career Symposium taking place tonight at the Community Beer Company in Dallas.
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Texas’ Booming Life Sciences Sector Draws Financial Advisory Firm to Dallas
by | 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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Health Wildcatters Ranks Among Nation’s Top Accelerators for 3rd Year
by | 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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RevTech Portfolio Startup Xenio Brings Online Metrics to Brick and Mortar Retailers
by | Oct 10, 2018
The company uses precision real-time positioning inside retail locations to track customers’ behavior and provide user data around shopper metrics and engagement.
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