StartHealth Competition 2 is a global event looking to identify, mentor and invest in  the most promising early-stage healthcare technology startups that are serving India’s masses – the 20 crore families living on under 25,000 rupees per month.

This edition of the competition will see the semifinalists pitching to the program partners followed by a one-on-one mentoring session; selected finalists will pitch to a jury panel consisting of healthcare experts in the Final round.

30 semi-finalists will be shortlisted based on the competition rubric and will be connected to program partners. On 6th and 7th October 2015, the semi-finalists will pitch to these team from the incubators followed by a mentoring session. 10 out of the 30 semi-finalists will be shortlisted to pitch to the jury on 15^th October 2015, again based on the competition rubric. The winner will be announced on 19^th October 2015.

The StartHealth competition winner gets INR 10 Lakhs as prize money; The winner and the runner-up teams get an opportunity to pitch for the StartHealth investment program which includes receiving upto INR 50 Lakhs of non-dilutive funding, support from StartHealth partners and potential seed investment of upto INR 2 crores

Eminent jury members of the competition will include –

• Ashwin Naik, founder of Vatsalya
• Hema Hattangady, Managing Director, Conssul Energy, Angel Investor and Venture Advisor at Unitus Seed Fund
• Siraj Dhanani, Co-Founder of InnAccel
• Payal Shah, Early Stage Investments, Axilor
• Vivek Ahuja, Director, PATH India
• Dave Richards, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Unitus Seed Fund.

The opportunity to pitch provides a brilliant exposure to be connected to the experts from the StartHealth Investment Program partners – PATH, Narayana Health, Manipal hospitals and Pfizer.