Join us for the 2024 Bears’ Den Pitch Event on November 20, 2024, where visionary founders pitch their groundbreaking healthcare startups to potential investors. This event is hosted by Core Innovation, whose purpose is to unlock innovation’s potential to improve health and healthcare.
Connect with like-minded entrepreneurs in the innovative ecosystem of business, research, and healthcare.
Reserve your ticket now: Bears’ Den Healthcare Innovation Pitch Event Tickets, Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite
The Bears’ Den is an opportunity for innovators/start-ups to:
- pitch healthcare innovations that could support pediatric health care to investors,
- discuss opportunities to collaborate and partner, and
- network with like-minded individuals within the entrepreneurial, healthcare, and business sectors.
2022 Bears’ Den
In the fall of 2022, Core Innovation hosted the inaugural event in Ottawa. Four start-ups were given 10 minutes to pitch their innovations to a panel and address questions. Each presentation was scored by the panel and feedback was given to each start-up.
The following companies participated in the 2022 CHEO Bears’ Den, pitching their innovations to a panel of industry leaders. HyliDx was the highest scoring start-up and received $10,000 of in-kind support from the CHEO Research Institute for research and product validation work.
“The event is really important because we need to find a way to deliver health care more efficiently and more cost effectively.”
Chris Ritchie, Ontario Centre of Innovation
“Core Innovation serves as the innovation and commercialization core of the CHEO Research Institute, which aims to support our researchers as they look to transform inspiration into high impact solutions, products and services that ultimately benefit patients and families. The Bears’ Den pitch event is a great example of how CHEO is challenging the status quo and looking at innovative ways to tackle health care challenges today and in the future.”
Jason Berman, CEO and Scientific Director at the CHEO Research Institute, and Vice-President of Research at CHEO
“The CHEO Bears’ Den is an innovative way to bring many people from different industries motivated by the common goal of providing the best life for every child and youth. I look forward to seeing these ideas come to life and become a staple in the future of pediatric health care.”
Alex Munter, Former President and Chief Executive Officer at CHEO
Read the 2022 CHEO Bears Den’ news release.