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Note: we are postponing & redesigning this event for September. This was a new event type & let's just say, it wasn't as popular as we thought it would be so, in true crowd-validator style, we are going back to the drawing board. Please contact us if you have constructive feedback. Thanks & Stay tuned!
Alex Fair
Original write up - subject to change.
Presented by MedStartr in Partnership with ClawCamp
You bring the vision. We'll help you launch a company - in a weekend.
Healthcare is broken in a hundred ways we all see daily. You've felt it as a patient. diagnosed it as a clinician. doded around it as a builder, & hated it as a person who came into healthcare to help people. The things you see that could be better are hard to fix, & it bothers you that they seem incorrigible. But then you got an idea of something that could help, if you could just build it & get it in the hands of people like you to help patients get better care & the system & caregivers to give better care. We know, we have met thousands of you & ARE you too. That's why we have run this group for almost 18 years & done so many events.
But now, with the help of AI & the new MedStartr.ai platform, we can help even more.
So we created what we are calling a "Launchathon" to help with all that & this is the first one!
The NYC HealthTech Launchathon is your chance to do something about it.
No startup experience required. No coding background needed. Just bring your problem, your perspective, & your curiosity - & we'll bring the AI tools, expert faculty, mentors, investors, & community to help you build something real.
The Program: 3 Phases, 8 Weeks
Phase I HealthTech ClawCamp August 1-2
**Day 1 - August 1 | Stack AI HQ, One World Trade Center**
Learn. Ideate. Validate with Experts on hand & Build or add to your team from other folks like yourself.
Meet amazing people. Pitch problems. Learn from expert AI faculty, upskill. Present or Find a problem worth solving - & the team to solve it with. No startup idea or coding required, but bring your passion to build solutions to the problems in healthcare.
Day 2 - August 2 | Arya Health HQ, NYC**
Build Something Real.
Build prototypes. Validate ideas. Design workflows. Interview users. Use AI, code, & creativity. Leave Day 2 with something real - a working prototype posted to MedStartr.ai Qualifies you for Phase II
(Also Awards of tokens & other great stuff from Day 2 Winners)
Phase II MedStartr Crowd Challenge August 2 - October 6
Your Build goes live on MedStartr.ai where 250,000+ credentialed healthcare stakeholders - patients, clinicians, investors, partners - can review, comment, follow, pilot, & share. More eyes. More feedback. More signal on what actually matters.
Teams keep building & iterating based on what the crowd says.
Phase III Launchathon Finals October 6
Health Impact Forum Microsoft Times Square, NYC
The top crowd-validated teams take the stage at one of NYC's biggest healthcare innovation gatherings. Compete for **over $1 million** in investment, accelerator spots, pilots, partnerships, software credits, & everything a startup needs to succeed.
Keynote Speakers
Day 1: Khan Siddiqui, MD
CEO & Co-Founder, HOPPR 2025 SIIM Imaging Informatics Innovator
"From Hacking to Scale"
Brian Yarnell
3x Exited HealthTech Founder
Day 2: Grace Cordovano, PhD
Board Certified Patient Advocate CancerX
*"Designing for the Patient Experience"*
15 other MedStartr Mentors & 7 AI expert trainers to help you validate, plan & build your ideas out better & faster
## Who Should Attend?
This is for **everyone who touches healthcare** - not just developers:
- **Clinicians** - physicians, nurses, NPs, PAs who see broken workflows daily
- **Patients & caregivers** - living the gaps in care & navigation firsthand
- **Admins & billers** - revenue cycle, coding, & operations insiders
- **Researchers** - with data, insights, & unmet needs to solve
- **Tech co-founders** - developers & AI builders seeking high-impact problems (apply for discounted tickets)
- **Early founders** - ideas at any stage, ready to validate fast
MedStartr Challenge Winners are 22 more likely to succeed.
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There are many more ticket Types available on MedStartr.ai/launchathon:
| Type | Price | Details |
|------|-------|---------|
| General Admission | $50| Open enrollment |
| Two Pack | $80| Everything is better with friends |
| VIP | $100 | Dedicated mentor time + Health Impact Forum ticket |
| Early Bird | $0-25 | Apply to attend - going fast |
| Tech Co-Founder | $50 | Apply - discounted for technical builders |
| Mentor | Free | Apply via MedStartr.ai |
| Volunteer | Free | Help us run the event |
| Demo Table | $1,000 | Table for laptop, monitor + 1 rollup banner |
Register & buy tickets here or for more options [visit the MedStartr.ai Healthcare Innovation platform with more details!](http://medstartr.ai/launchathon)
Confirmed Sponsors
Arya Health Stack.ai Health Impact Forum
Interested in sponsoring?
Five tiers from $2,500 Community to $50,000 Title.
About MedStartr
17 years building the global healthcare innovation community. 9,000+ innovations reviewed. 250,000+ credentialed stakeholders. 1,200+ events in 41 cities. The team behind over 120 contests & crowdchallenges for over 200 sponsors since 2010. We also run the investment funds & accelerators, also named MedStartr where we invest in & accelerate the teams that win challenges like this one.
Check out the new [MedStartr.ai](http://medstartr.ai) alpha Just Launched 7/14/2026!
About ClawCamp
ClawCamp is a global community advancing mastery of AI agents - from first personal agent to advanced multi-agent workflows. 1,400+ events 120+ cities 100,000+ attendees trained. The AI training backbone of the Launchathon build weekend.
Visit them at clawcamp.us
Khan Siddiqui, MD
Dr. Khan Siddiqui is a physician-entrepreneur, technologist, & radiologist at the forefront of the medical AI revolution.
As CEO & Co-Founder of HOPPR, he leads the development of advanced multimodal foundation models designed to democratize AI training & accelerate medical imaging development for healthcare systems worldwide.
He previously served as Chief Medical Officer & Chief Strategy Officer of Hyperfine, where he helped take the company public & deploy Swoop - the world's first FDA-cleared, portable bedside MRI system. In 2012 he founded higi, a consumer health network of thousands of biometric screening kiosks across North American pharmacies, culminating in a multi-billion-dollar acquisition. Earlier, as a principal program manager & AI architect at Microsoft, he designed the deep-learning image infrastructure used to train the Xbox Kinect.
A recognized pioneer in imaging informatics, Dr. Siddiqui received the 2025 Imaging Informatics Innovator Award from the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) & holds dozens of patents across medical image processing, machine learning, & healthcare analytics.
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