Rewired 2023: Limbic announced as first Pitchfest scale-up champion

Limbic has been introduced as the first-ever winner in the modern day scale-up class of virtual  Rewired Pitchfest 2023.

 

Limbic is the sector’s first and handiest AI intellectual health chatbot with clinical magnificence IIa UKCA status. CEO Ross Harper normal the award after pitching the innovation to a stay target market and the judging panel before being decided on as the winner in advance of the other finalists.

 

As winner of the Pitchfest scale-up opposition, Limbic can be supplied the opportunity to have their innovation tested and scaled at Chelsea and Westminster health center NHS basis trust via the CW Innovation Programme – a collaboration between the agree with and its charity CW+.

 

For the fourth consecutive yr, the CW Innovation Programme has offered the winners a actual-world test mattress in whichever care setting their concept or begin-up is primarily based.

 

Chris Chaney, chief govt of CW+ and co-lead of CW Innovation, stated: ‘Congratulations to Limbic for winning the size-up very last of this 12 months’s Pitchfest, and to all of the finalists within the competition.

 

“we are excited to paintings with Limbic, and through our flagship CW Innovation programme, we are able to test and scale their innovation on the accept as true with to convey their thoughts to existence. We already work on remodeling mental fitness offerings for younger humans via our great For You programme.

 

“collaborating with Limbic will similarly reveal our dedication to assisting mental fitness care across the network we serve.”

 

the dimensions-up entries wherein whittled down to the very last 8 before Rewired, with the competitors split into  heats.

 

 scale-united states of americafrom every heat stepped forward via to the stay final at the commercial enterprise layout Centre in London to pitch to an professional judging panel in a bid to grow to be the inaugural Pitchfest scale-up champion.

 

The 3 runners-up have been:

Abtrace– GP software for scanning clinical records to display present lengthy-time period situations, detecting new disease, and optimising preventative remedy

Dr Julian– tele and digital health answers for intellectual health carriers

Panakeia technologies– AI software program platform supplying biomarker results in mins as opposed to days or even weeks

The very last ran at some point of the afternoon of day one in every of virtual health Rewired 2023, stay at the Pitchfest degree. It was hosted by way of virtual fitness’s CEO Jon Hoeksma, who became joined with the aid of a panel of judges who wondered each scale-up approximately their innovation and what makes it specific as compared to others.

 

The judging panel throughout each Pitchfest competitions this 12 months consisted of:

Chris Chaney, chief government, CW+

Dr Rachael Grimaldi, co-founder and CEO, CardMedic

Jon Hoeksma, CEO, virtual health

Rhod Joyce, deputy director of innovation improvement, Transformation Directorate NHSE & I

Dr John Lee Allen, dealing with associate, RYSE Asset management

Megan Morys-Carter, director, The Hill

Rachel Murphy, public speaker, fitness tech advisor and previous CEO, Difrent

Chris Sawyer, innovation lead, digital fitness Innovate united kingdom

Joe Stringer, companion, Octopus Ventures

Rebecca Todd, investment director, Longwall venture partners LLP

Pitchfest 2023 is sponsored by using CW+ and Silver greenback.