Springboard’s Women’s Health Innovation Showcase, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, will feature top women innovating in women’s health from Springboard’s 2024 Women’s Health cohort. Join us for an evening of inspiring presentations, accompanied by feedback and insight from our expert panel and audience. A cocktail and networking reception will follow.
If you want to see what’s next in women’s health or network with the broader Springboard community of investors, industry leaders, and top entrepreneurs, join us!
Immerse yourself in captivating presentations from the latest women entrepreneurs who are solving some of the most complex problems within the industry.
Explore the forefront of women’s health, gaining insight into the latest innovations and technology hitting the market.
Establish connections within the expansive Springboard and Amazon Web Services communities encompassing investors, industry pioneers and accomplished entrepreneurs.
When and Where
Tuesday, June 4th, 2024
3:30 PM to 6:30 PM ET
Hosted at Amazon, 450 W 33rd St Fl 7, New York, NY, 10001
Event Partner
Interested in partnerships or have any questions?
Email Miranda Ewald, Director of Programs for Springboard Enterprises at [email protected].
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Join us for Springboard Enterprises’ 16th annual Gala on Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at Nasdaq in Times Square, New York. This extraordinary event will be an evening of both professional elegance and joyous celebration, set in a venue fit for the occasion. Nasdaq’s MarketSite is a global destination for celebrating success, achievements and important milestones.
The Springboard Gala will unite our diverse community of industry leaders, seasoned investors, corporate executives, and Springboard’s esteemed alumnae in honor of the incredible achievements of our vibrant network. Honors such as Entrepreneur of the Year, Investor of the Year, Rising Star and Champion are bestowed upon visionary leaders whose actions and impact contribute to the advancement of women entrepreneurs and our society as a whole.
We gather not only to celebrate the achievements of Springboard’s network of 900+ women entrepreneurs who have led 27 IPOs and generated over $39B in value, but also to reaffirm our commitment to fostering a future where their impact knows no bounds. Through this event, we aim to raise funds for our not-for-profit organization, supporting our mission to empower and uplift women entrepreneurs. Together, we can continue to break barriers, shatter glass ceilings, and create a world that embraces and empowers women in entrepreneurship.
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Are you interested in learning more about how to secure media coverage in top tier publications? Join Lizzy Lawrence, Health Tech Reporter at STAT News, Reporting from the frontiers of health & medicine and Ariel Kramer, Founder of Klover Communications, a boutique PR firm focused on healthcare and life science for an engaging conversation on securing media coverage in STAT News.
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Springboard’s Dolphin Tank is a showcase that brings the power of our collective community to women entrepreneurs innovating in Technology. Our Dolphin Tank events spotlight exciting women-led companies and provide them with the opportunity for connections, capital, and insight from our audience of investors, advisors, and industry leaders.
Join Springboard Enterprises for an exciting event featuring women founders and entrepreneurs, expert panelists, and interactive audience participation!
When and Where
Thursday, June 20, 2024 5:00 PM ET – 8:00 PM ET
Deloitte Office: 1919 N Lynn St, Floor 10, Arlington, VA 22209 Please note: This will be an in-person event.
Email Rachel Rong, Director of Operations for Springboard Enterprises at [email protected].
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Attention founders who are fundraising or looking for places to start: Springboard is partnering with the NIH Small Business Education and Entrepreneurial Development (SEED) office to share tips and resources for navigating non-dilutive funding options.
Many Springboard alumnae have also successfully completed a SBIR or STTR program through NIH, and on April 17, we will be highlighting some of their stories. Please join us for a free webinar to learn more about their experiences and to hear directly from the corresponding NIH program leaders who are offering their insight and support! Please register at the following link.
Obatala Sciences is a revenue- generating bioTools company that is revolutionizing drug development within the fields of obesity, diabetes, and regenerative medicine by manufacturing the first-to-market human tissue models of diverse patient populations for drug screening.
Linnaeus Therapeutics is a development stage biotech company engaged in the identification and development of small molecule agents for the treatment of cancer.
KaloCyte is a preclinical biotech startup developing ErythroMer, a bioengineered artificial red blood cell for treating treating blood loss after injury when blood is not available.
Smartphone-based medical diagnostics to enable virtual pediatric care.
NIH Experts
Julia Berzhanskaya, PhD, Program Director, REACH and Innovator Support Lead, I&C, NHLBI
Julia serves as a Program Director for REACH/NCAI and as the Lead Innovator Support for the Innovation & Commercialization Office. Prior to joining the Innovation Office, Julia served as a Program Official at the National Institute on Drug Abuse responsible for management of behavioral, device, big data, and digital health technology SBIR/STTR portfolios. At the Office of the NIH Director, she oversaw the biomedical facilities program, and prior to that had a range of SBIR/STTR and regulatory related responsibilities at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Julia also held the role of Scientific Review Officer at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She has contributed to several trans-NIH initiatives including HEAL, BRAIN, SPARC, MMM and Entrepreneurial Workforce Diversity Group. Julia earned her M.S. in Neuroscience from University of Pittsburgh and Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University.
CDR Mike Banyas, USPHS, M.P.A., M.A., Health Specialist, Community Health and Population Science, NIMHD
Commander Michael Banyas is a Senior Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service and a Health Specialist in the National Institute of Minority Health Disparities (NIMHD). The mission of NIMHD is to lead the nation’s scientific research to improve minority health and reduce health disparities. In his role, he is the Program Director for NIMHD’s SBIR/STTR program and oversees an award budget of almost $17.5 million and over 100 awardees. CDR Banyas specializes in underserved health care and public health systems with a focus on implementation science. Previously, he served as Public Health Analyst in NIH’s All of Us Research Program, where he led the Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Pilot Project and Co Led the Tribal Engagement Strategic, as well as operational process improvement.
Patti Weber, DrPH, Program Director, NCI SBIR Development Center
Dr. Weber completed her Masters and Doctorate in Public Health with an emphasis in Biomedical Sciences at the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. She began work at the National Institutes of Health in the National Cancer Institute’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Development Center in Oct of 2008. The SBIR Development Center is a division at the NCI that manages more than $180 million in technology projects within the small business community to accelerate the progress of cancer research. Her area of emphasis is in cancer prevention, digital health, therapeutics, and biologics. Prior to joining the NCI, she worked in industry managing drug discovery and development efforts at small biotech companies in San Diego followed by western Montana.
Todd Haim, PhD, NIA Senior Advisor on Biomedical Innovation
Todd Haim, Ph.D., is the NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) Senior Advisor on Biomedical Innovation and the Director of the NIA Office of Strategic Extramural Programs (OSEP). He leads a dynamic team focused on coordinating and continuing to enhance NIA’s training, career development, and small business seed funding (SBIR/STTR) programs. Under Todd’s leadership, NIA’s seed funding programs have grown significantly, incorporated more resources to enable awardee success, and have been demonstrated to support advancement towards commercialization for a diverse array of innovators. Todd’s previous position was Program Director at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) SBIR Development Center, where he evaluated and managed cancer-focused SBIR & STTR grants and contracts and played a leadership role in several center initiatives. Prior to NCI, he was a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences. Todd graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in January 2007 with a Ph.D. in biomedical research and obtained a certificate in technology commercialization from John Hopkins’ Carey Business School in 2011. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Pfizer in which he actively led Pfizer’s research efforts in a collaboration with Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He has received several prestigious awards and honors, including the 2014 NCI Leadership Development Award, several NIA, NCI, and NIH Director’s Awards, and the New Jersey Governor’s Award for Volunteerism in the Field of Health.
Moderator
Renée JG Arnold, PharmD, RPh, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at NIH/NHLBI and BioHealth Innovation, Inc.
Renée JG Arnold is currently Entrepreneur-in-Residence with both BioHealth Innovation, Inc. and the NIH/NHLBI, with expertise in Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) and evidence development related to reimbursement. She is also President & CEO, Arnold Consultancy & Technology, LLC, where she oversees outcomes research and develops affiliated software for pharmaceutical and government programs. Her special interest in evidence-based health derives from her research that deals with use of technology to collect and/or model real-world data for use in rational decision-making by healthcare practitioners and policy makers. In addition, Dr. Arnold is Adjunct Professor, Master of Public Health program, Department of Environmental Medicine and Climate Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, where she has developed and teaches the pharmacoeconomics coursework. Dr. Arnold completed her undergraduate training at the University of Maryland and received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She also completed a post-doctoral residency at University Hospital in San Diego/University of California at San Francisco School of Pharmacy. Dr. Arnold is a founding member of ISPOR, the 20,000-member leading professional society for HEOR globally, and is the Chair of multiple special interest groups (SIGS) there including, most recently, the Open Source Model SIG. Dr. Arnold is an author of numerous articles, book chapters and books in the areas of pharmacology, pharmacoeconomics and cost containment strategies and the 2 nd edition of her pharmacoeconomics textbook.
Join representatives from ARPA-H and Springboard Enterprises to learn more about the ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health, which commits $100 million to transformative research and development in women’s health. This webinar will cover the ARPA-H initiative and the process for applying for funding.
The Sprint for Women’s Health will utilize two funding tracks to foster research and development efforts: one for early-stage research, or ‘Spark’ solutions, and the other for later-stage development, or ‘LaunchPad’ solutions.
Join us to learn more about this exciting opportunity!
Dr. Jenica Patterson – Division Director for T3X at ARPA-H and lead for the Sprint for Women’s Health
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Springboard’s Digital Health Innovation Showcase will feature top women innovating in Digital Health from Springboard’s most recent Digital Health cohort. Join us for their inspiring presentations followed by feedback and insight from our expert panel and audience. If you want to see what’s next in Digital Health or network with the broader Springboard community of investors, industry leaders, and top entrepreneurs, join us!
Immerse yourself in captivating presentations from the latest women entrepreneurs who are solving some of the most complex problems within the industry.
Explore the forefront of digital health, gaining insight into the latest innovations and technology hitting the market.
Establish connections within the expansive Springboard community encompassing investors, industry pioneers and accomplished entrepreneurs.
When and Where
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST
Thursday, March 21th, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST
Please note: This will be a virtual event
Interested in partnerships or have any questions?
Email Ashley Lundy, VP of Programs for Springboard Enterprises at [email protected].
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Springboard’s Dolphin Tank is a pitch event that brings the power of our collective community to women entrepreneurs innovating in technology. Our Dolphin Tank events showcase exciting women-led companies and provide them with the opportunity for connections, capital, and insight from our audience of investors, advisors, and industry leaders.
Join Springboard Enterprises and Dolphin Tank partners Wells Fargo and OneKC for Women, for an exciting pitch event featuring women founders and entrepreneurs, expert panelists, and interactive audience participation!
Dolphin Tank participants will have access to learning opportunities, mentorship, and access to capital via: Funding Your Small Business, Pitching to Investors, and Equity Prep classes offered by the KCWBC. Funding Your Small Business is a one-hour workshop providing an understanding of debt and equity funding. Equity seekers are encouraged to take the next step with pitching to investors an orientation workshop. Debt funding candidates may be interested in a microloan or banker referral or one-on-one counseling with KCWBC’s Client Services Manager for potential financial preparation. Pitching to Investors is a two-hour orientation that introduces the business owner pursuing equity funding with terminology and the process that is necessary to attract investors. Equity Prep takes a deeper dive into raising equity funding. The program helps entrepreneurs get ready for several pathways, including Digital Sandbox, Dolphin Tank, Angel Investors, and Demo Days.
Springboard Enterprises values diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as essential to our mission and more broadly to a thriving, equitable, and just global community. We encourage women entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds to apply.
How Dolphin Tank Works
While the venues and audiences may vary, every Dolphin Tank shares these core elements:
Entrepreneurs and their companies are selected via an application process.
Presenters deliver a three-minute pitch addressing a challenge or unique opportunity.
Solutions, connections, strategies, and opportunities for investment are crowdsourced from the audience.
If you are interested in sponsoring, please email:
Rachel Rong, Director of Operations for Springboard Enterprises at [email protected].
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Springboard’s Dolphin Tank is a pitch event that brings the power of our collective community to women entrepreneurs innovating in technology. Our Dolphin Tank events showcase exciting women-led companies and provide them with the opportunity for connections, capital, and insight from our audience of investors, advisors, and industry leaders.
Join Springboard Enterprises and Dolphin Tank partners the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Wells Fargo, and OneKC for Women, for an exciting pitch event featuring women founders and entrepreneurs, expert panelists, and interactive audience participation!
Dolphin Tank participants will have access to learning opportunities, mentorship, and access to capital via: Funding Your Small Business, Pitching to Investors, and Equity Prep classes offered by the KCWBC. Funding Your Small Business is a one-hour workshop providing an understanding of debt and equity funding. Equity seekers are encouraged to take the next step with pitching to investors an orientation workshop. Debt funding candidates may be interested in a microloan or banker referral or one-on-one counseling with KCWBC’s Client Services Manager for potential financial preparation. Pitching to Investors is a two-hour orientation that introduces the business owner pursuing equity funding with terminology and the process that is necessary to attract investors. Equity Prep takes a deeper dive into raising equity funding. The program helps entrepreneurs get ready for several pathways, including Digital Sandbox, Dolphin Tank, Angel Investors, and Demo Days.
Springboard Enterprises values diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as essential to our mission and more broadly to a thriving, equitable, and just global community. We encourage women entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds to apply.
How Dolphin Tank Works
While the venues and audiences may vary, every Dolphin Tank shares these core elements:
Entrepreneurs and their companies are selected via an application process.
Presenters deliver a three-minute pitch addressing a challenge or unique opportunity.
Solutions, connections, strategies, and opportunities for investment are crowdsourced from the audience.
If you are interested in sponsoring, please email:
Rachel Rong, Director of Operations for Springboard Enterprises at [email protected].
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Springboard’s Dolphin Tank is a pitch event that brings the power of our collective community to women entrepreneurs innovating in technology. Our Dolphin Tank events showcase exciting women-led companies and provide them with the opportunity for connections, capital, and insight from our audience of investors, advisors, and industry leaders.
Join Springboard Enterprises and Dolphin Tank partners Wells Fargo and OneKC for Women, for an exciting pitch event featuring women founders and entrepreneurs, expert panelists, and interactive audience participation!
A Traveled Path Homes: Simplifying housing solutions for traveling medical professionals on emergency contracts.
Shapree’ Marshall, the founder and CEO of A Traveled Path Homes, is a first-generation entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in the insurance and financial sector. Her personal battle and hospitalization with COVID-19 revealed the challenges faced by traveling medical professionals, inspiring her to create A Traveled Path Homes to provide housing solutions tailored to their needs.
Leva is a comprehensive ecosystem that provides pregnant and postpartum employees with the support they need to thrive.
Vanessa, CEO and Founder of Leva, has spent over 20 years in internet technology, innovating at giants like DIRECTV, USAA, and H&R Block. She is a leader in digital product management and driving profitable growth, leveraging her expertise in human-centered design and data-driven decision making. Vanessa’s academic credentials include a BBA in Information Systems from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX and a Master of Science in Technology Commercialization from UT Austin, coupled with a Women’s leadership certificate from Cornell University. She is passionate about continuous learning, her family, and freedom.
MedCurate is the Uber for Healthcare staffing matching nurses and hospitals for half the cost of traditional staffing agencies.
Ashley McClellan is an experienced senior executive with over 18 years’ experience in Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer roles across three organizations who transitioned into Founder and CEO of MedCurate in 2023.
Ashley attended Southern Methodist University (SMU) where she obtained her BBA in Finance and BA in Spanish. She received her Master’s in Hospital Administration and MBA from Texas Woman’s University. She is currently in her Doctoral Program for Health Administration (anticipated graduation in 2024). Ms. McClellan is a Fellow and Board Certified by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and serves on several boards including SMU Cox School of Business Alumnae Board.
She resides in Kansas City with her husband, Brett, and their two sons. Brett is an experienced mortgage lender with UMB Bank, and they also own Sojourn Spa on the Plaza that opened January 2024.
Aviva is the CEO and Founder of SoLVE. A Kansas City Based consulting firm. After 25 years of leading strategy creation and implementation, new product development, brand management, consumer marketing and organization re-design, there’s no marketing problem Aviva hasn’t SoLVEd.
Aviva founded SoLVE with the mission to help Kansas City businesses grow. Offering a unique, hands-on approach to business consulting, SoLVE’s clients are both B2B and B2C. They range from $600M national corporations to $500M regional companies, and also include local small business owners and start-ups. Aviva supports clients across numerous industries including Consumer Product Goods, Construction, Publishing, Wealth Management, Higher Education, IT, Manufacturing, CCRCs and non-profit organizations.
Leveraging experience as an entrepreneur, executive, engineer, investor and coach, I work with select emerging and high-growth leaders, startups, investors, and entrepreneurial support organizations, helping them to make opportunity happen.
As CEO of Orbis Biosciences, I built a technology company that improved pharmaceutical manufacturing, won awards for its novel innovation, and was acquired by Adare Pharmaceuticals. As Managing Director of Techstars Kansas City, I invested in and coached startups across health tech, biotech, fin tech, deep tech, and consumer tech. I have been in the trenches with founders from over 30 companies and love being a business growth guide.
Vercie Lark, Author of Make It Rain & Small Business Investor
Vercie Lark, formerly one of ten SBA Regional Administrators appointed by President Biden in 2022 to play an important role helping small business owners access federally backed loans, contracts, and training to start, grow and expand. Although Mr. Lark is no longer working as a presidential appointee for the SBA, he continues to invest in and advocate for small businesses to help expand America’s economic, education, employment, and entrepreneurial success.
Mr. Lark is the author of Make It Rain, a simple self-help personal finance book created to help increase wealth, jobs and financial security for hardworking Americans. Mr. Lark, recently launched the Prosperity Fund, a $20 million venture capital (VC) fund, to help fuel growth of U.S. SaaS technology firms founded by women and minority entrepreneurs. Mr. Lark retired from a successful career as an entrepreneur and corporate executive rising up the ranks in several fortune 500 firms before leading a billion-dollar business at DST Systems in Kansas City, MO.
About Dolphin Tank
Dolphin Tank participants will have access to learning opportunities, mentorship, and access to capital via: Funding Your Small Business, Pitching to Investors, and Equity Prep classes offered by the KCWBC. Funding Your Small Business is a one-hour workshop providing an understanding of debt and equity funding. Equity seekers are encouraged to take the next step with pitching to investors an orientation workshop. Debt funding candidates may be interested in a microloan or banker referral or one-on-one counseling with KCWBC’s Client Services Manager for potential financial preparation. Pitching to Investors is a two-hour orientation that introduces the business owner pursuing equity funding with terminology and the process that is necessary to attract investors. Equity Prep takes a deeper dive into raising equity funding. The program helps entrepreneurs get ready for several pathways, including Digital Sandbox, Dolphin Tank, Angel Investors, and Demo Days.
Springboard Enterprises values diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as essential to our mission and more broadly to a thriving, equitable, and just global community. We encourage women entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds to apply.
How Dolphin Tank Works
While the venues and audiences may vary, every Dolphin Tank shares these core elements:
Entrepreneurs and their companies are selected via an application process.
Presenters deliver a three-minute pitch addressing a challenge or unique opportunity.
Solutions, connections, strategies, and opportunities for investment are crowdsourced from the audience.
If you are interested in sponsoring, please email:
Rachel Rong, Director of Operations for Springboard Enterprises at [email protected].
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