Health Wildcatters Announces New Startups for 2025 Cohort

Dallas, September 9, 2025

News Summary

Health Wildcatters has selected 11 innovative startups for its latest cohort, emphasizing the growth of Dallas as a health innovation hub. The cohort features a diverse range of companies from both domestic and international locations, marking the 13th year of the accelerator program. This initiative aims to bolster investor connections and enhance support for healthcare startups, with previous participants raising significant follow-up funding.

Dallas — Health Wildcatters has selected 11 startups for its 2025 cohort, marking a continued expansion of the Dallas area as a regional hub for health innovation.

Key points

• 11 startups named to the 2025 cohort, representing U.S. and international companies.
• This is the 13th year of the Health Wildcatters accelerator program.
• The accelerator has supported 131 companies since inception and helped 118 healthcare companies secure more than $350 million in follow-up funding.
• Launch and cohort reveal took place at Pegasus Park on September 4.
• The newly opened HW VC Center is already facilitating investor-startup engagement, hosting over 30 meetings with 10 venture capital firms in six weeks.

Top-line details

The 2025 cohort spans health IT, medical devices, digital health, and biopharma solutions. The class includes companies based in Texas and across the United States, plus four international entrants from Italy, Israel, and Ireland. The cohort was introduced to the public at Health Wildcatters’ “Meet the Teams Reveal & Happy Hour” event held at Pegasus Park on September 4.

Cohort composition and notable companies

The cohort comprises a mix of early-stage startups focused on diagnostics, digital therapeutics, fertility and hormone monitoring, cardiac devices, wearable sensors, and AI-driven clinical platforms. Notable entrants include:

• PrecisionHealth TPA (Frisco) — a technology-driven third-party administrator serving self-funded healthcare plans.
• YU.SH (Milan, Italy | Dubai, UAE) — a company combining fashion and health technology through luxury footwear designed to enhance wellness.
• Vaccinity Inc. (Fort Worth) — developing a decentralized patient electronic health record with AI-enabled clinical trial matching.
• Latica Med Ltd. (Ra’anana, Israel) — working on non-invasive acoustic technology to support fertility outcomes.
• Pumpinheart Limited (Galway, Ireland) — designing a transcatheter implantable pump for heart failure treatment.
• NearWave (Austin) — uses optical imaging systems to help identify optimal therapies for breast cancer patients.
• Pollen Sense (Salt Lake City, Utah) — provides real-time airborne particle monitoring to inform health and environmental decisions.
• SelfSense Technologies (Galway, Ireland) — an AI-powered SmartSplint that measures bite force to improve dental treatment outcomes.
• HarmonIQ Biosciences Inc. (Austin) — developing a continuous hormone monitoring platform aimed at transforming fertility care.
• Sequest Bio (Boston, Massachusetts) — building predictive models for cancer progression to inform treatment planning.
• PowerPercept (Dallas) — creating smart insoles that deliver real-time data for injury prevention and rehabilitation.

Acceleration, investor connections and facilities

Alongside the cohort announcement, Health Wildcatters highlighted infrastructure and investor-focused developments intended to support deal flow and grow regional healthcare investment. The HW VC Center was launched to connect startups with venture capital firms and investors. In its first six weeks of operation, the center hosted more than 30 meetings involving 10 venture capital firms and offers a matchmaking service that pairs startups with investors based on specific investment criteria.

Health Wildcatters has also expanded office space and resources for healthcare entrepreneurs. These additions form part of the broader Pegasus Park ecosystem, which houses other biotech and innovation organizations, creating a clustered environment for collaboration among early-stage companies, investors, and service providers.

Context and strategic aims

The 2025 cohort reflects ongoing trends toward digitization, globalization, and personalization in healthcare, with startups addressing diagnostics, patient data, reproductive health, chronic disease management, and preventative technologies. Health Wildcatters continues to emphasize building local ecosystems that can attract investor attention away from traditional coastal hotspots and toward Texas-based healthcare initiatives.

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Additional Resources

• Dallas Innovates
• Wikipedia: Health Technology
• D Magazine
• Google Search: Health Wildcatters
• Dallas Innovates
• Google Scholar: Health Innovation
• MedCity News
• Encyclopedia Britannica: Healthcare Startups
• Bisnow
• Google News: Health Tech Investment

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