Start-Up Stadium Featured Live Pitches from these
2022 Finalists (Winners to be announced in August):

Full Schedule in Presentation Order Below:
(Use the Filter Function Here to Search Your Way with Session Type set to "Start-Up Stadium")

 

Company Name and TimeslotCategory and Company LocationStart of Description (click for more)
nVector, Inc.
Tuesday, June 14, 11:00 am–12:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (Arizona)
nVector’s next generation gene therapy technology is poised to enable revolutionary treatments for central nervous syste…
PrecisemAb Biotech Co., Ltd.
Tuesday, June 14, 11:00 am–12:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
Taiwan
We are PrecisemAb, a company that is committed to blocking side effects caused by antibody therapy. Our disease-directed…
BacVax, Inc.
Tuesday, June 14, 11:00 am–12:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (Arizona)
BacVax uses structural vaccinology methods to develop bacterial vaccines, and BacVax employs a novel delivery system, Ba…
South Rampart Pharma
Tuesday, June 14, 11:00 am–12:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (Louisiana)
As current medications are either highly addictive or cause harm to the liver and kidney, there is a tremendous unmet ne…
Nixxi
Tuesday, June 14, 12:00–1:00 pm PT
Digital Health
United States (Arizona)
Nixxi’s maternal health platform matches pregnant women to optimal care pathways to reduce complications and improve neo…
Limax Biosciences
Tuesday, June 14, 12:00–1:00 pm PT
Medical Device
United States (Massachusetts)
Limax Biosciences, a spinout from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, has developed a fully degradable hydrogel-ba…
Evrima Technologies Pty Ltd
Tuesday, June 14, 12:00–1:00 pm PT
Platform Technology
Australia
Bringing new medicines to market is expensive and time consuming. Patient recruitment and site management drive costs an…
My Medic Watch Pty Ltd
Tuesday, June 14, 12:00–1:00 pm PT
Digital Health
Australia
My Medic Watch (MMW) has developed innovative, scalable, patented and clinically tested applications (apps) for both the…
Pharmasaga
Tuesday, June 14, 12:00–1:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
Taiwan
Pharmasaga is an Academia Sinica-derived biotech company, and focus on the development of a first-in-class diabetes drug…
Curiva
Tuesday, June 14, 2:00–3:00 pm PT
Diagnostics
United States (Indiana)
Curiva is a developer of diagnostic patches designed for the detection of gynecologic malignancies. The company's patent…
MyoGene Bio
Tuesday, June 14, 2:00–3:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (California)
MyoGene Bio is dedicated to developing cutting edge therapies for muscle diseases. Our first approach, MyoDys45-55, is a…
Nano PharmaSolutions, Inc.
Tuesday, June 14, 2:00–3:00 pm PT
Platform Technology
United States (California)
The big challenge of today's drug development is insolubility of drug: >80% drug candidates do not dissolved in water, w…
BlackweRx Inc.
Tuesday, June 14, 2:00–3:00 pm PT
Platform Technology
United States (Texas)
BlackweRx inc. is a digital diagnostic startup building imaging tools for the identification and monitoring of disease. …
Navega Therapeutics, Inc.
Tuesday, June 14, 3:00–4:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (California)
Navega Therapeutics is harnessing the precision of CRISPR and zinc finger epigenome regulation to enable next-generation…
NeurANO Bioscience
Tuesday, June 14, 3:00–4:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (California)
NeurANO Bioscience is a pre-clinical neuroscience drug discovery company developing first-in-class nanotherapeutics that…
OncoXome, Inc.
Tuesday, June 14, 3:00–4:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (California)
OncoXome is an oncology biotech startup focused on inducing cancer cell death and overcoming the biggest challenge we fa…
SiVEC Biotechnologies
Tuesday, June 14, 3:00–4:00 pm PT
Platform Technology
United States (Colorado)
SiVEC Biotechnologies has a novel drug delivery platform that uses carefully engineered bacteria designed to produce and…
EpiVario Inc
Wednesday, June 15, 11:00 am–12:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (Pennsylvania)
EpiVario is a preclinical stage biotechnology company focusing on developing treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders. …
MabSwitch Inc
Wednesday, June 15, 11:00 am–12:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (California)
MabSwitch Inc, is a biotechnology company founded to develop and commercialize novel innovative products based on it’s p…
Pyrefin Inc.
Wednesday, June 15, 11:00 am–12:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (Georgia)
Pyrefin was founded to develop novel small molecule anti-inflammatory drug candidates. Company founders have characteriz…
APIE Therapeuctics
Wednesday, June 15, 11:00 am–12:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (North Carolina)
APIE Therapeutics is a start-up BioPharma pioneering an anti-fibrotic small molecule platform.  APIE has a portfolio (+8…
NextVivo
Wednesday, June 15, 11:00 am–12:00 pm PT
Platform Technology
United States (California)
NextVivo is a biotechnology company developing an immune organoid platform to transform the future of drug development. …
Centivax Inc
Wednesday, June 15, 12:00–1:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (California)
Centivax is a therapeutics company founded to create treatments ands cures to reduce and eradicate the remaining complex…
Coastar Therapeutics Inc.
Wednesday, June 15, 12:00–1:00 pm PT
Platform Technology
United States (California)
Coastar Therapeutics is a San Diego based company focus on biological payloads delivery technology for cancer and gene t…
Ophidion, Inc.
Wednesday, June 15, 12:00–1:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (Pennsylvania)
Ophidion, Inc. is a private biotechnology company with a pipeline of products to treat neurodegenerative diseases using …
TRIO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Wednesday, June 15, 12:00–1:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (California)
TRIO Pharma has a novel platform technology to enhance anti-tumor immunity by eliminating both cancer cells and tumor-resident ....
AcureX Therapeutics
Wednesday, June 15, 2:00–3:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (California)
AcureX Therapeutics is a pharma company with a mission to halt major neurodegenerative diseases driven by impaired mitop…
Aza Technology, Inc.
Wednesday, June 15, 2:00–3:00 pm PT
Medical Device
United States (Maryland)
Aza Technology is a startup spun out of Stanford University poised to deliver a point-of-care device targeting diagnosis…
Halo Biosciences
Wednesday, June 15, 2:00–3:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (California)
Halo Biosciences is a clinical stage biotech redefining the treatment of inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. Halo is dev…
MEDIC Life Sciences
Wednesday, June 15, 2:00–3:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (California)
MEDIC Life Sciences is a young genomics biotech startup based in Mountain View, CA, developing novel oncology therapeuti…
Parallel Bio
Wednesday, June 15, 3:00–4:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (California)
Parallel Bio created a human 'immune system in a dish' to discover drugs and immunotherapies more likely to work in pati…
Vcreate
Wednesday, June 15, 3:00–4:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (California)
Vcreate is developing the next generation of T-cell therapies for cancers that are currently untreatable by chemotherapi…
Santa Maria Lab
Wednesday, June 15, 3:00–4:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (California)
Our lab has an evolving track record of taking problems in hearing loss and turning them into potential new treatments. …
Crista Biologics
Wednesday, June 15, 3:00–4:00 pm PT
Therapeutics and Vaccines
United States (California)
Crista Biologics delivers an innovative platform  to patients with refractory diseases associated with mitochondrial…
NeuroDex, Inc.
Thursday, June 16, 11:00 am–12:00 pm PT
Diagnostics
United States (Massachusetts)
A brain liquid biopsy company, leveraging our proprietary blood based, cell-specific exosome isolation technology to cre…
QUASR Diagnostics
Thursday, June 16, 11:00 am–12:00 pm PT
Diagnostics
United States (New Mexico)
QUASR is a diagnostics company focused on commercializing rapid diagnostic assays and equipment in the infectious diseas…
Avida Biomed Inc.
Thursday, June 16, 11:00 am–12:00 pm PT
Diagnostics
United States (California)
Avida Biomed, a biotech company founded by veteran entrepreneurs, focuses on technology-based innovation for molecular d…
Moleculera Labs
Thursday, June 16, 11:00 am–12:00 pm PT
Diagnostics
United States (Oklahoma)
Moleculera Labs is a precision medicine company founded to medically understand and clinically identify the biological r…
Nanochon
Thursday, June 16, 11:00 am–12:00 pm PT
Medical Device
United States (District Of Columbia)
Nanochon is developing implantable devices for the restoration and reversal of cartilage damage and loss in joints. Nano…
Pathogenomix Inc.
Thursday, June 16, 12:00–1:00 pm PT
Diagnostics
United States (California)
Pathogenomix Inc. provides NGS detection of all clinically relevant bacteria from a single test. Pathogenomix was awarde…
Rewire Neuro, Inc
Thursday, June 16, 12:00–1:00 pm PT
Diagnostics
United States (Oregon)
Rewire Neuro's purpose is to accelerate human efficiency in healthcare. Rewire‘s AI-as-a-Service platform provides integ…
Switchback Systems, Inc.
Thursday, June 16, 12:00–1:00 pm PT
Digital Health
United States (California)
Switchback Systems is a DNA synthesis tools company. We are developing a revolutionary benchtop DNA synthesis platform. …

 

Start-Up Stadium Presentations took place in the
Sails Pavilion, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center


This year's Start-Up Stadium included two special sessions of presentations:

 

Start-Up Stadium was designed to provide start-up companies with the opportunity to access key members of the investment community, venture philanthropy groups, strategic partners, and non-dilutive capital at the world’s largest biotechnology event.  

This year will also feature separate evaluation of the seed-stage finalists' presentations with the highest-scoring seed company being eligible for a prize courtesy of The Innovation Space.

SEED-STAGE FINALIST PRIZE FROM THE INNOVATION SPACE:

Fast-track admission in the Fall 2022 or Spring 2023 cohort of The Innovation Space’s Science Inc. virtual accelerator program and/or spotlight position in The Innovation Space’s monthly Spark Factory virtual event.  Moreover, company will also be considered for up to a $200k First Fund investment (residency in The Innovation Space required for First Fund investments)

EMERGING COMPANY FINALIST PRIZE FROM ILLUMINA ACCELERATOR:

Illumina Accelerator will provide the Emerging Company winner of the 2022 Start-Up Stadium program with a "fast-track" accelerator application with guaranteed interview, a nomination into the final selection phase for a $10,000 sequencing grant, and a one-hour coaching session.

 

Thank You to our 2022 Start-Up Stadium Sponsors and Supporters

 

Presenting Finalists for Start-Up Stadium benefit from exposure to investors, discounted registration fees, and access to BIO One-on-One Partnering™.  

What Kind of Exposure do Applicants Receive?

The goal of Start-up Stadium is to increase start-ups’ engagement and visibility with investors, state and regional affiliates, and early-stage companies at the beginning of their life-cycle. All applications were reviewed by judges experienced in evaluation of start-ups' growth potential as companies.  During the BIO International Convention, investor judges will attend live start-up presentations and engage in  Q&A/feedback with start-up finalists.

BIO 2022 attendees enjoyed this exciting opportunity to meet the finalists and hear their pitches during sessions on June 14, 15, and 16.

Who can participate? Companies that have...

  • Raised less than $10M since inception
  • Previous business pitch or competition experience
  • Fewer than 20 full-time employees
  • Not previously been named a BIO Start-Up Stadium winner

Have additional questions? Download the Start-Up Stadium Pitch Guide Instructions here.

BIO Thanks the 2022 Start-Up Stadium Judges:

 

  • Orrin Ailloni-Charas, MD, MBA, Managing Partner, Cura Capital
  • Christopher Aleong, Chief Business Officer, Lumosa Therapeutics
  • John Behr, Partner, SV Health Investors
  • James Buxton, Senior Associate, NEA
  • Joseph Charalel, Senior Associate, Pivotal bioVenture Partners (US)
  • David H. Crean, Managing General Partner, Cardiff Advisory LLC
  • Bettina Ernst, Director, BERNINA BioInvest
  • David Fox, Co-founder, Modality.ai
  • Yinghong Gao, Venture Partner, Viva BioInnovator
  • Juliet Gomez, Program Manager, Flinn Foundation
  • Gábor Gyülvészi, Sr. Associate, Nextech Invest AG
  • Lu Han, Partner, Lumira Ventures
  • Daniel Jacobs, Managing Director, Pathway Bioventures
  • Scott M. Kahn, PhD, Founder, Alykomed Global Solutions LLC
  • Vince Kohli, Global Tech Impact Capitalist, Trillion Ventures Global Capital Fund
  • Benjamin Li, Senior Associate, Pivotal bioVenture Partners (US)
  • David Malek, Venture Partner, Pivotal bioVenture Partners (US)
  • Marc Martin-Casas, Head of Illumina Accelerator, San Francisco, Illumina Accelerator
  • Laurie K. McNamara, PhD, Esq., Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
  • Miguel A. Mendez, Managing Director, Facultas Partners
  • Mariana Mihalusova, Vice President, Venrock
  • Sandra Miller, General Partner, Cura Capital
  • Graham Mills, Investment Manager, Abingworth LLP
  • Ivan Morace, Senior Investment Analyst, MediVentures GmbH
  • Anton Neschadim, Senior Advisor, GreenSky Capital
  • Younes Ouahid, Partner, Facultas Partners
  • William D. Provine, PhD, President & CEO, Innovation Space
  • Marcie Reilly, Program Manager, Partnerships & Special Projects, Innovation Space
  • Catello Somma, Associate, TVM Capital Life Science Management GmbH
  • Lesley Stolz, PhD, VP, Early Innovation Partnering, Johnson & Johnson Innovation
  • Nilay Thakar, Principal, ARCH Venture Partners
  • Anton Xavier, Director, Early Stage Life Science Banking, SVB
  • Kitty Wu, VP, Head of Business Development and Strategy, Fosun Pharma USA
  • Samuel Wu, Venture Partner, 7G BioVentures
  • Xiangbin Xu, CEO, QLD Biotherapeutics Inc
  • Wenping Zhou, Investment Associate, CT innovations
  • John Zhu, Founder and President, Mayewell Capital