Reverse Pitch MKE

Reverse Pitch MKE

Discovering the next great solution

Great ideas can come from anywhere. Through Reverse Pitch MKE, companies open their doors to entrepreneurs, startups and other creatives who want the opportunity to help solve challenges and potentially launch a product and business of their own.

The latest Reverse Pitch MKE event kicked off in November 2020 during Startup Milwaukee Week. Nearly 100 innovators from across southeast Wisconsin attended the virtual event to learn about this year’s business challenges.

Want more information? Email the Reverse Pitch MKE team with additional questions or needs. Reversepitchmke@northwesternmutual.com 

 

Meet the companies participating in Reverse Pitch MKE 2020


The Challenge:

Attracting Diverse Talent
Northwestern Mutual is seeking a way to attract more candidates from underrepresented backgrounds for opportunities in the home office and field. Tools and platforms for unbiased selection exist, but the need to foster belonging and facilitate a diverse pipeline remains across all hiring areas, and particularly in recruitment for technology and financial representative positions.

The Challenge:

Digital Health Engagement
Adoption of digital health has seen an exponential rise during 2020. However, the services have not been adopted equally across all segments of our community. The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network is seeking a way to support individuals with challenges that inhibit engagement with digital health services.

Addressing the Impact of Social Isolation and Loneliness on Health
The COVID pandemic has heightened the growing epidemic of social isolation and loneliness which has been proven to have a dramatic impact on an individual’s health status. The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network seeks a way to proactively identify patterns of social isolation and loneliness and create innovative ways to help people overcome these challenges.

The Solution:

Ease, Inc. connects diverse and highly qualified candidates, at scale, with organizations looking to hire. The startup’s technology and processes reduce hiring bias by providing companies with an AI-enabled way to attract, vet and upskill often-overlooked talent.

The Solution:

LENA matches patients with a virtual personal assistant for non-medical health navigation. Personal assistants are real, human navigators, augmented with conversational AI, that engage Medicare patients through text and voice to guide them through the complex healthcare system.

Additionally, the Froedtert & MCW health network selected TimeSlips as a winner of a $10,000 cash prize and access to corporate mentors and networks. TimeSlips programs engage older adults in creative and scalable interventions that provide measurable improvements in their daily lives.

The winning team receives*:

  • $10,000 cash prize and up to $90,000 in seed investment from Cream City Venture Capital
  • Co-locating space in Cream City Labs
  • Access to Northwestern Mutual advisors, mentors and technology resources
  • Up to $2,000 in legal services, provided by Godrey & Kahn, S.C.
    *Subject to Standard Terms and Conditions

The winning team receives*:

  • $10,000 cash prize and up to $90,000 in seed investment from Inception Health, the innovation arm of Froedtert Health
  • Co-locating space
  • Access to digital innovation leaders and Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health care experts
  • Up to $2,000 in legal services, provided by Godfrey & Kahn, S.C
    *Subject to Standard Terms and Conditions

Finalists:

  • Incluvity enables enterprises to expand the overall pool of candidates by effectively delivering targeted messages to a diverse pool of qualified candidates. Connect with founders Inder Narang, Deepak Babu and Sukhvinder Sihra on LinkedIn.
  • Investii is aimed at re-evaluating the current credit system by rewarding people for saving money instead of spending it.
  • The P5 Project helps women entrepreneurs increase their income, impact and influence through dynamic live events.
  • VestedIn helps people imagine their dreams through a community-based, vision boarding app that connects them with financial resources to achieve their goals.

Finalists:

  • Healthiby empowers and incentivizes people to prevent, better manage and reverse Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol.
  • Like | Minded is a membership experience platform that helps you build and grow your community by greatly increasing the probability of members forming valued friendships.
  • Loopwell’s doLoop app is designed to offer a solution to social isolation and loneliness, with nine proprietary daily life techniques designed to improve their connection to feelings with behaviors to develop further resilience. Connect with founders Dr Ingrid Hicks and Nikhil Zaveri on Linkedin.
  • Upside Health is helping health systems improve access to chronic pain care through reimbursable software that offers objective measurements around pain, moderated peer support and personalized integrative wellness content.

The Challenge:

Attracting Diverse Talent
Northwestern Mutual is seeking a way to attract more candidates from underrepresented backgrounds for opportunities in the home office and field. Tools and platforms for unbiased selection exist, but the need to foster belonging and facilitate a diverse pipeline remains across all hiring areas, and particularly in recruitment for technology and financial representative positions.

The Solution:

Ease, Inc. connects diverse and highly qualified candidates, at scale, with organizations looking to hire. The startup’s technology and processes reduce hiring bias by providing companies with an AI-enabled way to attract, vet and upskill often-overlooked talent.

The winning team receives*:

  • $10,000 cash prize and up to $90,000 in seed investment from Cream City Venture Capital
  • Co-locating space in Cream City Labs
  • Access to Northwestern Mutual advisors, mentors and technology resources
  • Up to $2,000 in legal services, provided by Godrey & Kahn, S.C.
    *Subject to Standard Terms and Conditions

Finalists:

  • Incluvity enables enterprises to expand the overall pool of candidates by effectively delivering targeted messages to a diverse pool of qualified candidates. Connect with founders Inder Narang, Deepak Babu and Sukhvinder Sihra on LinkedIn.
  • Investii is aimed at re-evaluating the current credit system by rewarding people for saving money instead of spending it.
  • The P5 Project helps women entrepreneurs increase their income, impact and influence through dynamic live events.
  • VestedIn helps people imagine their dreams through a community-based, vision boarding app that connects them with financial resources to achieve their goals.

The Challenge:

Digital Health Engagement
Adoption of digital health has seen an exponential rise during 2020. However, the services have not been adopted equally across all segments of our community. The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network is seeking a way to support individuals with challenges that inhibit engagement with digital health services.

Addressing the Impact of Social Isolation and Loneliness on Health
The COVID pandemic has heightened the growing epidemic of social isolation and loneliness which has been proven to have a dramatic impact on an individual’s health status. The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network seeks a way to proactively identify patterns of social isolation and loneliness and create innovative ways to help people overcome these challenges.

The Solution:

LENA matches patients with a virtual personal assistant for non-medical health navigation. Personal assistants are real, human navigators, augmented with conversational AI, that engage Medicare patients through text and voice to guide them through the complex healthcare system.

Additionally, the Froedtert & MCW health network selected TimeSlips as a winner of a $10,000 cash prize and access to corporate mentors and networks. TimeSlips programs engage older adults in creative and scalable interventions that provide measurable improvements in their daily lives.

The winning team receives*:

  • $10,000 cash prize and up to $90,000 in seed investment from Inception Health, the innovation arm of Froedtert Health
  • Co-locating space
  • Access to digital innovation leaders and Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health care experts
  • Up to $2,000 in legal services, provided by Godfrey & Kahn, S.C
    *Subject to Standard Terms and Conditions

Finalists:

  • Healthiby empowers and incentivizes people to prevent, better manage and reverse Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol.
  • Like | Minded is a membership experience platform that helps you build and grow your community by greatly increasing the probability of members forming valued friendships.
  • Loopwell’s doLoop app is designed to offer a solution to social isolation and loneliness, with nine proprietary daily life techniques designed to improve their connection to feelings with behaviors to develop further resilience. Connect with founders Dr Ingrid Hicks and Nikhil Zaveri on Linkedin.
  • Upside Health is helping health systems improve access to chronic pain care through reimbursable software that offers objective measurements around pain, moderated peer support and personalized integrative wellness content.

The winning businesses will be based in or develop a meaningful presence
in Milwaukee, adding to the local tech economy.

Building on the success of Reverse Pitch MKE 2018

More than 100 entrepreneurs took part in the second Reverse Pitch MKE event in 2018. The winning solution was Pythonic AI, whose MedReviewer platform uses machine learning and natural language processing to automate tedious and repetitive aspects of medical records review, pulling out key findings to help underwriters and claims analysts make their decisions faster. Northwestern Mutual underwriters are currently testing a live pilot of Pythonic AI.

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