Whale Tank
A showcase for innovators, by innovators. We’re not doing “Innovation Theater” here. We’re making game-changing connections between startups/tech companies, investors and industry experts (navigators).
October 8-9, 2025
at the annual Innovation Network Gathering
What is The Whale Tank?
The Whale Tank is more than an event—it's a results-driven acceleration platform designed to address real-world challenges in clinical trials and health innovation.
Built to go beyond networking and pitches, Whale Tank equips startups with practical, hands-on support and direct feedback from customers, investors, and industry leaders. Our aim is to drive impactful solutions that are aligned with real customer needs, creating an ecosystem where startups don’t just showcase ideas but develop viable solutions for the market.
Our Mission
The Whale Tank supports novel solutions in reaching the market faster—because patients are waiting.
We aim to forge powerful connections between cutting-edge tech companies and their ideal partners—whether that's customers, investors, or strategic advisors.
We're not just about a one-off event; we're building relentless, ongoing momentum that fuels innovation before, during, and after Whale Tank.
Everyone who joins our community walks away with something tangible—actionable insights, meaningful connections, and practical steps forward. Get ready to unleash transformative breakthroughs and push the boundaries of what's possible in clinical research.
Get ready to unleash transformative breakthroughs and push the boundaries of what's possible in clinical research.
Why Whale Tank?
Customer-Centric Approach
We prioritize hearing from customers first. By understanding their pain points and unmet needs, we ensure that the solutions address real problems.
Diverse Stakeholder Involvement
We bring together a variety of stakeholders, including customers and investors. This ensures every participant receive comprehensive and valuable feedback.
Substantive Evaluation and Feedback
It's not a “pay to play” popularity contest. We provide ample time for conversations between customers and participants throughout the entire process, from preparation of pitches to after the pitch day and make sure all participants walk away with actionable insights.
2025 Presenting Companies
Trialynx is a digital protocol authoring and study development platform that accelerates clinical trial startup through insight-driven study design and structured document authoring.
Trialynx (EZ Research Solutions Inc. dba Trialynx) is an enterprise-grade platform transforming the way clinical trials are designed, documented, and executed. Founded by leaders with decades of expertise in clinical trial operations and healthtech innovation, Trialynx enables insight-driven protocol development, structured authoring, and automation to improve compliance and reduce cycle times. The platform digitizes protocols and companion documents, supports collaboration across sponsors, CROs, and sites, and ensures scalability through secure, cloud-based infrastructure. With an active roadmap toward CDISC USDM alignment, Trialynx is shaping the future of digital clinical trial development.
Meet Angie Schwab, CEO and Founder of Trialynx
Learn more at trialynx.io
Trialynx
Dash is a transformative Bioanalysis CRO which uses tech and automation to cut timelines from months to days while delivering unprecedented quality.
Dash Bio is a CRO on a mission to accelerate the process by which drugs are developed. Traditional bioanalysis is slow, manual and error‑prone. Dash changes the equation as the only tech-first bioanalysis partner, putting both speed and quality at the forefront. Processing every sample on an automated platform, they eliminate variability and delays, delivering high quality, GLP-compliant results for preclinical and clinical studies in days, not months. Dash provides ELISA/MSD, LC‑MS and qPCR assays across a wide range of biomatrices, sample prep methods and customization options, enabling sponsors to move from insight to action, faster. Co-founded by industry veterans who understand the pain of the traditional CRO model, Dash's model prioritizes transparency, publishing pricing upfront and backing every project with guaranteed timelines and outcomes.
Meet Ander Tallett, CEO and COO of Dash Bio
Learn more at dash.bio
Dash Bio
Connecting clinical trial patients with experienced mentors that have been through the journey — improving enrollment, retention, and trust.
PatientPartner is a patient engagement platform designed to improve patient enrollment and retention for pharma study teams. The technology fosters meaningful, peer-to-peer connections between new patients (mentees) and experienced patients (mentors), offering firsthand insights into the clinical trial experience. These personalized interactions empower patients to take a proactive role in their healthcare journey, resulting in increased enrollment, stronger retention, and greater confidence in treatment decisions.
Meet George Kramb, CEO of Patient Partner
Learn more at patientpartner.com
PatientPartner
Redefining the standard for evidence: Evidexa’s simulation-grade behavioral AI creates digital twins of your users, delivering credible, actionable insights to overcome adoption, engagement, and experience barriers.
Evidexa is the first simulation platform built to close the evidence gap blocking healthtech adoption. Most solutions stall when credible evidence on engagement, adherence, and real-world impact arrives too late — and at too high a cost. Evidexa is not another insights tool or persona generator. We run simulation studies with behavioral digital twins of your users, allowing you to observe and test perception, emotion, knowledge, intent, and action. These studies generate structured, simulation-grade evidence in weeks instead of months — so you can reduce risk, optimize experiences, accelerate validation, and drive adoption with confidence.
Meet Jeff Gombala, CEO and CO-Founder of Evidexa
Learn more at getevidexa.com
Evidexa
Delve Health is an AI-powered decentralized clinical trial platform built around patients—not just protocols.
Delve Health combines conversational pre-screening, adaptive engagement, and seamless wearable/device integration to reduce dropouts, boost compliance, and accelerate study timelines. Over 50,000 patients across oncology, cardiology, rare disease, and women’s health have already benefited from Delve Health’s platform.
Meet Wessam Sonbol, CEO of Delve Health
Learn more at delvehealth.com
Delve Health
How It Works
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Call for Solutions
We start by listening—gathering insights from customers and stakeholders to identify pressing needs and opportunities. From there, we issue a targeted call for startups working on solutions that directly align with these challenges.
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Collaborative Preparation
Selected companies go through a structured preparation process that includes curated feedback from customers, investors, and expert navigators. This isn't about perfecting a pitch—it's about refining the solution with the people it’s built for.
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Whale Tank Sessions
During the live event, companies engage in high-touch sessions including Main Stage pitches and deep-dive roundtable discussions ("The Pods") with key stakeholders. These conversations are designed to spark meaningful feedback, real traction, and ongoing collaboration.
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Post-Event Follow Up
Participation doesn’t end at the event. Startups receive:
- Follow-up conversations with interested stakeholders
- A feedback report capturing insights from judges and advisors
- Ongoing engagement as part of the Whale Tank community
2024 Whale Tank Participants
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OmniScience - Blue Whale Ribbon
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TrialHub - Study Feasibility Award
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BENTO Bio - Study Conduct Award
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Artyc - Official Selection
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Geno.Me - Official Selection
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Kenosha AI - Official Selection
What Founders Loved
“It has proven transformative”
Angela Holmes, OmniScience
The insights and advice on our messaging and G2M by our advisors and judges, and the subsequent follow up meetings has been incredibly valuable. The messaging that evolved from Whale Tank has helped us achieve significant milestones — being accepted into life science accelerator program, generating numerous active sales leads and winning a showcase competition at another industry conference. The media coverage and our recent wins have sparked growing interest from investors. I am grateful.
“We felt the team’s love and passion for the industry”
Brad Pruitt, Kenosha AI
All the feedback and prep sessions were very helpful and appreciated. The group feedback session after the pitch was excellent. The feedback form was also very helpful as well as getting the contacts of those interested in followups. We all felt the love and passion for the industry and willingness to help startups. Thank you!
“Great opportunity to pitch directly to buyers”
Hannah Sieber, Artyc
The production value, coaching, and support for Whale Tank was awesome - all the coaches were incredibly supportive and thoughtful in their commentary. The TedX style production value made it easy to present and created a valuable digital asset. Whale Tank is a great opportunity for founders building in the clinical space to pitch their idea directly to buyers!
Turn your idea into market-proven success
October 8-9, 2025
at the annual Innovation Network Gathering
OmniScience is a leading AI organization advancing clinical R&D missions through unparalleled expertise in clinical data science. At OmniScience, we are using AI to revolutionize the way pharma manages clinical trials and employs generative AI, with the industry's first AI control tower for clinical trial operations.
OmniScience is a leading AI organization advancing clinical R&D missions through unparalleled expertise in clinical data science. At OmniScience, we are using AI to revolutionize the way pharma manages clinical trials and employs generative AI, with the industry's first AI control tower for clinical trial operations.
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OmniScience’s product, Vivo, is the first product to bring clinical trial management into the modern (AI) era. It allows pharma and biotech to automate and accelerate clinical trials, enabling clinical development teams to manage and unify complex data sets from disparate sources, and provide actionable and predictive analytics. Vivo enables unprecedented levels of oversight and quality assurance with notifications, smart data management, and conversational search to better monitor and accelerate clinical trials.
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Learn more at omniscience.bio