The Whale Tank
From Idea to Market Validation—Faster & Smarter
Express your interest for Whale Tank 2025
What is The Whale Tank?
Great Ideas Get Funded—Great Businesses Solve Real Problems
Startups raise money with a vision. They succeed by solving real market problems with scalable solutions. But the journey from funding to market validation is filled with blind spots, pivots, and obstacles.
The Whale Tank accelerates this journey by bringing together customers, investors, and industry leaders to:
Validate real-world need
Refine product-market fit
Build investor confidence
Unlock smarter, faster go-to-market
The Whale Tank is where funded ideas become market-proven solutions.
It isn’t an “innovation theater” —it’s an active testing ground for clinical trial innovation. Startups join our curated process to engage with customers, investors, and domain experts, getting real validation, strategic feedback, and momentum that doesn’t stop after pitch day.
Our Mission
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.
What Makes Us Different?
Customer-driven Validation
We prioritize hearing from customers. By understanding real operational needs and unmet opportunities directly from stakeholders. Solutions are shaped by real-world feedback from the people who will actually use it.
Investor-backed Insights & Industry Expertise
Companies engage not only with customers, but also with investors and domain experts — allowing them to build a product investors want to fund long-term and leverage insights from leaders who know the landscape.
Speed to Validation
By aligning vision with real market demand, startups avoid missteps and accelerate go-to-market strategy with clarity and support.
Actionable, Not Just Theatrical
This isn’t “pay to play.” It’s built for impact. From preparation to follow-up, participants receive meaningful, honest feedback they can act on.
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 funded idea into a market-proven success.
Express your interest for Whale Tank 2025
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