2019 Future Healthcare 100 Summit Kicks Off, Gathering Nearly 2,000 Medical Enterprises and 900 Investment Institutions Over Four Years
Many have heard the sound of the massive, entrenched healthcare system thawing.
In an era transformed by the internet, a new future for the healthcare sector has inevitably arrived.
In April 2014, VCBeat was established during the inaugural year of China’s internet healthcare sector. As the first third-party service organization in China to focus on innovation and venture capital investment in the healthcare industry, it has consistently built its core competencies in the dimensions of “industry communication” and “industry research.”
Since its inception, VCBeat has consistently focused on the transformation of the healthcare industry driven by the dual engines of “new technologies” and “new healthcare reforms,” particularly examining the new business opportunities and industrial ecosystems emerging from this transformation, the innovative enterprises that have arisen, and the repositioning of industry professionals in this era of change.
Since 2015, VCBeat has sought to examine the healthcare innovation initiatives it follows, champions, and promotes through the lens of an industry media outlet—offering observation, reflection, and synthesis. At the end of that same year, VCBeat launched the “Internet Healthcare Annual Influential Figures List.” This initiative represented a professional healthcare industry media outlet’s annual summary and recognition of influential contributions, undertaken from the perspective of advancing industry development. It also served as the precursor to the “Future Healthcare Top 100 Conference.”
Over the past five years, VCBeat has published nearly 23 million words, including more than 10,000 original articles and over 100 original reports. It has covered nearly 4,000 companies across 81 sub-sectors of medical innovation, initially constructing a global map of medical innovation trends. As a result, it has become an information hub for 200,000 professionals in the field of medical innovation.
Consequently, the “Internet Healthcare Annual Influential List” was upgraded to the “Top 100 Future Healthcare Conference.” Over the past three editions, the Top 100 Future Healthcare Conference has established a unique hybrid model comprising the “Top 100 Future Healthcare List,” thematic forums, industry reports, and an exhibition. By integrating hot-topic discussions and in-depth expert insights, it has become one of the largest and most influential industry events in China’s healthcare sector, shaping trends and investment directions in healthcare innovation in China for the current year and the foreseeable future.
Regarding the Future Healthcare Top 100 Conference, we hope it can address these issues:
1. Gain a holistic perspective on the developments, practical applications, and challenges in global healthcare innovation over the past five years, enabling industry professionals to step back and reevaluate the current state and future of healthcare innovation.
2. Assess future trends in medical innovation by examining a longer timeline, distinguishing genuine trends from pseudo-demands.
3. Build a comprehensive summit for the development of the health industry to acquire and closely connect with innovative enterprise resources, expert resources, government support, and high-quality industrial capital.
Encouragingly, we have observed:
1. Featuring over 600 speakers from China and abroad, including representatives from government agencies, hospitals, universities, innovative enterprises, listed companies, investors/investment firms, and industry researchers, we have established a structured knowledge system characterized by industry height, professional depth, and industrial breadth.Typical cases include:
Macroeconomic aspects: “KPMG China: The Macro Backdrop of Industrial Innovation in China in the Post-Globalization Era,” “CIC Research Institute: New Landscape, New Drivers—Outlook on Macroeconomy and Asset Allocation in 2019,” etc.
Insurance Sector: “Top Health Insurance Companies’ Internet Healthcare Strategies,” “The Seven Major Health Insurance Giants’ Internet Healthcare Layouts”
From the perspective of investment institutions: “Sequoia Capital’s Investments and Reflections on Internet Healthcare,” “Legend Capital: The Next BAT Lies in Healthcare.”
2. Over 18 original reports were released at the conference, helping industry professionals re-examine the current state and future of healthcare innovation and accurately assess future trends in healthcare innovation.Reports released at the conference include:
In July 2015, the first industry-specific report, the “Medical Imaging” special report, was released; a large number of imaging companies featured in the report subsequently became the darlings of the artificial intelligence era after 2016.
In September 2016, the first report on AI + healthcare, titled “2016 Report on Innovation Trends in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare,” was released. It featured timely interviews with AI companies both in China and abroad. At that time, there were few domestic players, major application scenarios were predominantly from overseas, and available data were scarce. To facilitate understanding, an edited version of the report was also published. Subsequently, VCBeat Institute continued to release the 2017 and 2018 editions.
In November 2016, VCBeat and Tencent Research Institute jointly released the “White Paper on China’s Internet Hospitals 2016,” which for the first time clearly defined the standards and models for internet hospitals, becoming a reference model for many researchers studying internet hospital models.
In May 2017, VCBeat Institute released the “White Paper on Innovations in Primary Healthcare Industry 2017: Empowering Primary Healthcare,” accompanied by the “2017 White Paper on Community Chain Clinics.” Since then, primary healthcare has become a highly prominent sector, with numerous startups featured in the reports securing financing and experiencing rapid growth.
In July 2017, VCBeat released the “Industry Report on Private Independent Hemodialysis Centers,” a sector that is gaining significant traction.
In December 2017, VCBeat Research Institute released “A Data-Driven Glimpse into Healthcare: The 2017 Competitiveness Report on the Future of the Medical Industry.” The report’s “VB Quadrant” analysis model for startups in the healthcare sector has since been widely adopted in industry research.
In March 2018, VCBeat released the “Healthcare Blockchain Industry Report,” the first report in China to provide a detailed overview of blockchain applications in the healthcare industry.
In 2018, national policies for internet hospitals were officially introduced, signaling that this model is poised to become the industry mainstream. At the “2018 Top 100 Future Healthcare Companies Conference,” VCBeat Institute continued to release its report titled “2018 Internet Hospital Report: The Time to Act Is Now.” At this critical juncture of progressively improving policy frameworks, the report provides an analysis of actionable pathways for various stakeholders participating in the wave of internet hospital development.
3. Over the past three editions, the Future Healthcare 100 Conference has attracted a total of more than 7,000 attendees, primarily comprising entrepreneurs, investors, listed companies, research institutions, government representatives, and elite professionals from third-party industry chains within the healthcare sector. Among them, 58% were senior management and decision-makers.This year, we aim to bring together 10,000 attendees, 1,000 innovative startups, and over 500 investment institutions to foster more efficient connectivity across the entire industry.
4. Among the participating companies, nearly 2,000 startups were involved, with a 75% participation rate among the top 100 highest-valued enterprises; a total of 875 angel investors, venture capital (VC) firms, private equity (PE) firms, investment banks, strategic investors, and securities firms participated.
5. Regarding the rankings, the list has to date covered over 9,000 companies across 64 specialized healthcare sectors, selecting more than 400 “Core Forces of Future Healthcare” companies. Among these, 130 companies have subsequently secured financing.Comparing the rankings from 2016, 2017, and 2018, we observe that the total valuation of companies listed in 2018 reached RMB 424.466 billion, representing a substantial 32.2% increase compared to the 2017 Top 100 list. The combined valuation of the top 10 companies exceeded RMB 200 billion, approaching the total valuation of the entire Top 100 in 2016. This indicates that unicorn enterprises are continuing to grow, and the healthcare market is developing healthily overall, driven by capital investment. Many companies featured in the 2017 list secured new rounds of financing in 2018, with their funding stages advancing further.
According to incomplete statistics, VCBeat has already, through its reporting and offline events represented by the Future Healthcare 100 Conference,"Helped over 100 companies secure financing, and more than 1,000 enterprises found their partners through VCBeat's platform."
In this journey, we extend our gratitude to the innovators who have grown alongside VCBeat, striving and enduring hardships while gaining immense satisfaction in the great cause of medical innovation. They include entrepreneurs, investors, government officials, hospital directors, physicians, executives of publicly listed companies, and experts, as well as tens of millions of healthcare professionals. It is their collective efforts that have ushered in a new era of medical innovation.
2019 Future Healthcare Top 100 Conference
Five Major Product Systems Create a Grand Event Integrating Industry and Capital
Looking back at the development of China’s healthcare industry, driven by a confluence of policy, capital, technology, and consumer forces, it is undergoing a challenging adjustment from unchecked expansion to a return to rationality, with industry reshuffling being the most prominent characteristic at present.
As the saying goes, “A single hair pulled can move the entire body.” Amidst industrial transformation, healthcare innovation enterprises, distributors, and end-channel players within the ecosystem cannot remain on the sidelines. Industrial development models are evolving, competitive landscapes are shifting, and value propositions are transforming... How can one cut through the layers of fog, analyze the ever-changing surface phenomena of the industry, and uncover its unchanging essence and developmental trends?
Where is health insurance policy headed? How can we grasp the new regulatory mindset from the revised Drug Administration Law? What impact will China’s demographic trends have over the next decade? How will technological innovations such as 5G and quantum computing reshape the healthcare industry?
In response to the myriad of critical issues shaping the trajectory of the industry, the 2019 Future Healthcare Top 100 Conference will leverage the release of the Future Healthcare Top 100 List and its associated awards series as a catalyst. The event will focus on more than 20 key sectors, bringing together the most dynamic healthcare innovation enterprises, listed companies, financial institutions, and medical organizations from both China and abroad.。
A grand gathering fostering the integration of the healthcare industry and capital, connecting 10,000 attendees and 1,000 innovative enterprises through a framework of “Forum + Exhibition + Rankings + Reports + Private Reception”。
20 Forums, 600 Guests:Establishing a New Academic Highland: Grasping the New Trends in Knowledge and Technological Innovation in the Medical Health Venture Capital Sector;
An Exhibition Spanning Over 3,000 m²: China’s First New “Showcase” Dedicated to the Top 100 Healthcare Companies and High-Growth Potential Enterprises;
Two Landmark Reports: China’s First Panoramic Knowledge Graph of the Medical and Health Industry, “Future Healthcare Industry Tree Report”; and China’s First In-Depth Report Analyzing the Growth Trajectories of the Top 100 Most Valuable Private Medical and Health Innovators, “Growth Report on the Top 100 Future Healthcare Companies”
Top 100 Future Healthcare Companies: China’s First Innovation-Driven Valuation Ranking for Private Healthcare Enterprises, Uncovering the Core Forces of Future Healthcare;
An exclusive cocktail reception for in-depth exchanges with forum guests.
You and I began in the Heroic Year of 2014–2015, stood together in the “Eye of the Storm” awaiting the crossing of the Sword of Dawn, journeyed side by side through the “Species Explosion Era,” and sought the “Tidal Direction” toward the future. In 2019, we jointly “traced back” to discern its unchanging essence and development trends.
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Conference Dates: December 20–22, 2019 (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), scheduled to minimize concerns about work disruptions;
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