2017 POKE Future Healthcare 100 Unveiled: Hunting the Next Medical Unicorn

“2017 POKE Future Healthcare Top 100 Breakout Competition” Launch Ceremony

On May 17, the 2017 China Primary Healthcare Innovation Practice Forum grandly opened in Chengdu, pooling grassroots efforts to explore the future path of primary healthcare.

The conference features six thematic sessions: Regional Experience, Policy Interpretation, Industry Layout, Entrepreneur Perspectives, Analysis of Grassroots Practices, and Interpretation of Innovative Community Health Models, along with Openness and Cooperation. It invites government officials, experts, executives of listed companies, founders of startups, practitioners from grassroots medical service institutions, and investors to interpret the current development landscape of the grassroots healthcare sector from diverse perspectives.

China’s vast healthcare market is at a tipping point of transformative change. The healthcare sector is fraught with uncertainty, leaving people both hopeful and perplexed about the future. Where lies the full panorama of future healthcare? This is a question preoccupying the entire medical community, as healthcare innovation enters its most turbulent and dynamic phase.

Primary healthcare, the new healthcare reform, the “Two-Invoice System,” public hospital reform, medical consortiums, internet hospitals, chain clinics, and the transformation of private hospitals are all attempts to address the dilemmas facing China’s current healthcare system. Clearly, the future of healthcare will not be closed-off, but rather open, mutually beneficial, and characterized by cross-sector integration.

Since its founding in 2014, VCBeat has been committed to becoming a professional service platform for the future of healthcare. It focuses on emerging healthcare enterprises in China and around the world, as well as industry transformations and policy evolution. Guided by two core logics—technology-driven and model-driven innovation—VCBeat serves key sectors including primary care, internet healthcare, artificial intelligence, genomics, pharmaceuticals, consumer healthcare, elderly care, and medical devices.

Amidst the sweeping transformations reshaping healthcare, VCBeat has had the privilege of bringing together a distinguished cohort of entrepreneurs, investors, industry professionals, and policy makers. Together, they engage in collaborative dialogue on the future trajectory of the healthcare industry, examining key dimensions such as industrial policy, technological evolution, business models, and strategic partnerships.

To enable entrepreneurs to focus more on business growth and corporate management, VCBeat officially launched the “2017 POKE Future Healthcare 100 Breakout Competition” at this conference, dedicated to helping each high-quality project find investors willing to support its growth.

The Shell-Breaking Competition is jointly initiated by VCBeat, VBInsight, and numerous industry supporters, including renowned capital firms, industrial infrastructure service providers, key payers, and research institutions. The competition bridges innovative healthcare enterprises with supportive service organizations. As the healthcare industry enters a growth phase, driven by technological advancements, policy reforms, and other factors, we believe that teams with strong technical capabilities and clear business models have the potential to become future unicorns in the healthcare sector.

Amidst the evolving landscape where policy, capital, and technology are continuously breaking down barriers in healthcare, the PoKe Competition aims to gather forces that support innovative development within the medical industry. It provides next-generation healthcare enterprises with support and assistance in capital matchmaking, resource integration, policy interpretation, and the cultivation of core corporate capabilities, thereby accelerating the growth of future healthcare companies and driving the process of industrial transformation.

In the first phase, VCBeat will invite renowned investors from its inaugural partner organizations in the healthcare and medical sectors to serve as evaluation experts. A dedicated team will conduct preliminary screening of submitted projects; outstanding projects will receive investor feedback and follow-up, with further opportunities to attend the annual Future Healthcare 100 Brand Conference. Concurrently, VCBeat will launch recommendation campaigns for outstanding projects in specialized sub-sectors and host “Jianmian” salons on an irregular basis.

Time, Subjects, Processes, and Others

Time: As of November 2017; to be announced at the December Future Healthcare Top 100 Annual Conference

Target: Innovative healthcare companies in China and abroad that are currently within their financing window.

Judge: Renowned investors in the healthcare sector from VCBeat’s inaugural partner organizations

Organizers: VCBeat, VCBeat

Co-organized by: Legend Capital, GF Xinde, Yuanyi Capital, Sinovest Capital, SoftBank China, Chongshan Capital, Founder Securities, Legend Star, Maixing Investment, Chende Capital, Fenxiang Investment, Sidao Capital, Tasly Holding Group, Morningside Venture Capital, Puhua Capital, Anlong Capital, Yuanhe Origin, Huagai Capital (more institutions continuously joining...)

Fill in the relevant information as required,Attend the event and liaise with investors as agreed.

Obligations/Information Submission, Event Participation

1. Fill in the relevant company information based on actual circumstances and provide a business plan (BP).

2. Attend relevant events organized by VCBeat as appropriate.

Equity/Financing Channels, Free Coverage

1. Exclusive Financing Channel: Business plans (BPs) for new projects that pass the initial screening are prioritized for distribution to investors, with pre-screening conducted to match key elements between startups and investors. A response is guaranteed within 24 hours.

2. Exclusive direct access to over 20 domestic and international healthcare investors at launch.

3. Coverage of Outstanding Projects: We provide free media coverage for outstanding projects to increase their visibility and attract investor attention.

Focusing on the healthcare sector,Complete the relevant forms and provide responses and comments on the project as required.

Obligations/Responses, Comments, and Speeches

1. Respond with the project selection results within 48 hours of receiving the project business plan (BP).

2. Provide comments on the received items and send them in writing to the staff or the relevant email address.

3. Complete the Investor Project Requirements Form for project matching.

4. Attended the offline salon event organized by VCBeat and delivered a speech.

Rights/Prophet, ProLink, ProVoice

1. First-Mover Privilege: New projects are prioritized for recommendation to investors participating in this campaign and come with a one-week project protection period (VCBeat will not publicly disclose or promote the project). No fewer than 100 projects are recommended annually.

2. Xianlian Privileges: If investors are interested in a project, the contact information of the project founder will be provided on a priority basis.

3. Exclusive Privilege: VCBeat will provide priority coverage of investors participating in this event, with an in-depth analysis of their investment rationale and portfolio strategy.

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