Mental health company Rose Health took home the crown Wednesday at the annual TRAILS startup competition hosted by Seattle healthcare innovation hub Cambia Grove.
The Baltimore-based startup aims to strengthen relationships between patients and providers through self-care tools for patients and a dashboard for clinicians.
“The Rose health recipe for successful behavioral health intervention is a combination of advanced technology and human connection,” said Rose’s chief medical officer Matthew Peters, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins, during his online pitch to a panel of judges. Each healthcare customer works with a Rose behavioral specialist.
The judges heard pitches from four other startups in the competition, which focused on behavioral health.
As winner, Rose will work to develop its platform with Providence Digital Innovation Group and MultiCare Behavioral Health Network, partners in this year’s competition. The startup, founded by CEO Kavi Misri, a former healthcare investment banker, recently raised $1.7 million in seed funding.
Cambia Grove, which hosts an incubation space in Seattle, was created by Portland-based nonprofit Cambia Health Solutions, the parent company of Regence and other health-care companies. The aim is to break down the silos between healthcare startups and established market players.
Previous themes of the TRAILS (Traction and Implementation Leads to Solutions) competition, which launched in 2018, were primary care, pediatric development, clinic workflow and palliative care.
The other finalists in this year’s competition are California-based startups NuLife Virtual and Limbix, Anchorage-based StepAway and Chicago-based Compris Inc.
