Meet the Winners

Get to know the winners of the 2024 Prime Health Innovation Challenge in Colorado! These innovative solutions and the companies and founders behind them are working to improve health equity and change the face of healthcare.

1st Place Winner

ThriveLink builds telephonic artificially intelligent enrollment agents who talk to families and empower them to verbally enroll in social programs like health insurance, food stamps, and utility assistance with no internet, smartphone, or reading required. Our innovative solution enhances access to vital social services, streamlining the enrollment process to ensure families receive the support they need.

2nd Place Winner

Pear Suite is building the best care navigation and billing platform for CHWs. With this platform, CHWs and community-based organizations (CBOs) can better assess and address SDoH challenges, such as food insecurity, housing instability, poor transportation, and limited healthcare access. Pear Suite also enables CHWs and CBOs to contract with health plans and support secure data sharing, collaborative care coordination, and emerging financing mechanisms, such as Medicaid reimbursement, which is about to roll out in Colorado. In addition to building software, Pear Suite has an impressive team of CHWs that help to train and onboard community-based organizations. Pear Suite also serves as the lead agency for smaller community-based organizations who need administrative, clinical, and contracting support; we are currently contracted to serve as a hub for 10 health plans in 3 states.

2nd Place Winner

Welfie is on a mission to create generational health and generational wealth for underserved families. We are building a health equity platform for kids that connects youth and their families to youth serving health organizations that include schools, pediatric hospitals, clinics and community based organizations. We focus on increasing health literacy and access to care, ultimately improving the whole child, whole family and whole community health.