Korion Health

Our CEO & Co-Founder Anna Li will be giving a talk on Medical Device Innovation and sharing her story at the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute Research Retreat *TOMORROW (2/28) from 9:40-10:20am ET*. Feel free to tune in!

Greetings. A big piece of news we've been sitting on: in January, our very own CEO Anna Li was named a Pittsburgh Business Times 30 Under 30 honoree!!! To celebrate, please enjoy this fun collage containing an embarrassing photo of Anna from 10 years ago + a text screenshot that reveals the secret to her entrepreneurial success. ????

AlphaLab has announced its 2025 cohort, which includes S&K Cosmetics, founded by University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering alumnus Justin Seth (BS MEMS ’23), and?Korion Health, cofounded by Anna Li (MD/PhD student in Pitt’s School of Medicine). https://lnkd.in/es5NnryE

This weekend we hit 2,500 followers!! Thank you all for your interest in our story. We remember we had 25 followers when we started actively growing this page two years ago. To celebrate, we've been sitting on several pieces of big news that we will release over the next 1–2 weeks. Cheers!! ????

Techstars Startup Weekend Pittsburgh is officially underway! Anna Li shared about all the ‘shenanigans’ and successes that have come with building her company, Korion Health, to kick us off. Her tips & advice will be channeled all weekend as 8 teams work toward a final pitch competition on Sunday. Tomorrow, the teams (including students from 6+ universities and a number of local community members) work on validating their idea and forming their business plans while working with mentors from across the ecosystem. Thanks for hosting, Duquesne University!

Did you know that Pittsburgh Startup Weekend is coming back in a couple of weeks on February 7-9th? Who better to serve as our keynote speaker and kick us off on Friday night than Anna Li of Korion Health to share more about her journey to tackle health inequity and how her story is possible with the support she found in the Pittsburgh ecosystem. Make sure to go and follow Anna and Korion on their socials as they've been getting some buzz lately! https://lu.ma/018fan0e #entrepreneurship #pittsburgh #startupweekend

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As the 2025 Qualifiers heat up, we're looking back at our 2024 Hult Prize Global Finalists for inspiration. Follow along with last cycle's top 6 teams as they navigated the Global Accelerator and made their way to the final pitch. The next team on the Global Finals stage could be yours! Don't forget to like & subscribe to our YouTube channel to follow the road ahead #hultprize #hpglobalfinals24 https://lnkd.in/eKHihDeT

Check out the latest article on the inspiration behind the mission and what it's like as an MD-PhD student starting a company; in other words, balancing open-mindedness and learning, with advocacy and conviction as Korion co-founder Anna!

Check out the latest news from the fantastic companies from a few of the accelerators we’ve run over the last few years! Fort Health raised a $5.5mm round led by Twelve Below and Vanterra Capital! https://lnkd.in/e2eCdFBT Edgecom Energy received a grant from the Uptake Alliance! https://lnkd.in/e5yHq5Mc Kloopify was featured in the Pittsburgh Business Times! https://lnkd.in/ei7Duc3m Peoples Energy Analytics won an award from the Resilient Energy Technology and Infrastructure (RETI) Consortium, as part of their 2024 Technology Showcase! https://lnkd.in/eqDD_evZ iWomanTV - "The World Through the lens of Women” was ranked #8 out of 100 Top New Media Companies by F6S! https://lnkd.in/esDp5RhD Korion Health was featured by Newsweek on their Digital Economy special article! https://lnkd.in/ev894dBB DentalFynd established new partnerships with the Greater New York Chamber, Justworks, VentureCrush, and more! https://lnkd.in/e2Eh9UhH MabLab won 1st place in three startup competitions hosted by Business Today, Penn HealthX and Babson College! https://lnkd.in/ewKZzzKH PigPug Health was named to the Health Tech Challengers 2024 list! https://lnkd.in/ewfRdZJ4 Transition and MegaMinds were invited to the 2024 Institute for Education Innovation Summit as Supe Tank Finalists! https://lnkd.in/eTVwPqBv