Catalyst Health 2.0

What Catalyst Health 2.0 does

Catalyst Health 2.0 (legal entity Health 2.0 LLC) is a private digital health innovation services firm founded in 2010 by Indu Subaiya and Matthew Holt, the creators of the Health 2.0 conference that was acquired by HIMSS in 2017; Catalyst was spun off that year to focus on operating innovation challenges, matchmaking, and managed pilot programs. The company operates a portfolio of interconnected programs including Innovation Challenges (90+ managed since 2010 with $9M+ in non-dilutive awards), SourceDB (a proprietary searchable database covering 4,500+ companies, 6,500+ products, and 14,000+ individuals), curated Matchmaking and Ecosystem/Pilot Programs (175+ pilots coordinated, 1,500+ connections), Market Intelligence and Research, and the COVID-19-era Health Tech Responds to COVID-19 platform and Rapid Response Open Calls. Its enterprise client base spans major hospital systems (NewYork-Presbyterian, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, MSK, Northwell, Montefiore), pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer, Novartis), payers (Aetna), and government/foundation sponsors (NYCEDC, RWJF, CalMHSA, IFC World Bank Group), with operating reach extending into East Africa, Brazil, India, and Europe via TechEmerge Health and IDIH partnerships.

Catalyst generates revenue through professional services and program management engagements rather than disclosed product pricing, designing and running challenges, matchmaking events, and pilot programs for healthcare enterprises, foundations, and government clients. Its GTM combines direct enterprise field sales with community-led, event-driven channels: the firm organizes innovation challenges that attract global innovators, curates matchmaking between vetted startups and enterprise buyers, and operates managed pilot programs lasting 6-14 months with structured ROI measurement (user adoption, clinical usefulness, cost savings). Supporting marketing assets include a 29,000-subscriber bi-weekly newsletter, 65,000 Twitter followers, and The Health Care Blog (90,000-100,000 monthly visitors), providing ongoing top-of-funnel demand generation across the digital health ecosystem.

Name

Catalyst Health 2.0

Legal name

Health 2.0 LLC

Website

https://catalyst.health

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Catalyst Health 2.0 is a private digital health innovation services firm that designs and runs innovation challenges, curated matchmaking, and managed pilot programs connecting vetted startups with hospital systems, payers, pharma, foundations, and government clients, supported by its proprietary SourceDB database.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Health Innovation Consulting

NAICS

Scientific Research and Development Services (5417)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Health, Health Information Systems & Data Programs (BPADAIAJ)

Keywords

• Digital health innovation
• Healthcare matchmaking services
• Innovation challenge management
• Pilot program facilitation
• Health tech ecosystem

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Program Management and Consulting Services: Catalyst provides consulting services to healthcare organizations for digital health innovation and commercialization programs. This includes designing and managing innovation challenges, matchmaking events, and ecosystem/pilot programs for clients across the public and private sectors.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Catalyst @ Health 2.0 helps healthcare organizations source, evaluate, and pilot digital health innovations from a global network. Through competitive innovation challenges, curated matchmaking events, managed pilot programs, and proprietary market intelligence, the company connects enterprise healthcare stakeholders (hospital systems, payers, pharma, investors, government agencies) with vetted digital health startups and supports end-to-end pilot testing with measurable ROI outcomes.

Product overview

Catalyst @ Health 2.0 operates as a platform offering multiple interconnected services for the digital health innovation ecosystem. The core portfolio includes: Innovation Challenges (competitive challenge events), SourceDB (proprietary market intelligence database), Ecosystem and Pilot Programs (facilitation and management of pilot studies), Matchmaking (professional connection services), Market Intelligence and Research (reporting and analysis), and Health Tech Responds to COVID-19 (COVID-specific innovation platform). These programs work together to connect healthcare organizations with digital health innovators through crowdsourced competitions, curated matchmaking events, and managed pilot testing programs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SourceDB: A proprietary searchable database containing information on more than 4,500 companies, 6,500 products, and 14,000 individuals in the digital health space.
• Health Tech Responds to COVID-19
• Rapid Response Open Calls (RROCs)

Products and services

• Innovation Challenges Competitive virtual events posing healthcare problems to entrepreneurs, developers, designers, and clinical teams that submit novel digital solutions. Submissions are evaluated by expert judges through a multi-stage system, with finalists awarded non-dilutive funding, support, and potential partnership opportunities.
• SourceDB Proprietary searchable database containing detailed information on more than 4,500 companies, 6,500 products, and 14,000 individuals in the digital health space, cataloged by categories, sub-segments, and unique tags. Used for comprehensive competitive and market intelligence reports.
• Ecosystem and Pilot Programs Programs providing established organizations and investors professionally curated matchmaking sessions with vetted startups prepared to pilot their technologies. Catalyst manages pilot testing from concept to completion, organizing studies and establishing measurable ROI outcomes including user adoption rates, clinical usefulness, and cost savings.
• Matchmaking Service providing leaders and investors at hospital systems, healthcare organizations, technology companies, and investment firms with opportunities to meet digital health companies offering innovative solutions. Catalyst sources and vets innovators to ensure alignment with stakeholders' specific needs.
• Market Intelligence and Research Research services providing comprehensive competitive and market intelligence reports, leveraging proprietary SourceDB combined with team expertise, network connections, and subscribed industry research.
• Health Tech Responds to COVID-19 Inventory of information on innovators and thought leaders working to address COVID-19, supporting Rapid Response Open Calls (RROCs) and featuring a comprehensive database of digital health solutions.
• Rapid Response Open Calls (RROCs) Streamlined calls for applications launched within days to connect healthcare providers with urgent needs to digital health solutions. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
• COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge Competition seeking novel analytic approaches using COVID-19 Symptom Survey data (25M+ responses across 200+ countries) to enable earlier detection and improved situational awareness of the outbreak. Total award: $100,000.
• Digital Health Marketplace (DHMP) NYC-based program operated with the NYC Economic Development Corporation from 2013-2018, designed to foster innovation and support the expanding health technology industry in New York City through grant funding, matchmaking events, pilot programs, and educational support.

Quantifiable outcome

• DHMP pilots touched 22,000+ patient lives and participating startups created 215+ jobs; innovators raised $80M in capital following DHMP completion
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• WipfliminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Professional services firm Wipfli partnered with Catalyst on the Survey on the State of Digital Health (2021), conducting research across 300+ digital health ecosystem members to create comprehensive analysis of COVID-19's impact on the industry.
• Facebook Data for GoodminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Partnered with Catalyst on the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge, providing aggregated data from the CMU/UMD COVID-19 Symptom Surveys (25M+ responses across 200+ countries) for novel analytic approaches to pandemic detection and situational awareness.
• Alliance for Better HealthminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2020Alliance hosted Rapid Response Open Calls (RROCs) facilitated by Catalyst and funded by RWJF, seeking COVID-19 vaccine scheduling and administration tracking solutions for underserved populations in New York's Tech Valley and Capital Region.
• Brigham and Women's HospitalminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2020Initial RROC host that prompted Catalyst to launch the RROC platform. BWH ED sought provider-facing, text-based platforms for COVID-19 self-monitoring; received 80+ quality submissions in 7 days.
• Grapevine HealthminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2020Catalyst hosted a Rapid Response Open Call in collaboration with Grapevine Health seeking text message-based health tech solutions for health-focused video content dissemination. Grand prize $5k with demo opportunities.
• NYC Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013Catalyst operated NYCEDC's Digital Health Marketplace (DHMP) from 2013-2018, fostering innovation and supporting the expanding health technology industry in New York City. Program combined grant funding, matchmaking events, pilot programs, and educational support.
• International Finance Corporation (IFC) World Bank GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCatalyst partners with IFC on the TechEmerge Health initiative, a market-access program for proven technology companies looking to grow in emerging markets. Includes TechEmerge Health East Africa, TechEmerge Health Brazil, and TechEmerge Health India programs.
• Duke Margolis Center for Health PolicyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered on the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge, contributing expertise in health policy to evaluate novel analytic approaches using COVID-19 Symptom Survey data.
• Resolve to Save Lives (Vital Strategies)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered on the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge to improve pandemic detection and situational awareness through innovative data analytics.
• Delphi Group at Carnegie Mellon UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered on the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge, providing COVID-19 Symptom Survey data conducted in partnership with Facebook.
• University of Maryland Joint Program in Survey MethodologyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered on the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge, contributing survey methodology expertise and COVID-19 Symptom Survey data.
• California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCatalyst supported the Help@Hand project, a California statewide collaborative bringing technology-based mental health solutions to the public mental health system through a suite of digital solutions targeting increased access, early detection, and mental illness prevention.
• GuideWellminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGuideWell partnered with Catalyst on multiple programs including the Caring for Caregivers Challenge (up to $100,000 awarded) and the Scale Up Accelerator: Aging in Place program, focused on senior care innovation.
• HIMSSminorOthersCatalyst's predecessor company, Health 2.0, was acquired by HIMSS in 2017. Co-founder Indu Subaiya served as Executive Vice President post-acquisition and continues as Senior Advisor to HIMSS.
• IDIH (International Digital Health Cooperation)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEU Horizon 2020 funded project bringing together organizations from EU and strategic partner countries (Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, USA) to promote international collaboration advancing digital health for active and healthy ageing.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• MassChallenge HealthTech: Non-profit accelerator running healthtech cohorts with hospital system and payer partners, including matchmaking, pilot facilitation, and innovation challenges. Comparable cohort-based and pilot-driven model.
• StartUp Health: Digital health entrepreneurship platform running long-duration cohorts, innovation challenges, and founder communities with healthcare enterprise partners. Comparable in challenge/matchmaking model and global health tech focus.
• Plug and Play Health: Global accelerator operating a dedicated health vertical with corporate partners (payers, providers, pharma), running batch-based cohorts, pilot matchmaking, and innovation events. Closely comparable enterprise-facing GTM.
• AVIA Health: Digital health consultancy that helps hospitals and health systems identify, evaluate, and implement digital solutions through collaborative member networks. Comparable buyer-side matchmaking and vendor evaluation services.
• Matter Health (formerly Healthbox): Health innovation consultancy and accelerator that runs health system partnerships, innovation challenges, and venture programs for healthcare enterprises. Directly comparable to Catalyst's matchmaking, pilot management, and ecosystem-building model.

Emerging players

• Blueprint Health: Health tech accelerator supporting early-stage digital health companies with mentorship, pilot introductions, and investor connections. Comparable focus on healthtech matchmaking and pilots, with smaller scale.
• Dreamit Ventures: Venture-backed accelerator with a healthtech vertical running cohort-based programs for early-stage digital health startups connecting to enterprise customers. Comparable startup-to-enterprise matchmaking approach.

Broad incumbents

• HIMSS: Acquired the Health 2.0 conference business in 2017 and runs global digital health conferences, innovation programming, and vendor communities. Adjacent and partially overlapping with Catalyst's @Health 2.0 brand and digital health community.
• Mass General Brigham Innovation: Innovation arm of a major academic health system running digital health accelerators, pilot programs, and external innovation partnerships. Comparable enterprise-led digital health sourcing and pilot model.

Others

• Pfizer Healthcare Hub: Corporate digital health innovation initiative of Pfizer — a sponsor/buyer rather than a peer, but Catalyst has directly worked with Pfizer (mBC challenge). Included as ecosystem participant and adjacent buyer-side innovation program.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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