Michael Morgan-Curran, chief executive at Asclepius, accepting the Pre-revenue generating Pitchfest 2025 award (Credit: Jordan Sollof)
Asclepius MedTech Limited has been crowned winner in the pre-revenue generating category of Digital Health Rewired Pitchfest 2025.
The live final took place on the Best Practice Showcase Stage on the floor of Rewired 2025 at the NEC in Birmingham on 19 March 2025.
Asclepius MedTech Limited offers VIOSync, an AI-driven clinical decision support system engineered to enhance sepsis management in acute and critical care settings.
It will now be offered access to expert advice from the CW Innovation team – a collaboration between Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and its partner charity CW+, with the potential of having their solution rolled out at the trust.
Michael Morgan-Curran, chief executive of Asclepius MedTech Limited, said: “I’m absolutely thrilled to win this because it’s the culmination of five years work.
“I can’t claim all of the glory for this, because I have an absolutely brilliant team of surgeons, anesthetists, health technologists and senior NHS executives. Collectively we deserve this award.”
Upskill.Health, a startup which uses technology to scale access to quality, on-the-job training for the maternity workforce, was highly commended.
The other pre-revenue generating finalists who battled it out for the trophy in Birmingham were: AirEmail, Kanjo, Datum, Genomate Health, MyOpNotes, Occi AI and Aisthesis Medical Ltd.
Chris Chaney, chief executive of CW+ and co-lead of CW Innovation, said: “Congratulations to Asclepius MedTech Limited for securing the pre-revenue start-up win on the final day of this year’s Pitchfest.
Applications for Pitchfest opened in May 2024 and closed in August, with a total of 85 start-ups entering the competition
The judging panel whittled down the entries, selecting six entries from the revenue generating category and nine from pre-revenue generating to progress through to the live finals at Rewired.
Daysix, a digital agency which develops tools for healthcare, was named the winner in the revenue generating category on day one of Rewired25.
Judges that viewed the live pitches and selected the champion were:
- Sara Nelson, programme director, digitalhealth.london
- Chris Sawyer, innovation lead – digital health, Innovate UK
- Megan Morys-Carter, director of innovation, The Hill
- Tim East, propel, accelerators and international lead, Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber
- Maria Burpee, marketing artisan, growth consultation and health tech angel investor
- John Lee Allen, managing partner, Ryse Asset Management
CW+ is joined by Pitchfest partners digitalhealth.london, Health Innovation Network, Innovate UK, Health Foundry and Silver Buck.
Digital Health Rewired took place at the NEC in Birmingham 18-19 March. The programme is available here.