Opus8 Healthcare Capital Forum
A Flagship Healthcare Capital Formation Event at DC Startup & Tech Week (DCSTW)
Overview
Where the Mid-Atlantic's Healthcare Future Gets Funded
Some of the most important healthcare breakthroughs in the country are happening right here in the Mid-Atlantic. What's missing isn't the innovation — it's the room where the right people are actually in it together.
The Opus8 Healthcare Capital Forum is that room. As the flagship healthcare investment event of DC Startup & Tech Week, it brings founders building the future of healthcare face-to-face with the investors, corporate innovators, strategic partners, and funders who can help them get there.
One day. The region's sharpest healthcare companies. A room built entirely around capital, partnership, and momentum.
Why Be in the Room
This isn't a conference you sit through. It's a day built for the conversations that actually move companies forward.
If you're a founder — you'll be in front of active investors and strategic partners who are genuinely looking for what you're building, not politely listening to a pitch and moving on.
If you're an investor or corporate partner — you'll get curated access to the Mid-Atlantic's most promising healthcare companies, vetted and selected so your time goes toward real opportunities, not a crowded floor.
If you're part of the region's healthcare ecosystem — research institutions, health systems, government funders — you'll be at the table where the region's next wave of healthcare companies gets built.
A Day Built Around What Actually Matters
Where the money is moving — investment trends and what's actually getting funded right now
How healthcare gets financed — real talk on the capital paths founders are using to scale
What investors are really looking for — perspective straight from the people writing checks
The companies to watch — a curated showcase of the region's most promising healthcare innovators
Doors into strategic partnerships — with corporations and institutions ready to collaborate
Non-dilutive capital — government funding pathways founders too often miss
The relationships that outlast the day — the kind of connections that turn into term sheets, partnerships, and years of collaboration
More Than an Event. A Beginning.
This Forum isn't about polishing a pitch. It's about the conversation that happens after — the follow-up call, the term sheet, the partnership that changes a company's trajectory.
Our vision is bigger than one day: to build the Mid-Atlantic's premier annual healthcare capital event, and in doing so, make DC Startup & Tech Week the place healthcare innovation and investment come together — year after year.
Agenda
8:00 AM — Registration, Breakfast & Networking
9:00 AM — Welcome Remarks
Tien Wong, CEO, Opus8
Chris Frew, CEO, BioBuzz Networks
9:30 AM — Opening Keynote
10:00 AM — Healthcare CEO Leadership Panel
10:30 AM — Networking Break
10:45 AM — Human Health Technologies Showcase
11:30 AM — Investor Perspectives: Investing Beyond Therapeutics
12:15 PM — Networking Lunch
1:30 PM — Therapeutics Showcase
2:15 PM — Investor Perspectives: Funding the Next Generation of Therapeutics
3:00 PM — Government Funding & Non-Dilutive Capital Panel
3:30 PM — Healthcare Capital Markets Outlook
4:00 PM — Capital Connections Happy Hour
Venue
TBD
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