SOPE Colorado Chapter meeting
Please join members of the Colorado Chapter of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE) and invited guests for an onsite networking and educational event.
Guest Speaker: Chris Franks
Topic:
From Idea to Impact: Understanding Healthcare's Innovation Gap
Why the best healthcare technologies never make it out of the lab and what a faster, smarter model looks like. Join Promptus for a live conversation on fixing the innovation gap.
What you’ll learn:
Why $245B in annual healthcare R&D still produces a system starved for innovation
Why the traditional medtech model is the wrong vehicle for most medical breakthroughs
What a faster, structured commercialization path from lab to market actually looks like
Host:
Chris Franks
CEO, Promptus
Promptus LinkedIn
Host Bio:
Chris Franks has spent 17+ years building high-growth companies from idea to exit, working across more than 20 ventures with multiple successful outcomes.
Chris’ current focus? That healthcare's biggest failure isn't a lack of innovation, it's speed. Breakthrough technologies are sitting in university labs for years while patients wait for solutions that already exist. Promptus is working to close that gap, building a innovation platform that takes validated IP from concept to acquisition-ready in 18–30 months, not a decade.
Chris is a 6x Ironman triathlete, and he brings the same discipline to building companies that he brings to endurance racing: the belief that the people who persevere through the hardest miles are the ones who finish. He applies that same conviction to Promptus's portfolio.
Chris and Promptus’ mission is simple: help people live longer, healthier, more fulfilling lives by building the technologies that let healthcare intervene before it's too late, not after.
Location: Thank you to our hosts at Thrive Workplace Centennial