Larry Schor

zakipoint Health brings truth and transparency to an employers healthcare spend. Every business should expect transparency and effectiveness from their healthcare spend. For many companies, healthcare is the second major cost after salaries, and yet there is no enterprise tool for mid-market self-insured employers to manage this spend. zakipoint Health has one goal: to enable every company, regardless of size, to understand and lower their health care costs — easily and affordably. This is a market worth $2.5 - $ 3 bn, yet is poorly served, and not served at all for businesses with less than 3,000 employees. Our practical approach is reflected in our core slogan: "see Clearly; take Action; save Money"​. We deliver actionable cost containment recommendations and a relevant marketplace for risk owning entities — self-insured employers; health plans; and ACOs — to understand and save on healthcare spend. Our solution z5, is a SaaS-based tool that integrates all healthcare data, enabling a customer to analyze claims; population risks (current and future) and programs, plus provider and benefit plan performance in one place, and then take action through our targeted marketplace. Our customers love what we do for them; "Our business has been buffeted by the ever increasing medical costs for years, just like most other companies in America... ...More recently we started working with zakipoint Health to improve our management of healthcare costs. Their ability to mine, drill down into our medical insurance data and provide us with actionable insights that to date has not been available from anyone else looks to be another key strategy in helping us to mitigate the ever rising costs of providing health coverage to our employees. We look forward to turning their identified 7% savings into real savings"​ Carl Rubin, CFO Web Industries (manufacturer with $200 million in revenues)

Blackcurrant is a B2B hydrogen marketplace that reduces hydrogen transaction times using an automated procurement process. By leveraging AI, our platform provides real-time market analytics to enable customers to make well-informed decisions and drive transparency and liquidity to the hydrogen market. Blackcurrant customers save on transaction-related costs, minimize supply/offtake risk, and benefit from increased sales productivity. Contact us today for more information!

At Augintel, we know that in-depth case knowledge is crucial to achieving positive client outcomes. We help caseworkers and clinicians uncover critical case insights buried in unstructured data such as case notes and communications for deeper case understanding, better informed decisions and improved client outcomes.

Clearstep revolutionizes patient care with its AI-powered virtual healthcare assistants, seamlessly guiding individuals through their healthcare journey. This innovative platform collaborates with an extensive network of healthcare organizations, including health systems, hospitals, medical groups, retail pharmacies, population health entities, and insurance providers. By integrating Clearsteps technology across websites, mobile applications, and patient portals, these partners offer a user-centric healthcare experience. Dedicated to enhancing patient autonomy, Clearstep simplifies the management of healthcare processes, from symptom checking to navigating care options. It significantly lightens the workload for healthcare teams by automating initial symptom assessments, triage, routine patient interactions, remote monitoring, and essential clinical processes. This efficiency not only boosts the effectiveness of care teams but also enriches patient experiences and outcomes. Distinctively, Clearstep is built upon the trusted telephone triage protocols established by Dr. Barton Schmitt, a standard in nearly every nurse call center across the nation. It stands out for its rapid triage process, asking around 10 fewer questions than its competitors while maintaining an impressive accuracy rate exceeding 95%. As the leading solution in digital self-triage, Clearstep serves the most extensive network of integrated delivery system deployments in the U.S., partnering with prominent healthcare providers like HCA Healthcare, Novant Health, Tufts Medicine, Ochsner Health, Mount Sinai Health System, and others across 15+ states. These partnerships span 100+ hospital regions, demonstrating Clearsteps unparalleled reach and impact in transforming digital healthcare.

The University of Chicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation brings the power of ideas in the laboratory, classroom and community to the world. Through education, resources, and programs, the Polsky Center commercializes discoveries, partners with companies, and attracts venture capital. The Polsky Center runs one of the nations top-ranked business accelerator, the Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge, which has helped launch companies like Grubhub, Braintree, and Simple Mills. The mission of the Polsky Center is to support students, faculty, alumni, and non-university community members by bridging the gap between knowledge and practice, idea and action, and research and impact. By igniting a spirit of innovation and fostering connections that extend across the University, city, region and world, the Polsky Center enables more ideas to have a meaningful impact on society. Learn more at polsky.uchicago.edu.

zakipoint Health brings truth and transparency to an employers healthcare spend. Every business should expect transparency and effectiveness from their healthcare spend. For many companies, healthcare is the second major cost after salaries, and yet there is no enterprise tool for mid-market self-insured employers to manage this spend. zakipoint Health has one goal: to enable every company, regardless of size, to understand and lower their health care costs — easily and affordably. This is a market worth $2.5 - $ 3 bn, yet is poorly served, and not served at all for businesses with less than 3,000 employees. Our practical approach is reflected in our core slogan: "see Clearly; take Action; save Money"​. We deliver actionable cost containment recommendations and a relevant marketplace for risk owning entities — self-insured employers; health plans; and ACOs — to understand and save on healthcare spend. Our solution z5, is a SaaS-based tool that integrates all healthcare data, enabling a customer to analyze claims; population risks (current and future) and programs, plus provider and benefit plan performance in one place, and then take action through our targeted marketplace. Our customers love what we do for them; "Our business has been buffeted by the ever increasing medical costs for years, just like most other companies in America... ...More recently we started working with zakipoint Health to improve our management of healthcare costs. Their ability to mine, drill down into our medical insurance data and provide us with actionable insights that to date has not been available from anyone else looks to be another key strategy in helping us to mitigate the ever rising costs of providing health coverage to our employees. We look forward to turning their identified 7% savings into real savings"​ Carl Rubin, CFO Web Industries (manufacturer with $200 million in revenues)

The Discovery Partners Institute, part of the University of Illinois System, empowers people to jumpstart their tech careers and companies in Chicago. DPI does three things: Train people for high-demand tech jobs; innovate through applied R&D; and support business building to help the economy grow. With state investment and a high-powered network of university partners regionally and internationally, DPI has the resources to attract, develop, retain, and leverage the most ambitious talent in Chicago to address global challenges in our environment, agriculture, industry, life sciences, and shared digital future.

Blackcurrant is a B2B hydrogen marketplace that reduces hydrogen transaction times using an automated procurement process. By leveraging AI, our platform provides real-time market analytics to enable customers to make well-informed decisions and drive transparency and liquidity to the hydrogen market. Blackcurrant customers save on transaction-related costs, minimize supply/offtake risk, and benefit from increased sales productivity. Contact us today for more information!

At Augintel, we know that in-depth case knowledge is crucial to achieving positive client outcomes. We help caseworkers and clinicians uncover critical case insights buried in unstructured data such as case notes and communications for deeper case understanding, better informed decisions and improved client outcomes.