We’re bringing New Mexico to the national stage at HLTH 2025
HLTH Reflections: Regional Innovation Is Rising—and New Mexico Is on the Map
This year at HLTH, we showed up not just as attendees, but as advocates for New Mexico—for our founders, our researchers, our health systems, and the growing community of people building a better, more connected health innovation ecosystem across the state.
As HealthInno, we wear many hats. But we’re aligned in one mission: to make New Mexico a place where health innovation can grow, scale, and thrive.
HLTH was another reminder that our state—and regions like ours—have more to contribute than most people realize.
Showing Up With Our Founders and Partners
We joined forces with our anchor partner, Builders VC, this year as they sponsored five startups to exhibit in the Digital Health Hub Awards Pavilion— ncluding three New Mexico companies we’ve been proud to champion:
Fidari Inc. — expanding access to specialty care in underserved communities
Vitazi.ai — using AI to surface preventive insights and close care gaps in primary care
IRIS XR — applying computer vision to improve stroke triage and speed diagnosis
These founders didn’t just “show up”; they held their own alongside companies from the biggest tech hubs in the country. They made real connections with investors, advisers, enterprise buyers, and peers—proving once again that innovation from New Mexico can compete on a national stage.
We also helped support the first-ever Builders VC Reception at HLTH, which turned into a packed, high-energy evening filled with operators, investors, system leaders, and innovators. It reinforced what we already know: people want to connect with regions where real problems are being solved with urgency, practicality, and community at the center.
What We Heard—and Why It Matters for New Mexico
Across numerous conversations, panels, roundtables, and hallway meetups, three themes kept resurfacing:
National interest in emerging regions is growing. Organizations and investors are actively looking beyond traditional hubs.
Talent is everywhere, but infrastructure isn’t. This is exactly the gap HealthInno is working to close.
Founders tackling meaningful structural problems still break through. And those problems are exactly what New Mexico innovators are working on.
Several people told us they’re actively watching New Mexico’s innovation landscape and are seriously considering investing in the region.
We returned from HLTH energized—and went straight into hosting our HealthAI Summit, where 200+ leaders from healthcare, AI, academia, startups, government, and community came together to explore what’s possible when innovation is grounded in place and equity.
HLTH reminded us of the national landscape.
The HealthAI Summit reminded us of our purpose:
To connect, elevate, and mobilize New Mexico’s health innovation ecosystem.
To ensure our founders and communities aren’t left behind.
To show that the next wave of transformative health solutions can—and will—come from regions like ours.
We left HLTH with new partnerships, deeper insights, and renewed conviction in the work ahead. New Mexico belongs in this conversation—and we’re here to make sure the rest of the country sees it.
