ZS PRIZE healthcare tech challenge: How can healthtech startups, students, others participate to solve for India?

Whether you’re a healthtech startup, a working professional, or a student, you can solve for India by participating in the second edition of ZS PRIZE healthcare tech challenge – an initiative to recognize and celebrate tech-enabled healthcare innovations leveraging data, analytics, and advanced technology to make healthcare affordable and accessible for all.

Designed by global management consulting and technology firm ZS, ZS PRIZE healthcare tech challenge will provide an opportunity for startups, working professionals, and students to create innovative, tech-enabled healthcare solutions with the aim of transforming the Indian healthcare landscape.

To participate in the ZS PRIZE healthcare tech challenge, startups, working professionals and students will first have to register on the website and submit their innovative healthcare solution idea. If you have a working prototype, you can share relevant information about it at the time of submission of your entry. Submissions with working prototypes are more likely to get shortlisted.


The ZS PRIZE tech challenge is conducted in multiple phases, starting from registration and submission of ideas by participants, followed by evaluation of submissions by healthcare industry experts and shortlisting of the most innovative ideas. Following the evaluation and initial shortlisting process, the top 20 shortlisted teams receive intensive mentoring program, post which the top eight teams get the opportunity to pitch to the ZS PRIZE Jury during the grand award ceremony.

The winners of ZS PRIZE healthcare tech challenge will receive cash rewards from the prize purse of Rs. 1. Crore, which will be shared across the winning teams, with the first prize amounting to Rs. 75 lakh, the runners up (two teams) receiving Rs. 25 lakh each, and the fiver remaining winning teams receiving Rs. 5 lakh each.

Registrations for ZS PRIZE award second edition will close late December 2022. Apply now