CincyTech's mission is to transform innovation into high-performing life science and digital companies in southwest Ohio. Our decade of investing in our own backyard has made us well aware that our region is fertile ground for life science, biotech and digital health startups. The rest of the world is catching on, as you'll see from the first two stories below.

Sometimes the companies we help to build come up with an unintended solution. Care coordination platform Cordata Healthcare Innovations , working with Interact For Health and the University of Cincinnati, devised an app to improve intervention in the opioid crisis. It won a $1.5 million Ohio Third Frontier grant , and is in the hands of regional Quick Response teams right now. It's the subject of the third story.