Asthra is on stage at the DIA Whale Tank
Asthra AI has been selected to pitch at the DIA Whale Tank — the startup pitch program at the DIA 2026 Global Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Of the many companies that apply, only a small number are chosen to present, and we are honoured to be one of them.
What makes this selection meaningful is who does the choosing. The DIA Whale Tank is judged and watched by the regulatory community itself — the regulatory affairs leaders, medical writers, safety and clinical professionals, and health-authority representatives who live inside the documents Asthra is built to help write. For a product whose whole premise is the chat-native studio for regulatory writers, recognition from this audience is the validation that matters most.
What the DIA Whale Tank is
The DIA Global Annual Meeting is the flagship annual forum for the life-sciences regulatory community. The 2026 meeting brings together roughly 4,100 professionals from more than 50 countries — regulatory affairs, clinical operations, pharmacovigilance, and medical-writing leaders from pharma, biotech, CROs, and medical-device companies, alongside regulators from agencies including the FDA, EMA, MHRA, PMDA, and Health Canada.
The Whale Tank is DIA's customer-first pitch program. Rather than a panel of investors, founders present to the people who would actually use and buy the product — and get real validation, and real challenge, from that room. It is a high signal precisely because the audience is the customer.
Why this matters for regulatory writers
Regulatory writing tools have to earn trust from a sceptical, high-stakes profession. A pitch that lands with this audience is a pitch that survived the scrutiny of people who know exactly where AI tends to go wrong in a submission — fabricated numbers, broken citations, drift between sections.
Asthra was built for that scrutiny: closed-system retrieval over your own sources, sentence-level citations, an end-of-run quality pass, and an audit-ready run bundle that ships with every draft. The DIA Whale Tank is where we make that case to the community it was designed for.
When and where
- DIA 2026 Global Annual Meeting — June 14–18, 2026
- Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA
- Whale Tank pitch — Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Meet Asthra at DIA 2026
Vishnu Ramesh, Asthra's co-founder, will be on the ground in Philadelphia for the full week, with the Whale Tank pitch on June 16. If you are a regulatory writer, a sponsor, or a partner heading to DIA — or you are simply curious how a chat-native studio changes how CSRs, PSURs, and CERs get written — we would love to show you Asthra in person.