For Dreamit‘s inaugural 2016 four-month cycle, the accelerator has accepted 25 new companies – twice the number it usually accepts and the first class to be part of its evolved new program. Fifteen of these startups are part of the accelerator’s health division. Nearly 1,000 companies applied to be part of the accelerator from more than 40 companies.
Dreamit has changed it’s model for the type of companies it approves, including those that already have funding and don’t typically look to an accelerator to move forward.
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Last year, Dreamit began its “Zero/Zero” offer, which allows entrepreneurs to be involved without giving up equity during the four month program. The accelerator is also giving up “Demo Day” and instead will curate investor meetings during a two-week bi-coastal investor roadshow.
This marks the fourth year that Dreamit Health has been in partnership with Penn Medicine and Independence Blue Cross, and it has now added Zimmer Biomet and other the increased amount of startups thanks to a Blackstone Innovation Grant.
Here’s the list of the startups in this year’s healthcare cohort:
Dreamit Health 2016 Cycle I Companies
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- Addicaid – Social tools for treating and preventing substance abuse and addiction.
- Admetsys – An artificial pancreas device that measures, models, and treats patients in real time
- Cellepathy – Solving distracted driving and other connected-car problems by applying artificial intelligence to smartphone sensor data.
- CircleLinkHealth – Turn-key chronic care management and patient engagement to improve health and doctors’ reimbursements.
- DNAsimple – An online DNA bank for researchers to have access to DNA samples from people from all over the world.
- InquisitHealth – Peer-to-peer mentoring to improve health outcomes for diabetes, pre-diabetes, asthma, HIV, and CKD.
- Keriton – Automates pumped breast milk management systems at neonatal ICUs
- Kermit – The first collaborative spend management platform for hospitals and their surgeons
- MedAware – Promoting patient safety by transforming large-scale medical data into actionable clinical knowledge.
- MedStack – An end-to-end development platform for the creation of integrated compliant healthcare apps
- Neofluidics LLC – next generation screening tools used by pharmaceutical companies for drug screening dramatically reducing development costs
- Prevnos– Inventor of the world’s first Hybrid Fusion FISH™ (fluorescence in situ hybridization) assays to screen for cancer prior to onset of disease
- Somatix – Preventative behavioral health data-analytics software platform for smoking cessation, using big data derived from wearables.
- Suggestic – A lifestyle and nutrition GPS for diabetics, powered by artificial intelligence for deep personalization.
- Wellth – Behavioral economics meets healthcare. Works with healthcare payers to produce cost-saving behavior changes in members through science-based incentive plans
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