Startups, Health Tech

Meet MassChallenge’s 2020 healthtech cohort

The Boston-based accelerator will match 27 health tech startups with industry leaders for the six-month program.

 

MassChallenge HealthTech named 27 late-stage digital health startups for its newest cohort. The Boston-based accelerator pairs startups with industry giants, such as Humana and Microsoft, to solve some of the biggest problems in health care.

MassChallenge launched its first digital health accelerator in 2016 and has been bringing in groups of startups for every year since then. To date, 90 startups have participated in the program, raising more than $378 million in funding and creating more than 1,200 jobs.

This year’s cohort received more than 100 partnership offers from providers, payers and other industry organizations. They will work together on challenges such as population health management, access to behavioral health care, telehealth and assistive technologies. These corporate partners will also provide advising, access to investment opportunities, and assistance with pilot studies and research.

The new cohort was selected from a large pool of applicants, representing the top 7 percent of MassChallenge’s applicant pool.

“Our applicants hailed from over 30 countries and our judging process proved to be incredibly competitive this year,” MassChallenge HealthTech Managing Director Nick Dougherty said in a news release. “The number of high-quality partnerships generated through matchmaking makes me extremely excited about what our entrepreneurs will accomplish with their Champion partners.”

Startups will also have access to co-working space, industry experts and investors for the six-month program. At the end, the startups will have the opportunity to compete for more than $200,000 in cash, at no equity cost.

This year’s cohort includes:

  • Antwerp, Belgium-based Byteflies offers B2B services to help companies quickly develop wearable devices.
  • CareClever, a robotics startup based in Roubaix, France, seeks to improve seniors’ daily lives through a robotic companion named Cutii.
  • Boston-based Dock Health is a platform for secure task management, healthcare team collaboration and better patient care.
  • DynamiCare Health, also based in Boston, focuses on monitoring and rewarding recovery from addiction.
  • Brookline, Massachusetts-based EatWell addresses food security and diet-related chronic conditions by providing affordable, nutritious meal kits.
  • Boston-based SaaS startup Eleos is building a platform that provides mental health therapists with data to drive treatment outcomes and reduce costs.
  • Embleema, headquartered in New York, lets patients with rare disease own and share their data to disintermediate real world evidence for clinical research.
  • San Francisco-based Health Note automatically documents medical notes. The company pulls in patients’ data prior to their visit from and builds a structured note.
  • Ianacare, headquartered in Boston, makes it easy to coordinate non-clinical support from caregivers and family members.
  • Chicago-based InfiniTeach develops digital apps to improve autism education and community accessibility.
  • Karuna Health, headquartered in San Francisco, makes it easy for high-need patients and their families to connect with care teams.
  • Boston-based Knot is developing a platform for easy case logging for healthcare workers.
  • Limbix, based in Palo Alto, creates digital therapeutics designed to treat the most common mental health disorders using mobile apps and VR.
  • Marigold Health, headquartered in Boston, is developing a platform that features text-based support groups and natural language processing to help patients with substance use conditions.
  • Forest Hills, New York-based MedFlyt helps caregivers address better care coordination, chronic disease management, patient access, and home care through its app.
  • Los Angeles-based Moving Analytics is developing a virtual cardiac rehab service for patients with cardiovascular disease.
  • NuEyes, headquartered in Newport Beach, is a veteran-owned technology company pioneering the adoption of smart glasses in the healthcare market.
  • Springfield, Massachusetts-based Ompractice is an online platform for live yoga and meditation classes that can be taken from anywhere.
  • Boston-based Posh is a startup spun out of MIT. The company is powering chatbots that can provide more human-like conversation and automate routine communications tasks.
  • Sana Health, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, is building a drugless pain management platform to help reduce the opioid crisis.
  • New York-based Savvy Cooperative is a platform that allows patients to share about their experiences and companies to get the insights they need to develop better innovations.
  • Manhasset, New York-based Tembo.Health is a telemedicine practice that provides patients in nursing homes with care in hard-to-access specialties, such as psychiatry and cardiology.
  • Think and Zoom, headquartered in Austin, allows users with smart glasses, cell phones and other devices to zoom in on objects simply by focusing on them.
  • UDoTest, headquartered in Boston, lets users test for a number of conditions at home used its mailed test kits.
  • Newburyport, Massachusetts-based Vyasa Analytics provides scalable deep learning and analytics software.
  • London-based Walk with Path uses wearables and analytics to improve mobility and reduce the risk of falls.
  • Boston-based Working Well’s mobile app helps users with mental illness develop skills and establish routines that help them be successful at work.

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