
Health Wildcatters portfolio company scores exit with Nike acquisition
The Invertex deal marks the second acquisition for Health Wildcatters, a Dallas-based health tech and life science accelerator in its fifth year.
The Invertex deal marks the second acquisition for Health Wildcatters, a Dallas-based health tech and life science accelerator in its fifth year.
HHS kicked off the first of what will be a multi-city tour over a two-year period taking the department's Startup Day on the road.
The week at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference, HealthWorks spent the week interviewing candidates for the Cambridge, Massachusetts cohort of Philips' healthcare startup accelerator.
The Digital Health Breakthrough Network, which is a partnership between HITLAB and NYCEDC, recently announced its third cohort of startups. The class includes Altopax, Navimize, PainQx and Tatch.
The 2018 edition of the cohort will pair two champions across technology, hospitals, insurance companies and the pharma industry with each of the 32 startups selected for the six-month program.
Whittled down from roughly 600 applicants, the goals of the 10 companies in the third cohort include improving the patient experience, offering more personalized care plans for cancer treatment, triaging patients faster and making blood sample collection less painful.
Most of the digital health companies in the latest cohort have business-to-business payment models across clinical decision support and physician practice management.
Eight healthcare startups, half of them led by women, offered myriad approaches to solving specific healthcare challenges from more efficient nurse training to remote monitoring for home infusion and diabetic neuropathy.
The Dallas-based fund has a portfolio of 40 seed and early stage companies. Carl Soderstrom, the founding partner of Green Park, is also the cofounder of the Health Wildcatters accelerator.
Health technology businesses with eye tracking technology for concussion detection, end-of-life planning tools and a telehealth alternative to ambulance radios took center stage at the Boston event.
With a $7 million Series A financing round, ApoGen has become the latest startup to enter Accelerator Corporation's syndicate funding and operational support program. It's a strong endorsement from a firm which makes very few investments.
To date, 32 companies have taken part in the program.
Startups at the Orange County nonprofit that runs the LaunchPad accelerator had an exceptional second quarter in terms of money raised from investors.
GE's Healthymagination arm and Santa Clara University set up a six month social entrepreneurship accelerator.
A look at athenahealth's More Disruption Please accelerator.