Texas Medical Center Accelerator shifts model, adds second batch of startups
The accelerator tweaked its approach -- each class will focus on different area. For the second class, it's digital health.
NYC startup Petra Pharma launches with $48M
With this heavy round of financing, Petra Pharmaceuticals' launch marks the beginning of a new era in New York City's life sciences scene.
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Illumina’s accelerator invests in four new genomics startups
Illumina will provide business guidance, $100,000 in seed funding, lab space and access to its genomics tools to the four new startups in its new accelerator class.
Cedars-Sinai CIO talks about health tech accelerator
Darren Dworkin said it has set up a dedicated facility adjacent to the Cedars-Sinai campus to house the accelerator.
Five new life sciences startups at Philadelphia accelerator
Biobots, Freenome, LignaMed, Telesis and OriMAbs - all life sciences startups - have taken residence in Philadelphia's University Science Center accelerator. Their focuses range from cancer diagnostics to 3D bioprinting.
Fogarty Institute focuses on women’s health, launches 3 new startups
The Fogarty Institute just launched three new startups, all in women's health. The Silicon Valley-based nonprofit helps medical device upstarts get off their feet and avoid the "valley of death."
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A new health tech accelerator rises in Maryland
In exchange for a $50,000 investment, Relevant Health takes up to an 8 percent equity stake.
Why this healthcare accelerator has the best name
The Philadelphia-based Digital Health Accelerator run by the University City Science Center is winding up it last couple of months. I took the opportunity to check in with Aron Starosta, who set up and managed the program with Chris Laing with the guidance of a nine-member board. As part of our talk, he shared how […]
Cambia Health launches Seattle startup effort
An effort backed by Cambia Health Solutions to lure more startups opened today in Seattle with the intent of bringing together not just entrepreneurial talent in the healthcare space, but also well-established entities like health systems and major employers to jointly identify challenges and potential solutions. The Cambia Grove, announced last fall, opened in a 9,000 square-foot space, hoping […]
Johnson & Johnson opening another JLABS accelerator in South San Francisco
Life sciences giant Johnson & Johnson Innovation announced the opening of a fourth JLABS accelerator in South San Francisco that will accommodate up to 50 startups that span the healthcare landscape. It’s the fourth JLABS to open, following an original location in San Diego, a second in Boston and another San Francisco proper. Another is […]
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Sprint mobile health accelerator adds health system partners
As Sprint gears up for the second class of its mobile health accelerator program in Kansas City, it’s added a clutch of hospital and health system partners, according to a company statement. Although it had healthcare partners for its inaugural class last year, the idea is that more formalized relationships will make it easier for […]
athenahealth expands accelerator with two new investments, new location in SF
Cloud-based EHR vendor athenahealth is expanding its More Disruption Please accelerator with investments in two new companies and the opening of a new location in San Francisco. In addition, Massachusetts-based athena said it will partner with the Health Information Trust Network, better known as HITRUST, to offer its accelerator companies “verified security assessments” on HIPAA […]
Texas Medical Center launches healthcare accelerator
Houston is hoping to get in on the wave of digital health and life science innovation, led by Texas Medical Center‘s newly launched accelerator, dubbed TMCx. The accelerator, in a 100,000 square-foot former Nabisco factory, will be one of the “core components” of the Medical Center’s Innovation Institute, as well as the first step in […]
Accelerator opens an NYC hub with $51 million in backing from Pfizer, J&J, Lilly to build new life sciences startups
Seattle’s Accelerator Corp. is expanding into New York City with $51.1 million in capital – and plans to raise more – to scout out life sciences innovators and entrepreneurs to form new biotechs based in the Big Apple. The funding comes from a number of high-profile backers, including Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson. Accelerator […]