The Journey recently launched as a Phoenix-based venture studio designed to create new healthcare startups with diverse founders. The studio works with entrepreneurs from underrepresented backgrounds across the country, helping them prototype, scale and commercialize digital health platforms.
The innovation institute run by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill teamed up with Amazon Web Services to create a venture studio to turn the university’s digital health research concepts into full-fledged startups. AWS’ platform beat out the other major cloud providers because it was “the most entrepreneurial,” according to the venture studio’s managing director.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The company currently has two incubating startups, Violet, a bank to help people with medical bills, and Rotera, an AI consulting firm for health systems.