Helath Tech is becoming one of the fasting growing industries to build a startup, but most of the early-stage entrepreneurs we speak to aren't aware of the local tech resources that are available to help them get started.

With applications for the Health Tech Founder Institute now open, we're excited to release the Health Startup Resource Guide, which is currently in Draft v1 below! It was developed by the Health Tech Founder Institute and local leaders: Dominique Kim (Health Career Transformation Leader, U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health), Ruchi Sood (Program Manager, InnovatorMD), and Uli Chettipally (Founder & CEO, InnovatorMD).

This is just a draft, and while we spent many hours on this research, more input is needed. Please leave your comments on this collaborative Google document to help us complete the list. There are definitely omissions on this current version. 

Are you looking to build a startup in Health Tech? Then apply to the Health Tech Founder Institute program today!

Text version included below, for ease of searching:

Startup Stages

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There is no one right way to build a technology company, but for the sake of simplicity we have outlined a basic, common, sequential framework.

1. Idea Stage

This is where new entrepreneurs get inspired, learn best practices, develop skills, validate ideas, and begin to build their team and product.

A. Inspire

• Health Startup Media: Centralized local information, listings, and news. (i.e. startup blogs/ publications/ lists/ FB groups/ newsletters)

1. BetaKit - HealthTech
2. Digital Health
3. Digital Health Buzz!
4. ECHAlliance
5. eHealth Magazine
6. Health IT Buzz Blog
7. Healthcare Global
8. HealthTech Europe
9. HealthTech HotSpot
10. Med-Tech Innovation
11. MobiHealthNews
12. Reach
13. Startup Daily - Healthtech
14. Startup Digest Health
15. Startup Talky - Healthtech
16. Tech.eu - HealthTech
17. TechCrunch - HealthTech
18. The Ken - HealthTech
19. UK Tech News - HealthTech
20. WIRED Healthcare

• Inspirational Health Startup Events: Open, inclusive startup events that often focus on ideation. (i.e. Startup Weekend, idea fairs, and inspirational meetups)

1. CES Digital Health
2. Digital Health 2022
3. Digital Health Festival
4. Digital Health Rewired
5. Digital Health Tech Show
6. Digital Health World Congress 2022
7. Digital Healthcare 2022
8. EIT Health Summit
9. European Health Tech Innovation Week 2022
10. FORTUNE Brainstorm Health 2022
11. Future Health Summit
12. Health 2.0 Conference
13. Health Tech Forward
14. Health Week Series
15. Healthcare Automation and Digitalization Congress 2022
16. Healthcare IT Connect
17. Healthcare Summit 2022
18. HealthTech Innovation Days
19. Healthtech Ireland Conference
20. Healthtech Week
21. Healthtech/SUM
22. HETT
23. HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition
24. HLTH
25. Innovator MD
26. Intelligent Health AI
27. Medical Fair Asia 2022
28. Medical Technology Ireland
29. MedTech Meetup
30. Next Generation CAR-TCR Summit
31. Startup Weekend
32. Talking HealthTech Summit
33. The MedTech Conference
34. The MedTech Forum
35. UX Healthcare
36. ViVE
37. WIRED Health
38. World Health Summit
39. World Medical Innovation Forum

B. Educate

• Best Practices: Beginner knowledge-sharing tech events. (i.e. beginner events that serve to educate more than inspire).

1. 1 Million Cups
2. Health Technology Forum
3. Healthtech O2O
4. Healthtech Women
5. One HealthTech Stockholm
6. Paris Healthcare Innovation Meetup
7. Silicon Valley Health Tech Meetup
8. Startup Founder 101
9. Startup Grind
10. STEM 4 Health
11. What the Health - Humans of HealthTech Melbourne
12. What the Health - Humans of HealthTech Sydney

• Training & Feedback: Skill & Idea development events and startup bootcamps for entrepeneurs. (Includes comprehensive training programs, like Founder Institute, General Assembly, Lean Startup Machine, code camps, etc)

1. Bay Area Health Tech Innovators
2. Boston Health Technology Meetup
3. Cambridge Healthtech Institute
4. Digital Health Frankfurt am Main (Rhein-Main-Neckar) Meetup
5. ECHAlliance
6. EIT Health MedTech Bootcamp
7. Founder Institute Health Tech Accelerator
8. Health 2.0 Berlin
9. Health 2.0 Boston Chapter
10. Health 2.0 Geneva
11. Health 2.0 Miami Chapter
12. Health 2.0 NYC - The NYC Healthcare Innovation Group
13. Health 2.0 San Francisco
14. Health 2.0 São Paulo
15. Health 2.0 Toronto
16. HealthTech Innovators
17. HealthTechX: Australia
18. Innovation in BioPharma and Digital Health
19. Life Sciences & Health Tech Entrepreneurs
20. Medlabs Healthcare Accelerator
21. MedTech Catalyst
22. mHealth Israel
23. Miami Health Innovators
24. Rehabilitation Health
25. SF Health Tech
26. Silicon Valley Health 2.0
27. The Health Cell HealthTech Bootcamp
28. The HealthTech Meetup
29. The leAD Toyoshima Bootcamp
30. The MIT-Harvard Medical School Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp
31. The MSIP Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
32. TMC Health Tech Accelerator Bootcamp
33. Venturelab Scale up Bootcamp: Health Tech

C. Validate

• Team Formation: Events for Finding Co-founders in Health.  (i.e. tech networking events or other resources that facilitate early-stage recruitment and cofounder matching)

1. Austin Health Tech
2. bene : studio HealthTech Networking Club
3. Doctorpreneurs
4. Founders Network Healthcare Initiative
5. Health Tech Alliance
6. Health Wildcatters
7. Healthcare Innovators Network
8. Healthcare Technology Network
9. London Healthcare Blockchain
10. MedTech Color
11. Norway Health Tech
12. NY Health Tech Startups
13. Singapore Mobile Healthcare Startups
14. University of Oxford Early Career Healthtech Network

• Build First Product: Hackathons & product events in Health.

1. AI for Healthcare Hackathon
2. Avicenna Health Hack 2022
3. CTSC Health Hackathon
4. Designing Health
5. Hack Healthcare 2022
6. Hacking Health Camp
7. Health Hackathon 2022
8. Health Hackers
9. Health Innovators
10. Health{hacks}
11. HealthHacks
12. HealthTech presented by HackGT
13. London Health Tech Challenge
14. One Health Hackathon
15. Swiss Digital Health Hackathons
16. Wonder Hack - A Family Hackathon

2. Launch Stage

In this stage, entrepreneurs establish and formalize the company, develop the product, get feedback from customers, and prepare for the next step.

A. Start

• Establish: Health law firms & banks for startups

1. Allens
2. Arnold & Porter
3. Baker McKenzie
4. Barnes & Thornburg
5. Brex
6. Bridge Bank
7. Browne Jacobson LLP
8. Cooley
9. Covington & Burling LLP
10. Dentons
11. DLA Piper
12. Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
13. Fenwick & West LLP
14. First Republic Bank
15. GJE
16. GL Law
17. Goodwin
18. Health & Technology Law Group
19. Hempsons
20. Hill Dickinson
21. Hogan Lovells
22. Holland & Knight
23. Hooper Lundy & Bookman PC
24. Jackson LLP
25. Kinny Legal
26. Latham & Watkins, LLP
27. Magis Law Firm
28. McDermott Will & Emery
29. McGuireWoods
30. Mercury
31. Mills & Reeve
32. Mintz
33. Nath Goldberg Meyer
34. Nixon Gwilt Law
35. Novo
36. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
37. Prinz Law Office
38. Rabobank
39. Revolut
40. Rho
41. Robinson+Cole
42. Sheppard Mullin
43. Shutts & Bowen LLP
44. Silicon Valley Bank
45. Wilson Sonsini

• Health Workspaces: Co-working and flexible workspaces for startups in Health.

1. 20Fathoms
2. Aartas Clinishare
3. Amsterdam Health & Technology Center
4. Barcelona Health Hub
5. Berlin Business Location Center
6. Bucks Hubs
7. Carehub® Coworking
8. CATALYST
9. Catalyst Health Tech
10. Cohort Innovation Space
11. CUBIO Innovation Center
12. GuideWell Innovation Center
13. H2 Health Hub
14. Harwell Innovation Centre
15. health foundry
16. Health Tech Hub Copenhagen
17. Health-Tech Space
18. JLABS
19. Nestspace
20. Norway Health Tech
21. ONRamp
22. Plexal
23. Plug and Play Tech Center
24. SOSA
25. Symbiosis
26. Terkko Health Hub
27. The MidTown Tech Hive
28. TigerLabs Coworking
29. WeWork

B. Develop

• Formalize: Health accounting, development and HR tools for early-stage startups.  

1. AC Lion
2. Alexander & Co.
3. Alternova
4. ApexTech
5. AppIt Ventures
6. Apzumi
7. Arch
8. Boyden
9. ChasmPartners
10. Consero Global
11. Demigos
12. Digital Authority Partners
13. Direct Recruiters Inc.
14. Droids On Roids
15. EMed HealthTech
16. Emorphis
17. HTD Health
18. Kinetica
19. Langate
20. Lucas Group
21. Marcum Accountants
22. Medical Web Experts
23. Menlo Park Recruitment
24. MindSea
25. MXOtech
26. Nimble App Genie
27. Odgers Berndtson
28. On Q Recruitment
29. OneMD
30. ScienceSoft
31. Storm3
32. Summit Search Group
33. TechCells
34. TechMagic
35. Techtic
36. The Bowdoin Group
37. Vention
38. WebMob Technologies
39. Webtools Health
40. Wilson Grey

• Health Incubators: Groups that prepare companies for seed investment and provide advanced mentorship. (i.e. advanced knowledge sharing, later stage events and resources)

1. 20 Fathoms Startup Incubator
2. Ampion
3. Austin Technology Incubator
4. Digital Health London
5. E-Health Venture Incubator
6. FasterCapital
7. Flying Health
8. Health Incubator Helsinki
9. Health Tech Hub Copenhagen
10. HealthTech Activator
11. Healthtech Catalyst
12. JLABS
13. Launchpad Digital Health
14. MaRS Discovery District
15. MATTER
16. Medical Technologies IKC
17. Moebio
18. Rock Health
19. StartUp Health
20. TechSpring Living Lab
21. The IO Healthtech Pre-Accelerator Program
22. Velocity
23. Vision Health Pioneers Incubator

C. Launch

• Health Seed Accelerators: Seed funding mentor programs (Techstars-style programs that provide funding)

1. AWS Healthcare Accelerator
2. bene : studio HealthTech Product Accelerator
3. BlueChilli HealthTech
4. Blueprint Health
5. Boomtown Accelerators
6. Cedars-Sinai Accelerator
7. DayOne Accelerator
8. Digital Health London Accelerator
9. Dreamit HealthTech
10. Edison™ Accelerator
11. Fit 4 Start
12. Future Health Accelerator
13. G4A
14. Health & BioTech Accelerator
15. Health Founders
16. HEALTH HUB VIENNA
17. Health Venture Lab
18. Health Wildcatters Accelerator
19. Health-Tech Space Accelerator
20. Healthinc
21. HealthSpark
22. HealthTech Arkansas Startup Accelerator
23. HealthTech Nordic
24. Insight Accelerator Labs
25. JLABS
26. JumpStart
27. KidsX
28. Launch Lane
29. LuminaX HealthTech Accelerator Program
30. MaRS Discovery District
31. MassChallenge HealthTech
32. MDisrupt
33. MedTech Innovator Accelerator
34. MEDX Xelerator
35. Merck Innovation Center Accelerator
36. Moebio
37. New York Digital Health Innovation Lab
38. Nex Cubed
39. Open Accelerator
40. Plug and Play Tech Center Health Tech Accelerator
41. Rockstart
42. Smile Health2B Accelerator
43. Springboard Health Innovation Hub
44. Startupbootcamp Digital Health Berlin
45. Swiss Digital Health
46. TMC Health Tech Accelerator
47. VenturePad Accelerator
48. WorldStartup
49. XLerateHealth

• Pitch & Demo Events: Tech events that showcase Health startups for investment.

1. Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge
2. AWS Healthcare Accelerator Demo Day
3. Edison™ Accelerator Demo Day
4. European Healthtech Investment Forum Pitch Competition 2022
5. G4A Pitch Club
6. Health Tech Hub Styria Pitch & Partner 2022
7. Health Technology Moonshot Startups: Pitch to VCs
8. Healthinc Demo Day
9. Healthtech/SUM Startup Pitch Competition
10. HLTH Startup Pitch
11. Insight Health TECH Startup Competition
12. KiwiTech HealthTech Demo Day
13. MATTER Health Tech Venture Challenge
14. MedTech Color Pitch Competition
15. MedTech Innovator Accelerator Venture Competition
16. Rewired Pitchfest 2022
17. The Mount Sinai Pitch Challenge
18. Velocity Fund Pitch Competition
19. Venturelab Venture Leaders MedTech

3. Growth Stage

Here, a startup proves their utility, receives recognition, and scales up. This usually requires funding, angels, VCs, and ways to connect them to startups.

A. Recognition

• Health Investor Networking:  Events and groups that connect professional investors with founders.

1. Aletta Angels
2. Angel Academe
3. Angel Investment Network
4. AngelMD
5. Angels in MedCity
6. Annual European HealthTech CEO Forum
7. Annual HealthTech Investment Forum
8. Arab Health Healthcare Investment Forum
9. Archangels
10. Cambridge Angels
11. EIT Health Investor Network
12. EMERGE GHI
13. European Healthtech Investment Forum 2022
14. Founders Forum HealthTech Summit
15. Future Health Asia
16. HaloHealth
17. Health Investment Conference
18. Healthcare Angels
19. HealthTech Capital Angel Investors
20. HI2 – Healthcare Innovation & Investment Conference
21. Life Science Angels
22. Mass Medical Angels
23. ME HealthTech Investor Forum
24. MEDA Angels
25. MedTech Investing Europe Forum
26. NLC
27. The MedTech Forum
28. Tribe-V HealthTech Syndicate

• Major Media: Mainstream local business press that often showcase local startups.

1. Canadian Healthcare Technology
2. CNBC Health Care Technology
3. FirstWord HealthTech
4. GeekWire - Health/Life Sciences
5. Health Tech Digital
6. Health Tech Newspaper
7. Health Tech World
8. Healthcare IT News
9. Healthcare Weekly
10. HealthTech Magazine
11. HealthTech Magazines
12. InnoHEALTH Magazine
13. MedCity News
14. MedTech Dive
15. Pulse+IT
16. Reuters - Future of Health
17. STAT - HealthTech
18. The Healthcare Technology Report
19. The Journal of mHealth
20. WSJ Health

B. Funding

• Health Angel Investors: Seed-stage investors and micro-vcs.

1. Adam Dakin
2. Aimee Fisher
3. Anne DeGheest
4. Atul Shah
5. Charlie Ryan
6. Chiranjeev Narula
7. Christina Jenkins
8. Darren King
9. David Rowan
10. Deepali Nangia
11. Emily Serebryany
12. Fadi Kallas
13. Felicity Levi
14. Hobert Wai
15. Margaret Beau
16. Mike Bates
17. Peter Moran
18. Rohit Bafna
19. Shana Lawlor
20. Tamar Lifshitz

• Health Venture Capitalists: Series A and beyond

1. AlbionVC
2. Almi Invest
3. Alumni Ventures
4. Andreessen Horowitz
5. Ben Franklin Technology Partners
6. Bessemer Venture Partners
7. Blue Venture Fund
8. BOLD Capital Partners
9. BoxGroup
10. Brandon Capital Partners
11. Coherent Capital
12. Connecticut Innovations
13. Cultivation Capital
14. Deep Science Ventures
15. Dreamit Ventures
16. Earlybird Venture Capital
17. Esplanade Ventures
18. F-Prime Capital
19. FasterCapital
20. Flare Capital Partners
21. Founders Fund
22. GE Ventures
23. General Catalyst
24. Gilde Healthcare
25. GSR Ventures
26. Heal Capital
27. HealthTech Capital
28. HealthX Ventures
29. HealthXCapital
30. Hiventures
31. HLM Venture Partners
32. iGan Partners
33. Karista
34. Khosla Ventures
35. Kleiner Perkins
36. leAD
37. Lightstone Ventures
38. Lux Capital
39. M12
40. MPM Capital
41. MTIP
42. NEA
43. Nina Capital
44. Rock Health Capital
45. RRE Ventures
46. Sandbox Industries
47. SOSV
48. StartUp Health
49. TMC Venture Fund
50. TigerLabs Venture Capital
51. Unbridled Ventures
52. Vector Innovation Fund
53. Verve Ventures
54. VOYAGERS Health-Tech microfund
55. Waterline Ventures

C. Growth

• Infrastructure: Office space, HR, local business insurance. (i.e. office space/ HR/ insurance providers for capital-rich companies to grow and scale)

1. AlediumHR
2. Allianz
3. Aon
4. AXA
5. CBRE
6. Chubb
7. Hobson Health Recruitment
8. Instant Offices
9. Korn Ferry
10. Lloyd's
11. LoopNet
12. MatchOffice
13. Offices.co
14. OfficeSpace.com
15. Randstad
16. Regus
17. The Hanover Insurance Group
18. Travelers Insurance
19. Zurich Insurance Group

• Expansion: Health Growth accelerators and consultants. (i.e. programs and business consultants for capital-rich companies to grow and scale)

1. Accenture
2. Agile Health Tech
3. Bain & Company
4. Booz Allen Hamilton
5. Boston Consulting Group
6. Capgemini
7. Centric Consulting
8. Deloitte
9. Ernst & Young
10. Gartner
11. Grant Thornton
12. Healthtech Consultants
13. HealthTECH Resources
14. Kearney
15. KPMG
16. L.E.K. Consulting
17. McKinsey & Company
18. Mercer
19. Oliver Wyman
20. PwC
21. Scale Health
22. Tamp
23. Tenthpin
24. Vinaj
25. Vivactis

4. Health Startup Success Stories

Successful homegrown companies that have raised significant institutional funding, employ a large workforce, or have achieved liquidity.

1. 23andMe
2. Accolade
3. Ada
4. Alaffia Health
5. Babylon Health
6. BenevolentAI
7. Birdie
8. Bright HealthCare
9. Calm
10. Capital Rx
11. Cera Care
12. Collective Health
13. Color
14. Current Health
15. Devoted Health
16. Doctorlink
17. Doximity
18. eHealth Technologies
19. Flatiron Health
20. Grand Rounds
21. Headspace
22. Healthhero
23. HealthPlix
24. Hinge Health
25. Huma
26. LabGenius
27. Lantum
28. Lightpoint Medical
29. Lumeon
30. LumiraDx
31. Medtronic
32. Modern Fertility
33. NeuroFlow
34. Nurx
35. Olive AI
36. Oviva
37. Oxehealth
38. PatientPop
39. PharmEasy
40. Push Doctor
41. Ro
42. Tempus
43. Thriva
44. Unmind
45. Vault
46. Verge Genomics
47. Verily Life Sciences
48. VillageMD
49. Wellster Healthtech Group
50. ZAVA
51. Zocdoc

Supporters

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To facilitate the steps, every ecosystem needs strong supporters.

1. Health Startup Leaders

Successful local founders who lead the ecosystem & frequently mentor newbies.

1. Adam Turinas
2. Alexandra Drane
3. Alfred Poor
4. Amy Stevens
5. Anca Petre
6. Antonio Estrella
7. Avi Mehra
8. Christoph Sonnen
9. Daniel Mechanik
10. Dominique Kim
11. Donna K. Lencki
12. Gordon Jones
13. Grace Park
14. Gunjali Kothari
15. Haven Nichols
16. Hedva Voliovitch
17. Jesper Grønbæk
18. Joan Grasas
19. João Bocas
20. John Conmy
21. Julien de Salaberry
22. Kaitlyn O'Connor
23. Linda Finkel
24. Luis Montes
25. Mahila Ch
26. Marianne Larsson
27. Meg Barron
28. Mike Biselli
29. Oshin Behl
30. Paulo J Machado
31. Reenita Das
32. Romita Ghosh
33. Ruchi Sood 
34. Sam Warach
35. Sara Mitran
36. Shahram Sharif
37. Uli K. Chettipally
38. Unity Stoakes

2. Health Government Startup Resources

Public organizations that facilitate local economic development

1. Business Finland Health
2. Callaghan Innovation
3. Cape Health Tech
4. Cleveland Health Tech Corridor
5. EDB Singapore HealthTech
6. Luxembourg Trade & Invest - Health Technologies
7. OpenGov Asia Healthtech
8. Oslo Business Region - Life Sciences & Healthtech Industry
9. TechInvest London
10. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

3. Talent

Major local business or tech universities and employers that attract and retain local talent.

• Local Health Tech Universities (universities with prominent technical or business programs)

1. Boston University
2. Cambridge Healthtech Institute
3. Carleton University
4. Cornell University
5. DTU Denmark
6. Ghent University
7. Harvard University
8. Nanyang Technological University
9. National University of Singapore
10. New York University
11. Stanford University
12. Tallinn University of Technology
13. University of California San Francisco
14. University of Colorado Boulder
15. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
16. University of Leeds
17. University of Oxford
18. University of Michigan
19. University of Pennsylvania
20. University of Strathclyde
21. University of Sydney
22. University of Texas at Austin
23. University of Waterloo

• Health Tech Employers

1. Amazon.com
2. Apple
3. Babylon Health
4. BenevolentAI
5. Calm
6. Flatiron Health
7. Google
8. Grand Rounds
9. Healios
10. Healx
11. Medly
12. Meta
13. Microsoft
14. PatientPop
15. Tempus
16. Wellframe
17. Wellster Healthtech Group
18. Zocdoc
19. ZOE
20. Workday

 

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Are you looking to build a startup in Health? Then apply to the Health Founder Institute today