New 'Founder Institute 'Health Tech Virtual 2022' Accelerator to Help Early-Stage Health Technology Entrepreneurs Build Impactful Companies
More than two years into a global pandemic that has impacted every facet of work and home life, in 2022 the role of health technology is more central to our lives than ever before in history. Periodic lockdowns, work, and schooling from home have shown us personally the importance of care for our mental health, and billions of new mRNA vaccines distributed around the world have demonstrated 21st century biomedical technology's potential to solve huge health challenges never before possible. But 2022 is only the new beginning: health tech in the years to come will further transform our lives in ways most cannot yet imagine.
That is why we are excited to announce we have teamed up with leading industry partners to launch the new Founder Institute Health Tech Virtual 2022 accelerator program!
Founder Institute is the world’s most proven network to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses. Other recent Founder Institute health tech initiatives have included the Connect: Healthtech & Wellness pitch competition event, a Public Health Startup Fellowship offerings, public events with industry trailblazers like Dr. Casey Means of Levels Health, and thought leadership on emerging health tech trends post-covid. Partners for the new Health Tech Virtual 2022 accelerator include InnovatorMD, MedLabs by ZGC Capital, Plug and Play Health, the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs, Vinaj Ventures, Rehabilitation Health, and more.
The goal of the program is to help launch more than 20 promising health technology companies in 2022, and help further establish Founder Institute as a global startup ecosystem leader for early-stage health tech founders.
Previous Founder Institute Alumni in the health and medical technology industry include Endiatx, Braze Mobility, Ellerca Health, Resistomap, SolverGen, KangarooHealth, KnowRX, CircaGene, and LearnCdo, to name just a few.
Applications to the Health Tech Virtual 2022 Founder Institute are now open, and anyone building a health, medical, or bio tech company can apply at FI.co/apply/health.
To celebrate, the Founder Institute will host several free online health tech events in the coming weeks, where you can learn from top industry entrepreneurs and investors:
- Founder Institute Online Information Session: https://FI.co/infosession
The experts that have been critical in launching the Health Tech Virtual 2022 Founder Institute include program leaders Uli Chettipally, MD and Dominique Kim, MPH.
Opportunities are flourishing today in health tech. There's now an increasingly connected ecosystem to support even pre-seed stage health, medtech, and biotech founders - and Founder Institute can increase any aspiring technology entrepreneur's chances of success, by providing the necessary founder mindset and key network connections!
In addition, many top industry founders, CEOs, advisors, and investors have signed on to mentor participating entrepreneurs in the Health Tech Virtual 2022 Founder Institute program, including:
- Alan Young: Strategic Advisor, BellSant
- Anish Patel: Employer Go-to-Market Advisor, GRAIL
- Ankoor Tailor: Partner, NAVN Advisory
- Axel Strombergsson: Vice President, QuickVault, Veeva Systems, Inc.
- Balaji Gopalan: Co-Founder and CEO, MedStack
- Christopher Brereton: Partner and Cheif Product Officer, Sidebench
- Dominique Kim, MPH: Health and Healthcare Transformation Leader, InnovatorMD
- Francois Nguyen: Chief Design Officer, frog
- Ghayath Janoudi: Founding CEO, Loon Bio
- Irina Kukuyeva PhD: AI due diligence, Kukuyeva Consulting
- Jason Novak: Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
- Jeni Chang: Founder | Investor | Advisor
- Jenn Knoop Koblick: VP, BoomerBaby
- Joseph Severson: Executive Director, Strategic Planning, Kaiser Permanente
- June W Choi: Managing Partner, Serval Ventures
- Kan Lew, Esq.: Counsel, SSM
- Ken Gordon: Co-founder and CEO, VALR
- Krishna Chidambaram: CEO, Rapid Digital Services
- Lavinia Herbei: MD, MBA, InnovatorMD, JMMG
- Leena Palav: Board Member, Strategy Advisor, COO, -med devices, health tech, consumer products, robotics
- Lisa Sherwin: CEO, Sherwin Advisors
- Mark Wesson MPH, FACHE: Managing Director, VitaX Ventures
- Mu Zhou: Head of AI, SenseTime
- Nathan Kline: Managing General Partner, Cistern Capital
- Rafael M Lopes, MBA, CPXP, CPHIMS: Founder & Chief Digital Health Strategist, Bold Digital Health
- Raphael Gernot Klingmann: Founder, Enbarca Inc
- Steven Colby: Partner, Rimon Law
- Suzy Engwall: CEO and President, HealthTech Strategies, LLC
- Tijana Momirov: Startup Consultant - Product Management, StartupSetup
- Torrey Smith: Co-Founder & CEO, Endiatx
- Uli Chettipally, MD: Founder, InnovatorMD
- Viji Natarajan: Founder & CEO, LaPortaCare
- And many more to be announced.
The Founder Institute's structured program results speak for themselves: FI Alumni have raised over $1.85BN in funding, and are building impactful businesses across 200+ cities and 100+ countries all across the globe. (see the FI 50 Report here).
Join the new FI Health Tech accelerator in 2022.
Apply to the Health Tech Virtual 2022 Founder Institute today, or learn more at FI.co/health.
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