Accelerators & Incubators

An accelerator is an organization that typically helps startup and early-stage companies mature and grow their businesses. Accelerators generally provide a structured training program over several months, extensive mentoring for company founders, limited capital investment, access to additional investors, and other services. With the exponential growth in the digital health space, there is also an increasing number of companies that are helping startups get started. We have compiled a list of some of these programs - check them out!

UNITED STATES

California

♦ MedTech Innovator

♦ Cedars-Sinai and TechStars Healthcare Accelerator – Los Angeles, CA

♦ HAX Health – San Francisco, CA

♦ Illumina Accelerator Program – San Diego, CA

♦ Indie Bio – San Francisco, CA & Cork, Ireland

♦ Launchpad Digital Health – San Francisco, CA

♦ Plug and Play Tech Center’s Health Accelerator – San Francisco, CA

♦ READwrite labs – San Francisco, CA

♦ Samsung Innovation Center – Menlo Park, CA

♦ StartX Med – Stanford, CA

♦ Singularity University - SU Ventures  – Mountain View, CA

 

Northeast

♦ StartUp Health – New York, NY

♦ athenahealth MDP Accelerator – Watertown, MA

♦ Blueprint Health – New York, NY

♦ Brigham Innovation Hub at Brigham & Women’s Hospital – Boston, MA

♦ 4Catalyzer – Guilford, CT

♦ CANADIAN technology accelerators – Philadelphia,

♦ DreamIt Ventures – Bryn Mawr, PA

♦ Entrepreneurship Lab – New York, NY

♦ Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures– Baltimore, MD

♦ Healthcare Innovation Lab (HITLAB) – New York, NY

♦ MassChallenge digital health accelerator – Boston, MA

♦ New York Digital Health Accelerator – New York, NY

♦ Startupbootcamp – Miami, FL & New York, NY

♦ Tigerlabs Health – Princeton, NJ

♦ University City Science Center – Philadelphia, PA

 

Northwest

♦ Nike+ Accelerator – Portland, OR

♦ Healthbox – Chicago, Boston, Nashville, Florida, and Salt Lake City

 

Midwest

♦ AVIA – Chicago, IL

♦ Sprint Accelerator – Kansas City, MO

♦ Innov8 for Health – Cincinnati, OH

♦ Innosphere – Fort Collins, CO

♦ XLerateHealth – Louisville, KY

♦ Henry Ford Health System’s William Davidson Center for Entrepreneurs in Digital Health (housed in the Henry Ford Innovation Institute) – Detroit, Michigan

♦ Jumpstart Foundry – Nashville, TN

♦ Health Wildcatters – Dallas, TX

♦ Project Lift – Miami, FL

♦ INFUSE Accelerator – Indianapolis, IN

♦ Forge Health Founders Forum – Atlanta, GA

♦ AT&T Foundry for Connected Health (press release) – Houston, TX

♦ Texas Medical Center accelerator (TMCx) – Houston, TX

♦ StartUp Health Colorado – Aurora, CO

AUSTRALIA

♦ Ignition Labs – Sydney, Australia

 

CANADA

♦ Hacking Health – Québec, Montreal

♦ Interface Health – Vancouver, BC

♦ MARS – Toronto, ON

 

UK, EUROPE & SCANDINAVIA

♦ ENDEAVOR – ATHENS, GREECE

♦ Healthbox – London, UK

♦ Atlantic Accelerator – Cambridge, UK

♦ Day One- SwITZERLAND

♦ Dotforge Health + Data – Manchester, UK

♦ Digital Health London – London, UK

♦ XLHEALTH – Berlin, Germany

♦ Digital Health Masterclass (DHM) – Johnson & Johnson

♦ Bayer Grants4Apps Accelerator – Berlin, Germany

♦ EIT Digital – Berlin, Germany

♦ Helios Hub – Berlin, Germany

♦ EyeFocus Accelerator – Berlin, Germany

♦ Merck Accelerator – Darmstadt, Germany

♦ Startupbootcamp – Germany, Amsterdam, Turkey, Spain, UK

♦ Vertical Accelerator – Finland

♦ Hacking Health – Amsterdam, Strasbourg, Valais

♦ Rockstart Accelerator – Amsterdam

♦ Frogleap – Stockholm, Sweden

♦ Healthy Habits – Sweden

♦ West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN) Digital Health Incubator – Birmingham, UK

♦ BioUpper (Novartis) – Milan, Italy

♦ Technogym Wellness Accelerator – Italy

♦ Moebio – Spain

♦ Crea – Spain

♦ Embark InHealth Program – Spain

♦ F6S Fiware Accelerator Program – Finland

♦ Health Innovation Village (GE) – Finland

♦ Start-Up Academy by MedTechWorld – Germany

♦ Accelerace Life – Baltics (Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania) and Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)

♦ Flying Health Incubator – Germany

 

ISRAEL

♦ MeDx XELERATOR - Tel aviv

♦ Microsoft Ventures Accelerator – Tel Aviv

 

INDIA

♦ HealthStart-ISB Program – Delhi

♦ TechEmerge

 

AFRICA

♦ The Open Medicine Project – Cape Town, South Africa

♦ AMPION – Zimbabwe & Berlin

♦ Merck e-health Accelerator at Nairobi Garage – Nairobi, Kenya

 

ASIA

♦ AIA – Konica Minolta Digital Health Accelerator – Singapore

♦ HAX Health – Shenzhen, China

♦ Startupbootcamp Digital Health – Chengdu, China