Startup Development
For healthcare startups and early-stage ventures, we provide specialized support to effectively validate and scale new healthcare solutions.
- We help assess startup ideas, perform market research, and connect founders to domain experts.
- Our lean startup approach focuses on quickly testing assumptions, building MVPs, incorporating user feedback, and finding product-market fit.
- We provide guidance on digital health technologies, product-market validation, building cross-functional teams, raising funding, and growth strategies.
- Startups benefit from our industry connections to investors, technical partners, and distribution channels.
1
Engage with healthcare innovation communities
- Connect with healthcare accelerators, associations, academic tech transfer offices, pitch events etc.
- Raise awareness of our startup development services and get introductions to early-stage ventures
2
Assess startup ideas and teams
- Perform preliminary evaluation of healthcare venture's ideas, business models, strengths etc.
- Gauge founders' commitment, technical/business expertise, industry knowledge etc.
3
Onboard selected startups
- Work with leadership to finalize startups accepted into development program
- Outline engagement plans, innovation goals, key milestones, and timeline
4
Facilitate product design sprints
- Guide teams through low-fidelity prototyping of solutions
- Advise on lean and flexible requirements gathering
- Connect teams to resources needed for prototyping
5
Support implementation planning
- Advise startups on forming cross-functional teams with needed expertise
- Provide frameworks on product roadmaps, agile dev, clinical safety etc.
6
Connect to relevant partners
- Leverage our networks to connect startups to healthcare advisors, technical vendors, pilot partners etc.
- Facilitate partnerships aligned to their solution and go-to-market needs
7
Refine business models
- Work with startups to identify revenue models, pricing, distribution channels etc.
- Connect them to legal, sales, marketing experts to finalize strategies
8
Prepare for fundraising
- Advise on healthcare investor landscape and investment options
- Provide pitch deck templates, presentation coaching, introductions to potential investors
9
Track pilot performance
- Partner with startups to identify key metrics and milestones
- Review results from initial customer pilots and support refinement
10
Guide commercialization and scale
- Develop growth plans detailing expansion of sales, marketing, partnerships, operations
- Position startups for sustained growth post program completion