PULSE@MassChallenge Unveils First-Ever Digital Health Cohort
Digital health lab to connect promising startups with world-class partners and resources for zero-equity
MassChallenge™ (@MassChallenge), the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet, announced the 31 startups joining PULSE@MassChallenge’s inaugural cohort. Representing the most innovative digital health technologies, these startups were selected from more than 430 applicants from 30 states and 20 countries around the world.
“Digital health is such an exciting and fast-growing sector, but entrepreneurs still face a steep slope of strict regulatory environments and other barriers that slow the pace of innovation,” said Nick Dougherty, Program Director, PULSE@MassChallenge. “If we want to help patients and the people who care for them, we need to focus on fostering collaboration in the space. PULSE@MassChallenge is building an ecosystem that brings the community together and makes it easier for entrepreneurs to develop and market digital solutions to the most pressing issues in healthcare.”
Launched as a strategic component of the Massachusetts statewide Digital Health Initiative, PULSE@MassChallenge works with key players from across the region’s leading healthcare ecosystem. The goal is to provide promising startups with the strategic relationships, resources, mentorship, and community access needed to create an impact in digital health — all for zero equity.
Through rigorous matchmaking, the first-ever cohort was selected by an impressive pool of institutions, corporations, payors, and healthcare partners looking to form unique partnerships with digital health startups. These Champions will support entrepreneurs working out of PULSE@MassChallenge’s 8,000 square-foot innovation lab by facilitating key advisor introductions, pilots, research, and even investment opportunities over the course of six months. At the culmination of the program, startups will compete for more than $100,000 in zero-equity awards.
“Massachusetts is already considered to be the global destination for healthcare and biotechnology, and it’s incredible to see public and private partners across the state come together to support digital health entrepreneurs and accelerate this next wave of innovation, which is expected to reach $32 billion globally over the next decade,” said Scott Bailey, Managing Director, MassChallenge Boston.
The 2017 cohort received offers to collaborate with PULSE@MassChallenge’s network of partners and Champions, including the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the City of Boston, the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership, Suffolk Construction, Samuels & Associates, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech, AARP, Shire, Bose, Cerner, Humana, Liberty Mutual, Servier, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Analog Devices, BD, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Philips Healthcare, Microsoft, Ropes & Gray LLP, Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dell EMC, Franciscan Children’s, Massachusetts General Hospital, Pathfinder International, Planetree, and TechSpring of Baystate Health.
For more information on getting involved, please visit masschallenge.org/PULSE.
2017 PULSE@MassChallenge Cohort:
3Derm System, Inc.
USA – Massachusetts
ACT.md
USA – Massachusetts
Cake
USA – Massachusetts
Care Thread, Inc.
USA – Rhode Island
ConquerX
USA – Texas
EDI Institute, Inc.
USA – Massachusetts
Emerald Innovations
USA – Massachusetts
Gain Life
USA – Massachusetts
HealthyMation
USA – Massachusetts
Herald Health
USA – Massachusetts
Hey,Charlie
USA – Massachusetts
Human Resolution Technologies
USA – Massachusetts
Insightfil
USA – Massachusetts
LifeGuard Games, Inc.
USA – Massachusetts
Medumo
USA – Massachusetts
Meetcaregivers
USA – Massachusetts
MobioSense
USA – Massachusetts
Neopenda
USA – Illinois
Neuroelectrics
USA – Massachusetts
QueueDr
USA – Connecticut
Redox
USA – Wisconsin
Remedy Labs, Inc.
USA – California
Rendever
USA – Massachusetts
Spring Care, Inc.
USA – New York
STA TECH
USA – Massachusetts
SyncThink
USA – Massachusetts
THINKMD
USA – Vermont
TORq Interface, LLC
USA – Massachusetts
Twiage
USA – Massachusetts
VIT
USA – Pennsylvania
VRPhysio
Israel – Tel Aviv | USA – Massachusetts
MassChallenge is the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet. No equity and not-for-profit, we are obsessed with helping entrepreneurs across any industry. We also reward the highest-impact startups through a competition to win a portion of several million dollars in equity-free cash awards. Through our global network of accelerators in Boston, the UK, Israel, Switzerland, and Mexico, and unrivaled access to our corporate partners, we can have a massive impact – driving growth and creating value the world over. To date, 1,211 MassChallenge alumni have raised over $1.8 billion in funding, generated over $700 million in revenue, and created more than 60,000 direct and indirect jobs.
Top MassChallenge Boston Partners:
Fidelity Investments, IBM, The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Microsoft, Bose, CASIS, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, The Deshpande Foundation, Jamestown, The Boston Foundation, The Blackstone Charitable Foundation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, American Airlines, L’Oreal, Swiss Re, PepsiCo, Boehringer Ingelheim, EMC, Henkel, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, PTC, MassMutual, Pfizer, Draper, John Hancock, CVS Health, Analog Devices, Autodesk, and Honda.
Top PULSE@MassChallenge Partners:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the City of Boston, the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership, Suffolk Construction, Samuels & Associates, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech, AARP, Shire, Bose, Cerner, Humana, Liberty Mutual, Servier, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Analog Devices, BD, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Philips Healthcare, Microsoft, Ropes & Gray LLP, Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dell EMC, Franciscan Children’s, Massachusetts General Hospital, Pathfinder International, Planetree, and TechSpring of Baystate Health.
