Commercialization model
The system deploys capital into a company in exchange for equity or a related economic interest.
Investment is a documented route in several of the first prototypes, including dedicated funds and broader commercialization offices that also invest.
An investment can create both financial and strategic options. The public directory reports the existence and stated thesis of the fund. It does not publish private returns.
What the directory shows
107 profiles
Charlotte, North Carolina
The Pearl
The Pearl is Advocate Health and Atrium Health's innovation district in Charlotte's historic Brooklyn neighborhood, launched June 2, 2025 in partnership with Wexford Science & Technology and Ventas.
Nonprofit
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Chicago, Illinois
Advocate Aurora Enterprises
Advocate Aurora Enterprises was the investment and business-building arm of Advocate Aurora Health, now part of Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit health system in the country.
Nonprofit
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
AlphaLab Health
AlphaLab Health is a healthcare and life sciences startup accelerator launched in 2020 as a partnership between Allegheny Health Network, Highmark Health and Innovation Works, with support from Pittsburgh-area universities, corporations and foundations.
Nonprofit
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St. Louis, Missouri
Ascension Ventures
Ascension Ventures is the strategic healthcare venture capital arm founded by the Catholic health system Ascension in 2001, and is one of the oldest continuously operating provider-sponsored funds in the United States.
Nonprofit
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St. Louis, Missouri
Clinical Innovation Institute
The Clinical Innovation Institute is Ascension's clinician-led unit for vetting and deploying new technology across the system's multi-state footprint.
Nonprofit
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Phoenix, Arizona
Banner Health Ventures (Banner Innovation Group)
Banner Health formed the Banner Innovation Group in 2019 to centralize its innovation efforts, staffing it with roughly 15 people drawn from healthcare, retail, startups, private equity and design and housing it in two offsite open-concept workspaces.
Nonprofit
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Miami, Florida
Baptist Health Innovation Fellowship
The Baptist Health Innovation Fellowship is a yearlong program created to attract, train and empower healthcare visionaries and entrepreneurs across South Florida, including Baptist Health physicians and clinicians.
Nonprofit
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Boston, Massachusetts
Technology Ventures Office (TVO)
The Technology Ventures Office is the intellectual property and commercialization office for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, part of Beth Israel Lahey Health.
Nonprofit
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Cincinnati, Ohio
Accrete Health Partners (formerly Accel Health / BSMH Ventures)
Accrete Health Partners is the venture and innovation platform of Bon Secours Mercy Health, one of the largest Catholic health systems in the United States.
Nonprofit
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Los Angeles, California
Cedars-Sinai Technology Ventures
Cedars-Sinai Technology Ventures is the health system's publicly described home for intellectual property, venture investment, and startup acceleration.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Aurora, Colorado
The Center for Innovation
The Center for Innovation, established in 2016, is Children's Hospital Colorado's hub for education, incubation and acceleration of pediatric healthcare ideas from its faculty and staff.
Children's · Nonprofit
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Innovation Ventures
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia publishes a pediatric commercialization pathway that has been reorganized over the past decade.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Duarte, California
Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
City of Hope's Office of Technology Licensing works with City of Hope inventors to identify, protect and commercialize their inventions and technologies.
Nonprofit
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Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Clinic Innovations
Cleveland Clinic Innovations is the health system's commercialization function for inventions that originate with Cleveland Clinic clinicians and researchers.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Chicago, Illinois
CommonSpirit Ventures
CommonSpirit Ventures is the strategic investment arm of CommonSpirit Health, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United States, and describes itself as one of the longest continuously operating health system venture funds.
Nonprofit
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Hartford, Connecticut
Center for Innovation
Connecticut Children's Center for Innovation supports pediatric innovation by building an ecosystem that links the health system's roughly 3,000 team members with entrepreneurs, investors and academic partners.
Children's · Nonprofit
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Royal Oak, Michigan
Corewell Health Innovations Office
The Innovations Office is Corewell Health's commercialization arm, housed within the Corewell Health Research Institute in Southeast Michigan, that turns employee and researcher ideas into products, services or licenses.
Nonprofit
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Grand Rapids, Michigan
Corewell Health Ventures (formerly Spectrum Health Ventures)
Corewell Health Ventures is the venture investment arm of Corewell Health, the integrated Michigan system created by the merger of Spectrum Health and Beaumont Health, which also owns the Priority Health plan.
Nonprofit
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Austin, Texas
Texas Health Catalyst
Texas Health Catalyst is Dell Medical School's health innovation accelerator, run out of the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which helps clinicians and researchers translate discoveries into commercial products.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Durham, North Carolina
Duke's Office for Translation & Commercialization (OTC)
Duke's Office for Translation & Commercialization is the university-wide unit that identifies inventions from Duke faculty, graduate students and staff, protects them, and moves them to market through licensing to existing companies or the formation of new ventures.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Inception Health
Inception Health was launched in 2016 as a separately branded innovation and digital health company-building arm of Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, created in partnership with the AVIA Innovator Network.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Danville, Pennsylvania
Geisinger Ventures
Geisinger Ventures is the for-profit venture arm of Geisinger, the integrated health system and health plan serving 42 counties in central and northeastern Pennsylvania.
Nonprofit
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Edison, New Jersey
Bear's Den
Bear's Den is Hackensack Meridian Health's innovation and investment program, launched in 2017, that convenes quarterly panels to evaluate healthcare ideas and inventions from entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, partners and the system's own 36,000 team members.
Nonprofit
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Nutley, New Jersey
Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation
The Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) is Hackensack Meridian Health's translational research center, which the system describes as an academic accelerator embedded inside a health care system rather than a conventional university institute.
Nonprofit
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Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford HealthCare Innovation
Hartford HealthCare runs a system-level innovation function that partners with venture investors to source, pilot and back early-stage digital health and healthcare technology companies in Connecticut.
Nonprofit
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Boston, Massachusetts
HealthTech Fellowship
The HealthTech Fellowship, launched by Harvard Medical School in 2020 and facilitated through its Center for Primary Care, is a 10-month immersion that applies the biodesign framework to healthcare problems.
Nonprofit
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Nashville, Tennessee
Sarah Cannon Research Institute
Sarah Cannon Research Institute is the oncology research and drug-development organization founded within HCA Healthcare that runs community-based cancer clinical trials.
Nonprofit
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Detroit, Michigan
Henry Ford Innovations
Henry Ford Innovations advances inventions developed by Henry Ford Health clinicians and researchers while also sourcing external technologies for the system.
Nonprofit
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Detroit, Michigan
Henry Ford + MSU Innovation Fund (Henry Ford Innovations)
Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University launched a joint Innovation Hub in 2025 anchored by a $10 million venture fund, the Henry Ford + MSU Innovation Fund, managed with the MSU Research Foundation.
Nonprofit
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Highmark Ventures
Highmark Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Highmark Health, the Pittsburgh-based integrated delivery and financing organization that owns Allegheny Health Network and the Highmark health plans.
Nonprofit
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Indianapolis, Indiana
Innovation and Commercialization Office (ICO)
The Indiana University Innovation and Commercialization Office collaborates with faculty, industry and entrepreneurs to commercialize innovations arising from IU research, including the IU School of Medicine.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Emeryville, California
Inflect Capital
Inflect Capital is the venture-investment offering of Inflect, a healthcare innovation platform backed by the physician-owned and physician-led partnership Vituity.
For profit · National
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Falls Church, Virginia
Inova Strategic Investments and Inova Personalized Health Accelerator
Inova launched Inova Strategic Investments and the Inova Personalized Health Accelerator together in 2016 as paired vehicles for external innovation.
Nonprofit
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Salt Lake City, Utah
Intermountain Foundry
The Intermountain Foundry is Intermountain Health's internal accelerator for employee-generated innovation, turning promising caregiver ideas and near-market concepts into commercial ventures.
Nonprofit
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Salt Lake City, Utah
Intermountain Ventures
Intermountain Ventures is the official venture capital and innovation arm of Intermountain Health.
Nonprofit · Regional
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Oakland, California
Kaiser Permanente Ventures
Kaiser Permanente Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Kaiser Permanente.
Nonprofit · National
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Portland, Maine
MaineHealth Innovation Center
The MaineHealth Innovation Center, founded in 2020 and based at Maine Medical Center in Portland, describes itself as the connective tissue between research, education and care for a system of roughly 23,000 employees serving about 1.1 million patients in Maine and New Hampshire.
Nonprofit
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Boston, Massachusetts
Mass General Brigham Innovation
Mass General Brigham Innovation is the business development arm of the health system.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Boston, Massachusetts
Center for Innovations in Care Delivery
The Center for Innovations in Care Delivery is Massachusetts General Hospital's formal structure for surfacing and developing ideas that originate with front-line nurses and other direct-care staff.
Nonprofit
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Rochester, Minnesota
Mayo Clinic Ventures / Department of Business Development
Mayo Clinic's Department of Business Development, which includes Mayo Clinic Ventures, is described as Mayo Clinic's front door to business and is the route by which Mayo physicians and scientists commercialize their inventions.
Nonprofit
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Rochester, Minnesota
Mayo Clinic Department of Business Development
Mayo Clinic's Department of Business Development is the official front door for technology commercialization, startup formation, equity investment, and strategic partnerships.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Houston, Texas
Memorial Hermann Strategic Investments, Partnerships and Innovation
Memorial Hermann runs a strategic investments, partnerships and innovation function that takes equity positions in healthcare companies whose products the system can deploy.
Nonprofit
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New York, New York
Office of Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (OEC)
The Office of Entrepreneurship and Commercialization is Memorial Sloan Kettering's technology commercialization arm, renamed from the Office of Technology Development in October 2024.
Nonprofit
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Long Beach, California
MemorialCare Innovation Fund
The MemorialCare Innovation Fund is the strategic venture capital arm of MemorialCare Health System, a roughly $2 billion revenue Southern California nonprofit system.
Nonprofit
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Fast Forward Medical Innovation
Michigan Medicine's Fast Forward Medical Innovation (FFMI) is an official biomedical commercialization and entrepreneurship program that describes itself as a front door to biomedical commercialization at the University of Michigan.
Academic
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program
The U-M Coulter Translational Research Partnership funds collaborative projects that pair a biomedical engineering faculty member with a Michigan Medicine clinical faculty member to accelerate development and commercialization of medical devices, diagnostics and other biomedical products addressing unmet clinical needs.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
U-M Innovation Partnerships
Innovation Partnerships is the University of Michigan's central technology transfer and commercialization unit, handling invention disclosures, patents and licenses for the entire university including Michigan Medicine's clinical and biomedical research.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Michigan Biomedical Venture Fund
The Michigan Biomedical Venture Fund is an early-stage investment program within Fast Forward Medical Innovation at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Bronx, New York
Office of Biotechnology and Business Development
The Office of Biotechnology and Business Development is the technology transfer and industry-partnering office for Albert Einstein College of Medicine within the Montefiore Einstein system.
Academic · Nonprofit
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New York, New York
i3 Asset Accelerator
The i3 Asset Accelerator is Mount Sinai Innovation Partners' milestone-driven investment program for advancing discoveries by Mount Sinai faculty, physicians and researchers toward commercial viability.
Nonprofit
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New York, New York
Mount Sinai Innovation Partners
Mount Sinai Innovation Partners (MSIP) is the commercialization organization for the Mount Sinai Health System and the Icahn School of Medicine, handling patenting, licensing, research partnerships and entrepreneurship.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Tacoma, Washington
MultiCare Capital Partners
MultiCare Capital Partners is the innovation and strategic investment arm of MultiCare Health System, the largest community-based, locally governed health system in Washington State.
Nonprofit
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New York, New York
NYP Ventures
NYP Ventures is the strategic investment fund of NewYork-Presbyterian, launched in November 2016 to back digital health companies whose products can be tested and scaled inside the academic medical center.
Nonprofit
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New Hyde Park, New York
Institute for Nursing - Innovation Challenge and NurseHack4Health
Northwell Health's Institute for Nursing is the system's structure for nursing research, evidence-based practice and nurse-led innovation across its hospitals.
Nonprofit
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New Hyde Park, New York
Northwell Holdings
Northwell Holdings is the official for-profit investment and commercialization arm of Northwell Health.
Nonprofit · Regional
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New York, New York
NYU Langone Health Venture Fund
The NYU Langone Health Venture Fund is a strategic seed-stage investment program operated through Technology Opportunities & Ventures, the commercialization office serving NYU and NYU Langone Health.
Academic · Nonprofit
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New Orleans, Louisiana
Ochsner Ventures
Ochsner Ventures is the corporate development and investment arm of Ochsner Health, the largest nonprofit health system in Louisiana, formally established in 2022.
Nonprofit
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Columbus, Ohio
New Ventures and Business Incubation (NVBI)
OhioHealth New Ventures and Business Incubation is the system department responsible for identifying emerging health care opportunities, adopting outside innovations and backing new ventures.
Nonprofit
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Orlando, Florida
Orlando Health Strategic Innovations
Orlando Health Strategic Innovations is the health system's division for inspiring and accelerating innovation across the enterprise, bringing proven clinical innovations and technological advances to market and creating new revenue streams through partnerships and investments.
Nonprofit
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Peoria, Illinois
OSF Innovation
OSF Innovation is the enterprise innovation function of OSF HealthCare, combining multidisciplinary internal teams with external partners to identify, develop and implement healthcare solutions.
Nonprofit
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Peoria, Illinois
OSF Ventures (OSF Innovation)
OSF Ventures is the venture investment arm of OSF HealthCare and sits inside OSF Innovation, the system's broader innovation organization.
Nonprofit
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Penn Health-Tech
Penn Health-Tech is a University of Pennsylvania center, established around 2017, that connects innovators across Penn Medicine and Penn's engineering and business schools to advance medical devices and healthcare technology.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Hershey, Pennsylvania
Center for Medical Innovation (CMI)
The Center for Medical Innovation supports Penn State College of Medicine faculty, researchers and learners in moving medical innovations toward commercialization.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Greenville, South Carolina
Innovation Maturation Fund (Health Sciences Center)
The Innovation Maturation Fund is a joint translational funding vehicle created in 2019 by Prisma Health, South Carolina's largest nonprofit health system, and Clemson University through the Health Sciences Center partnership and the Clemson University Research Foundation.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Renton, Washington
Allumia Ventures (formerly Providence Ventures)
Providence launched Providence Ventures in 2015 to invest in and build digital health companies aligned with the system's operating priorities, and in January 2025 the team spun out as an independent firm named Allumia Ventures.
Nonprofit
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Renton, Washington
Providence Digital Innovation Group (DIG)
The Digital Innovation Group is Providence's internal venture studio, building and commercializing new digital health companies from inside the health system rather than investing in outside startups.
Nonprofit
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Chicago, Illinois
Innovation + Technology Commercialization (ITeC) Office
The Innovation + Technology Commercialization (ITeC) Office sits within RUSH Legal and is responsible for protecting and managing intellectual property generated through Rush University research.
Academic · Nonprofit
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New Brunswick, New Jersey
Center for Innovation at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
The Center for Innovation opened on September 16, 2022 on the main campus of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick as a partnership between RWJUH and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Nonprofit
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Seattle, Washington
Office of Innovation and New Ventures
The Office of Innovation and New Ventures is Seattle Children's technology transfer and venture arm, partnering with the hospital's researchers, clinicians and staff innovators to move pediatric discoveries toward products and treatments.
Children's · Nonprofit
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Stanford, California
Innovation and Design Advanced Mentorship, Department of Emergency Medicine
Stanford Emergency Medicine's Innovation and Design Advanced Mentorship trains board-eligible or board-certified emergency physicians across three pillars: biodesign, design thinking and digital health.
Nonprofit
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Stanford, California
Stanford Medicine Catalyst
Stanford Medicine Catalyst is a joint strategic effort of the Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care and Stanford Medicine Children's Health that acts as the institutional hub for Stanford health care innovations.
Children's · Nonprofit
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Tampa, Florida
TGH Ventures (formerly TGH InnoVentures)
Tampa General Hospital launched InnoVentures in the first quarter of 2021 as the academic medical center's venture capital fund, now branded TGH Ventures.
Nonprofit
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Office of Technology Commercialization and Business Development
Temple University's Office of Technology Commercialization and Business Development is the integrated hub through which entrepreneurs and industry find partnership opportunities in Temple research, including work from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine and Temple Health.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Houston, Texas
TMC Innovation (TMCi)
TMC Innovation is the startup acceleration and venture arm of the Texas Medical Center, uniting innovators with scientists and clinicians at TMC member institutions.
Nonprofit
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Kansas City, Kansas
Digital Health Co/Lab
The Digital Health Co/Lab, formerly the Center for Health Innovation and Transformative Care, is a joint effort of KU Medical Center, The University of Kansas Health System and the University of Kansas focused on digital health research and commercialization.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Livonia, Michigan
Trinity Health Innovation
Trinity Health Innovation is the multi-state Catholic system's central innovation program, organized around a "People-Centered Care" strategy and a goal of leading in community health improvement.
Nonprofit
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Birmingham, Alabama
Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Bill L.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Aurora, Colorado
CU Healthcare Innovation Fund
The CU Healthcare Innovation Fund is a strategic healthcare venture fund affiliated with the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and backed by UCHealth and Children's Hospital Colorado, giving it access to three clinical enterprises for validation and deployment.
Children's · Nonprofit
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Aurora, Colorado
CARE Innovation Center
The UCHealth CARE Innovation Center is a clinical-validation sandbox founded in 2016 that develops, validates and optimizes next-generation healthcare solutions across the UCHealth system.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Los Angeles, California
UCLA Technology Development Group (TDG)
UCLA Technology Development Group is the campus-wide gateway to innovation, research and entrepreneurship at UCLA, including technologies from the David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health.
Nonprofit
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Los Angeles, California
UCLA Biodesign Innovation Fellowship
UCLA Biodesign is an early-stage health technology innovation program that runs a year-long, full-time fellowship for interdisciplinary teams drawn from medicine, engineering, design and business.
Academic · Nonprofit
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San Francisco, California
Biodevice Innovation Pathway (UCSF Surgical Innovations)
The Biodevice Innovation Pathway is a dedicated research track within UCSF Surgical Innovations for surgery residents who want to build medical technology.
Nonprofit
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San Francisco, California
UCSF Rosenman Institute
The UCSF Rosenman Institute supports healthtech entrepreneurs, including UCSF clinicians, in moving medical device and digital health concepts toward commercialization.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Gainesville, Florida
UF Innovate
UF Innovate is the University of Florida's integrated commercialization organization serving UF Health researchers and the wider university, made up of four units: Tech Licensing, Ventures, Pathways and Accelerate.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Worcester, Massachusetts
BRIDGE Innovation and Business Development
BRIDGE Innovation and Business Development is UMass Chan Medical School's office for translating faculty discoveries into licensed products and new companies.
Nonprofit
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
UNC Health Ventures
UNC Health Ventures is the corporate investment fund for UNC Health.
Academic · Nonprofit
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West Des Moines, Iowa
UnityPoint Health Ventures
UnityPoint Health Ventures is the $100 million corporate venture fund launched by UnityPoint Health in 2019 to invest in early-stage healthcare companies that can be deployed across the system's Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin footprint.
Nonprofit
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Cleveland, Ohio
UH Ventures
UH Ventures is University Hospitals' combined innovation, technology transfer and venture investment organization, which it describes as the front door for innovation at the system.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Little Rock, Arkansas
UAMS BioVentures
BioVentures is the technology transfer and commercialization office for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, managing the intellectual property generated across UAMS's colleges, institutes and clinical enterprise.
Academic · Nonprofit
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La Jolla, California
Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC)
The UC San Diego Office of Innovation and Commercialization supports commercialization of discoveries from across the campus, including UC San Diego Health and the School of Medicine.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Chicago, Illinois
Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation houses both the University of Chicago's technology commercialization function and its startup acceleration programs, including biomedical and health technologies from UChicago Medicine.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Iowa City, Iowa
UI Ventures
UI Ventures is the startup and commercialization arm of the University of Iowa Office of Innovation, focused on spinning out companies built on University of Iowa technology, much of it from UI Health Care.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Baltimore, Maryland
UM Ventures
UM Ventures is the joint commercialization and industry-engagement initiative of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (home of the School of Medicine that staffs the University of Maryland Medical System) and the University of Maryland, College Park.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
University of Minnesota Technology Commercialization
Technology Commercialization is the University of Minnesota's central office for patenting, licensing and spinning out university research, including the medical and health sciences discoveries that flow from the Medical School and M Health Fairview clinical enterprise.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Omaha, Nebraska
UNeTech Institute
UNeTech is a university-supported startup incubator in Omaha that builds companies around inventions coming out of UNMC and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
UNM Rainforest Innovations
UNM Rainforest Innovations, formerly STC.UNM, is the technology transfer and economic development arm for the University of New Mexico, including its Health Sciences campus and UNM Health.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Rochester, New York
UR Ventures
UR Ventures is the technology transfer office for the University of Rochester, including the University of Rochester Medical Center, and is administratively based at URMC.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Madison, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)
WARF is the independent, private foundation that serves as the patenting and licensing organization for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including biomedical and clinical discoveries from the School of Medicine and Public Health that underpin UW Health.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
UPMC Enterprises
UPMC Enterprises is the official innovation, commercialization, and venture capital arm of UPMC.
Academic · Nonprofit
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San Antonio, Texas
TechNovum Accelerator
TechNovum is UT Health San Antonio's cohort-based accelerator for researcher-entrepreneurs commercializing health-focused innovations.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Madison, Wisconsin
Health Innovation Program (HIP)
The Health Innovation Program is a University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health center that works to transform health care delivery and improve population health by building research partnerships between UW faculty and health care and community organizations.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Richmond, Virginia
VCU TechTransfer and Ventures (Innovation Gateway)
VCU TechTransfer and Ventures, also known as Innovation Gateway, is the office responsible for protecting and commercializing inventions and creations from Virginia Commonwealth University and VCU Health.
Academic · Nonprofit
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St. Louis, Missouri
Office of Technology Management (OTM)
The Office of Technology Management is the technology transfer office for Washington University in St.
Academic · Nonprofit
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New York, New York
Emergency Medicine Innovation Fellowship
The Innovation Fellowship in Weill Cornell Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine is a one-year, non-ACGME post-graduate program that prepares emergency physicians to work at the intersection of innovation, entrepreneurship and healthcare enterprise.
Nonprofit
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Atlanta, Georgia
Catalyst by Wellstar
Catalyst by Wellstar describes itself as the first-of-its-kind innovation company and venture firm created by one of the largest health systems in Georgia, combining a corporate venture fund with a physical innovation center in Atlanta.
Nonprofit
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New Haven, Connecticut
Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology (CBIT)
Yale CBIT was established in 2014 to educate the next generation of biomedical innovators and support commercialization of biomedical technology discovered at Yale, with an explicit focus on data science, diagnostics and devices.
Academic · Nonprofit
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New Haven, Connecticut
Yale Ventures
Yale Ventures is Yale University's innovation and commercialization organization, serving as the technology transfer office and the hub for faculty and student venture creation.
Academic · Nonprofit
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