Healthcare company-building profile
Boston Scientific Connected Patient Challenge
Boston Scientific
AcceleratorMedtech acceleratorCorporateInactive or wound down
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Medtech accelerator
- Organization
- Boston Scientific
- Organization type
- Corporate
- Location
- Marlborough, Massachusetts
- Company stage served
- Not publicly documented
- Cohort or participation model
- Annual challenge cycles with finalist mentoring; no residency cohort
- Investment or funding offered
- Yes
- Published investment terms
- Prize awards; no equity taken
- Equity or fee model
- No equity
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Not publicly documented
- Application status
- Inactive or wound down
- Founded
- 2016
Public description
About the program
Boston Scientific ran the Connected Patient Challenge as a structured annual competition inviting startups, students and clinicians to propose digital solutions that improve patient connection to care, with finalists pitching to Boston Scientific leaders and partners. Winners received mentorship, prize funding and visibility rather than an equity investment. Boston Scientific's ongoing startup engagement now runs primarily through its corporate venture arm and business development teams.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
Connected healthRemote monitoringCardiovascular technologyDigital health
- Category: Medtech accelerator
- Program structure: Annual challenge cycles with finalist mentoring; no residency cohort
- Published terms: Prize awards; no equity taken
Sources
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