Healthcare company-building profile
CDC Innovation Fund (iFund)
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Science
AcceleratorGovernment or nonprofit acceleratorNonprofitInactive or wound down
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Government or nonprofit accelerator
- Organization
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Science
- Organization type
- Nonprofit
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Company stage served
- Seed
- Cohort or participation model
- Internal CDC staff competition rounds
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Non-dilutive; internal seed awards to CDC projects, no equity taken
- Equity or fee model
- No equity
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Not publicly documented
- Application status
- Inactive or wound down
Public description
About the program
The CDC Innovation Fund (iFund) was an internal CDC mechanism that provided seed funding to agency staff to pilot novel public health technologies and approaches. It functioned as an internal innovation competition with structured application and award rounds. The program's pages now sit on CDC's archive site.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
Public health innovationTechnology transferInternal innovation
- Category: Government or nonprofit accelerator
- Program structure: Internal CDC staff competition rounds
- Published terms: Non-dilutive; internal seed awards to CDC projects, no equity taken
Sources
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