Healthcare company-building profile
Cedars-Sinai Technology Ventures (including Cedars-Sinai Accelerator+)
Cedars-Sinai
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Health system accelerator
- Organization
- Cedars-Sinai
- Organization type
- Hospital or health system
- Location
- Los Angeles, California
- Company stage served
- Research or idea stage to Seed
- Cohort or participation model
- Not publicly documented
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Not publicly documented
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Yes
- Application status
- Active
- Founded
- 2016
Public description
About the program
Cedars-Sinai Technology Ventures is the health system's home for intellectual property management, venture investment, and startup acceleration, supporting commercialization of research discoveries generated across Cedars-Sinai and its affiliated academic medical enterprise. The office manages patenting, licensing, and industry partnering for the institution's technology portfolio. Its Accelerator+ arm is a venture-building platform for Seed+ and late-seed digital health and healthcare companies, running a 12-month program that supplies capital investment, clinical mentorship, market expertise, and expedited evaluation and real-world validation inside the Cedars-Sinai Health System. Outside companies engage by applying to Accelerator+ cohorts, by licensing Cedars-Sinai technologies, or through pilot and clinical integration agreements; the program historically also partnered with Techstars on cohort delivery.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Health system accelerator
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- James D. Laur, JD — Chief Intellectual Property Officer (Nirdesh K. Gupta, PhD, serves as Managing Director)
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- 500+ technologies under management; 1,100+ patents overseen; more than $1 billion in technology transfer revenue over the prior five years; 10 accelerator classes completed; 91 portfolio companies accelerated across 4 continents since 2016; complete alumni company list and year-by-year revenue breakdown are not published
Connected record
Related hospital innovation program
This accelerator record is linked to a separate hospital innovation profile. The hospital directory remains independent and provides additional organizational context.
Cedars-Sinai hospital innovation profile →Sources
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