Healthcare company-building profile
FastForward
Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures)
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Incubator
- Program category
- Incubator
- Organization
- Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures)
- Organization type
- Not publicly documented
- Location
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Company stage served
- Not publicly documented
- Cohort or participation model
- Rolling residency in FastForward innovation hubs plus acceleration and venture-building support
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Not publicly documented
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Not publicly documented
- Application status
- Active
Public description
About the program
FastForward is Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures' coordinated suite of startup resources and innovation hubs, providing affordable lab and office space plus acceleration and venture-building support across Baltimore. Its portfolio spans drug development, manufacturing and digital health, and it has supported more than 150 startups. Recent portfolio highlights include Clasp Therapeutics, which launched with $150 million in financing for precision immuno-oncology.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Incubator
- Program structure: Rolling residency in FastForward innovation hubs plus acceleration and venture-building support
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- Jane Kagen — Director of Acceleration and Venture Building
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- Clasp Therapeutics
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