Healthcare company-building profile
Hartford HealthCare Innovation
Hartford HealthCare
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Health system accelerator
- Organization
- Hartford HealthCare
- Organization type
- Hospital or health system
- Location
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Company stage served
- Early stage
- 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
Public description
About the program
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. In December 2022 it announced a partnership with Connecticut Innovations, the state's quasi-public venture capital arm, to accelerate digital health solutions developed in Connecticut and to support a cohort of 20 Hartford-based startups. The arrangement gives startups structured access to Hartford HealthCare clinicians to test concepts and products in a live clinical environment, while advancing state economic development and job creation goals. Hartford HealthCare has also partnered with the Upward Labs AgeTech Fund on aging-focused technology. It combines an innovation center model with venture partnership rather than running a large captive fund.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Health system accelerator
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- Barry Stein, MD — Vice President and Chief Clinical Innovation Officer
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- December 2022 partnership with Connecticut Innovations to support 20 Hartford startups; earlier partnership with the Upward Labs AgeTech Fund announced in 2019; has worked with named startup cohorts alongside other Connecticut health systems placing bets on early-stage companies
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