Healthcare company-building profile
HBCU Founders Accelerator
Nex Cubed
AcceleratorGovernment or nonprofit acceleratorNonprofitUncertain
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Government or nonprofit accelerator
- Organization
- Nex Cubed
- Organization type
- Nonprofit
- Location
- San Francisco, California
- Company stage served
- Not publicly documented
- Cohort or participation model
- Cohort-based accelerator for HBCU students and recent alumni, run in seasonal cohorts
- Investment or funding offered
- Yes
- Published investment terms
- Investment made through the associated HBCU Founders Fund; specific terms not published
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Not publicly documented
- Application status
- Uncertain
- Founded
- 2021
Public description
About the program
Nex Cubed runs an HBCU Founders Accelerator supporting students and recent alumni of historically Black colleges and universities in building venture-scale companies, including health technology ventures. The program provides curriculum, mentorship and investment through an associated HBCU Founders Fund that received a reported $5 million commitment from Costco. Nex Cubed has also run digital health accelerator cohorts.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
Underrepresented foundersHBCU entrepreneursDigital healthFrontier technology
- Category: Government or nonprofit accelerator
- Program structure: Cohort-based accelerator for HBCU students and recent alumni, run in seasonal cohorts
- Published terms: Investment made through the associated HBCU Founders Fund; specific terms not published
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