Healthcare company-building profile
IU Health Incubator at IU LAB
Indiana University Health
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Health system accelerator
- Organization
- Indiana University Health
- Organization type
- Hospital or health system
- Location
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Company stage served
- Research or idea stage to 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
- Founded
- 2025
Public description
About the program
The IU Health Incubator at IU LAB is Indiana University Health's sponsored startup incubator inside the Indiana University LifeSciences Accelerator and Biofoundry, created to translate research into companies and grow the state's life sciences economy. It runs two programs: a seven-week pre-accelerator using gener8tor's gBETA curriculum for up to 10 early-stage human health companies a year, and a LifeTech Accelerator operated jointly with Plug and Play and the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership that takes 20 to 30 companies a year across two cohorts. Startups get mentorship, curriculum, introductions to IU Health clinicians and access to IU LAB facilities. The incubator is open to companies from Indiana and outside the state that want a clinical partner and a landing point in Indianapolis.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Health system accelerator
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- David Rosenberg — President and CEO, IU LAB
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- IU Health committed $1.5 million in annual sponsorship to the incubator (announced April 2025); pre-accelerator launched July 2025 supporting up to 10 companies annually; LifeTech Accelerator launched fall 2025 with capacity for 20 to 30 companies a year; IU LAB itself was funded by a $138 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
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