Healthcare company-building profile
Launch Lane Accelerator
University City Science Center
IncubatorIncubatorNot publicly documentedInactive or wound down
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Incubator
- Program category
- Incubator
- Organization
- University City Science Center
- Organization type
- Not publicly documented
- Location
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Company stage served
- Research or idea stage to Early stage
- Cohort or participation model
- Cohort-based accelerator; length and cadence vary by class; Not found for current cycle
- Investment or funding offered
- Yes
- Published investment terms
- Investment made in Launch Lane cohorts; the Science Center invested $300,000 across its first cohort; current standard terms Not found
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Not publicly documented
- Application status
- Inactive or wound down
- Founded
- 1963
Public description
About the program
Launch Lane is the University City Science Center's accelerator for early-stage technology companies, with multiple cohorts focused specifically on digital health startups. The Science Center invested $300,000 across its first Launch Lane cohort and has since run digital-health-themed classes. The Science Center is the nation's oldest urban research park and also runs lab incubation, programming and a venture arm targeting health equity. STATUS: University City Science Center is active but Launch Lane is absent from its current site. Latest cohort was 2021.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
Digital healthHealth equityHealthcare ITLife sciences
- Category: Incubator
- Program structure: Cohort-based accelerator; length and cadence vary by class; Not found for current cycle
- Published terms: Investment made in Launch Lane cohorts; the Science Center invested $300,000 across its first cohort; current standard terms Not found
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