Healthcare company-building profile
MassChallenge HealthTech / Healthcare Challenge Program
MassChallenge with corporate and payer partners including Anthem and health systems
AcceleratorIndependent acceleratorIndependentInactive or wound down
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Independent accelerator
- Organization
- MassChallenge with corporate and payer partners including Anthem and health systems
- Organization type
- Independent
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Company stage served
- Research or idea stage
- Cohort or participation model
- Multi-month cohort program pairing startups with healthcare organization champions for pilots
- Investment or funding offered
- Yes
- Published investment terms
- Non-dilutive; zero-equity accelerator model with cash prizes awarded to top performers
- Equity or fee model
- No equity
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Not publicly documented
- Application status
- Inactive or wound down
- Founded
- 2016
Public description
About the program
MassChallenge's healthcare and life sciences accelerator matches startups with hospitals, payers, pharma companies and research institutions for structured pilots, described by the organization as accelerating the future of care from bench to bedside. It is run by MassChallenge, a nonprofit that takes no equity from participating startups. Current focus tracks are medical devices and the future of surgery, digital health and care delivery, AI for science, and biotech and advanced therapeutics.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
Digital healthPayer and provider technologyHealth equityCare deliveryMedical devicesAIBiotechMedtechHealth ITLife sciences
- Category: Independent accelerator
- Program structure: Multi-month cohort program pairing startups with healthcare organization champions for pilots
- Published terms: Non-dilutive; zero-equity accelerator model with cash prizes awarded to top performers
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