Healthcare company-building profile
MedTech Innovator
MedTech Innovator
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Medtech accelerator
- Organization
- MedTech Innovator
- Organization type
- Corporate
- Location
- Los Angeles, California
- Company stage served
- Not publicly documented
- Cohort or participation model
- 65 startups in the 2026 cohort and 64 in 2025; roughly four-month accelerator from June to October, run virtually and location agnostic; annual cycle with a December 1 application deadline for the following year
- Investment or funding offered
- Yes
- Published investment terms
- More than $1 million in cash prizes across the US and Asia Pacific programs; no equity stake described in program materials
- Equity or fee model
- No equity
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Not publicly documented
- Application status
- Active
- Founded
- 2013
Public description
About the program
MedTech Innovator is a nonprofit accelerator for medical device, diagnostic and digital health companies, describing itself as the world's largest medtech accelerator. Its US program opens with a Radar Forum pitch event in April, followed by a roughly four-month virtual accelerator from June to October that culminates in a showcase at The MedTech Conference. It also runs MedTech Innovator Asia Pacific in parallel with a competition at the Asia Pacific MedTech Forum, and BioTools Innovator for life science tools companies. Across 13 years it reports 838 alumni companies, 500-plus FDA market authorizations and $11.4 billion in follow-on funding.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Medtech accelerator
- Program structure: 65 startups in the 2026 cohort and 64 in 2025; roughly four-month accelerator from June to October, run virtually and location agnostic; annual cycle with a December 1 application deadline for the following year
- Published terms: More than $1 million in cash prizes across the US and Asia Pacific programs; no equity stake described in program materials
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- Paul Grand — Chief Executive Officer
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