Healthcare company-building profile
Meharry Medical College Health Innovation Programs (MMC Ventures)
Meharry Medical College
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Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- University accelerator
- Organization
- Meharry Medical College
- Organization type
- University
- Location
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Company stage served
- Not publicly documented
- Cohort or participation model
- Health innovation challenge cycles for entrepreneurs and startups; specific cohort structure not published
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Not publicly documented
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Not publicly documented
- Application status
- Active
Public description
About the program
Meharry Medical College, a historically Black academic health center, has built out health innovation and commercialization activity including a health innovation challenge for entrepreneurs and startups, an AI and entrepreneurship program, and a venture arm, MMC Ventures. It received an EDA University Center designation and a SPRINT Challenge grant to support regional innovation. Reporting indicates MMC Ventures has explored raising a substantial venture fund.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
Health equityDigital healthUnderrepresented foundersAI in health
- Category: University accelerator
- Program structure: Health innovation challenge cycles for entrepreneurs and startups; specific cohort structure not published
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- Reginald Holt — Chief Executive Officer, MMC Ventures
Sources
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