Healthcare company-building profile
Optum Startup Accelerator
Optum (UnitedHealth Group), operated with Techstars
AcceleratorPayer acceleratorCorporateInactive or wound down
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Payer accelerator
- Organization
- Optum (UnitedHealth Group), operated with Techstars
- Organization type
- Corporate
- Location
- Eden Prairie, Minnesota
- Company stage served
- Not publicly documented
- Cohort or participation model
- Approximately three-month Techstars-model cohorts while operating
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Standard Techstars-style terms during operation; specific figures not confirmed
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Not publicly documented
- Application status
- Inactive or wound down
- Founded
- 2014
Public description
About the program
The Optum Startup Accelerator, powered by Techstars, ran fixed cohorts of digital health startups with mentorship from Optum and UnitedHealth Group executives plus Techstars' accelerator methodology. Cohorts were based in Minneapolis and later Boston. The program ended after several cycles and Optum's startup engagement moved to Optum Ventures and direct commercial partnerships.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
Digital healthConsumer health engagementCare deliveryHealth IT
- Category: Payer accelerator
- Program structure: Approximately three-month Techstars-model cohorts while operating
- Published terms: Standard Techstars-style terms during operation; specific figures not confirmed
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