Healthcare company-building profile
TGH Ventures (formerly TGH InnoVentures)
Tampa General Hospital
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Health system accelerator
- Organization
- Tampa General Hospital
- Organization type
- Hospital or health system
- Location
- Tampa, Florida
- Company stage served
- Early stage
- Cohort or participation model
- Not publicly documented
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Not publicly documented
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Yes
- Application status
- Active
- Founded
- 2021
Public description
About the program
Tampa General Hospital launched InnoVentures in the first quarter of 2021 as the academic medical center's venture capital fund, now branded TGH Ventures. The program was built on three vehicles: the TGH Innovation Lab for internal operational improvement, the TGH Accelerator for early-stage healthcare companies, and direct venture investments in healthcare and healthcare-adjacent companies. It is housed with Embarc Collective in a 32,000-square-foot facility in Tampa's emerging medical district. Complementary programs include Co-Lab, which provides entrepreneurial resources, and IdeaHQ, which crowdsources ideas from team members. It both invests in and accelerates outside companies while developing internal ideas.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Health system accelerator
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- Scott Arnold — Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Innovation Officer
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- Launched Q1 2021 as one of the first venture funds run by a Florida academic health system; partnered with healthcare venture fund Virtue in December 2021; honored at the Tampa Bay Business Journal 2022 Inno Fire Awards; named to Becker's Hospital Review list of hospitals and health systems with great innovation programs for a third consecutive year in 2025, the only Florida academic health system on the 2025 list; runs Co-Lab and IdeaHQ programs and TGH Innovation Week (launched 2024)
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