Healthcare company-building profile
TMC Innovation (TMCi)
Texas Medical Center
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Health system accelerator
- Organization
- Texas Medical Center
- Organization type
- Hospital or health system
- Location
- Houston, Texas
- Company stage served
- Not publicly documented
- 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
Public description
About the program
TMC Innovation is the startup acceleration and venture arm of the Texas Medical Center, uniting innovators with scientists and clinicians at TMC member institutions. It runs cohort-based accelerator programs including HealthTech (formerly TMCx), the Accelerator for Cancer Medical Devices (ACMD) and the Accelerator for Cancer Therapeutics (ACT). TMCi forms, fosters, recruits and funds healthcare companies globally, providing lab and office space, mentorship and access to TMC clinical partners. It also operates a Biodesign fellowship that spins out new medical device companies.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Health system accelerator
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- Tom Luby — Chief Innovation Officer
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- 400+ active life science startups supported with $5.8 billion raised to date; 50+ startups in the resident community; 25+ Biodesign companies formed raising $135 million; three named accelerator tracks (HealthTech, ACMD, ACT) run as cohorts
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