Healthcare company-building profile
UCSF Catalyst Program (Innovation Ventures)
University of California, San Francisco
AcceleratorUniversity acceleratorUniversityActive
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- University accelerator
- Organization
- University of California, San Francisco
- Organization type
- University
- Location
- San Francisco, California
- Company stage served
- Not publicly documented
- Cohort or participation model
- Annual application cycles with advisory panels and milestone-based project support
- 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
The Catalyst Program is UCSF Innovation Ventures' translational accelerator, providing funding and expert advisory support to move UCSF discoveries toward products in therapeutics, diagnostics, devices, digital health and computational health. It sits alongside the Executives-in-Residence (XiR) program and UCSF's licensing and strategic alliances functions. Innovation Ventures' stated aim is to move UCSF innovation out of the lab as more fully developed therapies with greater confidence of success.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
Therapeuticsdiagnosticsmedical devicesdigital healthcomputational health
- Category: University accelerator
- Program structure: Annual application cycles with advisory panels and milestone-based project support
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