Health system intelligence profile
Hartford HealthCare
Editorially verified · Last reviewed August 30, 2026
Intelligence summary
Hartford HealthCare runs a system-level innovation function that partners with venture investors to source, pilot and back early-stage digital health and healthcare technology companies in Connecticut. In December 2022 it announced a partnership with Connecticut Innovations, the state's quasi-public venture capital arm, to accelerate digital health solutions developed in Connecticut and to support a cohort of 20 Hartford-based startups. The arrangement gives startups structured access to Hartford HealthCare clinicians to test concepts and products in a live clinical environment, while advancing state economic development and job creation goals. Hartford HealthCare has also partnered with the Upward Labs AgeTech Fund on aging-focused technology. It combines an innovation center model with venture partnership rather than running a large captive fund.
Documented successes: December 2022 partnership with Connecticut Innovations to support 20 Hartford startups; earlier partnership with the Upward Labs AgeTech Fund announced in 2019; has worked with named startup cohorts alongside other Connecticut health systems placing bets on early-stage companies
Mandate and remit
Hartford HealthCare runs a system-level innovation function that partners with venture investors to source, pilot and back early-stage digital health and healthcare technology companies in Connecticut. In December 2022 it announced a partnership with Connecticut Innovations, the state's quasi-public venture capital arm, to accelerate digital health solutions developed in Connecticut and to support a cohort of 20 Hartford-based startups. The arrangement gives startups structured access to Hartford HealthCare clinicians to test concepts and products in a live clinical environment, while advancing state economic development and job creation goals. Hartford HealthCare has also partnered with the Upward Labs AgeTech Fund on aging-focused technology. It combines an innovation center model with venture partnership rather than running a large captive fund.
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Fund or office: Hartford HealthCare Innovation
Hartford HealthCare runs a system-level innovation function that partners with venture investors to source, pilot and back early-stage digital health and healthcare technology companies in Connecticut. In December 2022 it announced a partnership with Connecticut Innovations, the state's quasi-public venture capital arm, to accelerate digital health solutions developed in Connecticut and to support a cohort of 20 Hartford-based startups. The arrangement gives startups structured access to Hartford HealthCare clinicians to test concepts and products in a live clinical environment, while advancing state economic development and job creation goals. Hartford HealthCare has also partnered with the Upward Labs AgeTech Fund on aging-focused technology. It combines an innovation center model with venture partnership rather than running a large captive fund.
Documented successes
December 2022 partnership with Connecticut Innovations to support 20 Hartford startups; earlier partnership with the Upward Labs AgeTech Fund announced in 2019; has worked with named startup cohorts alongside other Connecticut health systems placing bets on early-stage companies
Organizational home: Hartford HealthCare Innovation, Hartford HealthCare
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