Top 10 Health Startup Accelerators

Updated: January 29, 2024

Health startup accelerators are cohort-based programs, that include mentorship and educational components and culminate in a public pitch event or demo day. Healthcare incubators can be either privately or publicly funded and focus on medical technology.
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Country: USA | Funding: $24.3M
StartUp Health is a global health innovation company. The StartUp Health Platform, including its Academy, Network and Innovation Fund, is empowering a global network of entrepreneurs and innovators to transform healthcare. StartUp Health has the world’s largest portfolio of digital health companies, at more than 105, from 11 countries and 50 cities.
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Country: USA
Blueprint Health is a community of healthcare entrepreneurs helping build the next generation of healthcare IT companies. We invest our time and $20,000 in 20 healthcare IT companies each year. Blueprint Health staff and mentors work intensively with the companies for three months to help them meet their individual business goals. Typically these goals include gaining customers, raising capital, building marketing and sales collateral, and refining an investor pitch.
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Country: USA | Funding: $7M
Healthbox Studios is a new breed of accelerator model designed to help the most serious startups in healthcare to rapidly pressure test and validate their businesses to scale. Healthbox Foundry is a proprietary evaluation and commercialization process that helps large healthcare organizations identify and advance internal innovation. Acquired by HIMSS
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Country: USA
The Texas Medical Center accelerator (TMCx) couples the resources of the world’s largest medical center with the innovative spark of entrepreneurs. We facilitate the development of early-stage digital health and medical device companies and, unlike most accelerators, we do not charge membership fees or require equity from our companies.
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Country: USA
The New York Digital Health Accelerator is a program run by the New York eHealth Collaborative and the Partnership Fund for New York City for early- and growth-stage digital health companies that are developing cutting edge technology products in care coordination, patient engagement, and workflow improvement.
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Country: USA | Funding: $2.5M
Startupbootcamp is the number one accelerator in Europe. We are bringing our proven model to Miami to support and scale companies innovating in healthcare and focused on the eradication of healthcare disparities in the US.
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Country: USA
SmartHealth Activator is an incubator and activator of extraordinary biotechnology. Located at the epicenter of an enormous biotech cluster just north of Chicago, SmartHealth provides biotech startups direct access to customers, investors, elite mentors, co-working space and seed funding. SmartHealth accelerates the discovery of drugs, diagnostics and medical devices being developed at Midwest universities that diagnose, prevent and treat life threatening diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
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Country: USA | Funding: $9.1M
Health Wildcatters provides investment and key resources to support healthcare entrepreneurs.
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Country: USA
Digitalis is a venture capital firm that invests in fundamental new ideas in math and science to address complex health problems.
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Country: Germany
Grants4Apps Accelerator is a mentoring program for digital health startups taking place in Berlin. We are looking for startups beyond the ideation phase developing health technology or IT solutions that can connect and empower patients or healthcare stakeholders – mobile apps, digital services, wearables, medical devices, software, hardware. Any integrated next-generation technology that supports adherence, diagnosis, therapy control or prevention is welcome to submit a nomination.
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Country: USA
Dreamit Healthtech is a venture fund and growth-focused platform for digital health, medical device, and diagnostic startups. Our model is designed to further scale healthtech startups through Customer Sprints at 70+ large enterprise customer partners across health systems, payers, pharma, and multinationals. We accelerate access to capital through Investor Sprints which offer curated meetings with institutional and health-focused funds who opt-in to meet with our companies. We’re industry-specific; only working with and investing in health and security startups.
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Country: USA
Tigerlabs Ventures is a seed stage venture capital firm. We focus on pre-series A investments predominantly in B2B SaaS across a range of sectors including fin tech, ad tech, ed tech, digital health, and digital media.
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Country: USA
EyeFocus Accelerator is the world's first innovation program for companies producing products for preventing, curing, and living with eye disease and blindness.
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Country: USA | Funding: $5M
The Fellowship is an 8-week startup accelerator exclusively focused on mental health startups who are creating solutions for the mental health crisis.
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Country: USA | Funding: $5M
XLerateHealth is enterprise-focused and will help early stage healthcare companies build out their commercialisation strategy.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.2M
IntuitiveX is a life science incubator and consulting service created to help inventors and entrepreneurs transform their ideas into products and services that scale into businesses which help patients lead healthier, more productive lives.
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Country: Iran
Medicalator is the first Iranian Health startup accelerator
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Country: Spain
Moebio is a disruptive talent development initiative that consist of several training programs to promote innovation and entrepreneurship at the intersection of technology, life sciences, health and business.
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Country: USA
The New England Medical Innovation Center is a nonprofit that provides expert education, connections to funding, and specialized expertise to innovators and entrepreneurs in the medical technologies space.