New York-based Health Tech Startup Incubator Accepting Applications

GigaOM reported that the Bio & Health Tech Entrepreneurship Lab, a health-tech accelerator that recently set up shop in New York, has launched a program aimed at connecting graduate science students, people pursuing postdoctoral research and early-career researchers and engineers with investors and entrepreneurs working in the healthcare sector.

As quoted in the market news:

“We’re targeting people who have that great idea and they’re asking themselves ‘now what?’” [Mary Howard, program manager for the Bio & Health Tech Entrepreneurship Lab,] said. In particular, the program is intended for graduate science students, post-docs and early-career researchers and engineers. But while most other health tech accelerators focus primarily on health software and IT, Howard said the new entrepreneurship lab plans to also focus on life science companies, including those working on drug discovery and development.

Unlike its peers, New York’s latest startup incubator for health tech companies doesn’t provide funding or space. But over the six-month program, accepted participants will receive coaching, pitch preparation, mentorship and other activities meant to connect founders with the local network of investors and entrepreneurs in healthcare.

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