MassChallenge on Tuesday revealed the 31 startups that will participate in the inaugural PULSE@MassChallenge "digital health lab," a new six-month accelerator in Boston that partners startups with various entities working in healthcare.
Unlike MassChallenge's main accelerator program, which accepts 128 startups every year, startups can only get accepted through a match-making process that will pair them with one or more of the program's 32 "champions," which represent a wide range of organizations, institutions and corporations, including AARP, Boston Children's Hospital, the City of Boston and Pfizer (see full list below).
"Honestly, we couldn't ask for a more startup and ecosystem-friendly outcome."
"Some startups got multiple champions. Some champions made multiple offers. Some champions teamed up with each other in making their offers. Honestly, we couldn't ask for a more startup and ecosystem-friendly outcome," Nick Dougherty, PULSE@MassChallenge's program manager, told me in an email.
The goal of PULSE@MassChallenge, which is located in 8,000 square feet at Hatch Fenway, is to help these startups achieve certain milestones, whether it's a pilot study, research, advisor, customer introductions or investment opportunities. In addition, more than $100,000 in zero-equity awards will be given out once the program concludes.
The 31 startups in the inaugural PULSE@MassChallenge cohort came from a pool of more than 430 applications, representing 30 states and 20 countries. Some of the accepted startups previously went through MassChallenge's main program. That includes Cake, a Boston-based end-of-life planning service that has already worked with Liberty Mutual, another "champion" that is participating in PULSE@MassChallenge.
PULSE@MassChallenge was launched earlier this year as a strategic component of the statewide Digital Health Initiative. The program will be celebrating the new cohort at an event Tuesday night at Hatch Fenway starting at 6 p.m.
Here is the list of the 31 startups participating in the inaugural cohort:
3Derm System, Inc. - USA - Massachusetts
ACT.md - USA - Massachusetts
Cake - USA - Massachusetts
Care Thread, Inc. - USA - Rhode Island
ConquerX - USA - Texas
EDI Institute, Inc. - USA - Massachusetts
Emerald Innovations - USA - Massachusetts
Gain Life - USA - Massachusetts
HealthyMation - USA - Massachusetts
Herald Health - USA - Massachusetts
Hey, Charlie - USA - Massachusetts
Human Resolution Technologies -USA - Massachusetts
Insightfil - USA - Massachusetts
LifeGuard Games, Inc. - USA - Massachusetts
Medumo - USA - Massachusetts
Meetcaregivers - USA - Massachusetts
MobioSense - USA - Massachusetts
Neopenda - USA - Illinois
Neuroelectrics - USA - Massachusetts
QueueDr - USA - Connecticut
Redox - USA - Wisconsin
Remedy Labs, Inc. - USA - California
Rendever - USA - Massachusetts
Spring Care, Inc. - USA - New York
STA TECH - USA - Massachusetts
SyncThink - USA - Massachusetts
THINKMD - USA - Vermont
TORq Interface, LLC - USA - Massachusetts
Twiage - USA - Massachusetts
VIT - USA - Pennsylvania
VRPhysio - Israel - Tel Aviv | USA - Massachusetts
Full list of champions: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the City of Boston, the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership, Suffolk Construction, Samuels & Associates, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech, AARP, Shire, Bose, Cerner, Humana, Liberty Mutual, Servier, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Analog Devices, BD, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Philips Healthcare, Microsoft, Ropes & Gray LLP, Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dell EMC, Franciscan Children’s, Massachusetts General Hospital, Pathfinder International, Planetree, and TechSpring of Baystate Health.
