We want to solve the biggest problems in healthcare. By Halle Tecco (Founder & CEO, Rock Health) Applications for Rock Health’s fifth class are open! You bring the startup and we’ll provide the funding ($100K), strategic partnerships, and operational support to help you succeed. What do we look for? Big ideas backed by smart and [...]
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Female Founders To Watch: From Rock Health’s Fourth Class
February 22, 2013 – 7:00 am
Technology used in innovative ways has enabled a new wave of healthcare startups. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, Rock Health launched its fourth class out of the health tech startup accelerator program. CEO and founder Halle Tecco announced that to date, this class has a raised a total of $13.9 [...]
Rock Health: Ideas We’d Like To Fund
August 21, 2012 – 1:00 pm
Rather than see the EMR market as closed, slow or incompetent, we’re looking for people providing key technology on top of an EMR – an Amazon of Healthcare, so to speak. By Halle Tecco (Co-Founder & Managing Director, Rock Health) Applications for Rock Health’s fourth class open next week! You bring the idea and team, [...]
CellScope Raises $1M From Khosla Ventures To Create Smartphone Imaging Devices For At-Home Medical Devices
June 11, 2012 – 5:00 am
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business MBA candidate Amy Sheng co-founded CellScope in 2010. By Leslie Zeigler (Creative Director, Rock Health) CellScope, a mobile health startup building systems for at-home diagnosis, and recent graduate of Rock Health’s first class of startups, announced today that it has raised $1M in seed funding from Khosla Ventures. Using [...]
Starting A Women-Led Healthcare Or Life Science Startup?
March 19, 2012 – 1:00 pm
By Joshua Henderson (Director of Programming, Springboard Enterprises) Several weeks ago, I wrote about resources available to high-growth, women-led companies. Besides missing a few important organizations like SmartGirlsWay, NewME Accelerator, Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs, BlogHer Entrepreneurs and ACTiVATE, I said that we wanted to partner with non women-focused groups/events to champion more women through the [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Health Innovation
January 20, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Rock Health hosted the 2012 Health Innovation Summit in San Francisco this week, showcasing a remarkably gender-balanced set of interdisciplinary innovators in the burgeoning health/tech space. As keynote speaker Mitch Kapor stated, “It is possible to go up the learning curve yourself without the basics of the [...]
Founder Friday Networking Mixers (January 6 in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and New York)
December 20, 2011 – 1:38 pm
By Sepideh Nasiri (Corporate Sponsorships & Events Director, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 is hosting four Founder Friday networking events for women entrepreneurs and their friends on Friday, January 6, 2012 in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and and New York. Due to the holidays, Founder Friday Barcelona and Founder Friday Madrid (both in Spain) [...]
Tracking Fitness with Skimble’s Maria Ly: Her Latest Mobile Apps for the Quantified Self
June 29, 2011 – 9:00 am
By Maria Ly (Co-Founder, Skimble)
Rock Health’s Halle Tecco on Invigorating Health Tech
June 26, 2011 – 12:04 pm
By Emily Goligoski (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 talks with Halle Tecco, founder of health startup seed accelerator Rock Health. The non-profit program selected from 350 applicant ideas for its first class, giving 11 startups sizable grants, mentorship, curriculum, and operational support. Women 2.0: You’ve just set up shop in San Francisco with 11 [...]
Have An Idea Or Startup Working To Solve A Health-Related Issue? Apply To Join Rock Health This Summer
May 5, 2011 – 9:06 am
By Halle Tecco (Co-Founder & Managing Director, Rock Health) This summer, Rock Health will catalyze innovation in the interactive health space. Become one of the first startups to access our unrivaled community of experts and seed-accelerator program where a select group of health-related startups will partake in an intensive multi-month program, turning ideas into products [...]
