Springboard boasts a 13-year track record of catalyzing scalable, women-led startups with its accelerator program for healthcare and life science companies. By Joshua Henderson (Director of Programming, Springboard Enterprises) At Springboard, we run an annual accelerator program for high-growth, women-led companies in the life sciences and healthcare space. Each year we induct a highly-vetted class [...]
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6 Days Left for Life Science and Healthcare Startups to Apply to Springboard
April 26, 2013 – 6:00 am
Rock Health: Ideas We’d Like To Fund
February 26, 2013 – 6:00 am
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 [...]
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 [...]
ChickRx Participates In Rock Health (XX In Health)
August 1, 2012 – 5:00 am
Before participating in Rock Health, it could sometimes feel like we were on an island. Just having the social and support aspects of working alongside other teams going through the same experience was beneficial. By Meghan Muntean & Stacey Borden (Co-Founders, ChickRx) We’re the co-founders of ChickRx, a women’s health and wellness startup providing an [...]
Succeeding as a Single Mother and Tech Startup Founder & CEO
October 4, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Bridget Thornton (Co-Founder & CEO, TrackIgnite) There has been a lot of buzz about women, particularly mothers, having a disadvantage as tech entrepreneurs. Women in tech find themselves alone in a sea of men at conferences or get passed over for funding by venture capitalists. I hear the same argument all the time — [...]
4 Female Founders of Tech Startups at 2011 Health 2.0 Conference
October 3, 2011 – 6:30 pm
By Sonali Nigam (Graduate Student, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health) Health Innovation Week was September 17-27, 2011 in San Francisco. Whether you are a health technologist or a tech geek you would have loved the great conversations about “user generated health” at the Health 2.0 Conference, a well-known forum for knowledge sharing about [...]
Skimble’s Backflipping Presentation Earns Top Score
September 30, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Shana Lynch (Assistant Managing Editor, Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal) Heavy-hitting health venture capitalists and professionals were on hand for the DC to VC: Hit Startup Showcase event, organized by Morgenthaler Ventures. And one startup founder was doing backflips for their attention. Literally. Maria Ly, co-founder of Skimble, which makes exercise applications [...]
Startup Weekend (The Seven Deadly Sins Edition)
September 15, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Renee DiResta (Associate, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures) Now that I’ve slept a bit, I thought I’d post about the Mega Startup Weekend held at Microsoft this past Friday through Sunday. This one was a bit different than others I’ve been to because the organizers pre-selected three verticals: Health, Education, and Gaming. The weekend started off [...]
