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 [...]
Posts Tagged "health tech"
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 [...]
Women In Healthcare Startups (Infographic)
January 14, 2013 – 7:00 am
From Pokitdok to AliveCor, from Cake Health to Rock Health, female founders are emerging in the health tech space. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In a recently released infographic, Rock Health reported that young women practicing medicine are more likely to shoulder the obligations of child and family care. They are also [...]
Women In Healthcare Technology: “We Need A Healthcare Revolution!”
August 30, 2012 – 5:00 am
The commonality between these four female CEOs of health tech companies is easy – play a role in the revolution of the healthcare technology industry. By Radostina Stoycheva (Business Development, SweetWater Health) The healthcare system is broken and we all know it. So what are we doing about it? Or more specifically, what are women [...]
How To Launch And Learn With Big Ideas And Small Resources
August 23, 2012 – 7:00 am
Properly integrating and utilizing health-related information generated by sensors and genomic technologies presents a tremendous opportunity and I had an idea of how to approach the problem. By Irene Gabashvili (Founder, Aurametrix) Once upon a time, the path from an idea to a product was possible only through teams of specialized experts spending months or [...]
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, [...]
Rock Health Kicks Off “XX In Health” Week
July 30, 2012 – 10:13 pm
The “XX in Health Initiative” aims to change the ratio among women leading healthcare. By Dana Rosenberg (Director of Business Development, Rock Health) We hear startling statistics on the number of women in leadership positions all too often… Women represent 19% of law firm partners. Women hold 17% of the seats in congress. Women comprise [...]
LUMOback Funded On Kickstarter – The Benefit Of Being Open
July 28, 2012 – 9:00 am
We have pre-orders of over $175,000, and counting (3 days to go on our campaign!) By Monisha Perkash (Co-Founder & CEO, LUMOback) My startup LUMOback, a smart posture sensor, recently launched a campaign on the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter. Our experiences thus far have reinforced my team’s deep belief in being open rather than stealthy. More [...]
Your CEO May Be A Man, But Your Healthcare Customer Is A Woman
July 24, 2012 – 7:00 am
Women have the kind of customer loyalty that transmits real value in healthcare. By Lisa Suennen (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Psilos Group) I recently saw a statistic from my friends at Rock Health that said that women comprise only 4% of healthcare industry CEOs. For those of you who are slow at math, this means [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Rock Health’s Women Entrepreneurs
June 15, 2012 – 5:00 am
Health tech startups utilize domain expertise in analytics and turn smartphone cameras into biosensors! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Health startup accelerator Rock Health held demo day for their second class of health startups yesterday. If you didn’t already know, Rock Health is a five month program and seed accelerator targeting health-related [...]
