MassChallenge Cohort Includes Cloud-based Platform for Clinicians
MassChallenge, the Boston-based startup accelerator, has selected seven digital health startups for the first cohort of its Houston-based accelerator program, including a startup developing a cloud-based platform that automates professional credit management and verification for clinicians.
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- MassChallenge, the Boston-based startup accelerator, has selected seven digital health startups for the first cohort of its Houston-based accelerator program, including a startup developing a cloud-based platform that automates professional credit management and verification for clinicians.
In all, MassChallenge selected 26 startups across industries for its Houston-based accelerator program, which begins July 22 for six weeks.
During that time, the startups will receive mentoring from industry experts, tailored programming, $250,000 in deals and discounts, access to corporate partners, and office space at the MassChallenge Texas in Houston office.
Corporate partners include Reliant, Southwest Airlines, TMAC, WeWork, USAA, Upstream, Central Houston, the City of Houston, Lionstone, Midway, BAE Systems, BHP, Ingram Micro, the San Antonio Spurs, and the Houston Texans.
The seven digital health startups in the first cohort are:
- Texas-based Animatus Biosciences, which is developing unique regenerative therapeutics based on a modified mRNA platform
- South Korea-based DoBrain, which is working on a pediatric diagnosis app that detects neuropsychological markers indicating developmental delays
- Texas-based Door Space, which is developing a cloud-based platform that automates professional credential management and verification for clinicians and their employers
- Ohio-based NeuroRescue, which is working on a device that improves the standard of care used to treat stroke, brain injury, and cardiac arrest
- Texas-based Noleus Technologies, which is developing a medical device that reduces post op ileus, saves post op hospital days, and accelerates patient recovery
- Texas-based ORDRS, which is developing an API for direct-to-consumer lab testing results
- California-based Rehabmaker, which makes exercise equipment that attaches to wheelchairs and allows people to move their legs
“The startups cross five industries, where 50 percent of the startups come from outside of Houston bringing talent from innovation hubs like New York, San Francisco, and Switzerland, proving that Houston’s global reach is not just for the Fortune 500 and that startups are looking for their place in the global economy, something that Houston is uniquely suited to offer,” said Jon Nordby, managing director of MassChallenge Texas in Houston.
