Rockstart Digital Health Accelerator

Rockstart Digital Health Accelerator provides an unparalleled access to the healthcare ecosystem, capital, coaching and investors for entrepreneurs who are looking to change the way things are done in healthcare. It will help you better understand product design, market fit and business models by enabling you to directly work with patients, professionals and other stakeholders.

Rockstart Accelerator Digital Health is a 180-day intensive startup accelerator program for 10 startups - located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands . with direct access to over +70 mentors and key partners including Radboud University Medical Center.

Themes/areas of interest

Rockstart's team members believe that a thesis-led approach allows us to attract a cohort of startups that fit well together – startups that are trying to solve similar problems and thus facing the same challenges.

Digital Health Accelerator is looking to work with startups working the following areas:

  • Self-care: These solutions enable patients to be in better control of their health. The solutions could be around chronic diseases, specific medical conditions, rehabilitative care, wellness, remote monitoring and behavioral change.
  • Biosensors and wearables: These allow for capture of biomarkers, could be on-body or in-body devices, such as ingestibles, patches, wristbands or implants, that help create personalized data and can be used for diagnostics or monitoring.
  • Efficiency platforms: These are solutions that tend to serve as two/three sided markets, between payer/providers/clinicians/patients. They often plug into the existing healthcare system and change it for the better.
  • Specialized solutions: These could be software, device or platforms that cross-pollinate and bring in a proven innovation from another field to healthcare via a unique methodology/application, with a digital angle.

Application deadline December 12th
Selection Days January 10-12th
Program begins February 13th
Program ends August

For further information and to apply, please visit:
https://www.rockstart.com/accelerator/digitalhealth/

About Rockstart

Rockstart, one of Europe's first multi-vertical startup accelerators, was founded in Amsterdam in 2011 with a goal to provide startups with access to the market, capital, knowledge, and community.

Since then Rockstart has become the specialist in building entire ecosystems around specific domains - such as Digital Health, Smart Energy, and Artificial Intelligence. Rockstart is actively building up entrepreneurial infrastructures around the world with its acceleration verticals, as well as early-stage startup programs, Rockstart Impact and Rockstart Launchtrack.

Since the inception, Rockstart has invested in more than 100 startups and supported them in their journey to raise more than €53 million and hire more than 650 people. Rockstart is an international team of 40+ professionals dedicated to support and empower startups to become scalable and change their world for the better.

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