{"id":11037,"date":"2012-08-29T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T15:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=11037"},"modified":"2012-08-29T11:12:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T15:12:38","slug":"health-care-technology-accelerator-boosts-seed-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=11037","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Technology Accelerator Boosts Seed Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11039\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/HalleTecco_RockHealth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11039\" title=\"HalleTecco_RockHealth\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/HalleTecco_RockHealth.jpg\" alt=\"Halle Tecco (Rock Health)\" width=\"253\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/HalleTecco_RockHealth.jpg 253w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/HalleTecco_RockHealth-138x150.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Halle Tecco (Rock Health)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rock Health, an organization that provides seed funding, training, and mentoring for start-up companies in health care technology, says its next class of companies will each receive a $100,000 investment. The funds for these start-ups are being provided by the Mayo clinic and three venture capital firms: Aberdare Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, and Mohr Davidow Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>The organization has assembled a group of corporate, investor, and health care partners including medical centers, venture capital (VC) firms, biotech and pharmaceutical enterprises, and health technology companies. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/rockhealth.com\/2012\/08\/big-news\/\">blog post<\/a> yesterday, Rock Health CEO Halle Tecco (pictured left) says the partners provide &#8220;insights, pilots, partnerships, funding, and even office space for Rock Health start-ups.&#8221;\u00a0 The VC company Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers is a new Rock Health partner.<\/p>\n<p>Rock Health has held three classes of training for health care technology start-ups, the latest in Boston ending last week. In addition to seed funding, the group says companies accepted into its program gain $30,000 worth of goods and in-kind services, and office space in San Francisco (Rock Health&#8217;s base) or Harvard Medical School in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>So far, says Tecco, Rock Health has supported 35 start-up companies with 89 entrepreneurs that attracted some $25 million in follow-on funding. The organization is accepting <a href=\"http:\/\/rockhealth.com\/incubator\/apply\/\">applications for its fourth class<\/a> of start-ups, which are due by 16 September. Rock Health expects to announce semi-finalists on 1 October, with interviews taking place on 5 and 10 October.\u00a0 Finalists will be notified by 12 October.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2012\/08\/rock-health-boosts-startup-funding-to-100000-adds-kleiner-perkins-as-a-partner\/\">Med City News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=10986\">Kauffman Helping Stanford Student Accelerator Go National<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=10705\">Students, Postdocs, Policies Drive University Spinoffs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=9000\">Michigan State Forms Subsidiary to Encourage Start-Ups<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=8770\">Maryland University, VC Partner on Start-Up Accelerator<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=3191\">Kauffman Grant Supports Seed Accelerator Network<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock Health, an organization that provides seed funding, training, and mentoring for start-up companies in health care technology, says its next class of companies will each receive a $100,000 investment. The funds for these start-ups are being provided by the Mayo clinic and three venture capital firms: Aberdare Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,21,109,86,74,23,24,77,19],"class_list":["post-11037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","tag-biomedical","tag-biotech","tag-computer-science","tag-engineering","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-equity","tag-investment","tag-medical-device","tag-venture-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11037"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11042,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11037\/revisions\/11042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}