Originally published by Lucien Engelen on LinkedIn: Step forward. Start improving health(care).
Let’s start improving health(care) together.
Todays newborns will be hyper-digital-natives. Just imagine what could have happened within 25 years from now, knowing that 25 years ago the first page was published in the World Wide Web. We have to (re)invent healthcare for them as well.
For that -amongst a lot of other steps- last year our Radboudumc Reshape Center partnered with Rockstart’s Digital Health Accelerator to help the first batch of 10 digital health startups scale their businesses. The program is supporting the world’s most promising digital health startups to positively impact the healthcare system and the lives of billions of people. Are you a passionate digital health founder? Then you have 14 days left to apply for Rockstart’s second program in Health Valley that starts in October.
Rockstart’s Digital Health Accelerator is a seed investment, mentorship-based program that runs for an intensive 180 days in Health Valley, the Netherlands. Just a bike ride away from our Radboudumc Reshape Center in Nijmegen. The program helps startups to launch their products worldwide, get ready for growth investment or bootstrap into profitability. Rockstart’s 2nd Digital Health Accelerator program starts this October. The startups will be building towards Demo Day, where they present their businesses to over 400+ investors, CEO's, mentors and the press.
“The Netherlands is the place to start for digital health founders. It provides startups Europe’s best business climate. It's one of Europe’s leading markets to adopt digital health services. And the government supports you with tax benefits, innovation credits and grants. With Health Valley as best connected and most accessible digital health ecosystem of Europe this is the place to be”, says Casper Smeets as the new Program Director of Rockstart’s Digital Health Accelerator.
The movement for better health(care) growing in the Netherlands. And it’s growing quickly. This May we co-organized with the University Medical Centres of Groningen, Leiden and Maastricht Dutch Hacking Health, the world’s biggest health hackathon.
Also in May we set stage for Our Future Health, the world’s first blended conference on the future of health. Which created from 20+ locations worldwide more than 30 hours of content, sharing the latest healthcare technologies and impressive startup innovations. I invited four startups of Rockstart’s Digital Health Accelerator to present their solutions. You can see one of the startups’ video presentations here: