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CareQuest Innovation Partners and MATTER open applications for SMILE Health, igniting mission-driven innovation with global startups, industry leaders and investors

March 24, 2025

SMILE Health enters its fourth year with expanded support, including a new Startup Data Hub for startups improving health through oral health

March 24, 2025 (Boston, MA and Chicago, IL) — CareQuest Innovation Partners, a company focused on validating and scaling solutions that improve the oral health of all, in partnership with MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, today…

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insights

Partner Insights with VSP Vision: Lens Into the Future: Unveiling the Next Wave of Healthcare Innovation

March 6, 2025

The VSP Global Innovation Center (GIC), the innovation arm for vision care leader VSP Vision™, and MATTER are teaming up to offer a “Lens Into the Future,” a four-part virtual series showcasing next-gen trends and technologies driving healthcare forward.

The series will kick off on April 22 with an event on health diagnostics, featuring industry experts, executives and founders on the breakthr…

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matter challenges

MATTER announces cohort for Advancing Brain Health Innovation Challenge, supported by Lundbeck US Charitable Fund

March 5, 2025

Five solutions join accelerator addressing barriers in rare neurological disease care

March 5, 2025, CHICAGO, IL — MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, with support from the Lundbeck US Charitable Fund, a corporate foundation dedicated to responsibly giving back to the community, has selected five startups to participate in the Advancing Brain Health Innovation Challeng…

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matter challenges

MATTER announces top solution for the Heart of Innovation HBCU Challenge

February 26, 2025

CerTracker named top solution and recipient of a $10,000 grant

February 26, 2025, CHICAGO, IL — MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, is pleased to announce Certracker as the top solution of the Heart of Innovation HBCU Challenge. CerTracker is a digital credential management platform designed to help healthcare organizations and licensed professionals effortlessly track…

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matter news

MATTER turns 10!

February 13, 2025

MATTER’s mission is to accelerate the pace of change of healthcare, and we’ve been doing that now for 10 years. Since we first opened in 2015, we have supported 1,000 healthcare and life sciences startups, built a community of 60,000 entrepreneurs, executives, investors and other experts committed to improving health and healthcare and created hundreds of collaborations between startups and the…

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