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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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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 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 announces Heart of Innovation HBCU Challenge finalists

January 24, 2025

Innovators to present solutions to improve social drivers of health, cardiovascular health and environmental health for the chance to win a $10,000 grant

January 24, 2025, CHICAGO, IL — MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, has selected five finalists for the Heart of Innovation HBCU Challenge.

Launched in November 2024, the accelerator invited undergraduate students, g…

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Six startups selected to join inaugural cohort of the Paratus Digital Health Accelerator, part of BARDA Accelerator Network

January 14, 2025

January 14, 2025, CHICAGO — MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, is pleased to announce the cohort of the first Paratus Digital Health Accelerator program. The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response. As the BARDA Accelerator Networ…

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