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From high tech to healthcare: a seasoned entrepreneur learns ‘pacing’

March 23, 2018

An interview with SilverVue CEO Will West

Will West is a prolific tech entrepreneur with a long track record of success. In 2013, he took Control4, the leading whole-home automation company, public. Before that, he co-founded iBAHN (originally STSN), the worldwide leader in broadband services for business travelers. He has raised close to $400 million in private capital for his last three comp…

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MATTER Spotlight: Missy Lavender, founder of Below Your Belt

March 13, 2018

Missy Lavender’s journey to founding Below Your Belt began with her own experience as a patient. After giving birth to her son, Missy joined the one-third of women who develop a pelvic health disorder in adulthood.

She founded Below Your Belt to equip women and Girls+ — including girls, trans boys, intersex and nonbinary kids, youths who are otherwise queer or questioning, and all of their g…

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MATTER launches #healthtogether

February 28, 2018

Join our digital conversation about businesses working together to advance care and improve lives.

MATTER was founded with a thesis: Collaboration between businesses is the best way to improve healthcare.

On the surface this premise sounds straightforward, but in practice working together can be extraordinarily complicated. Nowhere is collaboration more complicated than in healthcare, where…

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Say hello to these new MATTER startups

February 26, 2018

Healthcare innovators join MATTER to learn the skills they need to build successful products, connect with industry leaders and entrepreneurs, and collaborate with world-class companies, health systems and universities to bring new solutions to market as quickly as possible.

Meet a few of the newest additions to our community below. They’re smart, passionate and dedicated people with interesti…

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MATTER turns three!

February 13, 2018

Three years ago today, we opened MATTER.

Our founding premise was to bring entrepreneurs together with industry leaders to collaborate on developing next-generation healthcare technologies. The MATTER community now includes more than 200 cutting-edge startups working together with hospitals and health systems, universities and industry-leading companies. As we announced last month, our communi…

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