This Chicago incubator is based on the premise that success comes from surrounding great entrepreneurs with other great entrepreneurs and with great mentors.
Every big city has a number of business incubators and accelerators. Many small cities do too. (Even mine does.) According to the National Business Incubation Association there are over 1,200 programs in the U.S. alone.
But aside from sh…
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Vivor helps connect qualifying patients with financial assistance programs.
Out-of-pocket drug costs have risen dramatically in recent years. And while the vast majority of patients qualify for financial assistance programs funded by the pharmaceutical companies that produce the drugs, less than a quarter of those patients ever receive the money for which they qualify. Ian Manners, CEO of th…
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An Interview with Dr. Karen Kaul
At the most recent event in our “Healthcare for What’s Next” series – hosted in partnership with NorthShore University HealthSystem – Dr. Karen Kaul, chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at NorthShore, joined Dr. Julia Trosman, co-founder and co-director of the Center for Business Models in Healthcare, for a panel discussion focused on h…
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The Health Care Council of Chicago (HC3) – an initiative of MATTER and Leavitt Partners – presented a first-of-its-kind white paper outlining the state of the healthcare industry in Chicago, during an event today at MATTER with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
The report concludes that Chicago’s $69 billion healthcare industry has a diversity of assets that position the city to accelerate innovat…
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Only 21 percent of board members of Fortune 500 healthcare companies are women, and only 1 in 7 investment dollars are awarded to women-led startups. There is a clear divide that persists for female business leaders in terms of both access to capital and access to boards. MATTER’s newest initiative leverages its position at the center of Chicago’s healthcare technology community to help addre…
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