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Funding will help scale Venture Acceleration program for next-generation digital health and life sciences technologies
Chicago, IL — MATTER has been awarded a $1.3M federal grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) through its “Build to Scale” program. The funding will help us scale our Venture Acceleration programs to help more entrepreneurs who are building solutions to i…
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Entrepreneurs continue to refine solutions for diabetes care management
MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, and Cigna, a global health service company, selected twelve semifinalists to advance to the incubator phase of the 2021 Cigna Innovation Challenge.
Through robust programming, innovator collaboration and pilot opportunities, the challenge seeks to empower more p…
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Solutions focused on managing diabetes comorbidities complete accelerator
Chicago and Indianapolis, September 24, 2021 — Roche Diabetes Care, a global leader in integrated Personalized Diabetes Management (iPDM), and MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, announced Bluedrop Medical as the winner of the 2021 Roche Diabetes Care innovation challenge today. As an award, Blue…
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The grant will support new programming for innovators and organizations around advancing health equity
Chicago, IL — MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, has received a $225,000 grant from The Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust to advance health equity throughout the Chicagoland area.
“MATTER is cultivating an innovation community that improves healthcare for …
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NUA Surgical leads finalist cohort into accelerator program
Five finalists have been announced in the 2021 Healthy Mom and Baby 2.0 Innovation Competition. The contest is a collaborative effort of Parkview Health, a not-for-profit, community-based health system serving more than 895,000 people in northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio, and MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation …
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