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Listen: Startup founders discuss opportunities to increase investment in women's health

June 3, 2021

Women control 80 percent of healthcare decisions in the U.S. and spend 29 percent more per capita on healthcare compared to men — yet solutions focused on women’s health received only 3.3 percent of total digital health funding in 2019 and 1.5 percent in the first half of 2020.

In a virtual conversation led by investor and serial entrepreneur Pamela York, co-founder and managing partner of Cap…

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mHUB, MATTER and 1871 secure $2.78M federal grant to rebuild Illinois economy post-COVID-19 through tech and manufacturing innovation

May 27, 2021

The U.S. Economic Development Administration has awarded a $2.78M grant to the Chicago Proactive Response (CPR) COVID-19 collaboration, a two-phase mobilization of Chicago’s innovation communities

May 27, Chicago, IL — Chicago’s leading innovation centers, mHUB, MATTER and 1871, secure a $2.78M federal grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) to invigorate startups and sma…

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MATTER and KOSME launch innovation program

May 25, 2021

Five Korean companies to begin six-month program aimed at U.S. market deployment

May 25, Chicago, IL and Seoul, KR — The Korea SMEs and Startups Agency (KOSME) and MATTER, the Chicago-based global healthcare incubator and corporate innovation accelerator, today announced the launch of the U.S. Market Adoption Program aimed at preparing Korean companies for U.S. market success.

The global prog…

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Recap: How innovators can help tackle diabetes-related complications and comorbidities

May 24, 2021

Insights from the 2021 Roche Diabetes Care Innovation Challenge Information Session

On May 6, 2021, MATTER hosted a virtual discussion around minimizing, managing and transforming risks associated with diabetes complications and comorbidities — the focus for the 2021 Roche Diabetes Care Innovation Challenge.

The panelists included Roche Diabetes Care Global Head of Strategy & Customer Sol…

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Parkview Health and MATTER launch second annual innovation competition to reduce maternal mortality

May 19, 2021

Innovators with solutions with the potential to reduce the incidence of maternal mortality encouraged to apply

May 19, Fort Wayne, IN and Chicago, IL — 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 hub, today announced the second annual compet…

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