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Report: MATTER startups raised $1.26B since 2015, saw 64% more revenue in 2019

February 12, 2020

An overview of our community’s major moments as MATTER enters its sixth year

A lot can happen in five years.

On February 13, 2015, MATTER’s doors opened for the first time with a handful of corporate partners and startup companies, a few programs and a thesis: that collaboration between entrepreneurs and industry leaders is the fastest, most effective way to accelerate innovation, advance car…

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community

#MATTERturns5: Community members weigh in on MATTER then and now

February 11, 2020

It’s MATTER’s birthday week!

In honor of our birthday on Thursday, we’re spending each day this week exploring our history through a slightly different lens. Today, we’re revisiting the past five years at MATTER through the perspectives of six of our most tenured community members: Meg Barron, vice president of digital health strategy at the American Medical Association; Arun Bhatia, senior di…

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community

Startup Shoutouts: February 7, 2020

February 7, 2020

Every day, innovators across the MATTER community are building new solutions that accelerate innovation, advance care and improve lives. Here’s a look into the most noteworthy headlines from the past few months.

patientMpower wins $2.3M to create the jobs of the future

patientMpower, a disease management platform developing a digital therapeutic for kidney disease, is one of 16 projects chose…

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matter news

Parkview Health and MATTER launch innovation competition to reduce infant mortality

February 6, 2020

Innovators with solutions related to healthy pregnancy and newborn care encouraged to apply

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 a strategic partnership to help reduce the signific…

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matter challenges

Roche Diabetes Care and MATTER announce innovation contest semi-finalists

February 5, 2020

Congratulations to the Roche Diabetes Care Innovation Contest semi-finalists, selected from a global pool of more than 60 submissions. Each team proposed an idea for how to identify the right combination of personalized therapies, activities or behaviors that will improve management and provide greater insight into care planning for people living with diabetes and their healthcare providers.

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