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XLerateHealth Accelerator Announces Incoming Fourth Cohort
XLerateHealth, (www.XLerateHealth.com),
a Louisville-based accelerator for early-stage healthcare companies,
announced it has selected six companies to participate as part of its
incoming fourth cohort. The accelerator's 13-week intensive program will
begin August 1, 2016 and run until "Demo Day" on October 27, 2016.
Selected companies include:
eBlu Solutions (Louisville, KY) is a platform providing
workflow-driven services to streamline the complex processes that
specialty medical practices face while navigating a patient to
treatment. Services include real-time Benefit Investigation, as well as
management of Prior Authorization and manufacturer Co-Pay Assistance
workflows. eBlu supports practices in providing a better patient care
experience, decreasing the time to treat while mitigating the financial
risks a practice faces in providing in-office infusion. http://eblusolutions.com/
Epikardis Medical (Nashville, TN) is a medical device
ideation and development company. Founded by a registered nurse and a
mechanical engineer, Epikardis aims to create products that carry robust
clinical and financial incentives. Their first product under development
is a chest tube stabilization device that is expected to enter the
market in 2017. http://marcushenschen.wix.com/epikardismedical
Medic-Air (Louisville, KY) is a portable cooling device designed
for children who suffer from the upper airway infection known as croup.
The device is easy to use and on-demand, instantly producing n ambient
temperature drop of 50 degrees to help shrink the airway inflammation
the virus causes.
Orthopedix (Providence, RI) is a 3D-printed orthopedic implant
company that creates personalized, patient-specific implants throughout
the body. The implants are individually sized and shaped to fit to each
patient's unique anatomy, offering benefits not achievable with
"off-the-shelf" orthopedic implants. http://www.orthopedix.net/
OR Link (Lexington, KY) OR Link is a mobile healthcare software
company focused on redefining communication in and around the operating
room. At its core, the unique software platform aims to simplify the
process by which a surgeon's "preferences" (for everything from surgical
instruments to operating room layout) are stored, shared, and utilized
in real time between all the personnel in the OR. Additional features
include peri-operative scheduling management and surgical education.
Solas Operations (Toronto, Canada) uses a Raman spectroscopy
based diagnostic for early, non-invasive identification of gout. Solas'
novel gout diagnostic is able to identify gout early in asymptomatic
patients, which is superior to the other two methods currently used
(ultrasound and clinical exam for diagnosis) which identifies gout only
after the disease has progressed and the patient is symptomatic - which
makes it much harder to treat.
In addition to the Chairman & Co-Founder of XLerateHealth Robert
Saunders, a seasoned venture capitalist who has worked with more
than 100 startup companies over the past two decades and has mentored
several healthcare startup enterprises, fellow XLerateHealth co-founders
include Ted
Smith, a successful healthcare entrepreneur, former Senior Advisor
for Innovation in the Office of the National Coordinator in the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services in Washington D.C., and Jackie
Willmot, who has over three decades in the healthcare innovation and
startup space, spending 15 years at Humana and the past 7 years working
as a Venture Consultant with healthcare startup companies.
XLerateHealth has received sponsorship support from the Kentucky Cabinet
for Economic Development - Office of Commercialization & Innovation,
Louisville Metro Government, The U.S. Small Business Administration
(SBA), Mountjoy Chilton Medley, Old National Bank, and ID&A Office and
Interior Design. Supporting venture capital sponsors include Kentucky
Enterprise Fund/KSTC (Lexington), OCA Ventures (Chicago), TriStar
Ventures (Nashville), River Cities Capital (Cincinnati), and Chrysalis
Ventures (Louisville). In kind sponsors include Frost Brown Todd and
Argi (formerly OPM Financial). XLerateHealth's partners include
Louisville's Cardiovascular Innovation Institute; Johns Hopkins Health
for America; The National Space Biomedical Research Institute; and The
Nucleus Innovation Center. For more information, please visit www.XLerateHealth.com.
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