Where medtech backs medtech

Partner with the world's largest accelerator of medical technology.

Every year, thousands of the most promising medical technology and life science tools companies come through our programs. Our partners help them get there, and get first access to what emerges.

Partners in success

This is medtech backing medtech

We connect you with the most promising companies in medtech, the intelligence to track where the field is going, and the community building its future.

Founding

  • Johnson & Johnson MedTech
  • RCT Ventures

Platinum

  • Asahi Intecc
  • BD
  • Dexcom
  • Edwards Lifesciences
  • LivaNova
  • Olympus
  • Samsung
  • Zimmer Biomet

Gold

  • Medmarc TDC Specialty

Specialty Tracks

  • American Heart Association Ventures and Studio Red
  • American Society of Plastic Surgeons

Silver

  • Andrews Cooper
  • Cambridge Consultants
  • Cannon Quality Group
  • CBSET
  • FORJ Medical
  • LIFTT Consulting
  • NAMSA
  • PDV MedTech
  • PRIA
  • Prolucid
  • Proxima Clinical Research
  • RQM+
  • Syensqo
  • QuickVault by Veeva
  • Velentium Medical

Bronze

  • bioT
  • Greenlight Guru
  • Infera
  • Sequenex
  • Stifel Life Sciences & Healthcare Venture Banking

Ecosystem Partners

  • The MedTech Conference
  • AdvaMed
  • DeviceTalks
  • MedTechColor
  • MedTech Strategist
  • MedtechWOMEN
  • Wilson Sonsini
Why partner

What a year inside the program gets you.

Partnership is not a logo placement. It is a year of real involvement in the work of getting new medical technology to patients. Some partners come to see what is coming. Some come to advance a mission. Some come to put expertise to work that startup teams cannot buy on their own. We build the partnership around why you are here.

  • Pipeline sourcing and market research

    You see companies while strategy, design, and partnerships are still open, at the point where input still changes the outcome.

    • Sourcing and landscape support
    • Company database access
    • A voice in who advances
    • Sourcing shaped by your priorities
    • A pre-filtered pipeline
    • Feedback and diligence reporting
  • Ecosystem engagement

    Meaningful access to startups and industry stakeholders, in the rooms where challenges, trends, and best practices actually get discussed.

    • Judging and reviewing roles
    • Invitations to partner events
    • A role in selection
    • Mentorship relationships that hold up
  • Internal development

    Participation changes how your own teams think, not just what they see.

    • Curated company sessions
    • Structured startup exposure
    • Mentorship roles
  • Thought leadership and influence

    Visibility as an organization that backs early and mid-stage innovation, and a platform for communicating what your organization is looking for and why.

    • Stage and panel roles
    • Presence where it counts
    • Logo recognition
    • Ecosystem standing
Who we partner with

One ecosystem, many reasons to join it

Every partner plays a different role in getting technology to patients. Here is what partnership delivers depending on where you sit.

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  1. Strategics and corporate development

    You see the full cohort before anyone else does. Partnership puts your scouting, business development, and R&D teams in direct working contact with companies 12 to 36 months ahead of the point where they hit your standard pipeline, with enough structured exposure to judge fit properly. Your team helps select the cohort, mentors the companies you care about, and builds relationships with founders while there is still room to shape the technology, the indication, and the partnership terms.

  2. Service providers

    Every company in our cohort needs regulatory support, testing, quality systems, design engineering, clinical research, and manufacturing. Partnership positions your team in front of them at the moment those decisions are being made, not after a vendor has already been chosen. You deliver real value through mentorship and workshops, and you build a relationship that follows these companies from first prototype through commercial scale.

  3. Professional societies

    Your members are the clinicians who decide whether new technology gets adopted. A specialty track, modeled on our work with the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and AHA Ventures/Studio Red, brings your clinical leadership into the selection and mentorship of companies working in your specialty, gives your members early visibility into what is coming, and positions your society as the place where new technology in your specialty gets validated.

  4. Foundations and disease-focused nonprofits

    If your mission depends on new technology reaching patients, partnership lets you shape which technologies get built. Sponsor a themed track aligned to your condition area, help select the companies, and put your clinical and patient-community expertise directly into the hands of teams designing around it. Your funding goes to acceleration rather than overhead, and you get a transparent view of what the technology pipeline in your area actually looks like.

  5. Government funders and agencies

    Partnership gives federal and state programs a ready-made mechanism for moving funded technologies toward commercialization. We provide the structured curriculum, industry mentorship, and corporate access that grant funding alone cannot buy, plus visibility into a national pipeline of early-stage companies working on priority problems. Our work with the Vantage BARDA Accelerator Network is the model for how this operates at scale.

  6. Regulators

    Early-stage companies routinely design their evidence strategy without a clear read on regulatory expectations, and they pay for it later. Participation through accelerator programming and activities reaches hundreds of companies at the point where their pathway is still changeable, and gives your teams an early view of technologies that will arrive at your door in a few years.

  7. Payers

    Reimbursement is where promising technology most often stalls. Partnership puts your coverage and evidence teams in front of companies while their clinical and economic evidence plans are still being written, so the studies that get run are the studies that can actually support a coverage decision. You also get early sight of technologies that will affect your cost of care, and a direct channel to influence how they are positioned.

  8. Health systems

    Partnership gives you a say in what gets built, starting with the problems you see every day. Your clinicians, supply chain leaders, and innovation teams help evaluate the cohort, mentor the companies solving problems you recognize, and get early access to technologies before they are broadly available. For systems building their own innovation function, our accelerator gives you a structured pipeline without the cost of running one.

  9. Investors

    Our selection process screens thousands of applicants down to a cohort, then spends a year pressure-testing regulatory strategy, reimbursement pathway, clinical evidence, and manufacturing readiness. Partnership gives you a de-risked, diligence-ready view of that cohort, direct introductions to founders raising now, and a seat alongside the strategics who represent the most likely exit path. You see the same data our mentors see, not a pitch deck.

Not sure where you fit?

Tell us what you are trying to accomplish and we will show you what partnership looks like for your organization.

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Event sponsorship

Sponsor the moments where the industry shows up.

Our events bring together the cohort, our partners, investors, and the broader medtech community throughout the year. Event sponsorship is a way to get in front of that audience at concentrated moments, either on its own or layered onto an annual partnership.

A MedTech Innovator reception sign outside an event venue at sunset
  1. Presenting sponsorship

    Top billing on a flagship event, opening remarks, and a role in the program itself.

  2. Pitch event and showcase sponsorship

    Your name on the competition where the cohort presents, with judging seats and stage time.

  3. Award sponsorship

    Underwrite a named award and present it to the winning company.

  4. Reception, dinner, and networking sponsorship

    Own the room where the actual conversations happen.

  5. Track or session sponsorship

    Anchor a themed segment of programming aligned to your therapeutic or technology area.

  6. Hospitality and meeting space

    Dedicated space to run partner meetings on site.

  7. Digital and livestream sponsorship

    Reach the audience that cannot attend in person, plus post-event content.

  8. Branding and collateral

    Signage, program placement, and attendee materials.

Let's talk

Whether you are looking to scout technology, deploy capital, reach founders, or advance a mission, there is a way to partner with us. Tell us what you are working toward and we will build the right package.

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