Nurturing a startup culture in healthcare

Healthcare accelerators (Blueprint Health, StartUp Health, RockHealth) have lately gained most of the buzz, but incubators and ‘labs’ have been where many companies have gained their start. Phoenix, Arizona has entered the fray with SEED SPOT, featuring three healthcare-related startups among 16. While they may be able to serve up their companies ‘piping hot’ into a lower cost, supportive environment, chilly New York City has the opposite situation. Even with the advantages of world-class academic and healthcare resources, it’s been a forbidding setting for startups for years with money and attention going to e-commerce and financial businesses. The Bio & Health Tech Entrepreneurship Lab, backed by the New York Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), intends to change this with a first class of 20 startups. Their technologies are along a broad spectrum including wound healing, genetic testing, imaging, diabetes treatment, big data for genomics and mHealth for high-risk patients. SEED SPOT incubates health startups in Phoenix (Forbes) NYC-backed health startup lab wants to turn academics into entrepreneurs (GigaOM) Bio & Health Tech website