UCSF Rosenman ADAPT
Bringing together startups and healthcare systems to collaborate and accelerate solutions to market.
Scale Up Your Healthcare Solution in Partnership with Leading Healthcare Companies
As COVID-19 has shown, disparities in health and access to care remain stubbornly intact, and in many ways are widening. New solutions are needed that accelerate improvements in health, potentially through new models of care, and improve health outcomes at the population/community-level. To help accelerate these solutions to market, we created the ADAPT program. Through ADAPT, we support and bring together health technology startups and healthcare systems.
ADAPT awardees receive $100,000 non-dilutive funding and the opportunity to partner with Blue Shield of California, Cigna Healthcare, Evernorth Health Services, OptumLabs, and UnitedHealth Group, which together have over 200 million members.
All finalists for the ADAPT program are invited to join the UCSF community of Rosenman Founders and the ADAPT Academy featuring speakers that include investors, payers, and employers.
How It Works
All sessions are virtual.
Each fall, we invite health technology startups with innovative solutions, and the potential to be deployed on a national scale, to pitch our program partners and industry leaders. Startups “matched” with program partners will:
- Receive $100K non-dilutive funding.
- Receive strategic guidance and support from program partners to facilitate progress towards a deployable product and the potential for piloting your innovative solution in their environment.
- Gain access to data and HIPAA compliant infrastructure and insights on how to implement key data, as appropriate.
- Gain exposure to strategic and venture capital investors.
- Join the Rosenman Founders community. Members receive invitations to special events and networking opportunities with investors and experts.
Who Can Apply
Applicants must show their solutions are innovative and have the potential to be deployed on a national scale. In addition:
- If selected, applicants must commit to provide staff, time, and resources to validate, pilot, and deploy the solution that is being developed.
- A minimum viable product is essential. Companies from early-stage with MVP to late-stage (revenue) are eligible. Companies with Series C funding and beyond do not typically fit the scope of this program.
- We encourage proposals from companies run by, or for, women, communities of color and LGBTQ+ communities. It is important for companies, especially companies not led by the constituents they seek to serve, to display a collaborative, community-driven approach.
- Companies based anywhere in the world are eligible; however, the solution should be scalable in the United States. No university affiliation is required.
Timeline
Applications open
August 1
September 30
Deadline to apply
First selection: startups notified of status
Late October
November 8-9
Semi-finalists pitch judging panel
Finalists pitch judging panel
November 30-December 1
February
ADAPT awardees announced
The ADAPT program will be held virtually.
Areas & Solutions of Interest
Solutions could include, but are not limited to:
- Multi-sectorial interventions that address social and economic determinants of health across multiple domains at the intersection of social, economic, and health needs.
- Improving health care access, potentially with new forms of delivery, to BIPOC, high risk, and/or vulnerable populations.
- Whole-person models of care that support integration of behavioral and medical drivers of health status.
- Improving engagement of communities with their health, with providers, and with payers.
- Interventions that help unwind racial bias in healthcare decision-making.
You should demonstrate the following in your proposal:
- Connections to the community you serve that demonstrate effective engagement and trust.
- Understanding of the community you serve, including their unique cultural values, their particular social and health needs, and the lived experiences of community members.
- How you will be inclusive of community voices and knowledge when it comes to prototyping and co-creating your initiative.
- Proposed solutions that build on and support existing community strengths.
Some examples of areas of interest:
- AI/DSS that prevent bias
- Autoimmune diseases
- Cardiovascular care
- Care outside hospital
- Chronic care
- Digital therapeutics
- Elderly care & aging in place
- Healthcare worker burnout
- Mental & behavioral health
- Nutrition & wellness
- Obesity management
- Oncology care
- Pain management
- Patient & family support
- Pharmacy remote solutions
- Portable health
- Remote monitoring
- Virtual care/telehealth
- Women’s health