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.

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

• • 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

Yes.

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.

In order to work with our partners, it would make sense for your entities to be incorporated in the United States already.

Please check out our Startup Operation Support for incorporation services with our legal partners.

We want a team that is fully dedicated to the project. A project is not eligible if the leadership is part-time.

Yes, companies based anywhere in the world are eligible; however, the solution should be scalable in the United States.

Not necessarily. We are looking for solutions that can be implemented inside or outside the USA.

The UCSF Rosenman Institute does not get involved in the IP at all. In ADAPT we connect the emerging companies with the larger partners. Existing IP remains the property of the startup, while any IP developed as part of working with the larger partner may be subject to a separate agreement with them.