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Jumpstart Your Innovation

Apply to be a Rosenman Innovator! Connect with people who can speed up your scale-up in healthtech: subject matter experts, clinicians, partners, and investors.

Our hands-on mentorship, guidance, and the program’s suite of benefits help you navigate the path to commercialization like the insider you will soon be.

Applications Are Closed!

Applications close on Monday, April 10, 2023

2023 Rosenman Innovator Cohort

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Program Events

Offered exclusively to the Rosenman Innovators cohort, the program events provides an opportunity for entrepreneurs to connect with and learn from leaders across the healthcare ecosystem. The program culminates with Demo Day, an invitation only event where Rosenman Innovators pitch their solutions to our expansive and engaged early-stage investor network.

Times below are for Pacific Time zone.

May 17

Introduction & kickoff

Christine Winoto & Carly Grant, UCSF Rosenman Institute

12:00 – 1:00 PM
virtual event

May 24

Early-Stage Investing

Ade Adesanya, President, Movn Health
Rui Jing Jiang, CEO, Avisi Technologies

12:00 – 1:00 PM
virtual event

May 31

Market Access & Reimbursement

Joe Connolly, CEO, Visana Health
Gabriel Sanchez, CEO, Enspectra Health

12:00 – 1:00 PM
virtual event

June 6

Building Your Board

Joe Mandato, Investor & Board Member

10:30 – 11:30 AM
virtual event

June 13

DEMO DAY

If you are an investor and want to attend apply here.

9:45 AM – 1:00 PM
UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center, Robertson Auditorium

What our Rosenman Innovators say …

“Through the Rosenman Innovators I was able to meet investors, advisors, and fellow CEOs who helped me both get introduced to investors and navigate the process. I would recommend the Innovators program to a friend or fellow CEO: it is one of the most accessible friendly welcoming communities that I have found in the medtech space.”

Iris Wedeking
Co-Founder & CEO, iDENTICAL

“Early-stage companies, it’s really hard to get the first contact with investors. We built those connections through UCSF Rosenman and we got our lead investor for our seed round through this program.”

Maryam Parviz
Co-Founder & CEO, SDIP Innovations

“In your first startup you don’t have enough connections. As I was an immigrant, that made it even harder. I really didn’t have any connections in medical devices. Like when I started it was literally zero. I didn’t know any VCs, I didn’t know any executives that I can reach out to and get help from. Winning that award, the Rosenman Innovator program, really helped to find those connections.”

Mehdi Peikar
Co-Founder & CEO, Brius Technologies

“The quality of the investors was refreshing. Similarly with the mentor network, they all had strong experience as operators in the healthcare startup scene or the payer or provider side, so you were having in depth conversations with subject matter experts.”

Ade Adesanya
Co-Founder & President, Moving Analytics

“The Rosenman Innovator Program has been a terrific resource for finding experts to help grow the company at every step: regulatory, clinical, development, legal, and otherwise. The Program’s seminars are honed in and focused on critical issues and topics highly relevant to development in diagnostics, devices, and therapeutics.”

Joshua Reicher, MD
Co-Founder, Imvaria

“Of the many benefits of the Rosenman Innovator program, the group presentation training for the semi-finalists and the one-on-one pitch presentation coaching from Bold Echo were incredibly relevant and valuable. Even for experienced presenters, Bold Echo’s slide by slide (and sentence by sentence) constructive commentary dramatically improved my pitch’s engagement and interest, and was the best personal coaching experience in my career. This preparation pushed my pitch over the line to make it investment-worthy.”

Jonathan Pearson
CEO & Co-Founder, Auricle

“Tiatros is very lucky to be a Rosenman Innovator. The program fostered our collaboration with the San Francisco Veteran Affairs Health Care System. We look forward to continuing to explore ways to serve Veterans in the VA system.”

Kimberlie Cerrone
CEO & Founder, Tiatros

“The Rosenman Innovators program helped Moray Medical with wonderful mentors and services (including access to the very impressive Gore Innovation Center) during the program. What has been even better is the continuing support of the Rosenman Institute community after the program, including an introduction to the lead investor of our recent $3.3 million round!”

Mark Barrish
CEO & Co-Founder, Moray Medical

“The Rosenman Innovator program was a fantastic experience and opportunity to get exposure to seed-stage healthcare investors and other industry stakeholders. We met two investors who participated in our round through the program.”

Ade Adesanya
Co-Founder & President, Moving Analytics

“We connected with early-stage investors key to closing our seed round and raising more than $2 million in grant funding. The services provided by Cannon Quality Group included more than six months of manufacturing in a controlled environment and strategic continued input to our QMS that helped us advance significantly over a short period of time.”

Maryam Parviz
CEO, SDIP Innovations

“Through Rosenman Innovators, we were able to partner with Bayflex Solutions to conduct essential mechanical and stress testing of our product.”

Ben Holmes
CEO, Nanochon

“The Innovator program connected us with mentors who were successful founders, sophisticated investors, and scientific experts. This unique model enabled us to accelerate our progress over a few short months, successfully raise our seed round, and expand our advisory board. We have loved being a part of the Rosenman community and highly recommend the Rosenman Innovator program to any medical device or technology startup! “

Rui Jing Jiang
CEO & Co-Founder, Avisi Technologies

“The Rosenman Innovator program was game-changing for our company. We [met] several highly-experienced mentors whose guidance helped us make drastic changes in our organization and strategy… and optimize our commercial path.”

Ted Abraham, MD
Founder, Perceptive Navigation

“Liv Labs adopted a more aggressive plan and visionary scope as a result of intensive peer and investor mentoring in preparation for the Rosenman Innovator program pitch.”

Melody Roberts
CEO, Liv Labs

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Why Apply?

Get Executive Mentorship

Receive executive mentorship for your messaging strategy, product development, IP, clinical/regulatory, reimbursement, marketing, and business strategy from our network of experts.

Meet fellow Founders & Innovators

Connect with and learn from leaders and founders across the healthcare ecosystem through a series of virtual sessions providing companies with guidance that will help inform their design and integration of technology into the healthcare ecosystem.

Receive Investment Advice

Receive insight and recommendations from our team on how to hone their investor pitch deck, and pitch a group of determined investors and industry partners. Previous Innovators have had investments made in their Series A rounds as a result of this program.

Win In-Kind Services

Win valuable in-kind prizes to help accelerate progress.

Join the Rosenman Founders Community

Join our community of founders. Members receive invitations to special events and networking opportunities with investors and experts.

Who Can Apply

Early-Stage Healthtech Companies

The Rosenman Innovators program is open to early-stage diagnostics, digital health, health services, and medical device companies based anywhere in the world (up to and including Series A investment).

No University Affiliation is Required

Returning Applicants

If you have submitted an application in previous years but didn’t make it to the final cohort, we welcome you to apply again if your company has made progress.

Timeline

Applications open

February 1

April 10

Deadline to apply

First selection: startups notified of status

End of April

May 3

Messaging strategy workshop

Startups pitch virtual judging panel

Mid-May

Final selection: startups notified of status

Rosenman Innovators meet with Executive Mentors

Mid-May to June

June 13

Demo Day

2023 Rosenman Innovators Demo Day will be held in-person on June 13th. All other events will be held virtually.

Meet the 2022 Rosenman Innovators

Congratulations to the 11 health technology companies and their amazing founders selected for this year’s program!

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Investment Partners

A core group of investors supports the Rosenman Innovator program and the Institute throughout the year.

In-Kind Services

Our participating service partners will choose the recipients of their services from among the Rosenman Innovator cohort. Criteria include technology, market potential, and how much a startup would benefit from a particular service.

In-kind awards include design review, fundraising support, cloud services, regulatory support, quality management support, IP strategy, clinical consultations, and more!