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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.

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Applications close on Monday, April 10, 2023

Program Partners

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

Have a question? See our FAQ below.

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.

Join the Innovators Academy

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

Get 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.

Get 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

All 2023 Rosenman Innovators 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!

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Alloy Product Development

Design review

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Frequently Asked Questions

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The Rosenman Innovators

Helping entrepreneurs bring life-changing healthtech to market in a big way.

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.

Program Partners

What our Rosenman Innovators say …

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

Have a question? See our FAQ below.

Why Apply?

Who Can Apply

Timeline

Meet the 2022 Rosenman Innovators

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

Investment Partners

In-Kind Services

Alloy Product Development

Alwaysraise

AWS Activate

Bayflex

Bay View Analytics

Basil Systems

Brown Rudnick

Cannon Quality Group

Galen Data

iO life science

Kilpatrick Townsend

Match Health Collective

Maynard Cooper

Mingletoe

Nemedio

Perkins Coie

Veranex

San Francisco VA Health Care System

Strategic Marketing Innovations

Wilson Sonsini

Young Basile

Frequently Asked Questions

Our company is not based in California or the United States. Are we eligible?

We are not affiliated with a university. Does that affect our application in any way?

Our company is developing a digital technology. Do you only take medical devices?

We are not incorporated yet. Should we apply?

We do not yet have any funding. Are we eligible?

Are there any specific requirements re: disease or condition that our technology targets?