Episode description
Paul Grand is the CEO of Medtech Innovator which is an accelerator for startups in the medical technology space. It has been going for many years and the companies that they select to go through the 4 month process have gone on to be very successful.
Apply for this year's cohort, deadline January 31st
https://medtechinnovator.org/apply/
Top 3 Takeaways:
- "MedTech innovator as an accelerator is the world's largest accelerator for medical technology"
- "1,800 companies applied last year across all of our cohorts. We accept around 4% of that."
- "Some of the benchmarks we've got: over 90 products in the market, $3.5 billion in follow on funding to our companies post-MedTech innovator, and we've had 21 acquisitions."
0:45 "Do you want to introduce yourself?"
3:00 "What is MedTech innovator for? Who is it for?"
6:00 "Is there exclusion criteria or is there some kind of a framework where certain companies would be better fits?"
9:30 Are there companies that would be too big for you?
10:30 "How do you find these companies?"
12:30 "How do you help find investment and how do you help people guide through this process?"
16:45 "What are some of your favorite success stories?"
22:15 Do busy CEOs have to drop everything in order to attend the 4 month workshop?
24:00 "What advice do you have for companies who want to get into Medtech Innovator?"
31:00 "Is there anything that we didn't mention that you wanted to talk about?"