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#TXHealthTech Chat’s Top Takeaways Plus A Guide And Resources For Health Tech Startups

If you’re looking to kick your health tech startup into high gear, Dallas-Fort Worth is a sweet spot to set up shop. Among DFW’s offerings: a roaring tech sector, startup meetups galore and top medical schools, to  name a few.

 

How do you navigate the goods? Here’s a list of resources to help out.

  • Launch DFW, the go-to spot for DFW startups and entrepreneurs.
  • The Dallas Entrepreneur Center (the DEC), a business-support structure for entrepreneurs providing a location where they can receive training, education, mentorship, promotion and access to capital.
  • Health 2.0 Dallas, a group of Dallas innovators who meet regularly with the mission to cultivate and propel health and technology within our community.
  • The National Business Incubation Association (NBIA), an organization advancing business incubation and entrepreneurship.

Health Tech Incubators & Accelerators 

  • Health Wildcatters, a Dallas-based mentorship-driven healthcare seed accelerator. The 12-week accelerator program runs in the fall starting August 2013 in Dallas.
  • Blueprint Health, a New York City-based incubator that offers health IT startups an intensive three-month program.
  • Healthbox, a fast-paced 16-week accelerator that takes place in various locations across the globe.
  • Rock Health, a San Francisco-based not-for-profit incubator with a four-month program that focuses on funding for 15-20 companies per year.
  • StartUp Health, a New York City-based incubator with a long-term (three year) approach to help health and wellness entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses
  • MANY MORE

Lauren Silverman was the Health, Science & Technology reporter/blogger at KERA News. She was also the primary backup host for KERA’s Think and the statewide newsmagazine  Texas Standard. In 2016, Lauren was recognized as Texas Health Journalist of the Year by the Texas Medical Association. She was part of the Peabody Award-winning team that covered Ebola for NPR in 2014. She also hosted "Surviving Ebola," a special that won Best Long Documentary honors from the Public Radio News Directors Inc. (PRNDI). And she's won a number of regional awards, including an honorable mention for Edward R. Murrow award (for her project “The Broken Hip”), as well as the Texas Veterans Commission’s Excellence in Media Awards in the radio category.