Watch the recording from our Fall 2023 Demo Day.

Watch the recording from our Fall 2022 Demo Day.

Watch the recording from our Fall 2022 Demo Day.

We will spend 30 minutes providing information about the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator and our upcoming class 7!

About this event

Join the Managing Director of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, Anne Wellington as she gives an overview of what the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator program has to offer and gives details on our upcoming Class 7.

We will spend 30 minutes providing information about the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator and our upcoming class 7!

About this event

Join the Managing Director of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, Anne Wellington as she gives an overview of what the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator program has to offer and gives details on our upcoming Class 7.

We will spend 30 minutes providing information about the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator and our upcoming class 7!

About this event

Join the Managing Director of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, Anne Wellington as she gives an overview of what the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator program has to offer and gives details on our upcoming Class 7.

Register for this event.

Description

This community program is for aspiring or active founders who are interested in funding their idea and forming a company and will cover topics like when to pursue legal counsel, important things to consider when forming your company, and what to do when seeking angel financing or venture capital. The program will also discuss specific considerations for founders looking to start a health tech / digital health company. Walk away with concrete steps that you can take to start your own company or take your startup to the next level!

AGENDA

6:00 - 6:45 PM Networking

6:45 - 7:45 PM Forming & Funding Your Startup, presented by Cooley LLP

7:45 - 8:00 PM Networking

REFRESHMENTS

Light refreshments will be served.

PARKING

Parking is available across the street from the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator in the Beverly Center's parking structure. Within walking distance, there is also parking available in Structure 4 off San Vicente at the Cedars-Sinai campus. We also encourage you to use rideshare services whenever possible. We do not validate parking.

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Description

This event will showcase companies participating in International Startup Week at the Cedars-Sinai Innovation Space. This exceptional group represents innovative solutions from countries around the world and has improved care for thousands of patients.

This event will be a great chance to network with other founders, investors, and other leaders. Networking and happy hour start at 5 PM.

About the Companies

BETA MEDTECH

Beta MedTech has developed a device and sensor to predict and prevent pressure ulcers.

EKO.AI

Eko.ai has developed a machine learning platform that automates the process of measuring and interpreting echocardiograms or ultrasound images of the heart.

KRONIKARE

KroniKare is an HSA Class B registered diagnostic tool, for automatic assessing and managing chronic wounds.

MACHINE MEDICINE

Machine Medicine has developed an AI platform for objective measurement of disability in Parkinson's patients from simple video clips.

MAVERICK MEDICAL AI

Maverick helps healthcare organizations convert unstructured patient information into revenue-generating clinical insights.

METICULY

At Meticuly, we dedicate ourselves to providing patients with meticulously made medical devices that perfectly fit the patient’s anatomy, biology and biomechanics.

NEUROFENIX

The Neuroball allows stroke survivors to perform exercises to help improve hand dexterity and connects to a tablet application, allowing the user to play games whilst undergoing rehabilitation to make the process more engaging.

P4ML

P4ML’s – Data-Driven Health Intelligence (DDHI™ ) platform aggregates data from multiple OMICS sources and uses advanced machine learning algorithms to inform diagnosis, prognosis, therapy selection, and drug development.

FAQs Parking is available across the street from the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator in the Beverly Center's parking structure. Within walking distance, there is also parking available in Structure 4 off San Vicente at the Cedars-Sinai campus. We also encourage you to use rideshare services whenever possible. We do not validate parking.

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Learn more about how Children of War Foundation, COWF Youth Interns, Residents, Fellows, and our Partners in Global Health are accelerating Sustainable Development Goals 2030.

Event Program/Agenda

• 6p-630p Mingle with COWF team members, local healthcare professionals for networking, drinks and nibbles.

• Opening Presentation on COWF's history, mission and vision by Founding Executive Director, Amel Najjar

• Discussion and informational session; Aligning COWF's mission to accelerate and develop programming with the SDG's 2030, presented by Hanifa D. Mezoui, PhD; AICESIS, New-York Permanent Representative IGO in Observer Status with UN ECOSOC; International Association of Economic and Social Councils, Senior Advisor to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

• Presentation; Innovating Access to Medical Education through remote surgical training Dr. David Kulber, Professor of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Director, Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery, Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Hand Fellowship; Director, Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; Director, Plastic Surgery Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Group

• Presentation; COWF's Outreach Development for Capacity Building, experience & hands on training via mobilization of surgical & healthcare intervention as well as medical education by Dr. Paul Kokorowski; Director -Robotic Surgery; Co-surgical director, CAH Comprehensive Care Clinic; Attending Physician; Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine of USC Assistant Professor of Clinical Urology, Keck School of Medicine of USC

• Presentation; Global Health Partnerships, Fellowships, internships, volunteer, medical education, advocacy, observational programming and internship through COWF's national and international network of Global Health partners. Speakers include Dr. Jeffrey Hammoudeh, Associate Division Head, Director,Jaw Deformities Care Program,Attending Physician, Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC & (tbc) Dr. Mark Urata, Division Head Chief - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery USC/Children's Hospital LA, Professor of Clinical Surgery, Keck School of Medicine USC.

• Meet COWF's first child (Hashim) returning to Los Angeles from Iraq 10 years after receiving life saving surgical care.

Doors open at 6pm for pre event drinks, nibbles & networking opportunities to meet local doctors and team members.

Discussion and Presentations start promptly at 630p.

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WHARTON ALUMNAE FOUNDERS & FUNDERS ASSOCIATION (WAFFA) | LOS ANGELES CHAPTER LAUNCH! FEMALE FOUNDERS LONG LA

About this Event

What better way to learn about entrepreneurship than first-hand from female founders who built their ventures from the ground up? Join Wharton Alumnae Founders and Funders Association (WAFFA) for an opportunity to connect with women professionals in Los Angeles. During the panel, you will hear from female founders about everything that happens behind the scenes and what makes it all worth it. All are welcome.

Panelists:

Bianca Gonzales, Co-founder and CEO of AMPAworks

Marina Glazman, Founder and CEO of Suitely

Lindsay McLean, Co-founder and CEO of HomeLister

Hannah Diop, Founder of Sienna Naturals

Moderated by Mavis Yao

Parking is available at the Beverly Center.

Bianca Gonzalez (NU’08, WG’19) is the CEO and co-founder of AMPAworks, an IoT system that uses computer vision deep learning models to track inventory in hospitals. Bianca has worked in clinical operations and patient care as a nurse practitioner and clinical trials investigator. She created AMPAworks with fellow Wharton classmates to address the pain points of inventory management and reduce overall costs to hospitals and clinics. AMPAworks has several clinics and hospitals on its platform today and has obtained funding from Cedars-Sinai Hospital Accelerator, 500 Startups, First Round Capital’s Dorm Room Fund, and grants.

Marina Glazman, Founder/CEO Suitely, Inc.

In 2015, Marina founded Suitely, a digital retail platform providing guided, designer-free interior decor solutions online. Suitely has been recognized by HGTV, The Washington Post, Vogue, and others as a breakthrough solution for its modular suite-based shopping model. Previously, Marina served in corporate strategy, consulting, and competitive intelligence roles at Bainbridge, where she developed growth strategy for Fortune 100 Media and Healthcare clients; and at Dow Jones where she drove revenue strategy for the Europe and Asia editions of the Wall Street Journal. Previously, she also co-founded/ran Olympia Consulting Group, which served retail and lifestyle companies building digital capabilities. She earned her BA at the University of California San Diego in International Studies—Russian Lit, and an MBA from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania.

Lindsay McLean is the Co-Founder and CEO of HomeLister, an industry changing real estate tech company that allows home sellers to take properties directly to market using industry tools. Previously, Lindsay founded LMC Advisory Group, where she served as Managing Member supporting growing real estate businesses with key strategic decisions. She also co-founded Ecological Development, a ground up residential development company; and Ecological Group, an energy efficiency engineering and sustainability consulting group improving value of real estate through green management techniques and sustainability planning. Lindsay began her career as a software engineer at Accenture. She earned her BSE in Bioengineering at University of Pennsylvania, and graduated from Wharton at UPenn with her MBA in 2005.

Hannah Diop is the founder of Sienna Naturals. Hannah grew up in Minneapolis, MN in a multiracial family that valued a natural lifestyle. She started Sienna Naturals out of a passion for high quality natural ingredient sourcing and a desire to help women care for their textured hair and scalp health. Sienna Naturals is a treatment-focused system of products that restore hair’s health through ingredients from around the world found in nature and proven by science. Sienna Naturals seeks to become the clean beauty authority in the marketplace for women with textured hair.

Hannah started Sienna Naturals on the heels of a successful consulting practice at McKinsey & Company where she served a number of clients in the retail and consumer goods space. Prior to McKinsey she completed her MBA at the Wharton. She holds a BA in International Business from Howard University.

Moderator Mavis Yao is a financier, investor and entrepreneur. Currently, she serves as the Entrepreneur in Residence for Children's Hospital Los Angeles's pediatric medical device accelerator program, CTIP (Consortium for Technology Innovation in Pediatrics) She has extensive experiences in the financial arena ranging from investment banking, option trading, equity analysis and alternative investments. Her success stems from her ability to identify strategic opportunities and undervalued assets across various financial instruments such as real estate, stock and option markets. Mavis holds an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from Stern School of Business, New York University. She is the lead for Facebook Developer Circle in Los Angeles.

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Investor Pitch Roundtables provide opportunities for facilitated, small group discussions with digital health and health tech investors.

There are 8 seats at the table for the 90-minute discussion. Preference will go to those who have not participated in an investor roundtable in the last 90 days.

Please submit your pitch deck to innovationspace@cshs.org once you sign up. A few days prior, we will send out "Confirmation Required" emails to registrants. You must email back to confirm your spot 48 hours before the roundtable or we will release your ticket to individuals on the waitlist.

Join Maureen Klewicki from Crosscut Ventures and a small group of peers to present your pitch and gain valuable feedback on your product, strategy, and presentation. Each participating company will be given two minutes to present, so please come prepared to present a short-form pitch. After each presentation, we will discuss ways to tailor the pitch to specific investor focus areas, and participants will be encouraged to provide feedback to their peers.

Please read the following bio about the firm and investor before signing up. We reserve the right to decline potential participants for any reason.

Bio:

Maureen has spent her career at the cross-section of early-stage startups and large enterprise customers. Before Crosscut, Maureen was the Director of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Powered by Techstars, where she worked with B2B health tech companies selling to providers, payers, and pharma. Previously, Maureen spent time at a venture-backed smart home startup handling business and legal operations. Maureen began her career as an attorney in the IP Transactions group at Nixon Peabody LLP, a Global 100 law firm. While at the law firm, Maureen did pro bono work with pre-seed fashion and e-commerce companies and a Stanford University legal tech research group. Maureen attended law school at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and did her undergraduate studies at the University of Utah.

About Crosscut Ventures:

Crosscut Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm in Los Angeles. The firm invests early in the equity of start-ups that have the potential to scale, disrupt, and build large markets. Crosscut is a catalyst for innovation, bringing decades of expertise in technology and entrepreneurship to help passionate founders build world-class companies. Founded in LA, the firm has been committed to powering the entrepreneurship community in southern California since 2008.

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Interested in applying to Class 6 in 2020? This webinar will cover information about the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator and participants will be able to engage with the team during Q+A.

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Join Health Tech 4 Medicaid, Health 2.0 LA, and the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator for an evening showcasing innovative partnerships increasing access to care for traditionally underserved patient populations.

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Hear from startups and enterprises taking strides to improve patient experiences using new digital technology. Be part of the conversation.

About this Event

Mind The Blockchain, with the support of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator of Los Angeles, MATTER, and HealthTech Women of Chicago, has assembled thought leaders from Healthcare Startups and Enterprises to share their perspectives on the role of blockchain technology and innovations for the health tech sector.

It will be an evening of education and networking focused on blockchain and its impact on healthcare technology. We are building an inclusive community of individuals looking to "Future Proof" their careers. Blockchain curious? Then this event is for you.

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Agenda

5:30 Networking with lite bites

6:00 Welcome & Introductions

• Mind The Blockchain: Team & Advisor Introductions

• Co-hosts: Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, MATTER, HealthTech Women of Chicago

6:15 Setting the Healthcare Tech Stage:

• Take Aways from the JP Morgan Healthcare Investor’s Conference 2020

• Entrepreneurship leading change

6:30 Panel & Questions:

• Shuhan Zhou /// LinkedIn Bio

• Karrie Sullivan /// LinkedIn Bio

7:30 Thank you! See you next month.

Event Take Aways

Our collective goal is that attendees will gain some understanding around the following:

1. Healthcare sector trends with technology apply across a variety of other sectors.

2. Real use cases from startups & enterprises provide concrete uses that solve a problem or create new value using blockchain infrastructure along with other tech solutions.

3. Your livelihood can be positively impacted knowing blockchain and the opportunities it provides for creating economic value, business creation, and job security.

4. Inclusion is key to better solutions and equitable participation in wealth creation.

About the Event Organizers

Mind The Blockchain

The Mind The Blockchain 2020 calendar starts with a February forum discussing blockchain’s relevance in the healthcare industry!

By building an inclusive community and convening at various forums, Mind the Blockchain focuses on increasing blockchain knowledge and its near-term use. Experts at Gartner predict that the new wealth creation from blockchain will be close to $3.1 trillion by 2030*. Blockchain curious yet? We believe we need to be proactive - not reactive - to this change. If you want to be at the forefront of this new technology, it is time to Mind the Blockchain!

We are creating a community of diverse individuals who want to be leaders in their organizations or launch entrepreneurial efforts. Together, we will learn and lead the creation of new economic value. We will not wait for changes to make us obsolete. Instead, we will lead the change ourselves!

*FFurlonger, D & Uzureau, C, Executive Guidance: Get to Know Blockchain (Gartner, 2019), 3.

Cedars-Sinai Accelerator

The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is transforming healthcare quality, efficiency, and care delivery by helping entrepreneurs bring their innovative technology products to market.

This three-month program, based in Los Angeles, provides companies with $100,000 in funding, mentorship from more than 300 leading clinicians and executives, access to Cedars-Sinai, and exposure to a broad network of entrepreneurs and investors.

MATTER

At MATTER, we believe collaboration is the best way to improve healthcare. The MATTER collaborative includes more than 200 cutting-edge startups from around the world, working together with dozens of hospitals and health systems, universities, and industry-leading companies to build the future of healthcare. Together we are accelerating innovation, advancing care, and improving lives.

HealthTech Women of Chicago

HealthTech Women is dedicated to supporting women in achieving their goals, advancing their careers, and fueling innovation across health. Join our 20,000+ members around the globe to expand your knowledge, share ideas, get inspired, and make a difference.

Thank you to our Sponsors

Thank you to our generous host, MATTER, for providing a great space for collaboration to improve healthcare. Thank you to our co-host, the Cedar Sanai Accelerator, for their dedication to investing in entrepreneurs and thought leaders who bring innovation technology to the industry. And lastly, thank you to our partners at HealthTech Women of Chicago who, like us, are empowering women and minorities to take action to lead in our community. Together we are accelerating innovation, advancing care, and improving lives.

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Network with and hear from a panel of diverse founders and leaders within Digital Health!

About this Event

The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is excited to host this event focused on diversity within Digital Health and Health Tech!

Research proves that diversity is a powerful competitive advantage for business. Despite the evidence, we are far from achieving gender and racial equity in practice. Together with Radical Health, Queerly Health, and Mt. Sinai's Diversity Innovation Hub, the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator will host a panel discussion and networking reception focused on female, minority, and non-binary startup founders and leaders of healthcare startups.

Join us for an engaging evening as our panelists discuss how their experience has shaped them, their roles as founders and leaders of companies, and the role that diversity plays in leading a healthcare startup.

Attendees will have the opportunity to speak with the panelists after the main panel for any extra questions or thoughts they would like to individually share.

Agenda:

6:00 PM Registration/Networking

7:00 PM Opening Remarks (CS Accelerator)

7:15 PM Panel discussion

8:15 PM Networking

9:00 PM Close

Panel:

Ivelyse Andino (Radical Health)

Ivelyse Andino is an Afro-Latina health equity innovator born and raised in The Bronx. She is the founder and CEO of Radical Health and a Commissioner on the New York City Commission on Gender Equity. Ivelyse enjoyed a fledgling career in health tech, pioneering some of its first digital health solutions, including bringing the first mobile app prescribing platform to market and working with global clients such as National Health Service (NHS London) and Kaiser Permanente. While she routinely trained oncologists on new drugs, she found herself unprepared when her mother was diagnosed with cancer. This forced her to directly and intimately confront the systemic healthcare disparities she knew that existed. In founding Radical Health — the first Latina-owned and operated Benefit Corp in NYC — she has sought to combine her expertise in healthcare and her passion as a community organizer.

Derrick Reyes (Queerly Health)

Derrick Reyes is the Co-Founder and CEO of Queerly Health, an online marketplace of LGBTQ-friendly health and wellness providers, telehealth capabilities, and concierge health services. With a background in LGBTQ health, education, and social services, and a member of the LGBTQ community themself, Derrick knows firsthand how difficult it is for LGBTQ people to access anything related to healthcare. Derrick also understands digital health’s potential to create some much needed change.

Gary Butts, MD (Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer @ Mt Sinai)

Dr. Butts is currently Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the Mount Sinai Health System and Senior Associate Dean for Diversity Programs, Policy and Community Affairs for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In these roles, Dr. Butts is responsible for oversight, management and integration of all aspects of diversity programs and policies for the Mount Sinai Health System to ensure diversity and inclusion as an integral core institutional value and resource across the health system, including the medical and graduate schools, graduate medical education and the Mount Sinai Hospitals Group. He has spent over 3 decades providing healthcare services to East and Central Harlem residents and the past 15 years developing and spearheading efforts to improve and sustain racial, ethnic and gender diversity across all levels of education, training, and faculty for the School of Medicine.

Janice Louie (Program Director, Cedars-Sinai Accelerator | Moderator)

As the Program Director at the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, Janice focuses on ensuring that early stage companies are achieving the greatest value from the program and the Cedars-Sinai network at large. The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is a three-month long program that takes place on-site at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Entrepreneurs and founders gain access to clinicians, stakeholders, and other decision-makers at Cedars-Sinai, as well as our external network of mentors and investors. Companies participating in our program also receive investment of $100K and more than $100K worth of perks from our business partners.

Venue Host

Epicured is a healthcare company that translates medical research into consumer food products. Our goal is to harness the natural healing power of food to help people eat better, feel better and live better. Epicured brings the best of the clinical and culinary worlds together to improve the health outcomes with delicious food experiences rooted in evidence. We deliver freshly prepared, ready to eat meals right to your door. All of our food is low FODMAP, gluten free, and absolutely delicious!

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Meet the staff of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator as they tour the country looking for innovative digital health and health tech start-ups!

About this Event

The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, in partnership with the Georgia Tech Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), is happy to host a Happy Hour at ATDC in Atlanta!

The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator's next class will take place in Summer 2020 and we are hitting the road to meet with the most exciting and promising early-stage digital health, health IT, and health tech companies.

Come meet the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator and ATDC staff to learn more about our respective programs.

Do you have a start-up and are interested in meeting with the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator staff 1:1 during Office Hours at ATDC before the happy hour? Sign-up here!

The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is a three-month long program that takes place on-site at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Being part of our program and community gives you access to clinicians, stakeholders, and other decision-makers at Cedars-Sinai, as well as our external network of mentors and investors. Companies participating in our program also receive investment of $100K and more than $100K worth of perks from our business partners.

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Meet the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator staff and learn about applying to the next class during a meet & greet happy hour at Catalyst HTI in Denver!

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Interested in applying to Class 6 in 2020? This webinar will cover information about the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator and participants will be able to engage with the team during Q+A.

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Innovation Rounds are monthly masterclasses in Healthcare Innovation that aim to educate the Cedars-Sinai community in the development, commercialization, and implementation of novel solutions to problems in medicine.

All medical center faculty and staff are invited to attend, including physicians, fellows, residents, nurses, technicians, pharmacists, researchers, students, and administrators.

The topic for our January session is "Growing a Successful Culture for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in an Academic Medical Center." Our guest speaker is Dr. Mark Cohen from the University of Michigan. He is a Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology, the Director of the Medical School Pathway of Excellence in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Director of Endocrine Surgery Research, and the Innovation Chief at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center.

Snacks and beverages will be provided!

CME credits are available for clinical staff.

The AI LA Community is hosting a panel on Cybersecurity and Privacy. Swing by the Innovation Space to hear from experts on how artificial intelligence and machine learning will change the way organizations detect breach attempts, defend against intruders, and keep our data private. Cedars-Sinai's Deputy CISO, Tamer Azmy, will be one of the panelists at the evening's event. Use code CSHS30 for 30% off the registration fee.

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Hear from industry leaders in virtual reality and augmented reality who are changing the game in healthcare. Join XRLA and Health 2.0 LA at the Cedars-Sinai Innovation Space for a power-packed panel & an evening of fun demos! 

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Spend the afternoon hearing from leaders at McDermott Will & Emery and BioLA at the Cedars-Sinai Innovation Space as they cover the ins and outs of building a company in digital health. This session will cover everything from IP to cybersecurity to reimbursement in healthcare. 

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Join Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS, and Biocom LA at the Cedars-Sinai Innovation Space and hear from a panel of experts as they delve into strategies to support your company's growth as it enters the scaling phase.

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