MassRobotics Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Program

About

The MassRobotics Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Program is a five-month non-equity accelerator designed to help robotics and automation startups in the healthcare and life sciences sectors accelerate their clinical readiness, technology validation, and market entry, offering tailored mentorship from industry experts and opportunities for clinical insights and networking.

Benefits

• Customized mentorship from senior experts
• Clinical perspectives from a medical advisory board including Mass General Brigham
• Structured onboarding and goal setting with bi-weekly mentor meetings
• Customized workshops based on team needs covering regulatory strategies, cybersecurity, software bill of materials (SBOMs), clinical workflows, pilot design, etc.
• Opportunity to showcase through MassRobotics channels and at the Boston Robotics Summit

Eligibility Criteria

• Open to global startup teams
• Suitable for early-stage teams and mature companies, covering seed to Series C
• Focus areas include healthcare and biotechnology robotics, such as lab and pharmaceutical automation, diagnostic and imaging workflows, hospital logistics, rehabilitation and assistive devices, surgical and interventional robotics, sensing, precision motion, and medical device cybersecurity
• Teams that can advance proof of concept during the five-month program are encouraged to apply