Launchpad Digital Health - Open for Applications

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Oct 22, 2014, 07:00 ET

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Launchpad Digital Health (www.launchpdh.com), the next generation accelerator for digital health, today announced it is accepting new business plan applications for its second class of companies. The application deadline is December 1, 2014. Dynamic entrepreneurs of companies ready to scale their digital health businesses are encouraged to apply. Launchpad Digital Health expects its new class of funded companies to begin their one-year program at its offices in San Francisco in the first quarter of 2015.

Companies selected into the program receive:

more capital –$200,000 to $400,000 seed funding;
more time commitment – one year program in San Francisco;
more intensity – regular, ongoing engagement with Launchpad Digital Health's founders, partners, mentors and co-located startups.

Applications may be submitted at [email protected].

About Launchpad Digital Health

Launchpad Digital Health is a next generation accelerator—more capital, more time and more intensity for its portfolio companies and their founders. Each company accepted into the accelerator program receives: 1) more capital in the form of up to a $400,000 investment, 2) more time commitment in the form of a full one year-long program co-located with other startups in digital health sector and the Launchpad Digital Health founders, and 3) more intensity in the form of daily and weekly engagement with Launchpad Digital Health's founders, partners and mentors as critical business decisions are made continuously with advisors assisting all along the way. The founders of Launchpad Digital Health have funded and operated a myriad of companies throughout the healthcare and technology sectors, including digital health companies, for the past two decades.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR), the leading Silicon Valley- and San Francisco-based law firm in the technology and healthcare sectors, is a substantial investor in the Launchpad Digital Health portfolio of companies. Partners or investors in Launchpad Digital Health include a significant team of advisors, mentors and companies: WSGR; EisnerAmper LLP; Merrill Lynch Venture Services (BofA); Woodruff Sawyer; Mavericks Capital; and Platinum Advisors; among many others.

To find out more, visit us at www.launchpdh.com and see how your startup can benefit from this next generation accelerator program, as its next class of companies begins.

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