Launchpad Digital Health Named a Top Digital Health Investor -- Applications Now Open for Next Cohort
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Launchpad Digital Health (www.launchpdh.com), the next generation of seed funds + accelerator for digital health, was named the #4 digital health investor worldwide for the past 12 months by CB Equity, having now completed 10 seed round investments and two follow on investments in the past 14 months. This ranks Launchpad Digital Health alongside Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, just behind Qualcomm Ventures, Village Capital, and Y Combinator, and ahead of all others.
Launchpad Digital Health also announced today it is accepting new business plan applications for its third cohort of companies. The application deadline is October 15, 2015. Dynamic entrepreneurs ready to scale their digital health businesses are encouraged to apply. LDH expects its new class of funded companies to begin their one-year program at its offices in San Francisco in the first quarter of 2016.
Companies selected receive:
- more capital – $200,000 to $500,000 seed funding;
- more time – 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 www.launchpdh.com.
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 $500,000 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 companies throughout the healthcare and technology sectors, including digital health companies, for the past two decades.
Portfolio companies include LifeDojo, Mevoked, Breezometer, InsightRx, Limelight Health, Sense.ly, Medable, QueueDr and Addapp.
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; Woodruff Sawyer; Mavericks; 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.
SOURCE Launchpad Digital Health
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