National healthcare innovation network · est. 2013
Healthcare has problems worth building for.
20 chapters. Students, clinicians and engineers turning unmet clinical needs into companies.
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Different disciplines. One problem worth solving.
From problem to prototype
Identify clinical needs
Teams work with healthcare professionals to uncover real, unmet needs in the clinical setting.
Design and prototype
From sketches to functional prototypes, students build medical technologies using design thinking and rapid iteration.
Validate with experts
Teams receive feedback from clinicians, researchers and investors to refine usability, feasibility and impact.
Pitch to launch
On Demo Day, teams present their ventures to a live audience, gaining visibility, funding opportunities and potential partnerships.
The signal appears.
The signal acquires structure.
The structure is pressure-tested.
The trajectory accelerates outward.
Built in months. Presented in minutes. Designed to last far longer.
The people who have done it show up.
Sling Health by the numbers
$220M+
in follow-on capital raised by alumni ventures
Sling Health St. Louis
180+
teams graduated from the programme
National
20
chapters across the United States
National
$900K+
allocated directly to student-led prototypes and team initiatives
National
In the press
Recognized nationally.
Investors & Backers
Backed by the best.
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Labcorp
Series B lead for Geneoscopy
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Bio-Rad
Series C lead for Geneoscopy
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Y Combinator
Accelerator for multiple alumni
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Morningside
Backer of Geneoscopy
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Techwald Holding
Series A for SentiAR
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Elsevier
Acquired Wellsheet
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Lightbeam Health
Acquired CareSignal
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The Residency
Backed by Sam Altman
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NIH
$2.3M SBIR grant for Olera
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NSF
$260K Phase I for Oculo Labs
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NASA & CDC
Institutional project backers
Not promised innovation. A record, across a network.
Twenty chapters from the founding programme at Washington University in St. Louis to California, Texas, Michigan, Louisiana and the north-east.
- 01 Students Join a team. Build in healthcare.
- 02 Clinicians Bring a problem worth solving.
- 03 Mentors Pressure-test what comes next.
- 04 Partners & sponsors Back the innovation pipeline.
- 05 Universities Build a Sling Health chapter.
- 06 Investors & ecosystem Meet the next generation of healthcare founders.