Ventures in early growth, growth, and Series A stages that provide technology and business solutions for healthtech with the focus on priorities related to COVID-19 challenges in healthtech are invited to apply for the UNDP And Draper University Impact Healthtech Pre-Acceleration Program.

The program, which will run for up to 3 hours per day over 15 days, will include workshops, simulations, business case analyses and mentorship sessions on:

• Foresight and strategic vision on the thematic focus (healthcare, healthtech, COVID-19 challenges)
• Sales and Marketing
• Financing of Growth Ventures
• Legal Aspects and Requirements
• Impact Measurement and Management
• Team Management and Leadership
• Developing Markets Specifics
• Promotion: Networking and Pitching

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Program Benefits

The pre-acceleration program will feature renowned mentors and a specially designed curriculum to solidify the ventures’ potential to:

• Manage growing seed businesses;
• Expand market base;
• Integrate in professional networks;
• Increase investment absorption capacity and investment attractiveness; and
• Measure, manage and scale up effectiveness and impact of the technology and business model solutions.
• Pitch to the investors specialised in healtech globally during a demo day
• Be accepted to the upcoming main Acceleration Program supported by VC funding

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Eligibility Criteria

The program is looking for companies that:

• Are in early growth, growth and Series A stage
• Provide technology and business solutions for healthtech with the focus on priorities related to COVID-19 challenges in healthtech e.g. preparedness, response and recovery to pandemics
• Have formed teams, a proven business model, emerging customer base and certain market presence
• Challenge conventional approaches
• Are already achieving or potentially could achieve development-oriented impacts, such as making contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Have ambition to replicate, scale and expand their solutions across the borders
• Have specific and identifiable beneficiaries

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The Program is particularly looking for ventures with solutions relevant or adaptable for developing country contexts in the areas of:

• Health data management, disease surveillance and client registration
• Supply chain management
• Remote health service delivery and health monitoring
• Screening and diagnostics
• Healthtech workforce

Application Deadline:

Deadline: November 22, 2020

Application Process

All interested applicants must submit an online application form.

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