Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Goes Virtual

On February 18, 2021 Cedars- Sinai reported, The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator has selected and welcomed seven startup health-tech companies from across the United States to its newest class.

This year's startup companies are creating high-tech solutions to a wide variety of healthcare challenges–from making behavioral health therapies more accessible to using robots to free up clinicians' time. And this year, in keeping with COVID-19 precautions, it's all virtual.

"The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming the way we look at new technologies and the digital space," said Darren Dworkin, senior vice

Darren Dworkin

president of Enterprise Information Services and chief information officer at Cedars-Sinai, who is one of the founders of the accelerator. "Now, more than ever, Cedars-Sinai recognizes the need for innovation, and as a community institution, we feel an obligation to invest in the future, to invest in technologies that improve peoples' lives. New companies bring new ways to engage with patients and we hope to foster that innovation."

Rather than operating out of the Cedars-Sinai Innovation Space in Los Angeles as previous classes did, teams from each company will spend three months working virtually with Cedars-Sinai's network of mentors, including doctors, researchers and administrators.

Now in its fifth year, the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator provides businesses accepted into the program with a $50,000 investment and access to mentorship from some of the most respected healthcare leaders in the nation. At the conclusion of the three-month program, each startup CEO will share their team's progress with an audience of investors, mentors, potential customers and members of the news media at Demo Day.

Anne Wellington

"I’m excited about the potential for each of these companies to improve care and care delivery for patients and providers, not only at Cedars-Sinai, but across the country," said Anne Wellington, managing director of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator. "It’s been inspiring to see how our nationwide community of healthcare leaders has been able to engage virtually with this diverse group of entrepreneurs, and how Cedars-Sinai is able to take the lead in continuing to advance this type of innovation.”

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