The GE Accelerator program is a start-up and scale-up acceleration program designed by GE Healthcare to empower and enable digital health start-ups and scale-ups to accelerate, validate and scale innovative solutions using GE�s unique Edison� Digital Health Platform to address specific challenges to the healthcare sector.�\\The Edison� Accelerator Program began�in 2019�in India, expanded into Europe in 2021, and Canada has been selected as third�regions globally to launch a program in 2022.
Program Details
- Participants will focus on three aspects of their proposition - innovation, adoption and integration.
- Participants will benefit from a combination of engagements with global GE experts from clinical, technological and commercialization teams. The program will enable rapid and compliant design, development and deployment of innovative applications and will ultimately give the participants access to GE Healthcare�s clients.\\In addition, the selected startups will have an opportunity to be considered for integration onto the GE Edison� platform. Used by GE�s internal developers and strategic partners, the platform enables rapid and compliant design, development and deployment of various applications, and would ultimately give the selected startups/scaleups access to certain GE customers via Edison� Marketplace, GE�s online store that allows customers to find, try and buy algorithms from a range of third-party developers.
Selection Criteria
- The company�s technology leverages artificial intelligence and/or machine learning to improve medical imaging in the fields of neurology, cardiology, oncology, pediatrics, and/or women's health.
- The company has mature technology that is at least at a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 8.�Please see the definitions of TRL here.
- The company has a distinguished and diverse founding team with prior experience building medical imaging technology
- The technology should be approved or in the process of seeking regulatory approval in Canada, US or other region
Benefits
- Access to the Edison� platform & Services
- Mentorship and coaching for commercialization
- Validate startup solution to facilitate integration within radiology workflows and foster adoption
- Access to a global sales channel through Edison� Marketplace
Application Procedure:
\Nex Cubed and GE Healthcare will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis. If there is interest in your company, a program representative will contact you and schedule a follow up call to learn more about your business and answer any questions you may have.
Program finalists will be announced in July and will begin to work with Nex Cubed and GE throughout the program. The program will end with a Demo Day hosted by GE Healthcare in mid-November.
Application Deadline: May 27th at 11:59 PM EDT.
For More Information: GE Healthcare Edison Canada Accelerator Program
