$100k Investment for Every Rock Health Company

It’s been a busy week for the people at Rock Health. First, they had the Rock Health Boston Demo Day. Yesterday and today they’re doing the Health Innovation Summit in San Francisco. And now Rock Health is announcing that Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers alongside longtime supporters Aberdare Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and the Mayo Clinic are upping their investment in Rock Health startup companies from $20k to $100k per company.

This is a good move by Rock Health. Just yesterday I was reading a Ycombinator founder describe how the added investment that each Ycombinator company got relieved some of the pressure that was associated with the program. Basically, he could make good long term decisions as opposed to forcing decisions because the funding and time frame were so short. I’m sure we’ll see that in Rock Health as well.

For those interested in Rock Health, they just opened their 3 week application period for their Fall cohort in San Francisco. I assume that they’ll be going back to the 5 month program again after doing only 3 months in Boston.

It’s worth noting that NYDHA (New York Digital Health Accelerator) offers $300k to health startup companies. I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of competition to get the best healthcare startups to participate in the various health IT accelerator/incubator programs.

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John Lynn

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