Swaastha - Reimagining Healthcare
Anant National University is launching a dedicated Healthcare Accelerator Programme, Swaastha in association with India Accelerator (IA) to support innovative start-ups in this sector. The objective is to setup a tripod approach to make start-ups, academic institutions, and industries collaborate, driving innovations and solving practical challenges faced by industries and society. We believe that this accelerator can make an impactful contribution to the healthcare industry by solving core industry challenges and bringing innovation to market faster through Industry-Academia-Start-up collaboration.
Who Can Apply?
Start-ups registered in India with a solution that is deployed or deployment-ready.
Focus Area
- Solution for Drug discovery & development (drug discovery platforms, AI Drug Design, Data Analytics & Big Data)
- New generation Diagnostics (Novel Biomarkers, Advanced imaging, nanotechnologies for diagnostics and genetic testing)
- Digital Health & Wellbeing solutions (digital therapeutics, comprehensive digital health & platform in the workspace, mental health solutions, patient engagement & gamification)
- Last-mile delivery, Optical Dispensing, Genome Sequencing, IVF, Fetal and Neonatal Monitoring and AI-driven prognosis, Diagnosis, and Interventions
Mentors
Anjan Bose
Former Founding Secretary General, NATHEALTH, Ex-President, Philips Healthcare and Consumer Lifestyle
Mukul Bagga
MD, Medicom Healthcare, India, Ex Novartis, Quest Diagnostics, J&J and Ranbaxy
Deepak Naik
MD, Health N’U’ Therapeutics Ex Ranbaxy, Eisai Pharmaceuticals and Wockhardt
Munish Bhatia
Co-Founder, India Accelerator, CEO, Bharat Ventures
Nandita Raval
Co-Founder and Director at Kaivalya Education Foundation and Aspirational Bharat Collaborative, Piramal Foundation
Maninder Bawa
Co-founder and CTO IA Labs, Ex Software Consultant at McKinsey & Co.
Milind Chitale
Associate Professor, School of Design and Director, Makerspace MDes, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Arindam Mukhopadhyay
Partner at India Accelerator and Advisor to the Board at IntelliBuddies
Deepak Sharma
Co-founder India Accelerator and IA Labs
Program Offerings
- Need-based Mentorship
- Product Development and Refinement Support
- Investor Access
- Product Deployment Opportunity
- Clinical Deep Dive
- Market Access and Scale-up Support
- Strategic Partnerships
- Networking Opportunities
Dates to Remember
- Call for Applications- Early stage News: 7th June’24
- Application Closes: 14th June’24
- Screening 1 of the startup application: 21st June’24
- Screening 2 of the shortlisted applications: 25th June’24
- Programme Launch+ Cohort Announcement: 29th June’24
Aarambh Incubation Centre
The centre promotes entrepreneurial spirit using design thinking to devise innovative solutions for problems across domains. Supported by the Student Startup & Innovation Policy (SSIP) of the Government of Gujarat, Aarambh helps young innovators to prototype their ideas, get mentorship, interact with investors, government and non-government agencies and create an enterprise.
Team
Nikhil Sulthar
Lead Partnership at India Accelerator
Srishti Arora
Lead Corporate Innovation at India Accelerator
Vani Madan
Lead Healthcare Vertical at India Accelerator
Dr Dhara Thakore
Head of Aarambh Incubation Centre and Office of Career Services; PhD, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Dhaval Darjee
Incubation Manager, Aarambh Incubation Centre
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