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Stay up to date on healthcare news, stories and insights from across the MATTER community.

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Startup Spotlight: Cylinder

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Event recap: Fibroblast CEO Scott Vold shares his startup’s path to Acquisition by EMR giant Cerner

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How an Indiana health system and MATTER worked together to help lower infant mortality amidst COVID-19

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How CareBand is using wearable technology to automate contact tracing and monitor social distancing compliance

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How physIQ’s AI technology became the perfect pandemic response tool

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How BayCare and Clearstep launched a COVID-19 screener in 9 days

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Report: MATTER startups raised $1.26B since 2015, saw 64% more revenue in 2019

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The startup journey: How Clearstep found focus through the Health Tech Venture Challenge

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Mentors prepare Canadian companies to launch in the U.S.

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"Renewed optimism": Reflections on the 2018-19 Novo Nordisk Innovation Challenge

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Startup Spotlight: Cylinder

Jul 10, 2024

Bill Snyder, founder and CEO of Cylinder, discusses the future of digestive healthcare accessibility and the power of holistic branding. In the ever-evolving healthcare landscape, Cylinder s...
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community

Event recap: Fibroblast CEO Scott Vold shares his startup’s path to Acquisition by EMR giant Cerner

Mar 3, 2021

In 2010, Scott Vold was an attorney working 80 hour weeks, on the path to partnership — and completely miserable.
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How an Indiana health system and MATTER worked together to help lower infant mortality amidst COVID-19

Nov 17, 2020

In 2018, the governor of Indiana challenged local healthcare providers and innovators to bring Indiana’s infant mortality rate — then the highest in the country — down to the lowest in the Midwest by 2024.
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community

How CareBand is using wearable technology to automate contact tracing and monitor social distancing compliance

Sep 16, 2020

As the country shifts to opening more businesses and bringing employees back to the workplace, contact tracing solutions — or solutions that track the interactions of infected individuals — have become increasingly popular and essential to this new way of living. According to Adam Sobol, CEO and founder of MATTER startup CareBand, he realized the importance and demand for these solutions as ear...
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How physIQ’s AI technology became the perfect pandemic response tool

Aug 14, 2020

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses across healthcare have faced the challenge of retooling and pivoting their solutions to focus on the fight against COVID-19. But for MATTER startup physIQ, no pivoting, revising or overhauling was necessary: The company’s predictive analytics technologies were already uniquely suited to meet several of the needs and use cases of COVID-19 — and ready ...
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success stories

How BayCare and Clearstep launched a COVID-19 screener in 9 days

May 5, 2020

On March 26, 2020 — less than two weeks after the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic and one week after California became the first state in the U.S. to tell residents to stay home — MATTER startup member Clearstep and MATTER partner BayCare la...
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Report: MATTER startups raised $1.26B since 2015, saw 64% more revenue in 2019

Feb 12, 2020

An overview of our community’s major moments as MATTER enters its sixth year A lot can happen in five years.
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The startup journey: How Clearstep found focus through the Health Tech Venture Challenge

Aug 14, 2019

Last fall marked the beginning of the first-ever Health Tech Venture Challenge: a joint initiative of MATTER and Advocate Aurora Health that called on health technology startups to submit novel solutions capable of improving the primary care experience for patients and their providers.
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matter news

Mentors prepare Canadian companies to launch in the U.S.

Apr 10, 2019

Starting a company is never easy. Starting a healthcare company adds even more complexity. But starting a healthcare company and launching it in a country with a completely different healthcare system?
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"Renewed optimism": Reflections on the 2018-19 Novo Nordisk Innovation Challenge

Mar 28, 2019

On March 28, after nearly six months of hard work, the five finalists of the Novo Nordisk Innovation Challenge — Adelie Health, xBird, SimpleC, MedoPad and HumanCapitalWorks — participated in a capstone “partnering day” at Novo Nordisk Headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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