Chicago’s Medical Startup Ecosystem
Established in 2013, Insight Accelerator Labs is celebrating our first year of helping healthcare startups take ideas from patent to practice. In their time with us our first member company Briteseed has achieved not only several funding milestones but also huge steps in realizing their technology. Their accomplishments include winning first place in the healthcare track for the Rice business plan competition, raising over 1.3M in funding, doubling in size from three to six all while still maintaining a lean startup philosophy. The IAL-Briteseed team has its first live-animal test coming up in several months that will demonstrate the technology as an integrated surgical tool in a real environment with realtime feedback to the surgeon. We feel it is amazing progress in a rapid time frame for a complex medical device and one that we’re confident will have a big impact on the market and the people it helps. Read more