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Insight Accelerator Labs recently featured in Inc

Inc.com recently featured an article about Insight Accelerator Labs; In the write-up, Inc points out some of the attributes about IALabs that they feel are unique from other incubators/accelerators.

Inc. notes, “some fledgling businesses need more than tangential support to grow their businesses”. This article explains how Insight Accelerator Lab’s new model goes beyond the tangential support that most incubator programs offer and how it instead can help drive startups to their next level of development.

WellTECH Summit 2013

Agenda Saturday, June 29th

Opening Remarks 2:30-2:45pm

A brief introduction about the importance of entrepreneurial innovation in moving commercial medical technologies forward.

Steven Collens, MBA

Steven Collens is senior vice president at The Pritzker Group, a private investment firm representing Pritzker ... continue reading

Insight Accelerator Labs charter member, BriteSeed, LLC, earns second place overall in the Rice University Business Plan competition

Insight Accelerator Labs is excited to announce the ongoing success and recognition of its charter startup member BriteSeed. Recently BriteSeed entered the Rice University Business Plan Competition, which is the world’s largest graduate-level business plan contest. This was the thirteenth year for the competition which had hundreds of entrants with 42 finalists competing for over 1.3 million in cash and prizes.

In preparation for this event, Insight and BriteSeed worked together to assemble rapid breadboard models representing the new vessel detection technology to augment ... continue reading

Helping startups cross the valley of death: Insight Accelerator Labs featured in Tribune Article

The Chicago Tribune recently ran a piece focused on our Insight Accelerator Labs accelerator program, which helps medical start-ups go from conceptualization to achieving a market-ready product.

Insight Accelerator Labs Executive Steve McPhilliamy told the Tribune how the project will work with several Chicago universities in order to find select companies and offer them an residency at Insight’s Ravenswood office, allowing them to collaborate with Insight’s proven product development team, and also assist them with mentorship and financial connections in ... continue reading

A Framework for Accelerating Medical Startups

When working with start-up companies, Insight fuses extensive experience in developing technology-driven healthcare products with a unique framework that aligns our efforts to your capitalization stage for maximum impact at each investment level.

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Insight understands the special set of considerations that start-up companies face in bringing a new product or technology to market: Cost is a major factor in early-stage programs, as capital often proves scarce and comes in stages. At the same time, in early funding phases, risk mitigation ... continue reading