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Cambridge Consultants announces its collaboration with MedTech Innovator, a world-leading non-profit start-up accelerator
Cambridge Consultants part of Capgemini, today announced its collaboration with MedTech Innovator Asia Pacific, the world’s leading non-profit accelerator of medical devices. MedTech Innovator connects healthcare industry leaders with innovative early and mid-stage medtech companies for mentorship and support. During 2021, MedTech Innovator will select 20 start-ups for participation in its annual Asia Pacific program and will award up to US$300,000 in cash prizes and awards.
Cambridge Consultants will work directly with selected emerging companies and will also provide financial support to MedTech Innovator. The organization’s annual program provides best-in-class start-ups with opportunities to connect with healthcare investors, stakeholders, and key decision makers. Selected start-ups receive one-on-one mentorship and coaching from industry leaders to help drive commercialisation of leading-edge medical technologies throughout Asia Pacific.
Yan Lin Lye, Head of Asia Pacific Medtech at Cambridge Consultants commented: “This is an exciting opportunity to put something back into the industry and help to shape the future. It certainly demonstrates our commitment to medical technology innovation in the region. The team here is ready to put its years of expertise and insight to good use, helping ambitious young companies improve the standard of care in the Asia Pacific region. We look forward to discovering how participants in the program are working to improve and prolong patient lives through innovation.”
Paul Grand, founder and CEO of MedTech Innovator added: “We are proud of our track record of finding the industry’s most promising medical technologies and digital health companies. Our partners and sponsors play an invaluable part in advancing innovation with their expertise and industry knowledge. We are pleased to welcome Cambridge Consultants as our newest collaborator for the Asia Pacific program and look forward to working together to advance technologies poised to address critical health issues in the region and achieve better patient outcomes.”
MedTech Innovator works closely with stakeholders across the industry to foster the growth of early to mid-stage start-ups. Cambridge Consultants joins program sponsors Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, which has committed to a three-year sponsorship of the program, Align Technology, Nipro Medical Corporation, Oliver Healthcare Packaging, Olympus Medical Systems Group, Siemens Healthineers, and Enterprise Singapore. The MedTech Innovator Asia Pacific Program is held with industry support from APACMed.
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About MedTech Innovator
Based in Los Angeles, Calif., MedTech Innovator is the largest accelerator of medical device companies in the world and the premier non-profit start-up accelerator in the medical technology industry. Its mission is to improve the lives of patients by accelerating the growth of companies that are transforming the healthcare system. MedTech Innovator matches healthcare industry leaders with innovative early-stage and emerging growth medtech companies for mentorship and support.
For more information about MedTech Innovator and how to apply for the 2021 Accelerator and Showcase programs, visit https://medtechinnovator.org/ and follow @MedTechAwards on Twitter and on LinkedIn.
About Cambridge Consultants and Capgemini
About Cambridge Consultants
As the deep tech powerhouse of Capgemini, Cambridge Consultants (CC), is a global team of 800 bright, talented people. We are united by the ambition to turn brilliant ideas into technologies, products and services that have never been seen before. And which will transform business, society and the planet. Deep tech is a mindset; a bold strategy that harnesses radical science and engineering to achieve things no-one else can. It enables our clients to gain unassailable commercial advantage from defendable technology that they own. We are trusted by some of the world’s biggest brands and most ambitious start-ups to realise their critical technology-based aspirations – and we’ve been doing it for 60 years. Cambridge Consultants is part of Capgemini Invent.
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion
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