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The Invention Is in a Federal Lab. FedTech Finds the Founder.
FedTech builds businesses around publicly funded research without taking founder equity. Its real product is the difficult work between a promising patent and a customer willing to pay.
The Quiet Fund That Turned Tennessee Into a Startup State
For more than a decade, a small Nashville nonprofit has been doing the unglamorous work of turning Tennessee ideas into fundable companies. Here is how LaunchTN built a statewide engine out of capital, connections, and commercialization.
Fogarty Innovation
Fogarty Innovation is a nonprofit medtech incubator and education organization on the El Camino Health campus in Mountain View, California. Founded in 2007 by legendary surgeon-inventor Thomas J. Fogarty, MD, it helps early-stage medical device companies cross the gap from novel idea to clinical reality through hands-on coaching, education programs, and a network of 300+ industry experts. In October 2025 it merged with New York's Cardiovascular Research Foundation to become CRF's West Coast innovation hub.