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Ogilvy Health’s Real Product Is Translation
A health campaign has to satisfy the scientist, the regulator, the payer, the physician, the patient, and the person scrolling at lunch. Ogilvy Health built one company to keep all six in the room.
DigitalHealth.London tackles the hard part: getting the NHS to use your idea
A working health app is only the beginning. DigitalHealth.London helps founders find the evidence, relationships and practical footing to turn a promising product into something the NHS can use.
Ignite opened doors for women in health tech. Then came its own funding test.
The Houston nonprofit paired female founders with healthcare buyers and investors. Its announced 2026 wind-down reveals the cost of keeping those introductions useful.
Healthworx Gives Healthcare Startups an Inside Line
CareFirst’s investment and innovation arm pairs startup capital with access to the people who buy and deliver care. Its real test comes when a promising idea meets an institution - or a customer who wants something else.
The Medtech Incubator Built to Kill Bad Ideas Early
Deerfield Catalyst pairs veteran device inventors with a healthcare investor to test clinical ideas before the costly part begins. Its product is not one gadget - it is a repeatable way to turn a need into a company.
The Firm That Builds Companies From a CIA Playbook
Most venture firms wait for founders to walk in the door. Red Cell Partners writes the idea first, then goes hunting for the people to build it - a studio model borrowed straight from the intelligence community.
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.
Vituity
Vituity is a 100% physician-owned and led multispecialty partnership delivering acute care across the United States. Founded in 1971 as California Emergency Physicians (CEP America), it rebranded as Vituity in 2018, combining 'vital' and 'acuity.' Today roughly 5,500 doctors and clinicians staff emergency departments, hospital medicine, critical care, anesthesiology, psychiatry, neurology, telehealth and more across hundreds of care sites in 27+ states, treating millions of patients a year - all without private equity, insurer, or hospital-system ownership.