Rock Health founder Halle Tecco tells me that she's planning to launch a Boston edition of the well-regarded incubator program for startup teams using technology to tackle healthcare problems. The program will be held on the campus of Harvard Medical School in Boston, and will accept about six startup teams. Each chosen team gets a grant of $20,000, without having to cough up any equity. This year's program will start in June and conclude in August with a "demo day" for investors.
Ed Coburn, director of the health media group at Harvard Med School, helped Tecco expand the program from its San Francisco base to Boston. Already signed on to mentor are local entrepreneurs like Jason Jacobs of RunKeeper, Ben Rubin of Zeo, Erika Pabo of Harvard Med School, Sonny Vu of Misfit Wearables, and Jacob Sattelmair of WellFrame. Former MIT Media Lab director Frank Moss, a co-founder of Infinity Pharmaceuticals, has been a mentor for the San Francisco program and will participate in Boston as well.
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