Halcyon Health Fellowship Program (United States)

Founders will receive expert training, critical resources to accelerate their ventures, and an 8-week residency in Washington, DC.

Program Sectors

• Solutions leveraging technology to improve physical and mental healthcare outcomes and reduce barriers to quality, affordable healthcare, including but not limited to:
  • Telemedicine
  • Remote patient monitoring and digital therapeutics
  • Healthcare operations
  • Health data analytics and AI
  • MedTech
  • FemTech
  • Preventative medicine
  • Health finance
  • AgeTech/Longevity Tech

Program Structure

• The cohort is selected of up to 8 ventures based in/serving the U.S.
• Ventures receive training in Halcyon’s methodology on product-market fit, investment readiness, and leadership
• The program is delivered through:
  • A virtual kickoff meeting
  • An 8-week in-person residency in Washington, DC

Benefits

• Selected fellows will receive the following:
  • $10K in Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits
  • $10K stipend per venture
  • Leadership coaching
  • Professional advisors
  • Training with experts in the field in leadership development, investment readiness, and product-market fit
  • Networking with investors and other stakeholders
  • Legal pro bono consultancy
  • Business consultancy from Deloitte
  • A global community of 500+ impact-driven entrepreneurs
  • And more

Eligibility Criteria

• They’re looking for (for-profit) startups that are building scalable solutions that are tackling challenges related to physical and mental healthcare outcomes and reducing barriers to quality, affordable healthcare across the United States.
  • Location: Must have your venture based in/serving the U.S.
  • Stage: Must have a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that has the potential to scale. Must be working on your venture full-time.
  • Team:
    • May apply with up to one co-founder
    • Applicant must be the CEO and/or hold primary decision-making power
    • Must be fluent in English
    • Must be at least 21 years of age by the start of the program
  • Program Engagement: Must be able to participate in all activities and programming sessions
  • Impact: Must be developing a product and venture which contributes towards 1 or more of the UN’s 17 SDGs

Selection Criteria

• Impact
  • To what extent will the solution, if scaled, have a meaningful impact on society and/or the environment?
• Scalability
  • Could this venture scale to reach hundreds of thousands or millions of users in a 5-10 year time horizon?
• Innovation
  • Is the solution a novel approach to tackling the issue in their context?
• Talent
  • Is the team uniquely qualified to tackle the challenges they’ve identified?

For more information, visit Halcyon.