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Save the date: Oct 8 and Nov 21 for the Healthcare Innovation Pitch!
Our next Healthcare Innovation Pitch event will be on Nov. 21 2024, with a kickoff event on Oct. 8. Applications are being accepted now and the informational kickoff event is Oct. 8, followed by bootcamps in October and November and the pitch on Nov. 21. Details are in the news section of this website, with more information coming; but, if you are interested and have questions now, please email us here. Meanwhile, check out the wide range of resources available to you through our partner group, AMPD-NR, within the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin. Our last Healthcare Innovation Pitch event was on Oct. 9, 2023, with 8 Healthcare and HealthTech teams pitching to judging panels comprised of venture capitalists for cash prizes and in-kind awards, including Associate Memberships in Milwaukee Venture Partners. Read more about last year here and prior events here, and keep an eye open for our future events! Our Mission and Vision We are social entrepreneurs who enable inventors to turn their health care innovations into products that address unmet medical needs. We believe innovation is most effective when social impact and financial return go hand-in-hand. Our vision is to pioneer healthcare social entrepreneurship at the public-private and academic-industry interfaces. We believe it is time to return to the values that once shaped healthcare: “We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear.” George W. Merck |
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Our Value Proposition
Our home is the Milwaukee Innovation Campus in the great state of Wisconsin. Southeastern Wisconsin is home to substantial untapped biomedical innovation. Turning ideas into successful products is a challenge. Bridge to Cures (B2C) has formed a unique partnership with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) and six southeastern Wisconsin research institutions, leveraging over $150 million in annual healthcare research. This partnership provides unparalleled access to regional discoveries, scientists, physicians, and healthcare entrepreneurs. The step from discovery to a fundable startup is a challenge that most academic researchers cannot overcome. B2C provides the early-stage academic entrepreneur with the resources they need to form startups. In addition, B2C provides mentoring and exposure to venture capitalists. |