UCSF HEALTH HUB
@ Worldwide center for healthcare innovation
UCSF Health Hub connects healthcare concepts and companies with education, expertise, validation, and capital to scale and grow.
Companies
Find the best advisors, investors, and/or doctors to scale and grow your business.
Investors & Advisors
Find and help the best new
healthcare ideas.
UCSF Digital Health Awards 2020
Click below to watch the full awards ceremony which was live-streamed on September 23, 2020 from Beyond Pix Studio, San Francisco.
UCSF Health Hub Connect 2021
Our matching service now includes a Personal Navigator.
Our time-tested matching algorithms and a dedicated member of the UCSF Health Hub team will work hand-in-hand to find you your ideal advisor, investor, or mentor.
Sign up today. It's free.
Select your path:
For Founders:
100% Help. 0% Equity.
We are a venture capital funded non-profit designed to help companies. We do not take any equity.
Our matching service scans through our massive database to find the highest-quality advisors to assist 25 shortlisted briefs each month, within a set time frame of two weeks.
The powerful matching algorithm at the core of the service is given a human face in the form of our Personal Navigators, who identify the most promising pairings and handhold the connection until it is ready to take off.
This ensures the success of the connection is as much on us, as it is up to you.
For Advisors:
Make a Match, Go!
We bring you the most exciting healthcare challenges calling out for your advise, making sure the problem interests you before connecting you.
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Once you have applied to Health Hub Connect as an advisor, create a profile that reflects your skills, expertise, domain knowledge; describe the kind of projects that interest you, and let our algorithm identify the right early-stage companies in need of your advice. Meanwhile, the Personal Navigator will refine this list to match you to companies that suit you best, once you consent.
Once matched, how and what you do is up to you and the founders. Your navigator will check in periodically to ensure that the connection is mutually beneficial.
Do you want to help a company grow?
For Doctors and Researchers:
A Scientific Acceleration Network
Our network boasts of world-renowned healthcare leaders and high-achievers who care passionately about taking action on solutions.
We connect doctors and researchers with founders and other resources to collaborate and innovate the next generation of healthcare solutions.
As a learning community, we are here to bring together a group of diverse leaders to share what is working, explore what is on the horizon, and learn from the experts driving transformational change.
Together, we can grow healthcare entrepreneurship on a global scale (and have an awesome time doing it!)
For Investors:
Meet the Next Great Healthcare Innovator
We make it easier to find the next Fitbit, Genentech, or Epic, by reducing the time to pinpoint that needle in the haystack.
Once you have applied to Health Hub Connect as an investor, you create an investor page that provides deep insight into your skills, industry expertise and the types of projects your firm is looking for. You will be matched, one by one, privately over email to great pre-selected companies (they've had to qualify too) looking for investors exactly like you. If it's a match, you’ll move forward.
Health Hub takes no equity.
UCSF Volunteer Patriots Program
UCSF Volunteer Patriots Program is a sub initiative within UCSF Health Hub Connect to match companies working on legitimate COVID mitigating projects to the help they need to bring their solutions to market faster.
BECOME A UCSF VOLUNTEER PATRIOT
UCSF Health Hub Connect Member Testimonials
“My Health Hub Connect profile matched me with a top researcher at UCSF that I otherwise would have never met. Dr. Adam Ferguson was exactly the kind of PI I wanted to meet to continue scaling our product."
CEO Sana Health
“I joined as a UCSF Navigator because I am passionate about sharing the lessons from our research with the digital health community to help founders promote health for all. UCSF Health Hub enables me to engage with the broader digital health community.”
Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Director, UCSF
“UCSF Health Hub connects me with talented entrepreneurs, organizes valuable networking opportunities, and hosts stimulating speakers who explore the future of health and medicine. This is invaluable to me in my role as a startup advisor, angel investor, and physician at UCSF. I recently accepted the position of Medical Director at Scanwell Health, a Y Combinator company, highlighting the possibilities enabled by UCSF Health Hub.”
“UCSF Health Hub connects me with talented entrepreneurs, organizes valuable networking opportunities, and hosts stimulating speakers who explore the future of health and medicine.”
Chief Medical Officer, Scanwell
"While networking at a UCSF Health Hub event, we met our new Director of Finance, Kirk McAfee, and within 10 days there was money in the door. I cannot stress enough how powerful the Health Hub community is and how glad I am they’re providing this service."
Founder & CEO, Puretergent
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Founders
Have you received a grant or raised first capital?
Advisors
Are you either a former or current member of a successful team OR are you world-class and at the top of your game?
Doctors
Are you conducting groundbreaking research and are you published and peer reviewed?
Investors
Are you an accredited investor and have you invested in healthcare before?
UCSF Health Hub Events
UCSF Health Hub organizes high-end curated events and intimate conversations for community members. Join us to receive invites to our series of fireside chats, networking events, summits, and expert panel discussions.
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Monthly Fireside Chats
Monthly fireside chats with the biggest healthcare innovators in Silicon Valley (past speakers included Vinod Khosla and other stalwarts). More info here.
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Healthcare Summits & Conferences
Healthcare Summits with the biggest industry luminaries as speakers & presenters, in association with 20 leading national healthcare innovators. More info here.
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Expert Keynotes & Panel discussions
Curated events with industry stalwarts, both virtual and in-person at at UCSF's Mission Bay campus. View previous event recordings here.
Co-hosted events with partners
We are partnering with NASDAQ, the World Economic Forum, Vator Health, DOCSF, Bootstrap Labs, and over 15 internal departments around UCSF. Find out more here.
FOR OuR Innovation Partners
UCSF Health Hub Connect is the most important resource you can offer to your companies to help their achieve their milestones.
UCSF Health Hub partners with the biggest healthcare accelerators, innovation hubs, and growth studios across the country to help the companies in their current and past cohorts scale and grow faster. These companies, and their briefs, get precedence, as they have been validated by our collaborators.
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We also work closely with all the innovation organizations across the UCSF campus.
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