Research2Guidance launched R2GConnect, the global scouting platform for the digital health industry

Research2Guidance launched R2GConnect, the global matching platform for the digital health industry. The platform allows efficient startup scouting and it connects, matches, and facilitates strategic partnerships between established healthcare companies and startups. The platform was tested by leading healthcare companies, investors and accelerators. Explore partnership opportunities of launch partners.

R2GConnect is a matchmaking platform for partnerships between digital health companies and the healthcare industry (briefing partners). Briefing partners can look for startups from all over the world to e.g., co-develop products, invest in or to share solutions with their clients. R2GConnect makes scouting for startups easy.

Startups on the other hand can find industry partners, first customers, investors, conference speaking slots, coaching partners, project offers and more to accelerate and grow their businesses.

R2GCONNECT WAS TESTED WITH LEADING INDUSTRY PARTNERS

The R2GConnect platform was tested by government institutions, corporates, investors, accelerators, incubators, and conferences facilitating hundreds of new partnerships worldwide.

The list of companies that have tested R2GConnect in the past includes: The German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG), the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA), the European Innovation Council, InsurTech Hub Munich e.V., Novartis Biome, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS, Village Capital & IBM, Chinaccelerator, Digital Health Ventures, Boehringer Ingelheim, Saudi Enaya Cooperative Insurance, EIT Health Germany, Jemm Ventures, Nubentos, Ticbiomed, ACHA – Americas Continental Healthcare Alliance, Upgraded – part of Healthtech Finland, A-MEDICA.

Feedback was used to create R2GConnect service offering.

HOW IT WORKS

On R2GConnect, briefing partners can place an unlimited number of briefings to announce their business opportunities, corporate programs, and digital health events. Briefings can be customized to specifically target digital health companies that support use cases or business models partners are looking for. Our partners can also browse through thousands (starting with 3,000 startups in the R2Gconnect database, adding more every day) of startup profiles, receive referrals and invite startups to apply for their briefings.

Startups and digital health innovators can join the platform for free to explore partnerships and venture capital opportunities. By activating their profiles, they can apply to as many business opportunities that fit their strategy for growth, as well as get in touch directly with as many potential partners who are interested in their solution.

The list of partnership inquiries (briefings) will be greatly expanded in the coming days and months in order to give as many startups as possible the opportunity to find an investor or industry partner.

The currently available partnership requests are:

TICBIOMED

Ticbiomed has published two briefings to support the creation of their dRural program. The program aims at becoming the service marketplace for the European rural areas, tested in Dubrovnik-Neretva County (Croatia), Region Gelderland Midden (The Netherlands) and Extremadura (Spain).

BRIEFING 1: Digital health solutions to improve quality of life in the rural areas.

The call is focused on 2 types of services:

• Simple Services: provided by small businesses and solo entrepreneurs, services suppliers on the dRural marketplace.

Offer: 5,000€ grant. Up to 80 service providers to be awarded.

• Complex Services: building new innovative services by integrating external data platforms (and thus expected from organizations with more resources to build them).

Offer: 50,000€ grant. Up to 16 service providers to be awarded.

Deadline: January 15, 2023. To learn more and apply, please click here.

BRIEFING 2: Independent evaluators to assess dRural program applications.

Evaluators must have a good knowledge of the English language AND of the language of the Regional Demonstrator(s) in which they wish to evaluate the applications. This is a mandatory requirement to be able to review the applications and to be able to participate in the discussions with other reviewers and with the dRural partners.

Offer: 10€ (VAT excluded) per simple service application evaluated and 40€ (VAT excluded) per complex service application evaluated.

Deadline: December 31, 2022. To learn more and apply, please click here.

NUBENTOS

Nubentos has published two partnership opportunities.

BRIEFING 1: Digital cardiovascular risk calculator.

Nubentos is looking for an innovation provider that supplies scoring of risk index for cardiovascular events API technology, with the most recent tables published in the clinical literature (SCORE2 and SCORE2-OP).

Offer: To a selection of 5 startups a free 1:1 onboarding session, a guided welcome to help them quickly publish their solution (connect and set up) and open a new highly scalable channel.

Deadline: December 31, 2022. To learn more and apply, please click here.

BRIEFING 2: Digital Health Startups for free of charge API assessments.

Nubentos is looking for digital health companies with a viable solution (app, platform, digital solution) with API-based integration available and a commercial traction or at least validation projects successfully completed.

Offer: Free API assessments in value of 7.500€ for 5 selected startups.

Deadline: December 30, 2022. To learn more and apply, please click here.

ACHA – AMERICAS CONTINENTAL HEALTHCARE ALLIANCE

BRIEFING: Digital Health organizations Go to MIAMI, USA!

ACHA – Americas Continental Healthcare Alliance is looking for digital health organizations MVP (most valuable product) ready to sell in the US market. The companies should have an interest in learning how to land their businesses in Miami, USA!

Offer: 4 organizations will have an hour on-line 1:1 coaching session with experts diving into the regulatory support, IPR, funding, collaborations with clinicians, public procurement, market strategy, pricing strategy etc. The total value for the 4 sessions is $ 8,000; $ 2,000 for each session.

Deadline: December 16, 2022. To learn more and apply, please click here.

UPGRADED – PART OF HEALTHTECH FINLAND

BRIEFING: Data driven Finish health and wellbeing startups

Upgraded – part of Healthtech Finland is in the process of establishing working groups for startups in all therapeutic areas in the health and wellbeing field and is looking for startups with Healthtech Finland membership and Finnish business ID that are in need for networking, acceleration and regulatory support.

Offer: Join one of the working groups. Focus of these working groups would be on regulatory support, IPR, funding, collaborations with clinicians, public procurement issues.

Deadline: December 20, 2022. To learn more and apply, please click here.

A-MEDICA

A-MEDICA has two opportunities for digital health companies.

BRIEFING 1: Digital health companies looking for USA and European market entry projects.

This opportunity is for companies with a pharmaceutical drug, biologics or medical device, fully developed, with or without regulatory approval secured, and ready for market launch. The product / service should stand out in the target market with a clear USP or relevant price advantage.

Offer: Up to 3 participants will receive a personalized 1:1 interactive one hour coaching session, on European or USA market entry planning and execution. The total value for the 3 sessions is 6,000€; 2,000€ each session.

Deadline: November 21, 2022. To learn more and apply, please click here.

BRIEFING 2: Digital health companies with funding needs.

A-MEDICA guides and delivers new funding access for life sciences and medical devices, in European and US markets. This opportunity is for organizations aiming to develop, launch or expand revenues of new life sciences formulations and medical devices. The product or service should offer a relevant price advantage and / or Unique Selling Proposition versus competition in the target market.

Offer: Personalized 1:1 interactive one hour coaching session for up to 3 participants. The funding coaching session consists of a video conference “check-list” review, for key topics like objectives, alternative sources and instruments, success requirements, timeline. Funding amounts might span from EUR/$ 100k to 10 million or more.

Deadline: November 25, 2022. To learn more and apply, please click here.

ORCHA

BRIEFING: Digital health technologies for a free NordDEC certification

The Nordic Digital Health Evaluation Criteria is one assessment to meet the digital health evaluation requirements in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Products that have been assessed against and meet the criteria are listed in a central directory, enabling health and care providers to identifty trusted technologies and for patients to live and act in an open, seamless and crucially, safe, cross-border healthcare ecosystem.

ORCHA is looking for digital health companies interested in business development and strategic growth in the Nordics.

Offer: Inviting up to 5 digital health technology companies to go through the assessment for free, saving each individual organisation up to 6,000€.

Deadline: December 30, 2022. To learn more and apply, please click here.

More briefings will be added every day. Startups, please sign up for free here to never miss a partnership opportunity.

Industry partners looking for digital health startups, please book a demo session with Sorin Stircu, Partnerships Manager, R2GConnect at [email protected].

Happy matching!