About Lighthouse Labs

Lighthouse Labs is the premier and nationally recognized Top 25 Seed-Stage Accelerator in Virginia. We invest $20,000 per startup without taking equity or fees from our founders. Our 3-month experience for high growth startups is designed to help founders develop quickly and expand their market with a tested business. We engage founders with mentors, industry experts, investors, support services, lean startup education, and office space. Over the course of the last eight years, Lighthouse has accelerated 48 companies, generating over 900 jobs throughout the region. In short, Lighthouse Labs is Investing in the Lives of Founders™.

About the Health Innovation Consortium

The Health Innovation Consortium (HIC) was developed by Virginia Commonwealth University with founding partners, VCU Health and Activation Capital, to support new technologies that improve healthcare for providers, patients, and health systems. With a curated platform of programs and resources and access to end consumers and follow-on funding, the HIC supports health focused innovation from conceptualization to implementation.

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