Women’s Health
Technologies
Challenge
Pilot venture studio program in San Diego County
Open to founders, scientists, engineers, clinicians, and veterans.
Research universities, a deep life sciences industry, federal laboratories, military medicine, and a large women veteran population all sit within an hour of each other here.
The challenge brings them together in recurring cohorts, building teams around the women's health problems that clinicians, patients, and health systems most need solved.
How the Challenge Runs
Identify the problem
Clinicians, patients, and health care buyers name the women's health needs they most want solved. Each becomes a problem statement a team can work against.
Form the team
Teams assemble around one defined need, then evaluate the technology, plan its validation, and test whether a real business sits underneath it.
Connect people to technology
Founders, scientists, engineers, clinicians, and women veterans meet promising technology from universities, federal labs, research institutes, and startups.
Build the pathway
Teams finish the cohort with a plan and introductions toward funding, pilots, and first customers.
Why San Diego County
Few regions can bring all four of these together within an hour's drive. This one can, and women's health is where it can do much more.
Science base
Research universities and independent institutes producing early stage intellectual property across biotech and medical devices.
Commercial depth
A mature life sciences and device industry with the manufacturing, regulatory, and clinical trial capacity teams need next.
Federal research
Federal laboratories and health research programs with technology available for license and partnership.
Military medicine
One of the largest active duty and veteran populations in the country, and the care systems that serve them.