HealthTech
Tampa
This is not a traditional accelerator.
It is part of a statewide platform designed to connect companies directly into Florida’s economy.
Tampa Bay is positioned as a national leader in HealthTech, where research, clinical care, and commercialization converge. Focused on companies building solutions across healthcare delivery, medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health, the Tampa Bay HealthTech Accelerator connects startups with world-class medical institutions, corporate partners, and investors, providing the mentorship and resources necessary to pilot, scale, and commercialize innovation.
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The accelerator program is backed by a statewide network of over 75 CEOs, founders, and senior executives, and will connect chosen high-growth startups directly to customers, capital, and leadership across the state, aligning Florida’s regional strengths into a coordinated system designed for scale.
What Companies Gain
Founders are not just entering a program. They are entering a market.
Elite Mentorship
Direct access to top CEOs, investors, and industry leaders
Corporate Partnerships
Pilot and scale with leading enterprises
Market Access
Leverage Florida's thriving ecosystem for growth and customer acquisition
Investor Network
Connect with Florida's vast investor community
Embarc Collective Scholarship
One founder and one co-founder from each company selected for the 2026 accelerator program will receive a one-year scholarship for membership in Embarc Collective for 2027, providing unfettered access to their nationally recognized startup platform.
REGION OVERVIEW
Tampa Bay is a vibrant region characterized by a diverse economy, strong population growth, and a commitment to innovation, particularly in healthcare and MedTech. With world-class medical institutions, Tampa Bay has established itself as a national leader in life sciences and healthcare innovation. The region continues to attract top talent, bolstered by its strategic location, quality of life, and nationally recognized startup support ecosystem.
The Tampa Medical & Research District (TMRD), where the HealthTech accelerator program is based, is a hub of premier clinical care, research, biotechnology and academics. Anchored by Tampa General Hospital and the University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine, TMRD shares infrastructure and aligned leadership to accelerate innovation and helps to access talent, data and capital for testing and growth.
Tampa Bay BY THE NUMBERS
$23B
Tampa Bay has a Health Services, BioTech, and MedTech industry GDP of over $23 billion, with a 51.4% growth rate over the past 5 years.
#1
in Health & Biotech & MedTech VC growth over the past year compared to major metropolitan regions.
>15%
More than 15% of Florida's Health Services, BioTech, and MedTech workforce is based in Tampa Bay.
190,000+
Tampa Bay supports over 190,000 jobs, with over 10,000 Health Services, BioTech, and MedTech industry establishments in the region.
2026 HealthTech Companies
AVENTUSOFT
Boca Raton, FL
Founder(s):
Kaustubh Kale
Aventusoft is a MedTech company delivering HEMOTAG, a full-spectrum heart failure monitoring system that combines novel noninvasive cardiac function monitoring and the CarePear AI-powered patient intelligence platform across hospital, clinic, and home care.
CaresLink
Tampa, FL
Founder(s):
Siddu Kadi
CaresLink is the verified network solving healthcare’s worker shortage—one platform for training, credentialing, and hiring.
EndoSurge
Jacksonville, FL
Founder(s):
Martin Phelan
EndoSurge is developing HERMIS, the world’s first robotic MRI scanner, pairing an ultra-low-field magnet with a lightweight robotic arm to bring portable, shield-free, whole-body MRI directly to the point of care.
HealCo
Jersey City, NJ
Founder(s):
Kirat Kharode
HealCo builds the pre-service governance and routing infrastructure that employer-sponsored healthcare will run on, governing how specialty care enters a health plan before a claim exists.
Navia Medical
Boston, MA
Founder(s):
Sean Kyne
Surgical robotic platform for autonomous minimally invasive interventions.
Pathi Health
Naples, FL
Founder(s):
Paul Evans
Pathi Health is an AI navigator that helps cancer patients understand their diagnosis, organize their medical records, and find clinical trials they qualify for, in English and Spanish.
Poiesis Medical
Jupiter, FL
Founder(s):
Gregory Wiita
Poiesis Medical is a urology-focused life sciences company advancing VerdeFend, an MD Anderson-licensed, non-antibiotic bladder health platform designed to reduce bacterial burden and disrupt biofilm before infection becomes established.
Ravel Genetics
Tampa, FL
Founder(s):
Rachel Hayes
Ravel Genetics is a precision health company and health intelligence platform that reads your genome in the context of dynamic biology—biology you can change—including epigenetic and mitochondrial variation, to reveal which health risks can be modified through integrative approaches.
Seek Health
Jersey City, NJ
Founder(s):
Kim de los Reyes
Seek Health is an AI-powered operational intelligence platform that helps hospitals improve patient flow, strengthen clinical coordination, and increase capacity using the staff and resources they already have.
SisaTech AI
Miami, FL
Founder(s):
Krishan Punia
SIVIA Medical reconstructs fragmented medical records into a complete, chronological patient timeline to deliver guideline-based clinical intelligence for specialists managing complex cardio-renal-metabolic disease.
Thrive25
Tampa, FL
Founder(s):
Ryan Schneider
Thrive25 is the AI health teammate that helps employers build healthier teams and lower healthcare costs, one avoided claim at a time.
Vibrant Medical
Shoham, Israel
Founder(s):
Tal Avziz
Vibrant Medical is the smoke detector for the brain, a wearable ultrasound sensor that continuously watches blood flow so it can catch a stroke as it forms, before symptoms ever appear, with first-in-human testing starting this year at Tampa General Hospital.
