Health-Tech Innovation LABS is an innovative business-accelerator serving Doctors and other innovators in the healthcare technology sector. Health-Tech Innovation LABS is striving to combine elements of several types of organisation including incubator, consultancy and recruitment. Within weeks of launching the company has its first customer in contract and is generating revenue from clients, consultancy and events.
In some areas of the World demand for healthcare services is outpacing economic growth due to changing demographics such as the ageing population. In response, demand for healthcare technology innovation is growing, and Organisations like Google are allocating a larger share of their investment money into the healthcare technology sector. We believe there are 1,000’s of health-tech innovation companies in the UK who would benefit from a central hub – of expert advisors, mentors, and investors – to support them. We have strived to create such a hub – a business model blending the best of various types of businesses – to create revenues and shareholder value. Our team include experienced entrepreneurs, a Cambridge PhD Chemist, and expert medical professionals.
The Problem
We believe the problem for innovative technology businesses in healthcare, is a lack of coordinated support to maximise their commercial success. We feel there is no cost-effective “one stop shop” where health-tech companies can seek advice, consultancy, expertise in fundraising, coordinated effective introductions to the healthcare procurement departments, etc.
The Solution
We are “The Health-Tech Innovation LABS”, an venture combining elements of several types of organisation, including the business incubator/accelerator, conference business, and recruitment company. We feel this combination provides the widest range of support to our clients (advisors, mentors, access to investors, publicity, PR, networking, shared office workspace, packages of legal and accounting advice and services, etc) over the longest period of time.
Within weeks of launching, we have our first customer in contract, and are generating revenue not only from that client, but also from consultancy income and events.
Competitive Advantage
We believe our advantage is the combination of the best features of business incubators, accelerators, conference companies, and recruitment businesses. This should create a valuable, effective package of support services, tools, and resources for our clients.
There are now over 115 dedicated healthcare accelerators in the World. London is home to 36 cross-industry start up programmes offering cash and mentoring to fast growing companies, to the best of our knowledge none of these provide the complete package of benefits, with a healthcare sector focus, that we do.
The Model
To reduce risk we aim to generate revenue from a range of difference categories of customers. Our incubator/accelerator clients will pay cash fees for monthly subscriptions, and success fees for assistance with fundraising, recruitment fees, and equity. Later in 2015, when we establish our shared workspace facilities, we intend to generate income from providing office services to these clients. From our healthcare innovation events, we are already generating cash income from delegates, sponsors, and companies who showcase their businesses. We’re generating consultancy income based on the expertise that our team has. Some healthcare corporations around the world already sponsor business incubators and accelerators and we aim to generate revenue from this type of sponsorship.
For our shareholders, we hope to create value not only from developing a business with strong sales and profits growth, but also from equity stakes in our clients. Both our incubator/accelerator clients, and recruitment services customers will pay us in equity (and cash, as above).
Market size
We aim to work with early stage ventures from idea/ pre-product stage (pre-seed investment) to Series A/Series B funding. We have an exclusive focus on the healthcare sector but not the “wellness” sector.
The Conference & Meetings industry is worth £19.9bn which will be a key area for spreading the word about our offering.
Our aim is to grow the variety and depth of the services we offer as follows:
Competition
Our competition are event organising companies, freelance consultants, business incubators and accelerators, recruitment companies, and fundraising advisors and brokers.
Looking at the incubator and accelerator sector, in the UK there are a few healthcare focused ‘quasi incubators and accelerators’.
We aim to differentiate by:
Barry Shrier – CEO and Founder
Barry launched the European mobile payments business Paybox for Deutsche Bank. He was the founder and CEO, of The Liberty Electric Cars group of companies. He launched the world’s first zero-emission high performance SUV and was involved when Liberty Electric Cars was sold for $17 million with global blue-chip customers including UPS, Lockheed Martin, Tesco, and FedEx,
Dr Farid Khan – Co-founder
He is a Life Sciences entrepreneur and innovator who obtained his PhD from Cambridge University and drug discovery skills from GlaxoSmithKline. He has developed technologies and therapies for diseases in the developed and the developing world.
Ian Sandison – Commercial Director
9 years with Becton Dickinson and 3 years with Smiths Medical in senior commercial roles, leaving Smiths as VP Global sales for their Hospital Infusion business. He contributes to the Cambridge University, Judge Business School MBA and Ignite entrepreneurship programmes.
Advisors
Jagdeesh Dhaliwal
A medical director with international experience in public health, clinical management. Particular interests in supporting new technologies, and making connections between technology innovators and healthcare practitioners.
We aim to be an attractive target for a large corporate operating in healthcare technology. Due to the nature of our business with our incubator/accelerator, recruitment services, and our venture-builder model – all of these facets of our business mean we should be gaining equity stakes in an portfolio of top-quality health-tech innovation companies. Therefore the equity value of this portfolio could achieve value for our shareholders, like the LPs in a successful VC fund. We are therefore offering addition exit routes by selling the equity stakes in our client and ‘venture builder’ businesses. The proceeds from these equity sales can take the form of dividend payments to our shareholders.
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as shareholders in The Health-Tech Innovation LABS, will have priority access to invest in the companies that come into our accelerator. You will be granted a ‘right of first refusal’ when companies in our accelerator are offering equity to investors.
a guided walking ‘innovation’ tour at The University of Cambridge.
a ‘minibus innovation tour’ of Cambridge including punting on the river Cam. All investors will get priority FREE access to every Health-Tech Innovation LABS conference, seminar, and training event.
an overnight accommodation, breakfast and a guided tour in a 16th century room at a College at The University of Cambridge. All investors will get priority FREE access to every Health-Tech Innovation LABS conference, seminar, and training event.
This company is offering only A-shares with full voting rights to all investors.
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