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MedTech Accelerator® 2025

Turn your idea into a solution and launch your start-up.

Our intensive 6-month program (March to October) is designed to give a boost to your project, enhance your visibility and integrate you into a top-tier ecosystem.

The Cohort 2025

Meet the coaches

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Gaetan Van Wijck

Seasoned HealthTech leader and entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in driving high-growth strategies for international teams in established and scale-up companies. Gaetan is an enthusiastic communicator and pragmatic decision-maker who is committed e about building strong teams. He has extensive experience in company acquisitions and integrations.

Enrique Vega

Senior executive with over 25 years of international management experience in startups and global companies. Enrique has a strong track record in fundraising, shareholder relations, strategic partnerships, and IPO preparation. An engineer by training, he holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Shahram Sharif

Serial technology entrepreneur and senior executive with a passion for health, wellness and innovation. Shahram has just stepped down as CEO of Liva Healthcare, a digital therapy company focused on the management and reversal of chronic lifestyle diseases. Previously, he was Chief Business Officer at Huma Therapeutics and founder and CEO of LindaCare. He holds a master’s degree in electronic engineering and an executive master’s degree in business innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare and life sciences.

Xavier Delcorps

Business development and management expert with 30 years of experience in medical technologies. Xavier specializes in helping startups, scale-ups, and SMEs successfully enter and grow in their target markets. An experienced C-level executive, independent board director, and MedTech entrepreneur, he has a strong background in business expansion within multinational environments.

Benjamin Mertens

Founder and CEO of Lys Medical, a MedTech company specializing in lung cancer diagnostics. With over 18 years of experience in MedTech, he has led the full development cycle, from incubation and clinical validation to certification and commercialization. Benjamin is also a program coordinator for the advanced master’s in Biotech and MedTech Ventures at Solvay. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and an Executive Master in Management from Solvay Brussels School.

Why join our program?

Because it’s designed for Healthtech pioneers!

Since 2016, the MedTech Accelerator has supported early-stage entrepreneurs providing value to patients and professionals.

The program brings together recognized experts and key players in the ecosystem.

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Test, accelerate and realize your project

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Join an exclusive healthcare innovation network in Brussels

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Develop through contact with other project leaders

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Become a pro at pitching to raise funds or win over partners

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Win up to €5,000 in the final competition

Our community is changing the future of healthcare:
imagine what we can achieve together!

Advantages

A comprehensive support to identify and overcome any risks

Our lifetech cluster team, coaches and experts will help you through the initial, foundational stages of drafting your business plan.

When you leave the Accelerator, you will be able to:

  • Present a credible business plan and roadmap.
  • Pitch your idea to pre-seed investors.
  • Activate Brussels grants and set up your own company.
  • Join the lifetech cluster as an aspiring member, then as a full member.

Over 6 months, you will benefit from:

  • 20 workshops theoretical and practical 
  • 20 hours of personalized business coaching.
  • Continuous training in pitching.
  • 2 days of targeted meetings with the ecosystem

Our focus

  • # Value proposition for your customers
  • # Market and competitor analysis
  • # Business plan, financial plan, funding
  • # CE marking and intellectual property
  • # Prototyping
  • # Regional and European aid

To gain a detailed understanding of the program and determine if it aligns with your needs, we’ll arrange a one-on-one meeting to present its details and allow you to introduce your project.

For that purpose, you can contact us directly or sign up.

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Our trackrecord since 2016

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Access criteria

You will benefit greatly from this program if you are :

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A healthcare professional with experience to build on.

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An entrepreneur with an impactful vision.

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A student or a researcher with an innovative technology.

Here are the program registration criteria

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A solution lies between a CRL2 -TRL2 and CRL4-TRL4 (check on the MatMax).

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A startup or a project that is established or willing to soon establish in Brussels.

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A startup about to be created or is less than 5 years old..

Discover the projects selected for 2024

The solutions developed in the context of the MedTech Accelerator 2024 will change the future of prevention and healthcare!

And the 2024 winners are...! 🎉

Prix du Jury 

BREEZE MEDICAL

“An innovation that redefines respiratory monitoring”
– Jason Pettiaux

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Prix du PUBLIC

FLUENT ROBOTICS

“Smart robots to ease the workload of clinicians”
– Omar Al-Ahmad & Mirza Awais Ahmad 

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Huge congratulations to both teams for their outstanding innovation and their contributions to the future of healthtech!

Just think, you could be the next person to transform healthcare thanks to your project…

Previous participants

Curious to find out about some of our alumni?

Meet your MedTech Accelerator® team

The MedTech Accelerator® supports healthtech enthusiasts to accelerate the innovation potential of their solution in Brussels and beyond. We are an enthusiastic team ready to support you throughout your project lifetime within the program and after, if you are eligible to join the lifetech.brussels cluster.

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Myriam Dieleman

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like more information about the Acceleration Program or if you are considering a partnership with us.

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My-Van Thai

Don't hesitate to contact me for practical questions (communication, events, administration)

The MedTech Accelerator® is an initiative of lifetech.brussels.

The MedTech Accelerator® is financially supported by the Brussels Regional Government.

”More for Brussels” This project was supported by the ERDF between 2016 and 2023.

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