MedTech Accelerator® 2025
Turn your idea into a solution and launch your start-up.
Our intensive 6-month program is designed to give a boost to your project, enhance your visibility and integrate you into a top-tier ecosystem.
Why join our program?
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.
Test, accelerate and realize your project
Join an exclusive healthcare innovation network in Brussels
Develop through contact with other project leaders
Become a pro at pitching to raise funds or win over partners
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.
Our trackrecord since 2016
On the market
Access criteria
You will benefit greatly from this program if you are :
A healthcare professional with experience to build on.
An entrepreneur with an impactful vision.
A student or a researcher with an innovative technology.
Practicalities
The program is conducted entirely in English and takes place in Brussels, primarily at the hub.brussels premises.
Provisional Schedule
The sessions are scheduled for full-day workshops on the following dates:
March: 13, 20, 27
April: 3, 10, 17, 24
May: 8, 15, 22
June: 5, 12, 19, 26
August: 28
September: 4, 11, 18, 25
October: 2, 9
Some sessions will also include after-work networking drinks to foster connections and collaborations.
Participation Fee
The fee is charged per project, irrespective of the number of team members attending. A refundable guarantee of €200 (including VAT) is required to confirm your participation.
If you need further clarification or have specific questions, feel free to ask!
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!
The solutions
And the 2024 winners are...! 🎉
Prix du Jury
BREEZE MEDICAL
“An innovation that redefines respiratory monitoring”
– Jason Pettiaux
Prix du PUBLIC
FLUENT ROBOTICS
“Smart robots to ease the workload of clinicians”
– Omar Al-Ahmad & Mirza Awais Ahmad
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.
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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