Launchpad
The Launchpad is a programme for early-stage digital health companies that have a product or service in development or ready to launch with high potential to meet NHS and social care challenges.
Who is the Launchpad programme for?
This programme is for London-based companies at an early-stage of developing a product or service and are nearing launch into the health and social care market.
The project is receiving up to £3.8 million of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (and in London the intermediate body Greater London Authority) is the Managing Authority for European Regional Development Fund. For more information visit gov.uk/european-growth-funding
What’s involved?
The Launchpad provides a minimum of 12 hours of support to participants. Support includes:
- Workshops and peer-to-peer learning opportunities
- Bespoke 1:1 advice from DigitalHealth.London digital health and NHS advisors
- Advice from key DigitalHealth.London founding and strategic partners to bring rich and diverse expertise across healthcare innovation
Explore Launchpad companies and alumni
The DigitalHealth.London Launchpad programme has supported over 20 digital health companies.
Canopie
Canopie is a digital platform to prevent and address symptoms of maternal depression and anxiety.
Medwise
An Artificial Intelligence Platform that answers clinical questions by searching through guidelines and articles
Lisn
Lisn is a digital staff engagement platform that uses machine learning to collate and analyse staff comments to generate detailed feedback and actionable insights. They…
MedQ
MedQ is a smart platform that helps healthcare professionals complete patient assessments using a three-step process: Select-Send-Analyse.
bumpf
bumpf is a lifesaving pregnancy app for the next generation, integrating content proven to save lives whilst its fun, trusted and dynamic nature allows users to completely personalise their own journey.
FotoConsent
FotoConsent is a safe, hassle free, medical image and data sharing for healthcare professionals and their patients.
Success stories
Being part of the DigitalHealth.London Launchpad programme has helped us enormously and the education, contacts and growth opportunities the programme has provided us with have been pivotal to us reaching this stage.
Thank you DigitalHealth.London for making our launch possible! We highly recommend the Launchpad programme. It really gave us the support and guidance we needed at a crucial time in our business development.
We were lucky enough to join the December 2019 induction of the launchpad, and have benefitted from a number of in depth discussions with leads from across the NHS, from IG to Digital, which was all super helpful in guiding us towards our launch. Since then, we’ve been in keeping in touch with others in our cohort to ask & answer questions as we all move forwards together.