The California HealthCare Foundation’s state of the union for health accelerators is filled with interesting insights about the strengths and weaknesses of these organizations from the perspective of entrepreneurs that participate in them. New York Digital Health Accelerator, StartUp Health and Rock Health have each had acquisitions among their accelerator companies. Many other portfolio companies have raised funds and created jobs. But two years after its initial report on seeding startups, called the Greenhouse Effect, the “Survival of the Fittest” report raises some critical questions for accelerators from measuring their success to how sustainable the approaches to the accelerator model are going forward. Here are some of the most interesting insights from the report to chew on.
