Halcyon Health Fellowship (2025)
The program will bring together entrepreneurs from across the United States, empowering them to improve physical and mental healthcare outcomes and reduce barriers to quality, affordable healthcare. Founders will receive expert training, critical resources to accelerate their ventures, and an 8-week residency in Washington, DC.
To learn more about the program, read about our inaugural 2024 Health Fellowship here.
Sectors
Solutions leveraging technology to improve physical and mental healthcare outcomes and reduce barriers to quality, affordable healthcare, including but not limited to:
- Telemedicine
- Remote patient monitoring and digital therapeutics
- Healthcare operations
- Health data analytics and AI
- MedTech
- FemTech
- Preventative medicine
- Health finance
- AgeTech/Longevity Tech
Program Structure
- The cohort is selected of up to 8 ventures based in/serving the U.S.
- Ventures receive training in Halcyon’s methodology on product-market fit, investment readiness, and leadership
- The program is delivered through:
- A virtual kickoff meeting
- An 8-week in-person residency in Washington, DC
Timeline
- August 27, 2024: Applications open
- October 18, 2024: Applications close
- November/December 2024: Finalists invited to a virtual pitch
- December 2024: Selected fellows will be notified
- January 23, 2025: Virtual program kickoff
- February 10-April 4, 2025: In-person residency in Washington, DC
Benefits
- $10K in Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits
- $10K stipend per venture
- Leadership coaching
- Professional advisors
- Training with experts in the field in leadership development, investment readiness, and product-market fit
- Networking with investors and other stakeholders
- Legal pro bono consultancy
- Business consultancy from Deloitte
- A global community of 500+ impact-driven entrepreneurs
- And more
*No equity required
Eligibility
We’re looking for (for-profit) startups that are building scalable solutions that are tackling challenges related to physical and mental healthcare outcomes and reducing barriers to quality, affordable healthcare across the United States.
- Location: Must have your venture based in/serving the U.S.
- Stage: Must have a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that has the potential to scale. Must be working on your venture full-time.
- Team:
- May apply with up to one co-founder
- Applicant must be the CEO and/or hold primary decision-making power
- Must be fluent in English
- Must be at least 21 years of age by the start of the program
- Program Engagement: Must be able to participate in all activities and programming sessions
- Impact: Must be developing a product and venture which contributes towards 1 or more of the UN’s 17 SDGs
In addition to eligibility, Halcyon scores each application based on 4 criteria: Impact, Scalability, Innovation, and Talent.
Selection Criteria
Impact
To what extent will the solution, if scaled, have a meaningful impact on society and/or the environment?
Scalability
Could this venture scale to reach hundreds of thousands or millions of users in a 5-10 year time horizon?
Innovation
Is the solution a novel approach to tackling the issue in their context?
Talent
Is the team uniquely qualified to tackle the challenges they’ve identified?