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Capital Readiness Program
Be Prepared for Your First Institutional Raise
This 5-day intensive is designed to help health tech startups confidently navigate the fundraising process. You’ll gain the knowledge and skills needed to approach institutional investors with clarity and credibility.
Investor-Backed Insights with Actionable Outcomes
You’ll learn how to build a capital-ready due diligence deal room, confidently address investor inquiries, and refine your fundraising strategy. With direct feedback from industry-relevant investors, you’ll walk away prepared to meet investor expectations and take the next step toward securing funding.
Find out when we're recruiting for our next cohort
2025 Cohorts:
- Spring 2025 Cohort: 3/31 – 4/4
- June 2025 Cohort: 6/23 – 6/27
- December 2025 Cohort: 12/8 – 12/12
What to expect
We offer critical guidance and unvarnished feedback from industry leaders and investors:
Due Diligence Deep Dive
We’ll cover the information investors expect to see including financial, legal, technical, and operational
One-on-One Feedback Sessions
Receive personalized guidance from investors, payors, providers, and other industry leaders
Stress Test Scenarios
We simulate real startup challenges to assess and improve your response as a CEO
Mock Board Meetings
Engage in realistic boardroom discussions to refine communication and decision-making skills
Investors-in-Residence
Meet our June 2025 Investors-in-residence
Shalanda Armstrong
100KM Ventures
Samir Batra
HIP
Alicia Hanf
Desert Forge Ventures
Rick Jones
BioAdvance Capital
Erica Murdock
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Our Due Diligence Partners
Key Benefits
Investor Readiness
Develop your deal room, conduct investor discovery, and hone your value proposition with industry-relevant investors.
Market Validation
Validate your business model and product-market fit to ensure alignment with market needs.
Strategic Resilience
Build strategies to navigate market complexities, including regulatory and reimbursement challenges.
Eligibility
We're seeking medtech, digital health, or healthcare technology companies who:
- have raised at least $500k (others may be considered) and seeking to raise $1M - 5M in institutional investment over the next year
- have identified a market need with clear understanding of how the startup will be feasible, impactful, and scalable
- are able to be on site in Philadelphia and engaged for an intensive, 5-day program
Things to know before you apply:
- Capital Readiness Program is free if your company is selected from the competitive application process, however participants must cover travel expenses.
- There is no pitch competition or demo day as part of the program.
- While the program equips founders with the necessary skills and knowledge to attract investment, it does not provide direct capital funding.
“Capital Readiness Program is so detailed and realistic. It’s opening up what seems to be this black box around venture and how to get funding, and how to build and scale your business. It is literally a cheat sheet.”
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The Capital Readiness program is Funded in part through a Grant with the U.S. Small Business Administration.
A glimpse inside the program
Capital Readiness Program Impact
$35M
Raised over 18 months
50
companies supported
5
cohorts
$2.5B
in venture capital represented by Investors-in-Residence