HealthTech Arkansas has a program specifically designed to work with Arkansas-based healthcare startups. This assistance is a formal, organized, and free program designed to assess the stage of your company, understand the specific needs you have to advance your company and provide as much assistance as we possibly can to help you meet your goals. The assistance includes formal mentoring from the HealthTech Arkansas team as well as engagement — where and how it makes sense — with our partner hospitals and physician practices in the HealthTech Arkansas provider coalition. We know that provider engagement can fundamentally transform the path of many early-stage companies, so we want to bring our relationships to bear for the good of your company.
Examples of support we have offered healthcare startup companies in Arkansas:
Introductions to potential funding and investment sources
Introductions to potential customers
Guidance on pricing and payment models
Connections to specialty vendors and manufacturers
Guidance on customer discovery
Advice on compliance guidelines
Introductions to potential research partners
Guidance on messaging for marketing, sales, and pitch presentations
Guidance on intellectual property management, e.g. patents, trademarks, etc.
If you are interested in working with us, please visit this link to complete the form, then we will follow up and work to develop a plan for helping you. And in those rare cases where we don’t think we can provide immediate help, we’ll connect you with additional resources for you to get that help.