MedTech Innovator seeks to spotlight Asia-Pacific startups to investors

Singapore

MEDTECH Innovator, a US nonprofit accelerator, is bullish on Asia-Pacific's young ecosystem of medtech startups. And it wants to highlight their vast potential, even as investors have turned cautious amid Covid-19, the firm's chief executive Paul Grand told The Business Times.

The accelerator, whose Asia-Pacific headquarters is in Singapore, hopes to match more of the region's startups with medical giants for mentoring and global investors for funding. While digital health has exploded in Asia-Pacific, there is room for more innovations to be funded.

"The gaps, I would say, are in more complex devices... (such as) implants for the eye, cardiovascular technologies, transcatheters or …

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