Incubator
Tailored support to help clinician innovators, researchers, inventors, and early-stage health technology startups move toward commercialization and adoption, from TRL 2 to TRL 8. Typically a pre-revenue company.
- Connections to relevant experts, partners, and health system stakeholders
- A pathway from Health Technology Analysis to deeper, tailored Incubator support
- Learning Series, and Resource & Partner Navigation, available at any stage
Adoption & Scaling
Two sides, one bridge: healthcare organizations identifying the challenges that matter most, and health technology companies past their first sale looking to validate, implement and scale. Typically a post-revenue company.
- Engagements scoped to the challenge, not sold from a price list
- Hospital procurement navigation, matched adoption funding, a named Hospital Success Manager
- Pathways to national networks
Research
Rigorously evaluate your technology in real-world healthcare settings, from early product discovery to clinical trials. Without evidence the system trusts, even a strong product may stall at the front door.
- Living-lab access for real-world testing
- Ethics navigation, study execution and dissemination
- Dedicated Research Support from $5,000
Proof the model works
$60M
Landmark exit: SHOEBOX Audiometry
2M+
Patients in our living-lab network
150+
Companies engaged across the pathway
How we deliver
Powered by the 8-80 regional network
The 8-80 Collaborative, a partnership between the CHEO Research Institute and Bruyère Health, builds and curates a regional network of independent health institutions across Eastern Ontario, and is supported by the Government of Canada through FedDev Ontario. It's how we connect every bridge to real clinical environments, clinicians and patients, for innovations that improve health across the lifespan, from eight seconds to more than eighty years.
8-80 isn't a separate program you apply to. It's the network CORE curates to power all three bridges.
Acknowledgements
The 8-80 Collaborative is funded by the Government of Canada through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario).
Not sure which bridge fits?
We meet you where you are. Tell us where you are on the journey and we'll take it from there.