Pre-Revenue Bridge
From a first idea and a clinical problem worth solving through to product-market fit and a product real customers will buy. For clinician inventors, the earliest-stage teams, and companies with an MVP ready to prove itself in real care.
- Access to clinicians, managers and patients at the individual level
- Product-market fit, evaluation workshops and in-field trials
- Output: validated products the health system is ready to buy
Post-Revenue Bridge
Two sides, one bridge: revenue-generating companies scaling into the health system, and the providers ready to adopt their technology.
- Go-to-market commercialization engagements, scoped then executed
- Hospital procurement navigation and matched adoption funding
- Pathways to national networks
Research Bridge
Turn your technology into evidence the health system trusts: clinical studies run alongside patients, clinicians and hospital partners.
- Living-lab access for real-world testing
- Study design and evaluation support
- Evidence that accelerates procurement and adoption
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 is CORE's program for building and curating a regional network of independent health institutions across Eastern Ontario, anchored by deep, long-standing relationships with partners like CHEO and Bruyère, and 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.
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.
Tell us about your innovationor email contact@coreinnovation.ca