Accelerating the Next Generation of Biotech Innovation
Since 2012, gener8tor has helped founders turn bold ideas into lasting companies. In biotech, that means working alongside the health systems, universities and industry leaders advancing therapeutics, diagnostics, medical devices and digital health, and giving founders the capital, clinical connections and investor access to scale.
A Proven Track Record
Our biotech programs are built on the same model that has powered gener8tor accelerators for more than a decade. These numbers reflect every founder we have backed, across every program and industry.
- 2,200+
startups accelerated since 2012
- $3B+
raised by portfolio companies
- 15,800+
people employed by alumni companies
- 32
U.S. states and 6 other countries with programs
Where Indiana's Life Science Founders Start
Indiana is home to a $99 billion life science economy, and the 16 Tech Innovation District in Indianapolis is where its next generation of companies is being built. The IU Health Incubator at IU LAB Pre-Accelerator powered by gener8tor supports early-stage founders commercializing breakthroughs at the intersection of biosciences, human health and biotechnology, from diagnostics and devices to software and AI.
Founders get one-on-one coaching from the gener8tor team, introductions to IU Health, Indiana University researchers and the state's life science industry, and a path to investors and equity accelerators. A program of gener8tor's gBETA accelerator, built with the Indiana University Launch Accelerator for Biosciences and IU Health.
- 3cohorts completed
- 15bioscience companies through the program
- 2cohorts a year
- 30companies planned over 3 years
- $4.5MIU Health commitment to the incubator
- $1M+in partner perks
Built with the Indiana University Launch Accelerator for Biosciences (IU LAB) and IU Health at the 16 Tech Innovation District, alongside the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership. Learn more about the IU LAB Pre-Accelerator.
Biotech and Life Science Accelerators
gener8tor partners with the health systems, universities and companies shaping the life science economy to build accelerators where founders find capital, clinical partners and momentum.
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IU Health Incubator at IU LAB Pre-Accelerator
For early-stage founders and researchers commercializing bioscience, human health and biotechnology breakthroughs, from diagnostics and devices to software and AI. Built with Indiana University and IU Health at the 16 Tech Innovation District.
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Prosper HealthTech Accelerator
For healthtech, life science and healthcare startups ready to validate their model with health systems and payers. Built with Prosper to make Birmingham a center for health technology, with hands-on access to the city's hospitals, universities and investors.
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gBETA Prosper Healthtech
For early-stage healthtech, life science and healthcare founders in Alabama. Built with Prosper to make Birmingham a center for health technology, with a path into the Prosper HealthTech investment accelerator.
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gener8tor Oklahoma City Accelerator
An investment accelerator with a focus on biotechnology, life science, agtech and energy startups. Built with the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology, Cortado Ventures and Boyd Street Ventures as part of the Oklahoma Accelerator Program.
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gBETA AgBioScience
For agriculture, biotech and animal science startups. Built with Beck's Hybrids, Ag Alumni Seed and AgriNovus Indiana to grow the bioscience companies feeding and supplying the world.
Learn more about gBETA AgBioScience
What Biotech Founders Get
Biotech is a demanding industry to build in, with long development timelines, regulatory gates and customers who need clinical proof. gener8tor programs are designed to open the doors that matter most.
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Clinical and Industry Introductions
Warm introductions to the health systems, payers and companies founders need to validate and sell, drawn from the hospital, university and corporate relationships behind every gener8tor biotech program.
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Non-Dilutive Funding Pathways
gener8tor has run programs backed by federal and state science and technology agencies. Founders get help with SBIR and STTR applications and other federal and state grant pathways.
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Research and Lab Access
Access to the lab space, research facilities and scientific expertise founders need to validate their technology, through the universities and research institutions behind each program.
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Investors Who Back Life Sciences
Warm introductions to a national network of healthcare and life science investors, curated for your stage and sector, plus the 1,500+ investors already in gener8tor's community.
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Regulated-Market Expertise
Mentors who have taken devices, diagnostics and therapeutics through FDA pathways, clinical validation and hospital procurement, and program directors with research and lab backgrounds of their own.
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A Network That Stays With You
Weekly sessions with operators, clinicians and investors embedded in life sciences, one-on-one coaching for the length of the program, and an alumni network of 2,200+ companies after it.
Partners Behind Our Biotech Programs
Behind every gener8tor life science program is a partner invested in the health of its region. Together we connect founders to the capital, clinical partners and resources that turn research into lasting companies.
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Health Systems and Industry
- Boston Scientific
- Mayo Clinic
- IU Health
- Medical Alley Association
- Beck's Hybrids
- Ag Alumni Seed
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Universities and Research
- Indiana University Launch Accelerator for Biosciences
- University of Minnesota
- University Enterprise Labs
- 16 Tech Innovation District
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State, Regional and Federal
- BARDA DRIVe
- Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology
- Indiana Economic Development Corporation
- AgriNovus Indiana
- Prosper
- Central Indiana Corporate Partnership
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Investors
- Cortado Ventures
- Boyd Street Ventures
- Redhawk Advisory
- Alabama Futures Fund
Inside the Programs
Lab visits, working sessions, cohort dinners and showcase nights. A look inside life in a gener8tor biotech program.
What Biotech Founders Say
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"The biggest impact was investor connections and mentorship. I built ongoing relationships with mentors and learned how to put together a strong executive summary and pitch deck."
Victor Santoro FernandesCellTrack
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"Before joining the gBETA program, we had a basic prototype and just secured IP. Through the program, we learned how to talk to investors, built our revenue model, and perfected our pitch deck."
Raishma AnwarechoSURE
Talk to the Biotech Team
The best way to learn whether a program is the right fit is a conversation. Reach out to the team to talk through what you are building.
Build a Biotech Accelerator With gener8tor
The strongest life science ecosystems are built in partnership. gener8tor works with health systems, universities, corporations and governments to design, recruit and run accelerators that bring the best founders to your market and help them stay.
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