gener8tor Expands Partnership With Prosper to Launch Birmingham Startup Pre-Accelerator
Birmingham, Ala. - Global venture firm and startup accelerator, gener8tor, in partnership with Prosper, kicked off the inaugural gBETA Prosper Healthtech cohort in October. The gBETA accelerator focuses on early-stage companies working in healthtech. See details about the selected companies at the end of this release.
Prosper and gener8tor first began their partnership last spring with the Prosper Healthtech Investment Accelerator, an equity accelerator focused on innovations in healthtech. Over the past year, the Prosper Healthtech Investment Accelerator has supported 10 companies across two cohorts, including two companies relocating to Birmingham following the program.
Building on this success, Prosper and gener8tor are expanding the partnership to include gBETA, a non-equity-based accelerator program, during the fall of 2022. gener8tor gBETA is a free seven-week, no-equity accelerator program that provides startup founders with intensive concierge coaching and access to its national network of mentors, customers, corporate partners and investors. The programs are designed to set a path for startups to participate in equity-based accelerator programs and investment opportunities.
gener8tor recruited startups nationally for the gBETA program in an effort to support homegrown companies while also attracting startups to relocate to Birmingham.
“We are thrilled to expand our partnership with gener8tor and work to build our pipeline of great diverse HealthTech startups that continue to make Birmingham one of the premiere places to be if you are an early stage health tech founder,” said J.W. Carpenter, Prosper executive director.
“Expanding our programming with Prosper to bring this program to life is very exciting,” said Lauren Usher, gener8tor gBETA vice president. “We’ve seen the incredible economic impact of the gBETA program in other industries and other parts of the country, and we’re excited to bring that same impact to Birmingham’s healthtech innovation ecosystem.”
At the end of the gBETA program, startup founders will showcase their companies to investors, community partners and the public at a showcase event in conjunction with the Prosper Healthtech Investment Accelerator at 6 p.m. on Nov. 15 at Avenue D, 3008 4th Ave S Birmingham, AL 35233.
Startup companies and founders interested in learning more about gBETA’s programming and resources or applying to a future program are encouraged to visit the gener8tor gBETA website.
gBETA Prosper Healthtech Fall 2022 Cohort
Entirely Well builds wholesome brands as Consumer Packaged Goods in multiple categories, such as Beauty & Personal Care Products, Feminine Care Products, and more! Our first focus is creating a new brand to prevent vaginal issues such as yeast infectionsand bacterial vaginosis. Product lines include lubricants, washes, wipes, condoms, & other daily-use applications.
Founder and CEO: Reilly Williams | hello@entirelywell.com | entirelywell.com
Remembrara’s story capturing subscription service emails regular, insightful prompts that put the receiver at ease to express their lived experiences honestly and when complete, prints the digital responses in a poignant, forever book. Remembrara specializes in both pregnancy/birth and postpartum story capture and times when a life or medical event inspires action to tell your story.
Founder and CEO: Shannon Milliman | shannonmilliman@gmail.com
Monthly Monthly makes period underwear that is gender inclusive, sustainable, and price accessible. Our period underwear is designed to include trans and non-binary menstruators who have been historically left out of the conversation and design of period products. Our social enterprise model donates 10% of profits back to southern communities to fight against period poverty and for period equity. #PeopleBleed
Founder and CEO: Aiko Pickering | aiko@shopmonthly.co | shopmonthly.co
Sindano Health develops community-driven AI and analytics solutions to address disparities in LGBTQ+ mental health outcomes, through a racial equity lens. With the Sindano App, LGBTQ+ identifying individuals are able to access and leave therapist reviews, find a competent therapist, utilize our peer support network, and create community that promotes mental well-being. With Sindano Health's Insights Dashboard, mental healthcare system stakeholders receive first hand community-level reporting and patient experience insights to inform therapeutic approaches, develop meaningful value-based care models, redefine and increase efficacy of competency benchmarking, and ultimately save lives and reduce long-term network costs.
Founder and CEO: Tara Marshall-Hill | marshall@sindano.co | sindanohealth.com
Alimus offers a quality-controlled, vetted doula network to employers as an employee benefit. Alimus is Upwork for doulas. Using a HIPAA-compliant platform, Alimus matches expectant parents/employees with the right doulas to reduce parents' administrative burden and complexity of finding quality care. Alimus provides analytics tracking to employers to measure Alimus' impact on lowering health care spend, improving employee loyalty, and creating a positive DEI impact.
Founder and CEO: Kirsten Kessler | kirsten.kessler@alimus.org | alimus.org
MeDecibel (MD)’sOnline Healthcare Research Platform makes literature more accessible and reproducible. MD offers an AI-based, tailored literature screening and recommendation tool for clinicians and researchers and an audio marketplace that connects the publishers/authors and narrators to produce existing and future healthcare research in audio format to make it accessible to users.
Co-Founder: Atiq Bhatti | arbhattimd@gmail.com
Vizrom’s cloud-based content management application gives companies the flexibility to take full control of how, when, and where they share messages with their target audience. We provide hospitals and other healthcare-related institutions with an electronic health record-integrated application that pulls essential information to clinical staff and patient areas. Information is displayed on a TV screen and updated in real-time.
Founder and CEO: Emmanuel Umoh | emmanuel@vizrom.com | vizrom.com
Vertige’s mobile vertigo-tracking app brings balance back to vertigo sufferers. By tracking behavioral and environmental factors, users can identify trends in their vertigo episodes. Once tracked, weekly and bi-weekly reports can be shared with doctors and medical teams to help create a care plan.
Founder and CEO: Kristy Carabello | kristy@vertige.app | vertige.app
Oasis Women’s Birthing Center offers a birthing center using a low intervention model of obstetrical care to address the significant disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality - especially for Black, Indigenous and other People of color (BIPoC). We create a safe space for women of color and like minded allies to receive and provide healthcare.
Founder and CEO: Heather Skanes | oasiswomenshealthbhm@gmail.com | oasiswh.org
Cole Medical Innovation creates the “Accurest,” an armrest that attaches to new and existing vital sign monitors to increase the accuracy of blood pressure measurements. The Accurest can be used by any healthcare provider that works with pole-style monitors. This has been shown to consistently increase the accuracy of blood pressure measurements to prevent a healthy patient from being misdiagnosed as hypertensive or hypotensive.
Founder and CEO: William Hall | william.hall@colemedicalinnovation.com | colemedicalinnovation.com
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About gener8tor
gener8tor is a global venture firm and accelerator network that supports startups, workers, employers, artists and musicians across race, place and gender. gener8tor partners with companies, governments, universities and nonprofits to operate programs and conferences in more than 41 communities across 22 states and two countries. Fast Company named gener8tor one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2021 and 2022. The International Trade Council recognized gener8tor as the Global Venture Capital Firm of the Year in 2022.
About gBETA Prosper Healthtech Accelerator
The gBETA Prosper Healthtech Accelerator aims to make Birmingham a center of health technology solutions through investments in entrepreneurship, talent, and community engagements. gBETA is a non-equity accelerator that facilitates the growth of early-stage companies through a network-driven program. This accelerator supports ten startups per cohort and requires no fees for startups and takes no equity. Since launching in 2015, gBETA accelerator alumni have raised $531M+ in capital and created 3,400+ jobs across the U.S. and Canada.
About Prosper
Prosper is a coalition of community, civic and business leaders committed to creating a more vibrant and racially inclusive economy. Core to every action by Prosper is whether the action is equitable and whether it will invest in Birmingham’s and Jefferson County’s Black community and women.
