MATTER is a community of healthcare entrepreneurs and industry leaders working together in a shared space to individually and collectively fuel the future of healthcare innovation.
It connects and promotes the collaboration between scientists, physicians, health technology entrepreneurs and other industry partners, in order to bring next-generation products and services to market.
MATTER was founded in April 2014 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Johns Hopkins University is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, the university was named for its first benefactor, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins.
His $7 million bequest (approximately $147.5 million in today's dollars)—of which half financed the establishment of Johns Hopkins Hospital—was the largest philanthropic gift in the history of the United States up to that time.
Daniel Coit Gilman, who was inaugurated as the institution's first president on February 22, 1876, led the university to revolutionize higher education in the U.S. by integrating teaching and research. Adopting the concept of a graduate school from Germany's ancient Heidelberg University, Johns Hopkins University is considered the first research university in the United States.
Over the course of several decades, the university has led all U.S. universities in annual research and development expenditures. In fiscal year 2016, Johns Hopkins spent nearly $2.5 billion on research.[9] The university has additional graduate campuses in Italy, China, and Washington, D.C., in addition to its main campus in Baltimore, Maryland. The university has been ranked by numerous major education publications as among the top universities in the world.

Paragon Biosciences is a global healthcare company committed to accelerating biomedical research. It solves complex challenges by advancing science. Paragon focuses on four areas of life science innovation including artificial intelligence, gene therapy, synthetic biology, and biopharmaceuticals.
Its current portfolio includes Castle Creek Biosciences, Emalex Biosciences, Evozyne, Harmony Biosciences, Qlarity Imaging, Skyline Biosciences, and a consistent flow of incubating companies in development.
Paragon stands at the intersection of human need, life science, and company creation. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois.

Created to facilitate applied research, product development and commercialization programs, and to strengthen South Carolina's Knowledge Economy by creating high wage-earning jobs.
SC Launch provides entrepreneurs with key tools for success to help build technology startups, jobs and equity in the future for South Carolina.
SC Launch provides access to business, academic and economic development entities through the SC Launch Resource Network.
SC Launch is a collaboration among SCRA and South Carolina's university research foundations: Clemson University, the University of South Carolina and the Medical University of South Carolina.

Accelerace is one of the world’s top 10 seed accelerators. Since 2008 Accelerace has spotted, trained and invested in more than 700 of the most promising Danish and international startups and growth companies. 88% of the companies are still on the market today. As partner in the national Scale-Up Denmark initiative, Accelerace scales startups within foodtech, edtech, cleantech, IoT, soundtech, fintech, future of work, medtech, biotech and digital health with help from experienced serial entrepreneurs, mentors, bootcamps and a vast network.
Accelerace has in its lifetime invested more than 38.8 million USD in promising startups and has launched partnerships with the Novo Nordisk Foundation, Arla, COOP, Nordea, Nykredit, Danske Bank, Bang & Olufsen, Sound Hub Denmark, Arbejdernes Landsbank, Ørsted og Elia among others.
Accelerace is also organizing the Nordic NOME (Nordic Mentor Network for Entrepreneurship) mentor network for life science startups.
Read more on www.accelerace.io and www.nome.nu or via email: info@accelerace.io

Village Capital uses the power of peer support to change the traditional dynamics between investors and entrepreneurs, providing access to entrepreneurship for everyone.
We recruit entrepreneurs solving specific problems in agriculture, energy, education, financial inclusion, and health.
We then put the power of investment in the hands of the entrepreneurs, who award pre-committed seed funding to the two ventures ranked highest by the entrepreneurs at the end of every program.
Our programs connect high potential, early-stage entrepreneurs with the people, institutions, and capital they need to succeed.
We support early-stage ventures with a 501c3 nonprofit that operates training programs for founders, investors, and communities.
We also manage a for-profit, managed investment fund that provides early-stage capital to top graduates of each program, as selected by their peers.
Our unique peer-selection model received McKinsey/Harvard Business Review’s prestigious M-Prize for innovation in 2013, and we have supported more than 550 enterprises across 51 programs in 9 countries.
Since 2009, Village Capital has supported more than 1,000 entrepreneurs through our programs and partnered with affiliated investment funds, including VilCap Investments, that have invested seed capital in more than 90 program graduates.
Over the past 8 years, our program graduates have gone on to generate $61.5M in revenue, reach 8.5 million customers, and create over 11,500 jobs. 96% of our alumni would recommend our program to other entrepreneurs, and to date and 91% of our entrepreneurs are still in business.

IncubEx is an incubator for exchange-traded products, services, and technology solutions. The company has a specific focus on innovation and continuous improvement of products and services, including technology, trading solutions, and operational efficiencies.
The firm was founded in 2016 and has offices in Chicago and London.

Amplify is a pre-seed fund in Venice, CA dedicated to backing strong teams at the earliest stages and supporting from first check to exit.
The firm was founded in 2011, and has backed dozens of companies, which together have raised over half a billion dollars in funding, with exits to Apple, Google, FanDuel and others.

Investors interested in alternative investments actively look to optimize their investment portfolios through diversification.
These investors know that diversifying an investment portfolio by allocating 20% to alt-investments mitigates risk and hedges against market volatility and inflation.
Our Unique/Competitive Advantages: DiversyFund's team of RE and Investment experts have direct access to the multifamily market - 68% of which is owned through private markets.
As a leading fintech platform, DiversyFund provides an optimal UX for our investors. “Set up/invest and manage/monitor your portfolio and watch your money grow!” Lower Fees with Potentially Higher Returns (compared to Reg A+) Historical Track Record Vertically integrated platform - We take care of everything in-house - from acquisition to management and disposition.