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Insight Accelerator Labs charter member, BriteSeed, LLC, earns second place overall in the Rice University Business Plan competition

Insight Accelerator Labs is excited to announce the ongoing success and recognition of its charter startup member BriteSeed. Recently BriteSeed entered the Rice University Business Plan Competition, which is the world’s largest graduate-level business plan contest. This was the thirteenth year for the competition which had hundreds of entrants with 42 finalists competing for over 1.3 million in cash and prizes.

In preparation for this event, Insight and BriteSeed worked together to assemble rapid breadboard models representing the new vessel detection technology to augment ... continue reading

Helping startups cross the valley of death: Insight Accelerator Labs featured in Tribune Article

The Chicago Tribune recently ran a piece focused on our Insight Accelerator Labs accelerator program, which helps medical start-ups go from conceptualization to achieving a market-ready product.

Insight Accelerator Labs Executive Steve McPhilliamy told the Tribune how the project will work with several Chicago universities in order to find select companies and offer them an residency at Insight’s Ravenswood office, allowing them to collaborate with Insight’s proven product development team, and also assist them with mentorship and financial connections in ... continue reading

A Framework for Accelerating Medical Startups

When working with start-up companies, Insight fuses extensive experience in developing technology-driven healthcare products with a unique framework that aligns our efforts to your capitalization stage for maximum impact at each investment level.

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Insight understands the special set of considerations that start-up companies face in bringing a new product or technology to market: Cost is a major factor in early-stage programs, as capital often proves scarce and comes in stages. At the same time, in early funding phases, risk mitigation ... continue reading

MX Magazine: Technology, Start Your Engine

Leveraging technology in the right way is critical to making progress in product development. As a medical product developer technology-related concerns raise many questions, but two fundamental ones stand out:

• What can a company do with its technology?
• How can a company use technology to make its idea real?

As a medical product development consultant, Insight faces each of these issues every day….happily. Our breadth and depth of experience has exposed our team to an endless landscape of technology from countless industries and applications. This, in turn, has provided ... continue reading

Everything You Must Know About Human Factors Engineering in Medical Device Design

Insight will be hosting a lunch in correlation with MD&M Minneapolis. The speaker’s lunch topic will address the vitality of applying human factors the right way and at the right times along the development path. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, November 2nd at 11:45 am at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.