Springboard Enterprises announces 2025 health and tech accelerator cohort

Women-led innovation accelerator Springboard Enterprises has announced its 2025 Healthcare & Technology cohort.

This year’s cohort includes nine companies developing solutions in biotechnology, therapeutics, digital health and compliance platforms.

The Healthcare & Technology Accelerator is a curated programme designed for women-led companies at the forefront of healthcare and technology innovation.

Umbreen Bhatti is CEO of Springboard Enterprises.

Bhatti said: “Springboard is about more than acceleration. It’s about creating the conditions where women leaders can thrive.

“As we launch the second year of our Healthcare & Technology Accelerator Programme, I’m inspired by this cohort’s vision and determination and proud to support them as they work to deliver innovations that will make a lasting impact in healthcare and technology.”

Among this year’s cohort are Antelope Surgical Solutions CEO & Founder, Dr Amy Wu, whose clinical stage biotech is developing first-in-class multimodality agents that combine fluorescence, radioligand imaging, and therapy for real-time cancer detection and treatment.

Hema Mandlekar is CEO & Co-founder of LumosFit which is developing an AI-enabled, non-invasive wearable technology and a behaviour change AI-coach that will allow individuals with prediabetes to easily and effectively monitor their blood glucose.

The technology aims to help people make healthy lifestyle choices, reverse prediabetes, and reduce their risk of diabetes.

Also among the cohort:

• NervMyo Therapeutics: Erica Lee, Interim CEO & Co-founder
• Arcascope: Olivia Walch, CEO & Co-founder
• Caleo Biotechnologies: Samaneh Kamali, CEO & Co-founder
• SiVEC Biotechnologies: Lyndsey Linke, CEO & Co-founder
• The Proficient Lab: Unika Alexander, CEO & Co-founder
• Trialynx: Angela Schwab, CEO & Founder
• Welltory: Jane Smorodnikova, CEO & Co-founder

Through workshops, personalised mentorship and a community of experts and alumnae, the programme aims to helps founders refine their business models, form strategic partnerships and access growth capital.

This year’s Healthcare & Technology Cohort will also benefit from the support of the 2025 Healthcare & Technology Council, a cross-sector group of accomplished leaders providing guidance, insight, and strategic connections.