We enable remarkable Founders to address the biggest challenges in cancer diagnostics and navigation. We win when these companies deliver scalable solutions for patients & their loved ones.
We operate at the intersection of science, consumer tech & healthcare to give builders the tools & knowledge to unlock large market value.
Growth/GTM 📈
Partner with Business Development & Sales leaders (B2B, D2C, Pharma, and alternative healthcare models) to unlock your growth strategy.
Navigate 🧭
Pair with Advisors, subject matter experts - and your fellow Founders - to help navigate key aspects of the bewildering healthcare system: from Revenue cycle management to the practice of Medicine, Legal, Regulatory affairs and so on, we’ve got experts to help.
Build 🛠️
Learn from Design, Product, Engineering and Technology/Business leaders about how to iterate your way to success. Learn how to approach Product building from leaders at the top Consumer tech companies. We will help you go from a napkin drawing to pixels, pivot based on research, match you with the right industry connections, find Market-Product fit, or help you scale what’s already working.
Investment 🏦
Pitch at demo day to investors that are immersed in and deeply understand your specific area. Team up with industry connections to unlock partnerships.
Patient Panels 🏥
Collaborate with our dedicated group of Patients, Advocates, Doctors through the Cancer Patient Lab. This unique platform not only facilitates early exposure to disruptive changes, but also fosters lasting relationships and boosts brand awareness.
Imagine a world where:
Doctors shift from treating people as rows in tables, to personalized care.
Better technology (AI Co-pilots, data, science) equips patients & care-givers to navigate better health outcomes.
Health solutions are built and delivered with a quality on par with the best consumer technologies.
Diagnostic errors become rare (today over 10% of diagnoses are wrong; 800k Americans will die or become disabled as a result).
Patients control and use their own medical data.
Portfolio / Founders
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Chris Apfel, MD, PhD, MBA
Founder, CEO, & Chairman of the Board @SageMedic, Investor, AI & Life Sciences, Mentor & Board Member, Former UCSF Adjunct Professor
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Jason Binder
Founder @Aware Coaching
Dedicated to helping couples survive and grow from the trauma of brain cancer -
Aimee DeGolyer
Founder & CEO at REPROSENT transforming cancer care with patient symptom data and AI | YC S21
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Dave Holecek
Co-Founder Wild Type Advocates | DORIS.Health™ an AI oncology platform
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Carolyn Trevino Jenkins
CEO & Co-founder, We Are Here (Techstars Heath '24) | Cancer Advocate
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Peter Kane
Research to the People @ Stanford Medicine
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Aubrey Kelly, MS, MBA
Founder & CEO Rabble Health | Advocacy Board Chair, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
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Dr. Anthony M. Magliocco, MD FRCPC FCAP
President/CEO, Protean BioDiagnostics | Professor of Pathology
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Freddy Nguyen, MD/PhD
Physician-Scientist Fellow @ MIT
CEO & Co-Founder @ Nine Diagnostics -
Frank Austin Nothaft, PhD
Founder/CEO @Translating Science PBC
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Gitte Pedersen
CEO and Founder, Genomic Expression
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Ryan Ramanujam, PhD
Co-Founder & CEO @DatAnon | Assoc. Professor @Karolinska Institute
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Jason Sager, MD
CEO at Sagely Health/ CMO at Accent Tx
Principles
We created the CHL Accelerator to enable a highly-curated community of remarkable pre-seed / seed-stage founders aimed at solving some of the hardest problems in health diagnostics and cancer navigation.
We believe in:
Abundance over scarcity. Grow the pie.
High quality products and solutions are built by laser focusing on People & Patients.
Enabling smart, creative (maybe a bit obsessive) Missionaries.
People are universes, not table rows. Personalization matters.
Healthcare & Medicine changing rapidly, and for the better. Let’s ride together.
Founding Team
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Ari Akerstein
Co-Founder/CEO CancerHacker Lab
Product Leader | Cancer Survivor
Ex-Product at Meta/FB, IncludedHealth -
Brad Power
Co-Founder CancerHacker Lab |
CEO Cancer Patient Lab
Process innovator | Author | Survivor