What Connect Is

UCSF Health Hub Connect is a private service that offers your company help with a short term project (30-45 days) with an immediate need. Use our large network of advisors, clinicians, researchers, & investors to help solve your challenge!

WHY Join UCSF Health Hub Connect

At UCSF Health Hub we are driven by our mission to help early stage companies scale and grow in order to accelerate the next generation of healthcare innovation and improve upon the patient experience and outcomes at every level of healthcare.

We built our UCSF Health Hub Connect platform to drive this acceleration of healthcare innovation.  At UCSF Health Hub Connect, we have a network of thousands of advisors who are either key opinion leaders, physicians, luminaries, serial entrepreneurs or investors that provide early stage healthcare companies the necessary tools for success.  Through our proprietary matching platform we are able to successfully match companies with the perfect advisor for growth and advisors with companies that fit their backgrounds, interests and skill sets.

In addition to our proprietary matching platform, we are excited to also offer our UCSF Health Hub Connect companies exclusive benefits that are tailored to help you grow and scale: 

Apply today! By applying as a company or an advisor you are only a few steps away from your first match.

How It Works

COMPANY

Create an account.

Fill out your detailed brief. Share the background on your company, the details of the project and the type of help you are looking for.  Our matching program will use this information to identify the best advisor to help assist you.

Sit back while we find your perfect match. Let our Personal Navigator time tested matching algorithm & our dedicated UCSF Health Hub staff work hand in hand to find you the perfect match!

Apply to UCSF|Health Hub CONNECT

I AM WITH UCSF

I'm a member of the UCSF Community with an active UCSF Profile.

I AM NOT WITH UCSF

I'm external to UCSF.

ADVISOR / CLINICIAN / INVESTOR

Create an account.

Fill out your detailed profile that reflects your skills, expertise, domain knowledge & describe the type of problems you want to help solve. Our matching program will use this information to identify the best companies in need of your specific help. Meanwhile the Personal Navigator will refine this list to match you to the projects that best fit your specifications.

Sit back while we find your perfect match. Let our Personal Navigator time tested matching algorithm & our dedicated UCSF Health Hub staff work hand in hand to find you a project to work on!

Apply to UCSF|Health Hub CONNECT

I AM WITH UCSF

I'm a member of the UCSF Community with an active UCSF Profile.

I AM NOT WITH UCSF

I'm external to UCSF.

After the match

Upon being matched with a company, you can move forward and take advantage of our sample agreements to best maximize a successful outcome for both you and the company.  We advocate working directly with the matched company to finalize the terms and tenure of the advising relationship.

In the period following the match, the UCSF Health Hub Connect Navigator will periodically touch base on the connection to ensure the connection is working well for both sides.

In the earlier days of digital health, we hosted a program called Health Hub Connect which matched startup entrepreneurs with the advisors and mentors they needed to help them grow and scale. Over five years, we made thousands of successful matches and helped healthcare founders grow their businesses. As the digital health landscape matured, we retired the program to focus on other initiatives and choose to instead rely on our twenty international accelerator and incubator partners to provide the mentoring and advice.

UCSF Health Hub Connect Member Testimonials

“My Health Hub Connect profile matched me with a top researcher at UCSF that I otherwise would have never met. Dr. Adam Ferguson was exactly the kind of PI I wanted to meet to continue scaling our product."
- Richard Hanbury,
CEO Sana Health
“I joined as a UCSF Navigator because I am passionate about sharing the lessons from our research with the digital health community to help founders promote health for all. UCSF Health Hub enables me to engage with the broader digital health community.”
– Urmimala Sakar, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Director, UCSF
“UCSF Health Hub connects me with talented entrepreneurs, organizes valuable networking opportunities, and hosts stimulating speakers who explore the future of health and medicine. This is invaluable to me in my role as a startup advisor, angel investor, and physician at UCSF. I recently accepted the position of Medical Director at Scanwell Health, a Y Combinator company, highlighting the possibilities enabled by UCSF Health Hub.”
“UCSF Health Hub connects me with talented entrepreneurs, organizes valuable networking opportunities, and hosts stimulating speakers who explore the future of health and medicine.”
– Jack Jeng, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer, Scanwell
"While networking at a UCSF Health Hub event, we met our new Director of Finance, Kirk McAfee, and within 10 days there was money in the door. I cannot stress enough how powerful the Health Hub community is and how glad I am they’re providing this service."
– Julia Fry,
Founder & CEO, Puretergent

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