Plug And Play’s Biotech Bet On Cleveland Affirms City’s Innovation Status: Editorial

The Cleveland Clinic and JumpStart’s recently announced three-year biotech partnership with Plug and Play, one of the world’s biggest startup accelerators, is a smart way to entice up-and-coming biotech and digital health companies to our biotech-rich region — along with the venture capitalists and corporations who love them. Silicon Valley’s Plug and Play Tech Center is

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BoxCast Continues To Make Room For More

BoxCast hasn’t yet taken off, but the tech startup did need only four years to run out of a space at Burke Lakefront Airport. Next month, the company will move to 2401 West Superior Viaduct, a three-story office building within walking distance of the West Bank of the Flats. In winning the support of the

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CoverMyMeds Plans ‘Hundreds’ Of Hires, Including Some In Its Highland Hills Office

Health care technology company CoverMyMeds, which was acquired this year for $1.1 billion by San Francisco-based McKesson Corp., is entering a growth spurt. CoverMyMeds is hiring “hundreds” of people to add to its offices in Columbus and Cleveland, said Brian Rutkowski, director of talent acquisition for the company. Doctors and other prescribers use the company’s software to

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7SIGNAL Awarded Patent For Integrating Wi-Fi Performance Testing With Wireless Network Access Points

7SIGNAL, The Wi-Fi Performance Company, is proud to announce the issuance of patent number 9,813,930 by the USPTO acknowledging its latest innovation that combines Wi-Fi performance testing with wireless network access points. The patent entitled, Method and Apparatus for Integrating Active Test Capability To A Wireless Access Point or Base Station, addresses the need to

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Cleveland-Based Thermalin Gets Funding For Diabetes Research

Case Western Reserve University diabetes researcher Dr. Michael Weiss is determined to unlock the mysteries surrounding diabetes. The company he co-founded, Cleveland-based Thermalin, Inc., uses cutting-edge science to alter the insulin molecule to treat diabetes. Weiss is a professor of biomedical engineering, biochemistry and medicine (endocrine) and director of the Institute for Therapeutic Protein Engineering

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Plug And Play Focused On Biotech, And Digital Health Innovation

                    Plug and Play is coming to Cleveland. The company’s work is focused on biotech, and digital health innovation. Plug and Play will team with the Cleveland Clinic, and JumpStart, in a three-year partnership. Their hope is to attract dozens of healthcare startups from across the

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CLE Clinic To Lure Tech Startups To NEO

The city’s largest health care employer is making moves to attract health tech startups to the city. At the Cleveland Clinic’s Medical Innovation Summit on Monday, executives from the Clinic and the nonprofit business incubator JumpStart, Inc., announced a three-year partnership with Plug and Play, a Silicon Valley company that specializes in running accelerator programs— basically, business boot camps for early-stage tech startups.

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Game Changing Bio-Med Center Coming To Cleveland

Cuyahoga County, the Cleveland Clinic and JumpStart are expected to announce a deal Monday that could cement the region as the nation’s capital of medical innovation. The deal will bring Plug and Play Tech Center, which bills itself as the world’s largest startup accelerator, to the city. The Silicon Valley company that connects entrepreneurs with investors, will

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Global Innovation Firm Plug And Play To Partner With Cleveland Clinic, JumpStart On Health Innovation

Plug and Play, a global business that’s nurtured companies like Google, Paypal and Dropbox, is coming to Cleveland. Its local partners say that it will help the region become a national center for innovation in biotechnology and medicine, bringing with it more entrepreneurial firms, bigger corporate players, and more knowledge-sector jobs. Founding partners include Cleveland Clinic and Jumpstart Inc.,

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Silicon Valley Company Plugs Into Cleveland

A renowned Silicon Valley innovation company is coming to Cleveland to help create an accelerator focused on biotech and digital health innovation and attract companies and startups from around the world. Cleveland Clinic and JumpStart Inc. are teaming up with Plug and Play, the largest accelerator program in the world, in a three-year partnership that

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Cleveland Clinic and JumpStart Partner To Bring Plug and Play Accelerator To The Global Center for Health Innovation

Initiative Will Attract HealthTech Startups and Corporations from Across the Globe to Northeast Ohio Cleveland Clinic and JumpStart Inc. have announced a three-year partnership with Silicon Valley’s renowned Plug and Play to create an Accelerator focused on biotech and digital health innovation in downtown Cleveland’s Global Center for Health Innovation. Announced during Cleveland Clinic’s 2017

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InfoGPS Locates and Secures Sensitive Data

Data is transmitted, stored and neglected across our networks every day. For most of us, this data is largely inconsequential and poses no serious risk. But for businesses dealing with sensitive information, a breach of the network is extremely significant. Customer data such as financial records, social security numbers and other private information, if left

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