Incubating healthcare IT startups

Donna Cusano

$20,000 is ‘microfinancing’ in contrast to the larger sums that ‘angels’ or VCs–or even the ‘FFF’ (friends, family and ‘fools’) typically invest, but the innovative idea of RockHealth is to build bridges between big-time healthcare providers and young entrepreneurs with hot connected health ideas. The founder, Halle Tecco, has been trying to do this since Harvard Business School and amazingly stuck with it. Already with $500,000 in the kitty, she’ll be giving up to a dozen selected companies grants. More at TechCrunch.