“It’s time to revolutionize health.”

We help startups accelerate health & wellness ideas.

Batch 2019 starts September 23rd

We offer early stage health tech startups an intensive 2 month global acceleration program.

Health2B is a lean startup accelerator with a focus on medtech and healthtech. You may call it digital health, mobile health, e-health, Internet of Things, Wearables, Life Log, Bio Hacking or Quantified Self – the goal is the same: to Improve the wellbeing and health of people. Based in Lund, Sweden – center of the most exciting health, life science and mobile cluster in Europe. Health2b is among the 15 best health tech accelerators in Europe.

We operate at SmiLe Incubator with a location at Medicon Village and in close proximity to the Ideon Science Park, HealthTech Nordic, Lund’s University, European Spallation Source (ESS), Maxlab IV, Biomedical Centre (BMC), Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Faculty of Medicine (LU), Mobile Heights, Swedish Institute for Health Economics (IHE), to name a few.

Through to the close connection to Smile Incubator your healthtech startup will get get inspired by the surrounding companies operating in the fields of pharma, medtech, biotech, diagnostics, e-health, nanotech, probiotics, drug delivery and food tech.

Increase your chances of success

This is where it’s happening. Surround yourself with Lund’s long startup tradition in life science and the ICT sector.

Connections + peers

Through our combination of ICT and life science, we provide a great community for success.

A unique cluster and ecosystem.

In close proximity to our accelerator you will find a cluster of world class organisations.

We are looking for entrepreneurs who have a strong team focus, plenty of passion and a purposeful product.

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We truly believe in the possibility that technology combined with life science can transform people’s lives and improve care. You may call it health tech, digital health, e-health, mobil health, Medtech, Telehealth, Internet of Things, Wearables, Life Log, Big Data, Bio Hacking, Welltech or Quantified Self – the goal is the same: to Improve the wellbeing and health of people through healthcare innovations.

Behind the scene

Peter Berggren

Co-founder, Lean Forward

Tim Kovac

Business Coach, SmiLe Incubator

Ebba Fåhraeus

CEO, SmiLe Incubator

Stefan Mossberg

Project leader, Lean Forward

Health2B

Connected Health Startup Accelerator

Laura Bejtulai

Project Manager, Health2B

Erik Starck

CEO Co-founder, Lean Forward

We help entrepreneurs launch awesome new products and create a plan for growth.

We accelerate startups and help entrepreneurs build both impactful health products and their own capabilities by leveraging our own expertise and the shared strength of peers.

Some of our great mentors and advisors…

Björn Olsson

Communication and branding

Magnus Tägil

Orthopedic surgeon/entrepreneur

Peter Holm

Partner, Patent Attorney, Høiberg

Johan Strömhage

CEO, Co-founder Purple Scout

Johan Olsén

Head of Almi Innovation

Mats Ohlson

QA/RA expert, medical devices

Marianne Larsson

Innovation Director

Jonas Olsson

CEO, Executive Board-member

Annette Melander Berg

CEO, founder Lightfinder AB

Stefan Ohlsson

Healthcare Industry Leader, IBM

Beata Wickbom

Digital strategist

Nick Hawtin

Startup Mentor, Pitch Jedi

Martin Walfisz

Entrepreneur/game developer

Erwin Apitzsch

Associate Professor

Sarah Lidé

Strategic advisor PwC

Peter Furby

Development Director, Tunstall

Elin Mellbrand

Communication strategist

Liselott Lading

CEO – Partner, Resultify AB

Peter Kuylenstierna

Improving Sales Performance

Steve Jennings

Chief Innovation Officer

Rasmus Nervall

CEO Adsensus

Andreas Rodman

CEO, GWS Production AB

Magnus Nambord

Business Manager/Entrepreneur

Anders Sandwång

Business Manager eHealth Sony

Karin Ebbinghaus

EY Law, Executive Director

Niels Paarup-Petersen

Communication & politics

Christer Månsson

Start-up specialist

Leif Kajrup

Digital Marketing Strategist

Micael Gustafsson

CEO, Learning to Sleep

Henrik Sjöstrand

CTO, Mobility Nordic, IBM

Tina Rudin Kaikkonen

Business Manager CU

The program includes coaching sessions on-site and on-line as well as networking opportunities. These meetings include experts from our advisory and mentor network, including: industry leaders, well known entrepreneurs and specialists (such as communication / marketing, design, branding, social media, public relations, sales, patents, regulatory issues, lawyers, economists, packaging, etc, etc …) who can help with specific business questions.

During the program, every startup is introduced to our advisor and mentor network, which we believe can help to accelerate your startup.

Our Goal?

Our goal is to build a sustainable health ecosystem for the future, ideally, by combining your smart and valuable digital health business ideas with well selected patient and customer needs. We are positioned to be the regional center for value creation in connected health by combining our best capabilities with those of our partners to help you quickly develop products and bring them to market.

What our participants say…

“Health2B provides exceptional and very smart lean forward coaching methods as well as great mentors and a unique ecosystem that provided us with very good exposure to healthcare, biotech and insurance companies, and doctors and others associated with the industry.”

Yannis S. KalantzakisCEO Co-founder – MyLivingRecord

“During three incredible months, we got to interact with mentors and coaches from various backgrounds who were able to share their knowledge and apply their expertise to our business. Health2B offers an amazing ecosystem and has been a great support to us. We enjoyed every minute. It was like having a “business family”. The invaluable pitch training helped us grow as professionals and express our business in a much clearer way. The Demo Day provided a great opportunity to meet interesting people and investors. Being a part of this is a chance you shouldn’t miss!”

Linn WrangmarkCo-founder – Medow

“Accessibility to experienced coaches and mentors, support from the Swedish tech and eHealth ecosystem, and the program’s focus aimed at launching a customized sustainable and profitable startup company into the market within three months make this program unique. The advice and support from very, very skilled coaches and experienced people as well as the pitch training and networking opportunities were extremely useful.”

Mike GerstenfeldCEO & Founder – Ensa

“I am very pleased with the accelerator program and their lean forward process and methods, as well as the strong ecosystem. I got great feedback from Swedish doctors and started a collaboration with Lund University and their design center. The design of our insole has improved considerably, I have got my first customers here and want to stay in the region to reach the market in Sweden-Denmark and then expand further.”

Nitin GandhiCEO & Founder – Shapecrunch