Facilitated by Slingshot, HCF Catalyst is Australia’s leading health-technology scaleup accelerator. Exponentially worked with HCF and its matched start-ups to test and validate ideas that would help accelerate enterprise-ready businesses towards a potential partnership with HCF.
“In the Catalyst program, HCF looks for business ideas aligned with HCF’s vision to make healthcare more affordable, understandable, high quality and customer-centric,” says CEO Sheena Jack. Pretotyping and rapid experimentation helped support start-ups to iterate their ideas and gather data to help validate them. This allowed the start-ups and scale-ups to drastically improve the quality of the ideas they were pitching to HCF; this helps to increase the success of these products and services in pilot programs, and eventually ensures their success in the market. “The great ideas from the program [can be] translated into meaningful programs, services and ultimately better health outcomes for our members,” says Jack.