CRAASH Barcelona is a 3-month program that helps Catalan-based research teams and startups launch successful device, diagnostic and digital health innovations to improve health and patient care.

Teams move research to market through mentoring from experts at CIMIT (Boston), the most experienced health accelerator in the world. In 20 years, CIMIT has successfully accelerated over 600 healthtech projects, doubled the rate of successful commercialization and cut the time to next phase by more than half.

CRAASH Barcelona is organized by Biocat in collaboration with CIMIT. It is one of the flagship programs of Moebio, Biocat’s initiative for acceleration and innovation.

Through CRAASH Barcelona, teams will have:

• validation of their market and business model (aka “Your Business Makes Sense”)
• a comprehensive pitch deck
• the opportunity to pitch to a panel of investors
• more than 35 hours of mentoring from experienced US and EU experts
• access to a wide community of founders, KOLs, mentors, industry veterans and stakeholders

• Phase I

  Validation

  September, 2021

  • Customer development

  • Personalized mentorship

  • Masterclasses

• Phase II

  European Immersion

  October-November, 2021

  • EU health ecosystem

  • Fundraising

  • Storytelling

• Phase III

  US Immersion

  November-December, 2021

  • US health ecosystem

  • US investors

  • Personalized mentorship

  • Networking event in Boston

CRAASH Barcelona is looking for top-notch technology in healthtech (diagnostics, devices, and e/digital health) emerging from research centers, research institutes, universities or "garages" in the BioRegion of Catalonia ecosystem.

• Selection criteria
• Partners
• Faculty
• Contact

Applications for CRAASH Barcelona 2021 are closed.

If you need more information about the program, do not hesitate to contact Raquel Riera (rriera@biocat.cat). We will be happy to help you!