Charlotte's Health Tech Ecosystem

The People, Companies, and Breakthroughs Moving Health Forward

Advisory5 connects health tech startups with structured advisory boards so they can land customers and raise capital faster.

Charlotte is building world-class health innovation infrastructure. Advisory5 connects the people inside it.

Igor Gorlatov, founder of Advisory5, in The Pearl Innovation District

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Advisory5 × Northeastern Venture Mentoring Network

Feature · July 2026

Advisory5 brings the founders Northeastern University VMN mentors have been waiting for. Inside the team-mentoring pilot built with Northeastern University’s Venture Mentoring Network — five ventures, nine founders, ten mentors — and the dedicated Northeastern Track it grew into.

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Recent Moves

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Ecosystem Move

AI Conference Reception at Connect Labs

The Wake Forest University School of Medicine AI conference wrapped its first day downstairs at The Pearl and came up to the seventh floor. Connect Labs by Wexford hosted. Advisory5 brought six startups to a room of physicians and faculty: Emray, Global Bridge Pharmaceutical, Znvio, Predoc, Adherix Health, and Transcendent Care. Two Connect Labs members, MindMaze and Hippocratic AI, showed alongside them.

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gBETA Charlotte Health Info Session

An evening on innovation in community health at The Pearl — a panel with leaders from Advocate Health, Atrium Health, Seae Ventures, and the City of Charlotte, followed by a reception at Connect Labs. Applications are open for the fall cohort.

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20
Ecosystem Move

Coffee & Connections at The Pearl

The Pearl team fueled the fall with a morning pop-up at The Assembly — complimentary coffee, sweet treats, and a table of fall essentials to kick off the season.

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JUL
30
Ecosystem Move

IRCAD Tour by Connect Labs members

Connect Labs members toured IRCAD North America, the surgical training institute four floors below their desks at The Pearl — ten months after opening, already the largest of the nine IRCADs in the world.

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Upcoming Events

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Sep 14, 2026
UNC Charlotte CBES + NCBiotech
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Sep 15, 2026
Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society
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Sep 28, 2026
International Health Facility Diversion Association
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In the News

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