Five Startups Join gBETA Charlotte Health
The inaugural cohort brings together founders building in cardiac diagnostics, diagnostics infrastructure, antimicrobials, maternal health, and wound care.
gBETA Charlotte Health selected its first cohort. Five startups. Three from Charlotte, one from Greensboro, and one from Irvine. The program is a partnership between Advocate Health, the City of Charlotte, and Generator.
9+1AI
Charlotte, NC • Conner McCraw
AI tools for cardiovascular diagnostics, focused on extracting earlier clinical insight from ECG data.
Casandra.ai
Irvine, CA • David Brooks
Infrastructure for specialty lab testing and diagnostic ordering inside clinical workflows.
Pump For Joy
Davidson, NC • Erin Devine Martin
Single-use, biodegradable breast pump components for the parts that touch milk, reducing the cleaning burden for working parents.
SKG Lifesciences
Greensboro, NC • Gregory Roberts
Smart bandage using algae-based biomaterials to accelerate healing for diabetic ulcers.
Why it matters
The cohort brings together cardiac diagnostics, antimicrobials, diagnostics infrastructure, maternal health, and wound care. Three of the five founders are building in Charlotte.
Pump For Joy has an Advisory5 connection. The company is an Advisory5 graduate and recently closed a Wefunder round exceeding $70K, including $50K from Equilibrium Impact Ventures.
Inolyt brings another Advisory5 tie into the same cohort. Margaret Kocherga has been an Advisory5 advisor for the past two years, including advising Pump For Joy. Now she and Erin are part of the same gBETA Charlotte Health cohort.
Original reporting
This item is based on reporting from Charlotte Business Journal.
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