Sebastian Seiguer had already founded emocha Mobile Health by the time his company began its four-month term in January 2014 as part of DreamIt Health Baltimore, an accelerator for developing health IT and health care startups that graduated its first class in May. But Seiguer’s venture, an online remote patient management platform for clinicians to monitor patients’ symptoms and recovery via smartphone, was a one-man operation, and he needed help.
“The rallying point was the accelerator,” says Seiguer, who launched emocha in fall 2013 by licensing technology from the Johns Hopkins University. “It allowed me to quickly recruit a strong team because there’s a lot of excitement generated by joining an accelerator and a solid program.”