Bespoke support for organisations working with medtech founders or wider healthcare innovation.

Practical, experience-led support designed around your objectives, audience, and context.

Get in touch to discuss bespoke support

Who bespoke support is for

In addition to supporting individual founders, Medtech Mentor works with organisations that support or engage with medtech innovation.

This includes:

  • Accelerators and incubators
  • Universities and medical schools
  • Innovation teams and networks
  • Lifesciences and other larger organisations exploring early innovation

We can offer a wide range of support including idea development, validation, and business model design.

What we provide

Bespoke support is designed around your goals, not a fixed programme.

We work collaboratively to design and deliver practical support that reflects the realities of early stage medtech. This may include:

  • Founder workshops or short programmes
  • Structured validation and business model training
  • Mentoring support for cohorts or individuals
  • Input on evidence, regulation, and clinical safety considerations
  • Advisory support on routes to market and adoption
  • Curriculum design or guest teaching for entrepreneurship programmes

The emphasis is always on practical application, not theory.

How we approach bespoke work

Our approach is grounded in over 50 years experience of building, deploying and scaling innovative products and services.

Rather than delivering generic startup content, we focus on:

  • Teaching the fundamentals of successful innovation
  • Avoiding common traps that slow progress
  • Balancing innovation with healthcare realities
  • Supporting confident decision-making under uncertainty

We tailor our input to the maturity of your audience and the outcomes you’re aiming to achieve.

Regulation and clinical safety

Healthcare innovation brings additional responsibilities that can’t be ignored.

Where relevant, bespoke support can include early awareness of:

  • Regulatory pathways and obligations
  • Clinical safety responsibilities and future considerations
  • Evidence expectations for adoption and scale
  • How regulation and evidence influence early design decisions

This is framed to support progress, not to overwhelm early-stage teams.

What makes Medtech Mentor a good fit

We are particularly well suited to programmes aimed at first-time founders and clinician entrepreneurs.

Our mentors bring:

  • Experience supporting over 200 early stage medtech founders
  • Deep understanding of common early-stage failure modes
  • A plainspoken, pragmatic approach that resonates with clinicians
  • The ability to challenge thinking constructively while remaining supportive

What bespoke support is (and isn’t)

Being clear about boundaries helps founders choose the right support.

Bespoke support is:

Bespoke support is not:

  • Collaborative and tailored
  • Focused on early-stage decision-making
  • Grounded in real-world experience
  • Designed to complement existing programmes
  • A development or delivery service
  • A replacement for in-house teams
  • A one-size-fits-all curriculum
  • A guarantee of commercial outcomes

Interested in bespoke support?

If you’re designing or running a programme that supports early stage medtech founders, we’d be happy to explore whether Medtech Mentor is a good fit.
Complete the form below and tell us a little bit about what you are looking for, one of our team will get in touch to discuss your requirements.