UpGlobal

UpGlobal advises, educates, connects, and equips local and international partners with the tools they need to pursue life science education, innovation and technology commercialization in the Texas Medical Center and beyond.

Impacting healthcare happens within the context of a larger community. Our approach extends beyond the hospital. We help ensure innovations and technologies are aligned with market needs and facilitate opportunities to penetrate the US market and for reverse innovation in partner institutions around the world.

We provide advisory services for startups, academic health institutions, foreign trade and investment and other governmental agencies and companies to improve the life science industry and ecosystem in Houston and beyond. We learn your needs and connect you to the right partners for industry success.

Advisory Services

• Business Development: Whether you’re looking to partner with innovators, researchers or bring medical services or technologies into the US Market, we’ll help you build a strategy and make the right connections to increase your return on investment.
• Strategy: We’ll help you build the best strategy for your company or technology to make headway in the Texas Medical Center and beyond.
• Market Readiness: Is your technology ready for the US Market? Are you looking for clinical trial partners, reimbursement strategies or regulatory help? Let us help you assess your market readiness and advise you on actionable next steps along the way.

Workshops

• We will customize workshops, design sprints or hackathons based on your needs. Here are a few examples of courses we’ve taught in the US and internationally to industry employees and university students interested in biodesign principles, medical innovation, and healthcare industry career preparation.