Aliso Viejo-based OCTANe and the Boston-based Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council will work together to build awareness of emerging med-tech companies for investors in Orange County and Boston.
OCTANe is an accelerator for local life science and technology startups. The council is an organization of medical device manufacturers, suppliers and associated nonprofit groups in and around Massachusetts.
The partnership will provide OC startups introductions to venture capital firms, angel networks, family foundations, and other funders in their regions.
In a future phase of the collaboration startups will pitch remotely to investors and meet together, and the investors will participate in both organizations’ annual investor conferences.
OCTANe Chief Executive Bill Carpou said one of OCTANe’s primary objectives is to create greater access to capital for OC-based startups.
—Deirdre Newman
