Investor Readiness Forum
Connecting NIH-funded neurotech innovators with the investors and partners who move them to market.
Where breakthrough neurotech meets the capital to reach patients
Blueprint MedTech is an NIH incubator program that accelerates the development of cutting-edge medical devices for diagnosing and treating disorders of the nervous system. Our inaugural Investor Readiness Forum brings the scientists and clinician-founders behind these NIH-funded neurotechnologies together with the investors, strategic partners, and NIH leaders who can help carry their work to patients — equal parts preparation and connection.
Every presenting team is NIH-funded, milestone-vetted, and has completed intensive, focused pitch coaching ahead of the evening. It is a single afternoon designed to surface qualified neurotech opportunities and catalyze follow-on funding relationships.
Why you should be in the room
Built for early-stage investors, strategic partners, and the neurotech ecosystem around them.
We've done the filtering
Blueprint MedTech applies investor and industry business-development best practices to select projects with high potential for clinical impact and commercial success. The assessment work you'd do — we've started it.
De-risked, curated deal flow
Every presenting team is NIH-funded, milestone-vetted, and investor-readiness coached — a concentrated evening of qualified neurotech opportunities across device, diagnostic, and digital health.
The network in one place
Meet co-investors, strategics, portfolio companies, and NIH program leadership — the people shaping early-stage neurotech — in a single evening.
In the room
What to expect on the day
Investor Panels
One to two panels of investors and strategics discussing trends in neurotech investment and what shapes early-stage deal criteria today.
Team Pitch Sessions
Two rounds of live pitches from Blueprint MedTech teams — roughly six teams spanning device, diagnostic, and digital health — each followed by Q&A.
Intensive Pitch Coaching
Presenting teams arrive prepared — not through a rigid curriculum, but through focused, hands-on pitch coaching that sharpens the story investors need to hear.
Networking & Reception
An evening reception built for investor–innovator conversation, with curated introductions between teams and investors whose thesis they match.
Run of show
Registration, networking & poster session
Arrive, check in, and meet teams and fellow investors over the opening reception and poster session.
State of Neurotech Funding
Investors and strategics on market trends and the criteria shaping early-stage neurotech deals.
Team pitches — two rounds
Blueprint MedTech teams deliver focused live pitches, each followed by audience Q&A.
Networking reception
An informal close to the evening designed for follow-up conversation and curated introductions.
Agenda is in development and subject to change.
A nationally distributed pipeline of funded neurotechnology
The teams you'll meet come from a portfolio of 95 federally funded neurotechnology awards and projects.
Technology platforms
Neuromodulation & neural stimulation · Ultrasound & focused ultrasound · Imaging, biosensing & diagnostics · Implantable & interventional devices · Drug & agent delivery · Prosthetics, robotics & rehabilitation · Brain–computer interfaces & AI tools
Clinical indications
Chronic & neuropathic pain · Stroke & cerebrovascular disease · Epilepsy & seizure disorders · Traumatic brain & spinal cord injury · Movement & neurodegenerative disorders · Psychiatric & substance use disorders · Neuro-oncology & sensory restoration
NIH Blueprint MedTech
NeuroTech Harbor (NTH)
A partnership of Johns Hopkins University and Howard University.
Cimit's CINTA program
CINTA is a program of Cimit, a Boston consortium affiliated with Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School.
The Forum is presented through the NIH Blueprint MedTech program, whose two incubator hubs advance federally funded neurotechnologies from concept to clinic through funding, mentorship, and connections to capital.
The Blueprint MedTech program is funded by NIH grants U54EB033664 and U54EB033650.
Interested in sponsoring?
Sponsorship places your organization at the center of the room where the neurotech ecosystem gathers. Reach out to start a conversation.