EmPOWERED to Serve Business Accelerator™: Alumni

Explore our past years and alumni working to improve health outcomes in places where people live, learn, work and play.
Brandi Prichet Johnson

2022

National
Bay Area
Hawaii
Mid-South
Minnesota

Look back at 2022

2021

National
Eastern States
Minnesota
Oregon/SW Washington

Look back at 2021

2020

National
Puerto Rico

Look back at 2020

2017-19

National
Urban Health Accelerator
Urban Storytelling Competition

Look back at 2017-19

Where are they now?

Check in on some of our past EmPOWERED to Serve Business Accelerator finalists.
2022 AHA Bay Area Business Accelerator Candidate: Leigh Monistere

Leigh Monistere

2022 Bay Area Business Accelerator Alum
Cultivating Literacy and their partner district, Franklin-McKinley School District, received a grant from the San Jose Library Foundation and the city to grow their reach to 300 students and their families in 2025. "The Accelerator allowed us to pilot the partnership with 50 families, and last year, this program served 110 families in the district. Now, we’ll reach 300! We couldn’t be more excited, and this has so much to do with the Accelerator’s early funding!"
EmPOWERED to Serve Bay Area Business Accelerator 2022 $35,000 awardee, Tero-Pekka Alastalo

Tero-Pekka Alastalo

2022 National and Bay Area Business Accelerator Alum
January 23, 2024: CardioSignal raises $10M in Series A funding for heart disease detection technology. See the press release
Candice Smice

Candice Smith

2021 Oregon & SW Washington Business Accelerator Alum
October 11, 2022: DELTA DENTAL OF IOWA Subsidiary acquires Caregiven, a digital platform for informal caregivers. Read the news release